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“Enrolled Deeds as Records and Archives in Jamaica“
Andrew Williams
“Enhancing Archives and Records Management in Low-Resourced Organizations through Experiential Learning“
Jinfang Niu
“Student-Designed Archival Pedagogy: A Workshop-As-Research Approach to Pluralizing Community Archives Education“
Magdalena Wiśniewska-Drewniak
“Archival Notations of the Norwegian Charter Material“
Juliane Tiemann
Archives & Records, Vol. 26, Issue 2, 2025
Articles
Records of resilience: preserving and promoting de-identified access to the Whitechapel Clinic records
E. Kate Jarman, Richard A. McKay & Richard Meunier
Digital records curation practices in Institutional Repositories (IRs) at selected public universities in Kenya
Juliet A. Erima & Elsebah Maseh
The evolution of archival policies and regulations in China: a topic modelling approach
Li Su & Yunjie Tang
An archive for a school for autistic learners: documenting a distinctive pedagogy
Andrew Alexandra & Mary Thomson
Perspectives from Russia: an interview with Natasha Khramtsovsky
Natasha Khramtsovsky
Toward understanding: practices as common ground and starting point reflections on perspectives from Russia: an interview with Natasha Khramtsovsky
Sherry Xie
How agreeing with or confronting canon can help us face the challenges of the information age?
Zhanna Rozhneva
Reviews
Family and justice in the archives: historical perspectives on intimacy and the law
edited by Peter Gossage and Lisa Moore, Montreal, Concordia University Press, 2024
Jessamy Carlson
History in flames: the destruction and survival of medieval manuscripts
by Robert Bartlett, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2024
Daniella M. Gonzalez
CfP for the panel ‘Text, Space, Memory: Italians Rewriting the Global and U.S. Souths’ at the Biennial Conference of the Society for the Study of Southern Literature ‘Building Spaces of Freedom’ (March 28-31, 2026 – Fisk University, Nashville, TN)
This panel investigates how Italian transnational communities, across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, have produced, negotiated and monumentalized cultural identity through literary texts, material practices and spatial imaginaries. Bringing together approaches from Italian studies, ethnic studies, literary analysis, spatial theory and material culture, the panel considers how Italian migrants in the Global and U.S. Souths used both texts and objects to articulate belonging, negotiate racial hierarchies and inscribe themselves into local landscapes.
We invite papers that explore how identity is shaped, contested, and remembered through:
1. Literature, Journalism, and Migrant Voices
2. Spatiality, Modernity and the Italian Imagination
3. Material Culture, Craft, and Memorial Practices
4. Archives, Public History and Digital Humanities
We welcome contributions from literary studies, Italian studies, ethnic studies, art history, spatial humanities, history and digital humanities. Papers addressing understudied archives, multilingual sources, or intersectional methodologies are especially encouraged.
Please submit a 250–300 word abstract and a brief bio (50–75 words) to the panel organizers, Matteo Brera (University of Padova / Seton Hall University) and Alessia Martini (Sewanee – The University of the South) at matteo.brera@unipd.it and almartin@sewanee.edu by December 12, 2025.
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Dr Matteo Brera
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Research Fellow
Università degli Studi di Padova / Seton Hall University
✉️ matteo.brera@unipd.it | matteo.brera@shu.edu
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Dear all,
I am pleased to share with you the call for papers for the upcoming ICOHTEC Annual Meeting, which will be held at the Democritus University of Thrace in Greece from 8–11 October 2026, in collaboration with the Laboratory of Technologies, Research & Applications in Education/ School of Humanities and the Ethnological Museum of Thrace in Alexandroupolis, Greece.
The theme of this conference, “Engaging the History of Technology”, invites critical reflections on how history of technology can engage with evolving methodologies, theories and pedagogies, and other branches of historical study to demonstrate that understanding technologies’ pasts are essential to navigating contemporary challenges. The conference, therefore, seeks contributions across spatial and epistemic boundaries: from the everyday and local to the geopolitical and planetary; from archival practice to classroom teaching and public engagement; and from discipline-specific research methods to interdisciplinary collaborations.
Contributors may engage with one or more of the following themes, or even suggest new ways of thinking about:
1. The History of Technology between the Local, the Regional, and the Global:
• Circulation of technologies, expertise, and knowledge across borders
• Adaptation and appropriation of technologies in different cultural contexts
• Tensions between globalisation and localisation in technological change
• Regional networks and their role in shaping technological trajectories
• Colonial, postcolonial and decolonial dimensions of technology
• Networks of maintenance and repair
2. History of Technology, Historiography and Education:
• Methodological innovations in researching the history of technology
• Interdisciplinary approaches and their challenges
• Teaching the history of technology in universities and schools
• Public engagement and the communication of technological history
• The relevance of technology history to contemporary policy debates
• Digital humanities and new forms of historical scholarship
3. Intersections between the History of Technology and Other Fields of Historical Study:
• Technology and social history: class, labour, gender, and everyday life
• Technology and cultural history: representation, identity, and meaning
• Technology and environmental history: sustainability, resource use, and ecological change
• Technology and economic history: innovation, industrialisation, and development
• Technology and political history: governance, regulation, and power
• Technology and the history of medicine: cultural values, therapeutic practice, and material conceptions about the human body
4. Special Focus: Museums, Material and Intangible Cultural Heritage, and Public Engagement:
Given our collaboration with the Ethnological Museum of Thrace, we particularly welcome proposals that engage with material and intangible culture, museum practices, and public history. We are interested in innovative session formats that:
• Explore tensions and synergies between academic and museum approaches to technological history
• Demonstrate object-based learning methodologies
• Address the challenges of communicating technological history to diverse publics
• Examine the role of museums in preserving and interpreting technological heritage
• Study visitor engagements with intangible heritage, particularly those of marginalised and silenced ethno-cultural communities
• Critically examine the funding relationships between private technological and industrial interests, and museum
We welcome proposals in the following formats:
Paper presentations
Individual and author teams’ presentations. Please, submit an abstract of up to 350 words.
Panel Sessions
Thematically coherent sessions of 3-4 papers. Panel organisers should submit a panel abstract (up to 400 words) describing the theme and its significance; after approval the conference committee and the panel organisers will issue a specific call for proposals (individual or author teams’ paper abstracts up to 350 words each).
Roundtables
Discussion-based sessions with 4-6 participants addressing a specific question or debate. Organisers should submit a description of the topic and format (up to 350 words); names and brief bios of participants (up to 100 words each); key questions to be addressed.
Graduate Student and Early Career Opportunities
ICOHTEC is committed to supporting emerging scholars. We particularly welcome submissions from graduate students and early career researchers. The conference will feature:
• Visual Lightning Talk Competitions for graduate students
• Mentorship opportunities pairing students with established scholars
• Book development workshops
Submissions of abstracts through the conference website
Opening: 15 December 2025
Deadline: 31 January 2026
Official conference website: https://icohtec2026.hs.duth.gr
Email address: icohtec2026@gmail.com
Please find attached the detailed CfP and feel free to circulate it with your networks.
Thank you very much.
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Organising Committee, ICOHTEC 2026
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Articles
Estill, Laura. 2025. “Digital Text Analysis and Early Shakespeare Bibliography: Using Voyant Tools with Bad OCR.” Digital Studies/Le champ numérique 15(1): 1–38. https://doi.org/10.16995/dscn.18897.
Gamm, Margaret. “OneNote as Evergreen Documentation: Building out a Collaborative Operations Manual in a Special Collections and Archives Unit.” College & Research Libraries News [Online], 86.10 (2025): 399. Web. 16 Nov. 2025.
Wong, A. K., & Chiu, D. K. W. (2024). Digital curation practices on web and social media archiving in libraries and archives. Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, 57(4), 1022-1040. https://doi.org/10.1177/09610006241252661 (Original work published 2025)
Kunxian Chen, Xin Tan. “Does the preservation policy of historical and cultural heritage promote economic growth? Evidence from China.” Journal of Cultural Heritage, Volume 74, July–August 2025
André Luiz Carvalho Ottoni, Lara Toledo Cordeiro Ottoni. “A deep learning approach for cultural heritage building classification using transfer learning and data augmentation.” Journal of Cultural Heritage, Volume 74, July–August 2025
Paloma Guzman. “Cultural heritage in climate planning: An analysis of the Norwegian national climate documents and guidelines.” Journal of Cultural Heritage, Volume 74, July–August 2025
Books
Collecting Cinema, Rewriting Film History: Between the Visible and the Invisible
Edited By André Habib, Louis Pelletier, Jean-Pierre Sirois-Trahan
Routledge, 2025
Privacy Preserving Data Management: Assisting Users in Data Disclosure Scenarios
Sebastian Linsner
SpringerNature, 2025
Copyright Law in Photographic Works: Authorship, Originality, and Protection
Faisal Alamri
Routledge, 2025
Cripping the Archive: Disability, History, and Power
Edited by Jenifer L. Barclay and Stefanie Hunt-Kennedy Foreword by Jaipreet Virdi
University of Illinois Press, 2025
The Last Mixtape: Physical Media and Nostalgic Cycles
Seth Long
University of Chicago Press, 2025
Digital Libraries Across Continents
Edited By Le Yang, Alicia Salaz
Routledge, 2025
Collecting in the Icon Age: IT’s Impact on Collecting Practices
Paul Wilson , Peter Tolmie
SpringerNature, 2025
Paradata: Documenting Data Creation, Curation and Use
Authors: Isto Huvila, Lisa Andersson, Zanna Friberg, Ying-Hsang Liu, Olle Sköld, et. al.
Cambridge University Press, 2025
Interactive Media for Cultural Heritage
Fotis Liarokapis, Maria Shehade, Andreas Aristidou, Yiorgos Chrysanthou
SpringerNature, 2025
Digitization, Trust and SMEs
Anna Wziątek-Staśko, Karolina Pobiedzińska
Routledge, 2024
Noisy Memory: Recording Sound, Performing Archives
Brian Harnetty
The University of North Carolina Press, 2025
Theses/Dissertations
Master Thesis (Dalhousie University) – Queering the Archive: Reactivating Queer Memory in Halifax
http://dalspace.library.dal.ca/items/a1556411-4054-4107-af68-06067aea6c03
Ph. D. Thesis (Wilfrid Laurier University) – Legislating Trans Lives: an Archival Analysis on Trans Canadian Rights
http://scholars.wlu.ca/etd/2801/
Case Studies
Case #31: Graduate Student-Curated Exhibits: A Study
Alison Fraser
TPS Collective
Novel
National Archive Hunters 2: Eternal Flame
Matthew Landis
Volume 10, Number 1, Spring 2025
Strangers in a Strange Land: Connections among Spanish Chant Manuscripts in US Public Collections
Kathleen Sewright
A Scribe’s Luxury Manuscript: Text and Image in a Hebrew Medical Tract (Cambridge, University Library, MS Dd.10.68)
Sivan Gottlieb
From St Albans to Chartres: John of Salisbury and the Lost Historia Johannis Turonensis
Joanna Frońska
Est / Non Est: Crafting the Shield of Faith Trinity in Thirteenth-Century England
Sophie Kelly
Levina Teerlinc, Mary I’s Legal Limner?
Kathleen E. Kennedy
“The Most Precious Volume That Has Been Sold for a Century”: The Golden Gospels and the Manuscripts Trade, ca. 1882–1900
Ana de Oliveira Dias
Confucius and the Richness of Ancient Chinese Manuscripts
Maddalena Poli
A Note on UPenn LJS 358: (Re-)Identifying a Manuscript
Eva Del Soldato
A Tree with Many Roots: Introducing the Zysk Collection of Indic Manuscripts
Jacob Schmidt-Madsen, Anuj Misra, Kenneth Gregory Zysk
Reading Nature in the Early Middle Ages: Writing, Language, and Creation in the Latin “Physiologus,” ca. 700–1000 by Anna Dorofeeva (review)
Aylin Malcolm
Textual Magic: Charms and Written Amulets in Medieval England by Katherine Storm Hindley (review)
Caroline R. Batten
The Medicine of the Friars in Medieval England by Peter Murray Jones (review)
Sarah Star
Beyond the Silk and Book Roads: Rethinking Networks of Exchange and Material Culture ed. by Michelle C. Wang and Ryan Richard Overbey (review)
Xin Wen
Strange Tales from Edo: Rewriting Chinese Fiction in Early Modern Japan by William D. Fleming (review)
William C. Hedberg
The Cartulary of Prémontré ed. by Yvonne Seale and Heather Wacha (review)
Joanna Tucker
Radomir Psalter, and: Paleographic and textological analysis edition ed. by Catherine Mary MacRobert et al., and: Facsimile reproduction by Ekaterina Dikova, Hieromonk Athanasius, Liljana Makarijoska (review)
Julia Verkholantsev
Lost but Not Forgotten: The Saga of Hrómundur and Its Manuscript Transmission by Katarzyna Anna Kapitan (review)
Christine Schott
Vol. 10 No. 3 (2025)
Special Summer Issue: Diasporas and Cultural Heritage Institutions in the GTA and Beyond
Curating Diasporas
Community Museological Practices and Politics of Immigration Memories in the GTA and Beyond
Bruno Véras
Behind the 1944 “Great Escape”
Cycling and Politicized Memories at the VEMU Estonian Museum Canada
Kim, Yoonkyung, Ke Wang
Capturing the Migration Memory of Canada’s Diverse Ismaili Muslims
A Case Study of the 50 Years of Migration Exhibit
Zhikall Kakei, Samantha Tsang
“Don’t Talk Defeat to Me”
The Tangible and Intangible Cultural Heritage of the First Baptist Church of Toronto
Alejandra Mendoza, Laura Prior
Sharing Histories of Immigration
Narratives on Display at the Mennonite Archives of Ontario
Jacob Fralic, Vasiana Moraru
Trunk Tales
A Case Study of the Ukrainian Museum of Canada – Ontario Branch
Kathryn Hawkins
Recalling Through Belonging at the Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre
Melanie Dunch
Is e an Taigh an Taisbeanadh
Hillary House and the Exhibition at Home
Erica Michele Frail-Brocco
A Living History Museum
Joseph Schneider Haus
Yvonne Wang
Navigating Shifting Identities
Culturally Specific Museums in the Rise of Multiracialism
Felicity Brassard
Volume 25, Issue 4, December 2025
Introduction: resilience and dissidence in post-Ottoman minority sources
Alexis Rappas, Angelos Dalachanis
A case study of guerrilla virtual reunification from the Morningside Hospital History Project: privacy and access, independence and sustainability
Shir Bach
Situating the animal presence in colonial archives: a case of the Madras Presidency
Joshy Teresa
Counter-surveying apartheid-era forced removals in South Africa: a spatial approach to archival social justice
Siddique Motala, Tlotliso Mokomane, David A. Wallace
Armenian Genocide survivor oral history as an archival resource
Manuk Avedikyan, Arman Khachatryan
Multiple voices in a majlis: the growth of archives in the United Arab Emirates and the role of New York University Abu Dhabi
Brad Bauer
“The desert is coming!”: tracing transitions through a personal archive
Maria João Fonseca
Global sufferings, local voices: archival reactivations in Jewish theatre ephemera from Turkey
Rüstem Ertuğ Altınay
Obligation in Finnish records and information management laws
Tuija Kautto
Toward a performative epistemology of the archive: archival enactment as Rum futurity
Christina Banalopoulou
“The finding aid is the first thing that people see, we don’t want to put anyone off viewing the collection”: how practitioners navigate queerness in finding aids
Travis L. Wagner, Evan M. Allgood, Mateo Caballero
The Greek communities of Egypt and national identity building as reflected in the archival records of the Hellenic literary and historical archive/MIET, 1843–1950
Mathilde Pyrli
Neither imperial nor national? The archival trails and legacies of (post)Ottoman-Armenians
Varak KetsemanianBedross Der Matossian
Exploring non-archival trajectories of written artefacts: an introduction
Markus Friedrich, Konrad Hirschler, Cécile Michel
Removed archives: the case of the royal palace of Mari (ca 1810–1760 BCE)
Philippe Abrahami
Jewish Egyptian archives and heritage sites between dispersal and entrenchment
Alon Tam
The Oyster Model: understanding community roles in sustaining digital cultural knowledge infrastructures
Katrina Fenlon, Jessica Grimmer … Travis Wagner
Beyond capstone: toward a new strategy for appraising and selecting emails to transfer to archives within French public agencies
Edgar Lejeune, Bénédicte Grailles … Patrice Marcilloux
The forthcoming publication from Palgrave Macmillan, Artificial Intelligence Applications in Oral History: Reports from the Field, is launching a call for case studies from oral history practitioners across the world who have utilized artificial intelligence technologies in their work. The possible applications of this technology will be divided into the following chapters:
Chapter 1 – Artificial Intelligence as Oral History Interviewer
Chapter 2 – Artificial Intelligence as Oral History Transcriber
Chapter 3 – Artificial Intelligence as Oral History Indexer
Chapter 4 – Artificial Intelligence as Oral History Researcher
Chapter 5 – Artificial Intelligence as Oral History Curator
Those interested in submitting their work for potential case study inclusion will identify one of these five areas and summarize their efforts in an abstract of around 250 words, focusing on the application of said technologies, the outcomes of said application, and any lessons learned, or opinions held, in the aftermath.
Those selected for inclusion will be notified by mid-January 2026 and will then have six months to produce their case study. These documents will range in size from 2500-5000 words depending on the scope of the work and the total number of case studies accepted. The book itself is currently scheduled to be submitted by the end of the Summer 2026 and published in Q1 2027.
The deadline for abstract submission is December 31, 2025. If you are interested in submitting a project for consideration, or if you have any questions about this opportunity, please contact author/editor Steven Sielaff at Steven_Sielaff@baylor.edu.
Contact Information
Steven Sielaff
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An International Workshop on Films and Ethnography
January 7-10, 2026
Films and ethnography go back a long way. Ethnographers of the past to the visual anthropologists of the present have turned to film and video as both research tools and presentation medium. They have used the camera to capture fieldwork, deployed cinematic techniques to convey ethnographic insights, and made films and documentaries to challenge the mainstream textual dominance in the dissemination of their research in form of journal articles and monographs. Similarly, many feature films adopt ethnographic traits. This includes immersive attention to everyday life, long observational takes, reflexive narration, or even hybridity between fiction and documentary. Such films become sites for contemplating the human condition much like ethnographic research.
The coming together of film and ethnography throws up a number of theoretical and epistemological challenges as well and the relationship between the two, although productive, is not without some tension. Issues of representation (who speaks, whose voice is heard, or who holds the camera), authorship and power, aesthetic values versus analytic rigor, the ethnographic gaze on “the Other” and the cinematic gaze on ethnography, the question of objectivity vs subjectivity, the boundary between documentary and fiction, the sensory turn and the limits of textuality are only some examples of this rich and overdetermined relationship. Neither ethnography nor filmmaking can claim neutrality and therefore ‘film in and as ethnography’ and ‘ethnography in and as films’ are also shot through by the dialectics of subjectivities of the researcher-filmmaker. In other words, the point of intersection of film and ethnography is also the site of production of subjectivities which can have radical (or its opposite) consequences politically and culturally.
This workshop invites contributions from postgraduate students, doctoral scholars, and early career researchers who either want to include films as a method in their research or are already doing it to share their proposals and experiences. We also invite filmmakers who have framed their filmmaking ethnographically to share their work at the workshop. We aim to open a space for reflection on the potentials and tensions of the “ethnographic gaze” in film, as well as the capacity of film to interrogate, complicate or even invert that gaze. Some of the indicative but not exhaustive sub‑themes of the workshop are listed below:
This workshop will also have two Masterclass by documentary filmmakers and a space for screening films based on ethnographic research of the participants.
Confirmed Speakers:
Rashmi Devi Sawhney, Associate Program Head of Film and New Media; Associate Arts Professor of Film and New Media, New York University Abu Dhabi
Sreemoyee Singh, Documentary Filmmaker (And, Towards Happy Alleys 2023)
Submission Guidelines:
Note: Selected papers will be published in Peter Lang’s CUECS Series on Interdisciplinary Humanities in the 21st Century
Please send your abstract/synopsis to csc@christuniversity.in
Important Dates and Registration Fee:
Registration fee: INR 3000 (for Indian and non-OECD countries’ participants)/USD 70 (for OECD countries’ participants)
Last date to submit abstract/synopsis: December 10, 2025
Intimation of Selection: December 15, 2025
Payment of Registration Fee: December 20, 2025
Submission of draft (3000-5000 words): January 05, 2026
Conveners:
Mithilesh Kumar, Assistant Professor, CHRIST (Deemed to be University) Bangalore
V. Nishant, Assistant Professor, CHRIST (Deemed to be University) Bangalore
Kailash Koushik, Assistant Professor, CHRIST (Deemed to be University) Bangalore
Prachi Pinglay, Professor of Practice, CHRIST (Deemed to be University) Bangalore
Contact Information
csc@christuniversity.in
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csc@christuniversity.in
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