New Issue: Archival Science

Archival Science: International Journal on Recorded Information vol. 24 issue 3
(open access)

It’s only a mirage: Tahar Djaout’s critique of logocentrism in L’Invention du désert
Abdelkader Aoudjit

Scouring the desert: political violence traceability in the Americas
Paola Diaz, Rodrigo Suarez

Finding values, building communities: development of an archival appraisal system for the Thai public sector
Naya Sucha-xaya

An opportunity to stay connected: documenting personal communication records of military personnel
Allan A. Martell, Edward Benoit III

Archiving difficult realities: a systematic investigation of records related to sexual violence in US college and university archives
Ana Roeschley, Julie Miller, Alison Nikitopoulos, Morgan Davis Gieringer, Jessica Holden

The disposal of paper public documents in the face of their digitization: what is lost?
Josimas Eugênio Silva, Michael David de Souza Dutra

Creating a representative archive of performance practice at the National Theatre of Great Britain
Erin Lee

Building ignorance by disseminating “evidence”: an agnotological look into the digital archives of the Islamic Republic of Iran
Natalia Pashkeeva

Instituting a framework for reparative description
Stephanie M. Luke, Sharon Mizota

CFP: Media Fields Journal, Issue 19: Archival Elements

Call for Papers: Archival Elements
Media Fields Journal, Issue 19

Submission Deadline: October 31, 2024

In 2008, the International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF) released its 70 th anniversary manifesto reaffirming film’s status as the “optimal archival storage” of the moving image. “Don’t throw film away!” they urged, for unlike its digital successors, film elements tangibly embody traces of their own material history alongside a bygone cultural heritage. “No matter what technologies may emerge,” they write, existing film elements “connect us to the certainties of the past.”

For film archivists, the element is the inert container of audiovisual content subject to archival care and maintenance—the original artifact and source of any material or digital copies to come. Indeed, across scholarly and archival spheres alike, the element has remained the intrinsic foundation of the moving image, its archival preservation, and the theoretical study thereof. Whereas Caroline Frick has considered the ways that “original” media elements become bound up with notions of authenticity, cultural heritage, and nationhood, scholar-practitioners have increasingly turned to what Giovanna Fossati calls film’s “archival life,” a term that seeks to discursively address the expanding myriad of physical and digital spaces required in contemporary preservation. How, Fossati posits, might scholars and archivists alike better account for the ways that film and media are at once preserved, historized and politicized by archival processes? In other words, what might be gained from reflecting seriously on how different kinds of media traverse the archival sphere? What happens when a given audiovisual element also becomes an archival one?

This issue of Media Fields seeks to build on these conversations by examining how the proliferation and mediation of the archive and its elements is productive. Contemporary archival elements are often integrated into processes involving other forms of media, such as database and metadata development, digitization, interactive and public-facing archival digital interfaces, and larger multimedia collections. We ask: what kinds of political, theoretical, and practical connections arise when thinking about and doing the archive in these different spatial ways —traditional, alternative, or otherwise—and how might we better place these approaches in discursive conjunction with one another? Further, what are new ways in which theory (archival and otherwise) might intervene and inform archival practice, and historicizing therein? In turn, what does this mean for the (after)lives of the media themselves?

The Media Fields Editorial Collective at UC Santa Barbara’s Department of Film and Media Studies welcomes submissions that critically engage the connections between space, media, and archival practice. We seek essays of 1500–2500 words, digital art projects, and interviews from scholars and practitioners alike. Potential submission topics include, but are not limited to:

  • Preservation: Precarity and decay, fragility, physicality, ontologies of the film and media archive and its objects, broadly construed
  • Cataloging: Metadata organization, archival etymology, reparative description and taxonomies, hierarchical data structures
  • Collection management: Power and ethics, restitution and social justice, collections policy, community oversight, institutional and/or community-based funding structures
  • Memory: Personal, collective, historical and/or cultural memories, archival modes of erasure, loss, and silence
  • Curation: Accessibility, community engagement, digital interfaces
  • Provenance: Found footage, orphan films, transnational displacement
  • Archival space: Traditional institutions, digital databases, garages, basements

Past Media Fields issues and submission guidelines may be found at mediafieldsjournal.org.

Please email all inquiries and submissions to issue co-editors Kelsey Moore and Hannah Garibaldi at submissions@mediafieldsjournal.org by October 31, 2024.

Contact Email

submissions@mediafieldsjournal.org

URL

http://mediafieldsjournal.org/call-for-submissions/

RFP: AI for Access

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce a Request for Proposals (RFP) for a Survey and Assessment Analyst to support an exciting new project funded by the Society of American Archivists (SAA) sponsored by the CLIR/DLF Born-Digital Access Working Group (BDAWG). The “AI for Access” project aims to assess how U.S. archival professionals are utilizing AI/ML tools to facilitate access to digital archival materials.

Project Overview: The “AI for Access” study is designed to explore the use of AI/ML in archival settings, particularly in the face of increasing digital collection demands. This two-part project includes a comprehensive literature review and a survey distributed to archival professionals to gather both quantitative and qualitative data on their use of and/or perspectives on AI/ML tools.

We are seeking a qualified Survey and Assessment Analyst to:

  • Review and refine our preliminary survey design.
  • Determine appropriate survey models and sampling methods.
  • Oversee the distribution and promotion of the survey.
  • Analyze and synthesize survey findings.
  • Prepare a final report detailing the results.

Key Details:

  • Contract Period: October 1, 2024 – January 31, 2024
  • Budget: $2,500
  • Deadline for Proposal Submission: September 26, 2024, by 4:30 PM EST
  • Proposal Submission: Proposals should be sent via email to Dara Baker at dabaker.research@gmail.com.

How to Apply: Interested applicants should submit a proposal that includes a detailed description of how they will meet the RFP requirements, along with their qualifications and pricing information. Preference will be given to proposals that address all aspects of the RFP comprehensively.

Please review the full RFP document for additional details on the scope of work, evaluation criteria, and submission guidelines.

We welcome any questions regarding this RFP, which should be submitted in writing by September 10, 2024, at 4:30 PM EST. All questions and responses will be shared by September 20, 2024.

We look forward to receiving your proposals and potentially working together on this important project.

Best regards,

AI for Access Project Team–
Christina Velazquez Fidlershe/her/hersHead of Digital CollectionsThe Bancroft Library University of California, Berkeley | Huichin Ohlone Land

US Latina & Latino Oral History Journal—Editor Search

The US Latina & Latino Oral History Journal—Editor Search

 Pioneering scholar in 1971 Juan Gómez-Quiñones recognized oral history interviews “an indispensable source.” In 2012, scholars Maria McDonald and Abraham Hoffman urged others to interview more Chicano activists – “living documents” – while there was still time.

 In recognition of oral history as an essential methodology to research the Latina/o experience in the US, the Journal was established in 2017. Its goals: to promote high-quality, peer-reviewed academic research, providing a platform and feedback to authors; spotlighting successful community efforts that include oral histories; reviewing books that used oral history to study the Latina/o history in the US. Now in its ninth year, the journal seeks a new editor for a four-year term (2026-2029). The new editor will serve as the Associate Editor in spring 2025, observing Journal operations. In 2026, the new Editor will assume all duties.

 The peer-reviewed Journal is sponsored by the Voces Oral History Center at the University of Texas at Austin’s Moody College of Communication and published annually by the University of Texas Press. UT Press coordinates editorial production, manufacturing, distribution, and financial management of the Journal—which is self-supporting.

 The Editor would work closely with two managing editors (MEs), paid by Voces. One ME distributes submissions to the reviewers and communicates with authors submitting/resubmitting manuscripts; the other works on the production side, ensuring the quality of the images and accuracy of the captions. The incoming Editor is expected to secure a course release from their respective institution as an incentive. In addition, a modest stipend from Voces will be offered.

 Editor’s duties:

  • Supervise the managing editors to oversee all aspects of Journal operations
  • Provide an initial reading of article submissions to ensure they are appropriate for distribution to blind reviewers
  • Promote the Journal at conferences and other meetings where appropriate
  • Work closely with the University of Texas Press journal production team at the various stages of production
  • Schedule and host an annual Journal Editorial Board teleconference meeting to discuss current submissions and future work
  • Ensure that standing features meet deadlines
  • Write the Editor’s Note to preface each issue
  • Ensure the Journal meets its annual early April submission deadline for fall publication.

 Qualifications:

  • Demonstrated commitment to oral history methodology and/or theory
  • Some record of using oral history in academic writing
  • Demonstrated commitment to research on Latina/o experiences in the U.S.
  • Familiarity with the U.S. Latina & Latino Oral History Journal
  • Must secure institutional support in the form of a course release

 Deadline to apply: Monday, January 6th, 2025.

Please submit the following materials through this Qualtrics link:

  1. A CV
  2. A short statement (no longer than two pages, double-spaced) of why you wish to be the new editor and what you bring to the position 
  3. A written commitment from the candidate’s institution (dean or above) that they will provide at least one course release annually for the duration of the editorship

Contact Information

Jackie Pedota, Ph.D.

The University of Texas at Austin

Managing Editor, US Latina & Latino Oral History Journal (University of Texas Press)

New Issue: Digital Humanities Quarterly, Special Issue: Using Visual AI Applied to Digital Archives

2024 18.2
Special Issue: Using Visual AI Applied to Digital Archives

Front Matter

Introduction to the Special Issue: Using Visual AI Applied to Digital Archives
Lise Jaillant, Loughborough University, UK

Articles

[en] Augmenting Access to Embodied Knowledge Archives: A Computational Framework
Giacomo Alliata, Laboratory for Experimental Museology, EPFL, Switzerland; Yumeng Hou, Laboratory for Experimental Museology, EPFL, Switzerland; Sarah Kenderdine, Laboratory for Experimental Museology, EPFL, Switzerland

[en] Sensitivity and Access: Unlocking the Colonial Visual Archive with Machine Learning
Jonathan Dentler, Catholic University of Paris; German Historical Institute, Washington D.C.; Lise Jaillant, Loughborough University, UK; Daniel Foliard, Université Paris Cité, LARCA (UMR 8225); Julien Schuh, Université Paris Nanterre; Maison des Sciences de l’Homme Mondes

[en] AI and Medical Images: Addressing Ethical Challenges to Provide Responsible Access to Historical Medical Illustrations
Lise Jaillant, Loughborough University, UK; Katherine Aske, Edinburgh Napier University, UK

[en] Capturing Captions: Using AI to Identify and Analyse Image Captions in a Large Dataset of Historical Book Illustrations
Julia Thomas, School of English Communication and Philosophy, Cardiff University; Irene Testini, Special Collections and Archives, Cardiff University

[en] Deep Learning for Historical Cadastral Maps and Satellite Imagery Analysis: Insights from Styria’s Franciscean Cadastre
Wolfgang Thomas Göderle, University of Innsbruck; Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology; Fabian Rampetsreiter, University of Graz; Christian Macher, Know Center; Katrin Mauthner, Know Center; Oliver Pimas, Know Center

Articles

[en] “Open” or “Close” Research Instruments? Conflicting Rationales in the Organization of Early Digital Medieval History in Europe (1960–1990).
Edgar Lejeune, Vossius Center for the History of Humanities and Sciences (University of Amsterdam)

[en] Lilypond Music-Notation Software in the Digital-Humanities Toolbox
Andrew A. Cashner, University of Rochester

[en] LemonizeTBX: Design and Implementation of a New Converter from TBX to OntoLex-Lemon
Andrea Bellandi, Institute for Computational Linguistics “A. Zampolli” CNR, Via Moruzzi 1, 56124, Pisa – Italy; Giorgio Maria Di Nunzio, Department of Information Engineering, University of Padova, Via Gradenigo 6/b, 35131 Padova, Italy; Silvia Piccini, Institute for Computational Linguistics “A. Zampolli” CNR, Via Moruzzi 1, 56124, Pisa – Italy; Federica Vezzani, Department of Linguistic and Literary Studies, University of Padova, Via Elisabetta Vendramini, 13 35137 Padova, Italy

Case Studies

[en] Towards a National Data Architecture for Cultural Collections: Designing the Australian Cultural Data Engine
Rachel Fensham, University of Melbourne; Australian Cultural Data Engine; Tyne Daile Sumner, Australian National University; Australian Cultural Data Engine; Nat Cutter, University of Melbourne; Australian Cultural Data Engine; George Buchanan, RMIT University; Rui Liu, University of Melbourne; Justin Munoz, Independent Scholar; James Smithies, Australian National University; Ivy Zheng, University of Newcastle; David Carlin, RMIT University; Erik Champion, University of South Australia; Hugh Craig, University of Newcastle; Scott East, University of New South Wales; Chris Hay, Flinders University; Lisa M. Given, RMIT University; John Macarthur, University of Queensland; David McMeekin, Curtin University; Joanna Mendelssohn, University of Melbourne; Deborah van der Plaat, University of Queensland

[en] Graph based modelling of prosopographical datasets. Case study: Romans 1by1
Rada Varga, Babeș-Bolyai University; Stefan Bornhofen, CY Cergy Paris University

[en] From Archive to Database: Using Crowdsourcing, TEI, and Collaborative Labor to Construct the Maria Edgeworth Letters Project
Hilary Havens, University of Tennessee, Knoxville; Eliza Alexander Wilcox, University of Tennessee, Knoxville; Meredith L. Hale, University of Tennessee, Knoxville; Jamie Kramer, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Reviews

[en] A Review of James Little’s The Making of Samuel Beckett’s Not I / Pas moi, That Time / Cette fois and Footfalls / Pas (2021)
Céline Thobois-Gupta, Trinity College Dublin

[en] A Review of Feminist in a Software Lab: Difference + Design (2018)
Diane K. Jakacki, Bucknell University

[en] The Humans and Algorithms of Music Recommendation: A Review of Computing Taste (2022)
Jacob Pleasants, University of Oklahoma

[en] Digital Methods in Literary Criticism: A Review of Digital Humanities and Literary Studies (2022)
Lili Wang, Harbin Engineering University; Tianxiang Chen, Harbin Engineering University

New/Recent Publications

Articles

Micah Altman, Richard Landau. “Selecting Efficient and Reliable Preservation Strategies: Modeling Long-term Information Integrity Using Large-scale Hierarchical Discrete Event Simulation.” International Journal of Digital Curation, Vol. 18 No. 1 (2024)

Jonas Recker, Mari Kleemola, Hervé L’Hours. “Closing Gaps: A Model of Cumulative Curation and Preservation Levels for Trustworthy Digital Repositories.” International Journal of Digital Curation, Vol. 18 No. 1 (2024)

Meyerl, Jordan (2024) “Review of Queer Data Studies,” Journal of Contemporary Archival Studies: Vol. 11, Article 4.

Buchanan, Rose (2024) “Review of War on Record: The Archive and the Afterlife of the Civil War,” Journal of Contemporary Archival Studies: Vol. 11, Article 3.

Shiozaki, R. (2024). People’s perceptions on social media archiving by the National Library of Japan. Journal of Information Science, 50(4), 861-873. https://doi.org/10.1177/01655515221108692

Fan, Q. (2024), “Research on intangible cultural heritage resource description and knowledge fusion based on linked data”, The Electronic Library, Vol. 42 No. 4, pp. 521-535. https://doi.org/10.1108/EL-01-2023-0018

Chen, H., Kim, J.(A)., Chen, J. and Sakata, A. (2024), “Demystifying oral history with natural language processing and data analytics: a case study of the Densho digital collection”, The Electronic Library, Vol. 42 No. 4, pp. 643-663. https://doi.org/10.1108/EL-12-2023-0303

Books

A Queer Reading of Nawabi Architecture and the Colonial Archive: Lucknow Queerscapes
Sonal Mithal, Arul Paul
Routledge, 2024

Archives and Archiving in the 21st Century
Edited By Radhika Seshan
Routledge, 2024

Archive as Detour: Historical Re-enactment in Artist Archive and Archival Art Practices of Contemporary Hong Kong
Sau Wai Vennes Cheng
Palgrave Macmillan, 2024

Design Thinking in Cultural and Heritage Management: Creating Solutions in the Field of Culture
By Lubomira Trojan, Łukasz Wróblewski
Routledge, 2024

Dissonant Records: Close Listening to Literary Archives
Tanya E Clement
The MIT Press, 2024

Archival Science in Interdisciplinary Theory and Practice
Corinne Rogers and Alexandra Wieland
Rowman & Littlefield

International Perspectives on Museum Management
Edited By Darko Babic
Routledge, 2024

Documentation from Truth and Reconciliation Commissions
Edited By Proscovia Svärd, Bonny Ibhawoh
Routledge, 2024

Queer Obscenity: Erotic Archives in Dictatorial Spain
Javier Fernández-Galeano
Stanford University Press, 2024

The Bloomsbury Handbook of Modernist Archives
Jamie Callison (Anthology Editor) , Matthew Feldman (Anthology Editor) , Anna Svendsen (Anthology Editor) , Erik Tonning (Anthology Editor)

Modern Manuscripts and the Pre-History of Digital Humanities: Paper Processors
Alex Christie
Palgrave Macmillan

Reports

Governance and Business Models for Collaborative Collection Development
Tracy Bergstrom, Oya Y. Rieger, Roger C. Schonfeld

Building a National Finding Aid Network: Final Report
2024
Turner, Adrian; Schiff, Lisa; Mitchell, Catherine; Waibel, Günter

Podcasts

Talking Archives – Episode 9: Julia Minne

The History of Literature Podcast, Lesbians in the Archives (with Amelia Possanza)

Case Studies

TPS Collective
CASE #29: One Class Five Ways by Lauren Kata and Suphan Kirmizialtin
CASE #28: Studying the Physical Book across Collections by Lauren Coats, John David Miles, and Brittany O’Neill
Case #27: Oral Histories as Primary Sources in the Classroom: Examples from the Gordon W. Prange Collection, University of Maryland Libraries by Kana Jenkins
Case #26: Teaching the History of Higher Ed through Primary Sources and Digital Exhibits by Rhia Rae, Molly Castro, and Annia Gonzalez

New Issue: International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives (IASA) Journal

International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives (IASA) Journal
Issue 54, 2024
(open access)

Editorial
Jennifer Vaughn

A Letter from IASA’s President
Patrick Midtlyng

Articles

Excavating Wartime Sound Heritage of Germany, Italy, and Japan
Captured Axis Sound Recordings in the Washington, D.C. Area and their Documentation
Carolyn Birdsall, Erica Harrison

The Revolution of Duplicated Music
Sonic Markers to Identify Early Phonograph Cylinder Copies in Archive Collections
Thomas Bårdsen

True Echoes
Researching wax cylinders recorded during the 1898 Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to the Torres Strait Islands
Grace Koch, Rebekah Hayes

CFP: Global Digital Humanities Symposium 2025

Deadline to apply: October 16, 2024
Notifications of acceptance: December 2, 2024
See the full proposal

Digital Humanities (DH) at Michigan State University (MSU) is proud and thrilled to celebrate the 10th Global DH Symposium with a combination of virtual and in-person events over the course of April 2-8, 2025.*

For the past ten years, the Global Digital Humanities Symposium has brought together a diverse range of presenters to spark cross-disciplinary, cross-cultural, and ethically engaged conversations. We will celebrate our decade in this space by reflecting on global digital humanities as a field as well as our impact on this rich area of scholarship. We therefore invite presenters from previous Symposia to return to the conference and share how their work has developed since their presentation.

As we mark this historic anniversary, our commitment to digital humanities scholarship and practice as a key site for interrogating narratives about disruption, connection, identity, resistance, ethics, and accountability continues. In a world shaped by multiple catastrophes and crises, these conversations are as urgent as ever.

We invite work at the intersections of critical DH, that engages with anti-colonial and post-colonial frameworks, that supports feminist and anti-racist praxis, and that crosses political and disciplinary borders. We define the term “humanities” expansively to open up space for a range of issues that encourages interdisciplinary understandings of the humanities.

*The virtual symposium supports presentation and attendance in English and Spanish through live interpretation. The in-person symposium will be in English. We are interested in supporting participation and presentation in additional languages as much as possible within our capacity. Please reach out if you would prefer to submit a proposal or present at the conference in another language. We will do our best to accommodate you.

This Symposium, which will include a mixture of presentation types, welcomes proposals by the end of the day Wednesday, October 16, midnight in your timezone.

This year we especially anticipate and welcome presentations on the following topics:

  • Reflections on the Symposium itself–what has been our effect on the field?
  • Considerations of the “global” in DH
  • Trial, error, process, preservation, and project conclusion as part of DH praxis
  • DH approaches to misinformation, media, and rhetoric in a global election year
  • Labs, support networks, streams/variations, and infrastructure for Global Digital Humanities

We are always interested to hear about the following topics, and their connections to the digital, as reflected in global research conversations and ethical DH practices across disciplines:

  • Public and community-engaged digital humanities in times of crises 
  • Indigeneity, anti-colonialism, and digital cultural heritage
  • Humanist critiques and interventions in artificial intelligence
  • Digital humanities approaches to climate and healthcare
  • Surveillance, censorship, and/or data privacy in a global context 
  • Disability justice and accessibility
  • Open data, open access, and data preservation as resistance
  • Student-centered practices in global digital pedagogy
  • Feminist and queer perspectives in DH
  • Borders, migration, and diasporas with an emphasis on the effects of warfare and conflict 
  • Multilingualism and language justice

CFP: Beyond Crises: Resilience and (In)stability – 9th Annual Meeting of the Memory Studies Association

The Memory Studies Association invites proposals for its ninth annual conference, to be held from 14 to 18 July 2025 at Charles University and the Czech Academy of Sciences in the historic city of Prague. This on-site conference aims to carry over from earlier conferences a transdisciplinary conversation on memory and its social, cultural and public relevance. It welcomes scholars, practitioners, and activists from diverse fields to contribute to this vibrant exchange of ideas.

In 2025, we will globally commemorate many significant anniversaries, such as the end of World War II (1945) and the end of the Vietnam War (1975). We will mourn the victims of the Srebrenica genocide in Bosnia (1995) and the massacres in Sudan (2005). Additionally, we will be half a decade removed from the onset of the COVID-19 lockdowns. With the theme Beyond Crises: Resilience and (In)stability, the conference seeks to explore how the memory of these events and other critical turning points has led to new tensions but also generated new possibilities. What patterns of decisive change can we observe? What is the role of memory in these processes, and how have they been commemorated? How have such critical turning points and their actors been collectively remembered and commemorated? And what can memory teach us amid the ongoing polycrisis?

While we have identified several central thematic streams, the conference is open to all fields of interest of the members of the MSA:

  • Anniversaries and their societal importance: Examining the politics of memory and commemoration practices both top-down and bottom-up.
  • Digital Memories: Investigating the impact of digital technologies on memory formation, preservation, and dissemination.
  • Economic Memories: Exploring the impact of collective memory on economic behavior, policy-making, and the socio-economic identities of communities.
  • Environment: Examining how environmental changes and ecological memory shape collective and individual identities.
  • Gender, Belonging, Embodiment: Examining how memory intersects with issues of gender, identity, and embodied experiences.
  • Health, Welfare & Care: Reflecting on the memories associated with health, caregiving, and social welfare systems.
  • History, Theory, and Methods of Memory Studies: Critically examining the foundational aspects of memory studies, focusing on the theoretical frameworks, historical contexts, and methodological approaches that shape the field.
  • Human Rights & Civil Society: Analyzing memory’s role in promoting and defending human rights and civil society initiatives.
  • Humanitarianism & Philanthropy: Investigating the interplay between memory, humanitarian efforts, and philanthropic activities.
  • Materiality and Nostalgia: Exploring the material aspects of memory and the sentimentality associated with nostalgia.
  • Memory Education: Focusing on pedagogical approaches to teaching and transmitting memory.
  • Memory Politics and Populism: Looking at the deployment of historical memories by both progressive and reactionary movements.
  • Memoryscapes Shared and Divided: Studying the spatial and geographical dimensions of memory, including contested and shared spaces.
  • Migration and Displacement: Investigating the memories of migration, displacement, and the diasporic experience.
  • Notions of Crises: Exploring and interpreting the meaning of crisis within memory construction.
  • Public and Private Memory: Analyzing the interplay between public commemorations and private recollections.
  • Resilience, Reconciliation, Mourning: Discussing memory’s contribution to processes of healing, reconciliation, and mourning.
  • Transformation, Activism, Social Justice: Exploring the role of memory in social movements and transformative justice.
  • Violence, Justice, Trauma: Addressing the memories of violence, justice processes, and trauma recovery.
  • Voices of Memory: Highlighting underrepresented and marginalized narratives in the collective memory.


Proposals should include:

  1. Individual Papers: An abstract of up to 300 words, including the title, research question, methodology, keywords and key findings.
  2. Panels: A panel description (up to 300 words), abstracts for each paper (up to 300 words per paper), and keywords. Each panel should consist of 4 presenters and a chair.
  3. Roundtables: A summary of the roundtable topic (up to 300 words) and brief descriptions of each participant’s contribution.
  4. Special Events (Film Screenings, Performances, Exhibitions, Workshops): A detailed description (up to 300 words) of the proposed cultural activity, including its relevance to the conference themes, format, technical requirements, and any special considerations. Please also include a short bio of the creator(s) or performer(s). Please note that we have a limited number of slots for creative outputs and cannot cover conference participation costs, including travel, transportation of exhibits and copyrights. We encourage you to contact the organisers if you have organisational or technical questions about a possible special event.  

Submission Guidelines

Please note that in order to participate in the conference, you must be a member of the MSA. You can become a member after your paper has been accepted.

We invite the submission of individual papers, panels, roundtable discussions, book launches, workshops and special events from members committed to attending the conference in person. The MSA especially encourages complete sessions, such as panels, round tables and workshops. 

Submit your paper at: https://msaprague2025.dryfta.com/72-call-for-papers

Information and dates regarding submissions:

  • All proposals should be submitted via our online submission portal by October 20, 2024. 
  • Notifications of acceptance will be sent out in December 2024. 
  • We will provide the supporting documentation for those needing to apply for visas in January 2025. Please follow the information on the conference website
  •  Please note that participants may appear as presenters only once in a panel but may act as chairs in more than one panel. 

Contact Email

pragueconference@memorystudiesassociation.org

URL

https://msaprague2025.dryfta.com/72-call-for-papers

New Issue: Journal of the International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives

Journal of the International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives no. 54 (2024)
(open access)

Editorial
Jennifer Vaughn

A Letter from IASA’s President
Patrick Midtlyng

Excavating Wartime Sound Heritage of Germany, Italy, and Japan
Captured Axis Sound Recordings in the Washington, D.C. Area and their Documentation
Carolyn Birdsall, Erica Harrison

The Revolution of Duplicated Music
Sonic Markers to Identify Early Phonograph Cylinder Copies in Archive Collections
Thomas Bårdsen

True Echoes
Researching wax cylinders recorded during the 1898 Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to the Torres Strait Islands
Grace Koch, Rebekah Hayes