CFP: Contested/ing (Art) Histories: Memory Through Visual and Material Culture-Association for Art History

CFP: Contested/ing (Art) Histories: Memory Through Visual and Material Culture-Association for Art History, UK 

Online conference for PhD students

Keynote Speaker: 
Tanvi Mishra, Independent Photo Editor, Curator, and Writer 

Thematic Focus:
Traditional historical narratives often present a singular perspective, neglecting the multifaceted nature of the past. This approach overlooks the contested nature of history, where various experiences vie for recognition. “Contested/ing (Art) Histories: Memory Through Visual and Material Culture” delves into this complexity, exploring how visual art and material objects act as sites of memory, memorialisation, and remembrance.

This conference seeks to explore how visual and material culture shape our understanding of the past. This call encourages critical engagement with diverse perspectives, ethical considerations, and the potential of artistic interventions to challenge dominant historical narratives from post-colonial and de-colonial perspectives.

The key questions addressed by this conference include: 

● How do diverse perspectives and experiences influence historical narratives within the arts? 
● How can visual and material culture challenge or reinforce dominant historical accounts? 
● What are the ethical considerations in using and interpreting visual and material culture for historical research? 
● In what ways can artistic interventions act as sites for memory-making and contesting official narratives? 
● How do we tend to the silences and gaps in official narratives?

Who is this for? 

This year’s Global New Voices invites proposals from PhD students in any stage of their research, exploring the theme over any historical period or geographic region. We welcome submissions from international scholars and practice-researchers to open a dynamic discussion about the similarities, divergences and interconnectivity of contested histories taking place around the world. We particularly welcome talks which integrate digital technologies with the featured themes.

We invite proposals in any of the following three formats: 

● 15-minute paper presentations: Papers focusing on the idea of contested histories through material or visual thinking in a wide variety of contexts. 
● Pecha Kucha presentations: 20 images with a limited time (20 seconds) commentary on each slide. The aim is a swift, visually-led presentation that is succinct and powerful. 
● Curatorial and artist showcase: Artists, curators, and image-makers to share their practice – this consists of approximately 5-10 minutes of viewing the work (shared online) followed by discussion and constructive feedback. We welcome submission from artists and curators working in any medium which contains a strong visual element. 

Potential themes are outlined below, but we encourage experimental and novel approaches: 

● Colonial and postcolonial experiences in visual art and museum collections 
● Gender and sexuality in Orientalist representations 
● Gender-based violence in Colonial or post-Colonial settings 
● Indigenous perspectives and histories 
● The role of digital technologies in shaping historical narratives 
● The ethics of collecting and exhibiting objects with contested histories 
● The use of visual and material culture in memory activism 
● Legacy of Empire in all its forms 
● Colonialism and civil wars in visual culture 
● Experiences of incarceration or/and silencing 
● Visual renditions related to the question: who owns the past? 
● Objects as carriers of memory 
● Silenced and unsilenced narratives

When and where will this conference take place? 

Online, ensuring an international platform for inclusive, enriching, and creative discussion.  This year, the conference will take place over a day, Thursday 7 November 2024, with coffee and lunch breaks for down-time. 

How to apply and when is the deadline? 

Proposals and abstracts of no more than 250 words, along with a 100-word biography, should be sent to globalnewvoices2024@gmail.com by 11:59 pm GMT on Sunday 1 September 2024. Notifications of acceptance and rejection will be sent out by Monday 16 September. 

Please let us know in the email subject if you are proposing a paper, a Pecha Kucha, or curatorial and artist showcase. 

Please state which country / time zones you will be participating from to facilitate our programming. 

Finally, please indicate whether you agree for your session to be recorded. We will be uploading the conference (or as much as is feasible), to the AAH YouTube channel. 

For more information, contact the organisers: Dr. Alia Soliman, Sean Cham, and Olivia Garro at globalnewvoices2024@gmail.com
https://forarthistory.org.uk/events/cfp-global-new-voices-2024-contested-ing-art-histories-memory-through-visual-and-material-culture/

Contact Information

Online conference for PhD students

Conference Date: Thursday 7 November, 2024

Deadline: Sunday 1 September 2024

Contact Email

globalnewvoices2024@gmail.com

URL

https://forarthistory.org.uk/events/cfp-global-new-voices-2024-contested-ing-ar…

Call for Proposal: The Material Text in Latin America – 2025 College Art Association Annual Conference session

This session, sponsored by the Bibliographical Society of America, will explore textual artifacts that have originated or been adapted for use in one or more Latin American cultures. The interplay between cultures, including relationships between different Latin American cultures or between Latin American and other cultures, will be a particular focus. Papers that address any period up to 1914 will be prioritized. A variety of media will be considered, including painted pottery, carved stucco, coins and other metalwork, engraved stone, and manuscripts or printed materials. Examples include the use and reuse of items bearing Indigenous or European script; the reinterpretation of imagery from elsewhere to illustrate Latin American texts; the early European historiography of indigenous Latin American ideographs and pictographs. While attending to the specificity of local traditions, the session will consider the significance of these textual artifacts in intercultural and historiographic perspective. The geographical definition of “Latin America” is open.

Contact Information
Send proposals (title and 250-word maximum abstract) and your CV by 29 August 2024 to Jeanne-Marie Musto, Librarian, New York Public Library, and Bibliographical Society of America liaison to the College Art Association.

Contact Email
musto.jeannemarie@gmail.com
URL
https://caa.confex.com/caa/2025/cfp.cgi

G.L.A.M. Bookworms discussion

Miami Dade College’s Wolfson Archives invites everyone to join the next G.L.A.M. Bookworms discussion:

THE BOOK OF LOST NAMES by Kristin Harmel
Tuesday, Aug. 27, 2024, 7pm
via Zoom

[The next discussion (we’re switching things up a bit): 
THE VAULTS by Toby Ball
Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2024, 7pm
via Zoom]

Please share with anyone who might be interested-​all are welcome to join the book club!

Please let me know if you have any questions: lkramer1@mdc.edu.

Regards,
Ms. Lou Ellen Kramer
Archives Manager
Miami Dade College

Call for Pitches/Contributions: The Recipes Project Special Edition – “Images as/and Recipes”

We are currently accepting pitches for contributions to our Fall 2024 series on the theme ‘Images as/and Recipes.’

Sometimes seeing is better than telling. With a renewed interest in DIY, recipes are everywhere. Instagram and Pinterest are full of recipes for quince jam, herbal remedies, and step-by-step instructions for dyeing old clothes to update your wardrobe with an eye to being environmentally conscious. Many, if not all, of these recipes are visual. But while sharing recipes on social media is new, using images to share makers’ knowledge is not.

For hundreds of years, images have been used to craft stories around recipes, and these images tell us as much about topics like nationalism or family lore as they do about the intricacies of any given recipe. Turning the physical act of making into a visual record requires interpretation and can often serve more than one goal. Artists often chose to omit descriptive text in their visual renderings, assuming the images can speak for themselves. And as scholars like Pamela Smith, Wendy Wall, and Erin O’Conner have reminded us, recipes are not straightforward records; they are full of assumptions, omissions, and expectations. This series builds on this work by considering how images function for and as recipes.

Because recipes are so flexible, the genre has been used to share food culture, medicinal practices, and craft techniques, but it has also been put to more political or artistic means, like satirical prints from the eighteenth century that portray ‘recipes for Culloden’ or ‘a recipe to be a good wife’ or contemporary artists who have looked to recipes to share both practical recipes for making fried eggs and more conceptual ‘recipes for success.’ Recipes that utilize images can also bring ideas of race, gender, and class to the surface, both supporting and subverting cultural norms. 

Images ‘work’ in ways that are both similar to and diverge from written recipes. How and why authors and artists choose to include images in their recipes or translate their recipes into images can and should be critiqued and analysed. 

We are looking for original research topics as well as pieces on pedagogy and museum and archival collections. We welcome contributions from art historians, material culture scholars, anthropologists, historians, literary scholars, archivists, curators, artists, and those with a professional background in recreation and reconstruction. Please send a brief pitch (2 or 3-sentences) as well as an abbreviated CV to the series editors Alexandra Macdonald (ammacdonald@wm.edu) and Melissa Reynolds (m.reynolds1@tcu.edu) any time before 15 September 2024. The theme is purposefully broadly defined to bring an interdisciplinary group of authors together and we are particularly interested in works that take an innovative approach to the topic. If you have any questions about the theme and how your work could fit within the special issue, please get in touch by email. Accepted proposals will be invited to join the quarterly volume on ‘Images as/and Recipes.’ For full instructions and more detailed information on length and image requirements please see Open Call for Contributors [https://recipes.hypotheses.org/open-call-for-contributors] 

Examples of Potential Topics (not exhaustive): 

  • Recipes and advertising
  • Recipes and satire 
  • Visual storytelling and recipes 
  • Reconstructing recipes (hands-on practice)
  • Craft recipes 
  • Recipes and childhood
  • Recipes and social media 
  • Recipes and the senses
  • Gender, race, and class in recipes
  • Text-image relationships

New/Recent Publications

Books

Indigenous Archival Activism: Mohican Interventions in Public History and Memory
Rose Miron
University of Minnesota Press, 2024

Changing Heritage: How Internal Tensions and External Pressures are Threatening Our Cultural and Natural Legacy
Francesco Bandarin
Routledge, 2024

Picture-Work: How Libraries, Museums, and Stock Agencies Launched a New Image Economy
Diana Kamin
MIT Press, 2023

Articles

“How Accessible are European Public Archives? An Assessment of the Compliance with the Council of Europe Recommendation R(2000)13 on a European Policy on Access to Archives” written by Michael Friedewald, Ivan Szekely, and Murat Karaboga. Journal of Contemporary Archival Studies: https://elischolar.library.yale.edu/jcas/vol10/iss1/21/

“Variegated Order: Making Space for Neurodiverse Perspectives in Archives” written by Sophie Penniman. Journal of Contemporary Archival Studies: https://elischolar.library.yale.edu/jcas/vol10/iss1/22/ 

Eid Mohamed. “The Potential and Limits of Arabic Digital Humanities.” Journal of Cultural Analytics vol. 9, no. 3, June 2024.

Yakel, E., Faniel, I. M., & Robert, L. P. Jr (2024). An empirical examination of data reuser trust in a digital repository. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.24933

Reports

Publikation des Vereins Schweizerischer Archivar:innen:
«Das Erinnern nicht vergessen» (Publication of the Association of Swiss Archivists: “Don’t forget to remember”)
Urs Hafner, März 2024

Fiction

The Royal Librarian
Daisy Wood
HarperCollins, 2024

Case Study

Case 26, “Teaching the History of Higher Ed through Primary Sources and Digital Exhibits,” Rhia Rae, Molly Castro, and Annia Gonzalez from Florida International University (FIU) Libraries
Case Studies on Teaching with Primary Sources series, an open access series sponsored by SAA’s Reference, Access, and Outreach (RAO) Section.

CFP: Avec Attention: Archives, Archivistes, et Sociétés/ “With Attention: Archives, Archivists, and Societies”

French

Nous vous invi­tons à pren­dre connais­sance de l’appel dans sa glo­ba­lité et des moda­li­tés de réponse en le télé­char­geant.

Les axes de com­mu­ni­ca­tion

1) Quelle place pour les archi­ves dans une économie de l’atten­tion ?
Axe 1.1 : La pro­duc­tion des don­nées et les stra­té­gies qui s’y atta­chent : com­ment assu­rer nos mis­sions afin de docu­men­ter les déci­sions publi­ques et poli­ti­ques qui tou­chent les popu­la­tions ?
Axe 1.2 : Les poli­ti­ques de numé­ri­sa­tion mas­sive et la sura­bon­dance des res­sour­ces acces­si­bles en ligne : quels effets sur l’accès, la recher­che, et sur les pra­ti­ques pro­fes­sion­nel­les ?
Axe 1.3 : Quels modè­les à venir pour l’accès aux don­nées et aux docu­ments numé­ri­sés ?

2) Comment favo­ri­ser l’atten­tion aux archi­ves, quel­les curio­si­tés encou­ra­ger et de la part de qui ?
Axe 2.1 : Les nou­veaux espa­ces de l’atten­tion aux publics
Axe 2.2 : Les nou­veaux dis­po­si­tifs d’atten­tion aux publics
Axe 2.3 : Quelle atten­tion conjointe aux archi­ves ? Quel rôle des archi­vis­tes : média­teur ou pres­crip­teur ?
Axe 2.4 : Archives, droits humains et enjeux de société
Axe 2.5 : Archives et curio­si­tés
Axe 2.6 : Archives et expé­rien­ces esthé­ti­ques

3) Comment l’atten­tion rené­go­cie-t-elle les mis­sions des archi­vis­tes ?
Axe 3.1 : Dans les poli­ti­ques de col­lecte
Axe 3.2 : Dans les poli­ti­ques de clas­se­ment
Axe 3.3 : Dans le déve­lop­pe­ment de poli­ti­ques de conser­va­tion pré­ven­tive conver­gen­tes avec les enjeux envi­ron­ne­men­taux

4) Quels archi­vis­tes pour quel­les atten­tions ?
Axe 4.1 : Quelle(s) iden­tité(s) pro­fes­sion­nel­les(s) pour les archi­vis­tes ?
Axe 4.2 : Quelle éthique et déon­to­lo­gie pour les archi­vis­tes ?
Axe 4.3 : Quelles for­ma­tions et par­cours pro­fes­sion­nels ?
Axe 4.4 : Quel envi­ron­ne­ment pour les archi­vis­tes
Axe 4.5 : Quelle capa­cité avons-nous à col­la­bo­rer, à coo­pé­rer au niveau local, natio­nal et inter­na­tio­nal ?
Axe 4.6 : Comment main­te­nir une dis­po­ni­bi­lité au monde ambiant, com­ment lais­ser œuvre émotions et sen­sa­tions. Existe-t-il un archi­viste flâ­neur ?

Cet appel à communication est ouvert jusqu’au 30 septembre 2024 inclus.

English

We invite you to read the call in its entirety and the response procedures by downloading it .

The communication axes

1) What place for archives in an attention economy?
Axis 1.1: Data production and the strategies associated with it: how can we carry out our missions in order to document public and political decisions that affect populations?
Axis 1.2: Mass digitization policies and the overabundance of resources accessible online: what effects on access, research, and professional practices?
Axis 1.3: What future models for access to digitized data and documents?

2) How to encourage attention to archives, what curiosities to encourage and from whom?
Axis 2.1: New spaces for attention to the public
Axis 2.2: New systems for attention to the public
Axis 2.3: What joint attention to archives? What role for archivists: mediator or prescriber?
Axis 2.4: Archives, human rights and societal issues
Axis 2.5: Archives and curiosities Axis
2.6: Archives and aesthetic experiences

3) How does attention renegotiate the missions of archivists?
Axis 3.1: In collection policies
Axis 3.2: In classification policies Axis
3.3 : In the development of preventive conservation policies convergent with environmental issues

4) Which archivists for which attentions?
Axis 4.1: What professional identity(ies) for archivists?
Axis 4.2: What ethics and professional conduct for archivists?
Axis 4.3: What training and professional paths?
Axis 4.4: What environment for archivists? Axis
4.5: What capacity do we have to collaborate, to cooperate at the local, national and international level? Axis
4.6: How to maintain an availability to the surrounding world, how to let emotions and sensations work. Is there a strolling archivist?

This call for papers is open until September 30, 2024 inclusive.

New Issue: Scholarly Editing

Scholarly Editing, Volume 41
(open access)

Volume 41 Introduction

Noelle A. Baker and Kathryn Tomasek

Micro-Editions

Kinship & Longing: Keywords for Black Louisiana

Olivia Barnard, Emma Bilski, Leila Blackbird, Jessica Marie Johnson and Ellie Palazzolo

Paper Bullets: The Civil War Letters of John and Phebe Miller

Samantha Misa

Voices and Perspectives: Interviews and Conversations

History UnErased: An Interview with Deb Fowler and Kathleen Barker

Jenifer Ishee and Robert Riter

Uncovering and Sustaining the Cultural Record

Reparative Editing: Working with Ukrainian Authors in Wartime

Amy Levin

Moquis and Kastiilam: The Hopi History Project

Thomas E. Sheridan, Stewart B. Koyiyumptewa and Leigh Kuwanwisiwma

Essays

On Automating Editions: The Affordances of Handwritten Text Recognition Platforms for Scholarly Editing

Melissa Terras, Joe Nockels, Sarah Ames, Paul Gooding, Andy Stauder and Günter Mühlberger

The Assembled Book as a Map of Relations

Whitney Trettien, Penny Bee and Zoe Braccia

The College and University Classroom

Digital Editing and Pedagogy: Making Editions / Building Arguments

John Bryant, Mary Isbell, Christopher Ohge and Mary Erica Zimmer

Reviews

Mary Ann Shadd Cary: Essential Writings of a Nineteenth-Century Black Radical Feminist. Edited by Nneka D. Dennie

R. J. Boutelle

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. Harriet Jacobs. Edited by Koritha Mitchell

Amy Larrabee Cotz

Three Centuries of Travel Writing by Muslim Women. Edited by Siobhan Lambert-Hurley, Daniel Majchrowicz, and Sunil Sharma

Mariam Zia

Archival Gossip: A Scholarly Take on Nineteenth Century Tattletales

Chelsea Phillips

Reading Prison through the Penal Press: American Prison Newspapers, 1800s–Present: Voices from the Inside and the Prison Journalism Project

Sally F. Benson

CF: La Gazette de archives (France)

French

La Gazette des archives est une revue professionnelle scientifique éditée par l’Association des archivistes français (AAF). Découvrez la refonte de la revue à notre webinaire du 25 juin 2024 !

La Gazette des archi­ves est une revue à comité de lec­ture à ambi­tion pro­fes­sion­nelle et aca­dé­mi­que qui pro­meut et contri­bue au déve­lop­pe­ment de la recher­che et de la réflexion en archi­vis­ti­que. Elle s’adresse prio­ri­tai­re­ment aux archi­vis­tes fran­çais et fran­co­pho­nes ainsi qu’à la com­mu­nauté aca­dé­mi­que inter­na­tio­nale des cher­cheurs en archi­vis­ti­que ou qui mènent une réflexion sur des aspects tou­chant à la ges­tion des archi­ves et à leur contexte de pro­duc­tion, à leurs usages ou à leur place dans la société (cher­cheurs en his­toire, scien­ces de l’infor­ma­tion, socio­lo­gie, psy­cho­lo­gie, etc.). Elle a pour objec­tif de publier des tra­vaux ori­gi­naux rela­tifs à la théo­rie et à la pra­ti­que archi­vis­ti­que, de favo­ri­ser le dia­lo­gue entre les dis­ci­pli­nes, entre les champs pro­fes­sion­nels et de contri­buer à la cir­cu­la­tion des connais­san­ces sur les archi­ves à tra­vers le monde.

Participez à notre webi­naire le 25 juin 2024 pour en savoir plus !

Comment écrire dans La Gazette des archi­ves ?

La Gazette des archi­ves publie des numé­ros thé­ma­ti­ques et des varias. Pour les numé­ros thé­ma­ti­ques, un appel à contri­bu­tions est dif­fusé sur la page Internet de la revue et sur les réseaux. Les contri­bu­tions non thé­ma­ti­ques sont accep­tées au fil de l’eau.

La revue com­prend plu­sieurs rubri­ques :
–  Article ori­gi­nal : publi­ca­tion ori­gi­nale pré­sen­tant un propos argu­menté, démon­tré et étayé par une ana­lyse de la lit­té­ra­ture et des sour­ces (archi­ves, enquête…), sus­cep­ti­ble de faire avan­cer la recher­che ou la réflexion sur les archi­ves
–  Pistes et pers­pec­ti­ves : arti­cle qui peut adop­ter un ton plus spé­cu­la­tif et expri­mer une réflexion nova­trice sur la théo­rie ou la pra­ti­que archi­vis­ti­que. Il est recom­mandé de pren­dre contact avec le comité de rédac­tion
au préa­la­ble
–  Entretien : entre­tien inédit avec une per­son­na­lité, pré­sen­tant un apport pour la théo­rie ou la pra­ti­que archi­vis­ti­que
–  Étude de cas : retour d’expé­rience ana­ly­ti­que sur un projet ou une acti­vité qui pré­sente un carac­tère ori­gi­nal et apporte une réflexion sur la pra­ti­que archi­vis­ti­que
–  Compte rendu : compte rendu pro­blé­ma­tisé d’un ouvrage ou d’un événement scien­ti­fi­que qui pré­sente des réflexions archi­vis­ti­ques

La revue accepte des contri­bu­tions en langue fran­çaise. Pour une contri­bu­tion en langue étrangère, il convient de contac­ter au préa­la­ble le comité de rédac­tion.

Les arti­cles ne sont pas rému­né­rés. Les auteurs signent une auto­ri­sa­tion de publi­ca­tion et sont tenus de res­pec­ter le format d’édition : uti­li­sa­tion d’une charte éditoriale et d’un modèle de texte com­mu­ni­qués par la rédac­tion et dis­po­ni­bles ci-des­sous. De même, vous y trou­ve­rez un manuel d’écriture inclu­sive à consul­ter libre­ment.

English

La Gazette des archives is a professional scientific journal published by the Association of French Archivists (AAF). Discover the redesign of the journal at our webinar on June 25, 2024!

La Gazette des archives is a peer-reviewed journal with professional and academic ambitions that promotes and contributes to the development of research and reflection in archives. It is primarily aimed at French and French-speaking archivists as well as the international academic community of researchers in archives or who are thinking about aspects relating to the management of archives and their production context, their uses or their place in society (researchers in history, information sciences, sociology, psychology, etc.). Its objective is to publish original work relating to archival theory and practice, to foster dialogue between disciplines, between professional fields and to contribute to the circulation of knowledge on archives throughout the world.

Join our webinar on June 25, 2024 to learn more!

How to write in the Archives Gazette  ?

The Gazette des archives publishes thematic issues and miscellaneous issues. For thematic issues, a call for contributions is published on the journal’s website and on social networks. Non-thematic contributions are accepted on an ongoing basis.

The magazine includes several sections:
–  Original article : original publication presenting a reasoned argument, demonstrated and supported by an analysis of literature and sources (archives, survey, etc.), likely to advance research or reflection on archives
–  Tracks and perspectives : an article that may adopt a more speculative tone and express innovative thinking on archival theory or practice. It is recommended to contact the editorial board in
advance
–  Interview : unpublished interview with a personality, presenting a contribution to archival theory or practice
–  Case study : analytical feedback on a project or activity which presents an original character and provides a reflection on archival practice
–  Report : problematized report of a work or a scientific event which presents archival reflections

The journal accepts contributions in French. For a contribution in a foreign language, please contact the editorial board in advance.

The articles are not remunerated. The authors sign a publication authorization and are required to respect the publishing format: use of an editorial charter and a text model communicated by the editorial staff and available below. Likewise, you will find an inclusive writing manual to consult freely.

CFP: Studies in Oral History (Australia)

Studies in Oral History, Issue No. 47

Editors: Skye Krichauff and Carolyn Collins

The Power of Oral History – Risks, Rewards & Possibilities

Peer-Reviewed Articles

Contributions are invited from Australia and overseas for the peer-reviewed articles section of the 2025 issue of Studies in Oral History, the journal of Oral History Australia (OHA).

Oral history can be powerful in so many ways: interviews generate potent emotions, recordings capture the power of voice as well as the power of silence, and multimedia productions engage and connect new audiences with the complexities of the past.

Fundamentally, oral history transforms the historical archive and challenges mainstream histories. It can shift traditional power dynamics, bring forth new voices and perspectives, reshape policies and politics, and shake up old certainties.

Yet these possibilities come with risk as well as reward – recording sensitive subjects is never easy. Creating an oral history production takes time, skill and care, and sometimes goes wrong. Imaginative re-uses of oral history recordings can raise ethical and legal complexities. And oral histories that disrupt accepted narratives can generate pain and conflict in families, communities and nations.

We invite papers that employ or interrogate oral history methodologies and illuminate aspects of the risks, rewards and possibilities of oral history. Contributions across the following themes are suggested (although not mandatory):

  • Indigenous oral histories and oral traditions
  • Oral history, culture and language
  • Interpreting memory in oral history
  • Transgressing boundaries with oral history
  • Documenting diverse voices with oral history
  • Histories of protest, activism and rights
  • Contested memories and histories
  • Oral histories of working lives and social class
  • Migrant and refugee history
  • Gender and oral history
  • LGBTIQA+ oral histories
  • Ethical issues in oral history
  • Technology and oral history
  • Archiving and oral history
  • Oral histories of family, community or place
  • Creative uses of oral history recordings
  • Oral history in galleries, libraries and museums

As all articles are subject to anonymous peer review, pleasure ensure your submission contains no identifying material. Articles submitted to the Oral History Australia Editorial Board for peer review will first be assessed for suitability by the Editorial Board. Please consult the Guidelines for Contributors, the Peer review FAQ and Journal Style Guide for further information.

Word Limits and Deadlines

To be considered for peer review, articles should be no more than 8,000 words, including references. Publication of the issue is anticipated in late 2025.

The submission deadline for articles for peer review is 17 January 2025.

Submission

Send submissions to: Dr Alexandra Dellios, Chair, Oral History Australia Editorial Board, email editorialboard.journal@oralhistoryaustralia.org.au.

Reports

Submissions are also invited for the reports section of the 2025 issue of Studies in Oral History. Reports may describe oral history projects conducted by museum curators, heritage professionals, consulting historians, community historians, academic historians and more. Projects may have resulted in public outcomes such as websites, exhibitions, podcasts, theses, articles or books. Please note the reports section is not peer-reviewed; notes from the field, updates on exciting new work, or reflections on the process and/or outcomes of oral history projects are encouraged. Reports which relate to the issue theme are welcome but not mandatory.

Word limit: 1,500 words.

Deadline for report submissions: Monday 30 April 2025.

Please send reports to our Reports Editor Alexandra Mountain:  reports.journal@oralhistoryaustralia.org.au

Please note that while the reports are not peer-reviewed, we cannot accept all reports for publication and accepted reports will need to be edited for length, clarity and adherence to the Style Guide. Reports will be selected on the basis of quality of writing, the diversity of oral history perspectives showcased across the reports section and relevance to the special issue theme. Please consult the Guidelines for Contributors and Style Guide for further information.

CFP: Historic House Museums: Nordic Perspectives

The anthology Historic House Museums: Nordic Perspectives (tentative title) presents a broad range of perspectives on historic house museums in the Nordic countries – Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Greenland, Faroe Islands, and Iceland. The book sheds light on how the Nordic countries understand, define, preserve, exhibit, manage, and communicate about our historic house museums. This includes house museums in the broadest sense of the word – from farmhouses, manor houses, artist homes, bunker museums, open air museums, and other types of historic buildings that have been preserved, and where people have lived for shorter or longer periods of time.

Much of the current literature on historic house museums comes from the US or the UK, where many efforts have been made to create overviews, categories, and definitions that clarify a typology for historic house museums and how historic house museums can be understood.

In our anthology, we want to contribute to this literature by presenting perspectives on historic house museums from the Nordic countries, where our unique cultures, history, and climate come into play. In some ways, the Nordic countries are very different from one another, but in other ways we are closely connected, not least through political history, language, culture, and to some extent – climate. This anthology will present perspectives from the Nordic countries regarding the most pressing issues, challenges, and potentials related to historic house museums in this region of the world. This includes perspectives on preservation and conservation, organisational perspectives, interpretation, collections, dissemination and visitor communication, community and identity, material or immaterial heritage, and not least more general discussions of how historic house museums are defined, categorised, and understood in the different Nordic countries.

The anthology targets museum staff, researchers, and academic students who work within the fields of museums & cultural heritage. It aims at giving Nordic house museums and Nordic house museum researchers a voice in international discussions about the definitions and value of this unique category of museums.

More about the call and the topics: https://museologi.au.dk/publikationer/call-for-papers

We ask authors to submit article proposals of between ½ and 2 pages.

The submission date is October 1st, 2024

Information about submissions can also be found at this link:

https://museologi.au.dk/publikationer/call-for-papers

Contact Information
Project manager, Mia Falch Yates
Department of Art History & Museology, Aarhus University
Contact Email: my@cc.au.dk

URL: https://museologi.au.dk/publikationer/call-for-papers

Attachments

Call for Papers. Pdf