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CFP: Visible Designs: The Arts of Race and Capitalism (Symposium)

Call for Papers

 “VISIBLE DESIGNS: The Arts of Race and Capitalism”

 Interdisciplinary Symposium
University of Chicago
October 12-13, 2023

Plenary Panelists: Ashlee Bird (University of Notre Dame), Aston Gonzalez (Salisbury University), Silas Munro (Vermont College of Fine Arts), Kinohi Nishikawa (Princeton University)

We are seeking paper proposals for Visible Designs, a symposium that is bringing together researchers in History, Literature, American Studies, and allied fields (e.g., design studies, art history, others) who are studying the aesthetics of racial capitalism in the United States from the seventeenth century to the present day. Central to our discussion is design as a category for analyzing how people use race to make (and unmake) social lives in spaces of economic production, exchange, consumption, and waste. Our goal is to interrogate the centrality of visual and material culture to better understand how racialized capitalism functions, when it shifts over time, and where it manifests across a multitude of social sites in the American empire.

We welcome proposals for presentations from graduate students, earlier career scholars, and contingent faculty in all areas of the humanities, social science, and the design professions. The conference is organized to foster conversations between established scholars and emerging researchers. Our program will consist of four panels composed of invited faculty and emerging scholars; presenters will be matched with invited faculty according to broad methodological and thematic affinities. We encourage graduate students to propose presentations which reflect ongoing dissertation research. Presenters will be given funding to support travel and accommodations nearby the University of Chicago.

Sponsored by the Scherer Center for the Study of American Culture and supported by the Terra Foundation of American Art, Visible Designs will mark the ten-year anniversary of “Invisible Designs: New Directions in the Study of Race in American Consumer Capitalism,” a conference held at the University of Chicago in October 2013. Whereas our first conference emphasized the “hidden” dimensions of racial discrimination and inequality in the consumer economy, our sequel probes the overt, spectacular, and artful ways that Americans have crafted racial identities, maintained systems of racial domination, and built anti-racist social movements.

Possible topics include, but are by no means limited to:

  • The social lives of racialized commodities (iconography, furniture, cuisine, clothing, etc.)
  • Racial divisions of labor in craft traditions and artisanal manufacture as well as newer industries of design, advertising, architecture, marketing, and social media
  • The lived experience(s) of technologies, algorithms, and systems of racial inequality
  • Concepts of work, value, matter, energy, and waste in racial discourses and critical race theory
  • The narrative, graphic, and architectural forms that govern the archiving, writing, and curation of histories of racial capitalism
  • The administration of race relations and/or racial conflict in cultural industries and institutions

We invite you to submit a 250-word abstract for 20-minute paper presentations, along with a one-page CV, to conference organizers Chris Dingwall (dingwall@wustl.edu) and Korey Garibaldi (Korey.G.Garibaldi.4@nd.edu) by no later than July 28, 2023. Successful applicants will be informed in early August.

Call for Applicants for EBLIP Journal: Evidence Summaries Writers

Call for Applicants for EBLIP Journal: Evidence Summaries Writers

Journal URL: https://journals.library.ualberta.ca/eblip/index.php/EBLIP

EBLIP seeks to add several writers to the Evidence Summaries Team. Evidence summaries are critical appraisal syntheses, which provide analysis regarding the validity and reliability of the methodology used in an original research article. As such, they are a key component of EBLIP to aid readers in making informed decisions in their local practice. Evidence Summaries Team members are required to write two evidence summaries per year, with a two-year commitment to the journal. Evidence Summaries cover all areas of library and information studies, and we encourage applications from information professionals in areas such as school, public, and special libraries, as well as academic settings.


Interested persons should send a cover letter, indicating areas of strength they would bring to the role, and resume/CV as a single PDF file to Fiona Inglis (Associate Editor, Evidence Summaries) at finglis@wlu.ca by July 15, 2023. Applicants who are shortlisted will be asked to submit a sample evidence summary.

*Please note that Evidence Based Library and Information Practice is a non-profit, open access journal and all positions are voluntary and unpaid. The positions are an excellent opportunity for continuing professional development and gaining experience in reviewing and critically appraising library-related research.

**Only those applicants who are selected or shortlisted will be contacted by the Editors.

About the journal:

Published quarterly and hosted by the University of Alberta, this peer-reviewed, open access journal is targeted at all library and information professionals interested in an evidence based model of practice. By facilitating access to librarianship research via original research articles and evidence summaries of relevant research from the library literature, Evidence Based Library and Information Practice enables librarians to practice their profession in an evidence based manner. Please visit the Evidence Based Library and Information Practice web site (https://journals.library.ualberta.ca/eblip/index.php/EBLIP) for further information about the journal.

New/Recent Publications

Books

Ceglio, Clarissa J.. A Cultural Arsenal for Democracy: The World War II Work of U.S. Museums. Public History in Historical Perspective Series.
Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2022.

Herman, Ana-Maria. Reconfiguring the Museum: The Politics of Digital Display.
Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2023.

Robert Irwin, ed. Migrant Feelings, Migrant Knowledge: Building a Community Archive.
University of Texas Press, 2022.

Murphy, Brian Michael. We the Dead: Preserving Data at the End of the World
The University of North Carolina Press Publication, 2022.

Articles

Tara Murray Grove, Clara Drummond, J. Adam Clemons, Autumn Johnson. “Engaging with campus and community: Insights from a traveling exhibition.” College and Research Library News 84 no. 6 (2023).

Fogel, T. & Schrire, D., (2023) “Negotiating Tradition Archives in a Community Setting: Sounds of Silence and the Question of Credibility”, Ethnologia Europaea 53(1), 1-23. doi: https://doi.org/10.16995/ee.9433

Nick Thieberger. “Doing it for Ourselves: The New Archive Built by and Responsive to the Researcher.” Digital Humanities Quarterly 17 no. 1 (2023).

Sara Diamond. “The Dangers of Disappearance, the Opportunities of Recovery.” Digital Humanities Quarterly 17 no. 1 (2023).

Abigail Hollingsworth, “The role the LGBTQ+ Community Plays in Preserving Their Own History: The Rise of LGBTQIA+ Grassroots Archives.” SLIS Connecting 11, no. 2 (2023)

Reports

Living Wages Art Museum Leaders Confront Persistent Staff Compensation Challenges Joanna Dressel, Deirdre Harkins, Liam Sweeney. ITHAKA S+R Issue Brief. DOI: https://doi.org/10.18665/sr.319152

CFP: Charleston Conference – November 6-10, 2023 (in-person) & November 27-December 1, 2023 (online)

In Person: November 6-10
Online: November 27-December 1

We’re excited to welcome you back to Charleston, either in-person or virtually, for the 2023 Charleston Conference: Issues in Book and Serial Acquisition. Our theme this year is “Let the Good Times Roll!” 

Do you have ideas, challenges, solutions, or information to share?

We’re seeking proposals on topics related to collection development and acquisitions, including, but not limited to, the following threads:

  • Analysis and Analytics
  • Collections/Collection Development
  • Library Services
  • Management
  • Preservation/Archiving
  • Scholarly Communication
  • Technology & Trends
  • Up & Coming – Foundational information for those new to the profession.

Deadline for submissions is Monday, July 10. 

We also have a limited number of spots available for preconference workshops. Proposal deadline is June 5.

Submit Your Proposal

Call for Preconferences

Call for Chapters: Text and Data Mining Literacy for Librarians

Editors: Whitney Kramer, Evan Muzzall, and Iliana Burgos

We are excited to invite chapter proposals for Text and Data Mining Literacy for Librarians, an edited volume to be published by ACRL. Click this text to fill out the Google Form and start your submission. Please email Whitney Kramer at wbk39@cornell.edu with any questions. 

About the book:

Text and Data Mining Literacy for Librarians will provide librarians with a broad overview of the TDM-specific data literacy skills needed to support researchers. It will include case studies of library-supported TDM projects in a variety of disciplines, from the digital humanities to the social sciences and beyond. This volume will help librarians of all experience levels learn to support researchers utilizing TDM across disciplines and even conduct TDM research of their own. We will prioritize open scholarship principles and data-centric approaches to TDM when applicable and encourage librarians to think critically about the applications of TDM — especially with regards to social impacts, intellectual property rights, and power structures in facilitating TDM. Ultimately, this volume is intended to empower librarians, inform decision makers, and support our research communities as working with textual data becomes further embedded into the research landscape. 

Call for chapters:

We invite chapter proposals for the following sections. If you have experience supporting text and data mining research in any form, please consider submitting a proposal. Do not feel limited by the following suggested topics! We encourage proposals from first-time authors and authors based in any type of college or university setting. 

Section 1 – Essentials of Text Data Literacy

This section will provide a basic understanding of contemporary research topics and skills necessary for librarians to adequately support faculty and students who are conducting TDM research. Sample topics could include:

  • How to engage in a TDM “reference interview”
  • Data ethics in text data mining research contexts
  • Embedding critical theory into text data education
  • The role of library administration and management in supporting TDM

Section 2 – Education, Training, and Logistics 

This section will cover the many core mechanics of TDM, including data sources, licensing and legal aspects, collections management, vendor products, and administrative perspectives. Sample topics could include:

  • Text data sources and collections management
  • Library applications of text data mining: easy examples in context
  • Problems of text data mining in libraries: licensing and legal aspects of TDM 
  • Labor in supporting TDM education
  • Evaluating proprietary and black box TDM products

Section 3 – Practical Applications and Case Studies

This section will provide case studies of library-supported TDM projects in a variety of disciplines in order to help readers understand practical applications for TDM skills in the library. Sample topics could include:

  • Electronic health records
  • Engaging with ChatGPT and tools powered by artificial “intelligence”
  • Large language models
  • Law and technology
  • Literary text data
  • Social media data
  • Speech and /audio data
  • Text data in the digital humanities
  • Text data in the social sciences
  • Using TDM for library assessment
  • Working with multilingual corpora

Proposal Instructions:

Please submit your proposals using this Google form. The text of the proposals should not exceed 500 words. Be sure to include a working title, 3-5 keywords describing your proposed topic, and one or two learning objectives. (Note: These are not included in the word limit.) 

Submissions are due by July 15, 2023. We expect to notify authors of acceptance by August 15, 2023. See below for the proposed project timeline. Please email Whitney Kramer at wbk39@cornell.edu with any questions. 

Project Timeline:

  • CFP closes July 15, 2023 
  • Authors notified of acceptance by August 15, 2023 
  • Chapter outlines sent to editors by October 2, 2023 
  • First drafts due January 15, 2024 
  • Draft reviews completed and feedback provided to authors around April 15, 2024 
  • Second drafts due May 15, 2024 
  • Editor reviews completed around July 1, 2024 
  • Final draft submitted to ACRL by August 31, 2024

CFP: Back to the Future: Feminist Media Activism in Transition (special issue of the Journal of Gender Studies)

How has feminist media activism transitioned from the print era to the digital? What are the key events or moments of technological transition which have signalled shifts in feminist media activism or production (for instance, the rise of TV/televised events, radio, Xerox machines, hashtags, or TikTok)? And what methodological approaches (decolonial, queer, affective, archival, periodical) might we bring to the concept of ‘transition’ in feminist media studies?

This special issue of the Journal of Gender Studies uses the concept of ‘media in transition’ to explore how feminist issues and campaigns are shaped by the technologies via which they are mediated (Ardis 2013). In so doing, ‘Feminist Media Activism in Transition’ responds to Carter and McLaughlin’s call (2011) for greater attention to the material history and production of media texts. By foregrounding changing modes of technological production, this special issue invites explorations of both analogue and digital forms, and of the borrowings, legacies, adaptations, and repetitions traceable across feminist media past and present. 

We anticipate a broad range of transnational and transdisciplinary responses to this question, which might include explorations of:

•    the recent resurrection of a ‘vintage’ aesthetic in digital media;
•    moments of transition or ‘turns’ in feminist media archives;
•    the evolution of concepts such as intersectionality or transfeminism in feminist media;
•    how new forms of media enable self-authoring and autonomous production;
•    decolonial approaches to moments of feminist media transition;
•    how specific feminist issues are shaped by the forms (periodicals, magazines, digital platforms) in which they are mediated;
•    modes and means of the production of feminist media;
•    and of lost voices, muted moments, and marginalised narratives. 

We welcome submissions on a wide range of feminist media in any historical period. Papers are especially welcomed from scholars working on feminist media of the Global South or based in Global South institutions.

Contact Info: Please submit abstracts (max 300 words) to eleanor.careless@northumbria.ac.uk by 30 of June 2023

Contact Email: eleanor.careless@northumbria.ac.uk

URL: https://liberatinghistories.org/2023/03/14/call-for-papers-back-to-the-future-feminist-media-activism-in-transition/

Call for Research: International Conference on the Inclusive Museum

Seventeenth International Conference on the Inclusive Museum, MuseumsQuartier, Vienna, Austria, September 13 – 15, 2024. 

Founded in 2008, The Inclusive Museum Research Network is brought together by a shared concern for the future role of the museum and how it can become more inclusive. We seek to build an epistemic community where we can make linkages across disciplinary, geographic, and cultural boundaries. As a Research Network, we are defined by our scope and concerns and motivated to build strategies for action framed by our shared themes and tensions.

The Seventeenth International Conference on the Inclusive Museum calls for research addressing the following annual themes and special focus: 

  • 2024 Special Focus—Intersectionality: Museums, Inclusion, and SDGs
  • Theme 1: Visitors
  • Theme 2: Collections
  • Theme 3: Representations

Contact Email: support@cgnetworks.org

URL: https://onmuseums.com/2024-conference

New Issue: Journal of Educational Media, Memory, and Society

The latest issue of Journal of Educational Media, Memory, and Society has published! This special issue focuses on the visual analysis of history textbooks and other educational media. 

JEMMS is now available to read Open Access, beginning with this issue! Open Access availability is in part thanks to the generous support of the Leibniz Institute for Educational Media / Georg Eckert Institute. 

Please visit the Berghahn website for more information about the journal: www.berghahnjournals.com/jemms 

Volume 15, Issue 1 

Introduction 
Visual Literacy in History Education: Textbooks and Beyond 
Mischa Gabowitsch and Anna Topolska 
 
Articles 
Symbolic Nation-building through Images in Post-Yugoslav History Textbooks 
Tamara P. Trošt and Jovana Mihajlović Trbovc 
 
Politics of the Visible and the Invisible: War Images in Japanese and American Textbooks 
Jessica Fernanda Conejo Muñoz, Daniel Veloza-Franco, and Julieta de Icaza Lizaola 
 
Shaping Memory through Visuality: War Photography in Polish Secondary School History Textbooks after 1989 
Anna Topolska 
 
Imagining Peru and the Motherland from the Barracks: Memory, Text, and Image in the 1942 First Year Level Military Manual 
Lourdes Hurtado 
 
Visuals in History Textbooks: War Memorials in Soviet and Post-Soviet School Education from 1945 to 2021 
Mischa Gabowitsch 

Visual History Lessons Told by Der Spiegel: Picture-type Analysis of History Narratives Conveyed by the German Magazine 
Horst-Alfred Heinrich and Claudia Azcuy Becquer 
 
Looking without Seeing: Visual Literacy in Light of Holocaust Photograph 
Christophe Busch 
 

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Please visit the Berghahn website for more information about the journal: 

www.berghahnjournals.com/jemms  

Be sure to recommend Journal of Educational Media, Memory, and Society to your institution’s library: https://jemms.berghahnjournals.com/library-recommendation  

CFP: Artefacts XXVIII National Museum of Nature and Science in Tokyo, Japan, October 8–10, 2023

Call for Proposals for the conference

ARTEFACTS XXVIII “Wide-Angle and Long-Range Views”

ARTEFACTS is an international network of academic and museum-based scholars of science, technology and medicine interested in promoting the use of objects in research. The network was established in 1996 and since then has held annual conferences examining the role of artefacts in the history of science and technology and related areas.

For the first time in its history, ARTEFACTS goes to Asia this year. The twenty-eighth conference will be held at the National Museum of Nature and Science in Tokyo, Japan, October 8–10, 2023. The meeting will be in-person.

A gathering in Japan, where “Western” science and technology have been transferred to the unique culture of a long tradition, must provide an opportunity to reflect on the processes and consequences of globalization once again after the severest years of COVID-19. In addition, the Japanese National Museum of Nature and Science comprises both natural history and the history of science and technology, and, if combined, it will be an ideal place to reflect on human activities in much longer “history” of nature. When the authors of The History Manifesto insisted on long-term thinking (Guldi and Armitage 2014), one of the commentators contributing to Isis pointed to the absence of museums in their discussion, concluding that “we urgently need the wide-angle, long-range views only historical museums can provide” (Söderqvist 2016). In a broad interpretation, we will pursue this possibility based on museum objects and other artefacts.

We invite papers that explore topics such as, but not limited to

  • Global circulation or transnational motion of objects/collections of science and technology, especially related to East Asia
  • Role of artefacts not only in connecting, but also in disconnecting transnational circulation of knowledge
  • Role of local crafts and historical materials in communicating contemporary science and technology in a globalized world
  • Scientific, digital and other approaches to long-term history complementing text-based historical studies
  • Intersections between history of science and technology and natural history at large, including the history of universe and the history of earth
  • Museum practices (exhibitions, in particular) and theoretical considerations of presenting wide-angle and long-range views on history for public audiences

ARTEFACTS conferences are friendly and informal meetings with the character of workshops. There is plenty of time for open discussion and networking. Each contributor will be allocated a 20 minutes slot for her or his talk, plus ample time for questions and discussion. Please send a proposal for papers (ca. 500 words) along with a brief CV to artefacts2023@kahaku.go.jp no later than June 30, 2023. Please remember that the focus of presentations should be on artefacts.

We are also pleased to announce that we have decided to offer some funding to defray the costs of participating in the meeting, mainly for early-career scholars. To apply, please send the following information to artefacts2023@kahaku.go.jp by May 21:

  • Name, institution, and short CV
  • Tentative title and short abstract (max. 100 words) of your proposal
  • Tentative itinerary, including the estimate of your anticipated airline, train, or other travel costs to Japan.

If you plan to receive other funding for your travel, please include the details.

Important dates:

  • May 21, 2023                          Deadline for application to the supplementary travel fund
  • June 30, 2023                          Deadline for abstract submission
  • July 14, 2023                          Notification of acceptance of paper and announcement of awardee of the supplementary travel fund
  • July 21, 2023                          Publication of the provisional program
  • October 8–10, 2023                Conference in Tokyo

Contact Info: 

Nobumichi ARIGA
Associate Professor, Graduate School of Language and Society, Hitotsubashi University
Affiliated Researcher, Department of Science and Technology, National Museum of Nature and Science
2-1 Naka, Kunitachi, Tokyo 186-8601, JAPAN

Hiroto KONO
Curator, Department of Science and Technology, National Museum of Nature and Science
4-1-1 Amakubo, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0005, JAPAN

Contact Email: artefacts2023@kahaku.go.jp

URL: https://www.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/our-work/research-public-history/artefacts-consortium/

CFP: Digital Platforms and Agency, Lateral Special Section

Digital Platforms and Agency

Special Section of Lateral

500 word Abstracts due June 30th, 2023

How do digital platforms shape our agency, and how do we shape digital platforms in turn? What is the role of digital platforms in forming our social, cultural, and political practices?  How and whom do digital platforms (dis)empower? This special section of Lateral invites scholars from diverse fields to advance critical cultural inquiry at the convergence of platforms and agency on digital, networked, and/or new media. 

A digital platform is a standard which facilitates computational interactions between users and systems, according to Ian Bogost. Ubiquitous but self-effacing, platforms increasingly mediate the constitution and expression of consciousness. Troubling clean divisors between humanity and technology, platforms pose a challenge to monolithic, individuated, and humanist notions of agency that the field of cultural studies is uniquely poised to address. 

Thus, this section calls for scholars to attend to the ways in which platforms differentially amplify, accelerate, diminish, and subvert the agency of users, systems, and communities. We see this work following Beth Coleman’s characterization of networked agency as “the disruptive technology of our time” which troubles clean divisors between human/nonhuman, virtual/actual, and individual/system. This section will deepen Coleman’s provocation by demystifying discrepancies of access, leverage, and capacity that characterize the emergence of platforms within our stratified political system. 

We seek a diverse collection of essays that reflect the interdisciplinarity of cultural studies and platform studies. We encourage submissions from myriad traditions and approaches including media studies, political economy, performance studies, communication, composition, science and technology studies, gender studies, sociology, computer science, and more. 

Contributions to this session may, for instance: 

  • Evaluate the entanglement of platform cultures within the politics of representation and regimes of symbolic violence
  • Critique structures of power on/of platforms, such as anti-blackness and digital colonialism, which inhibit and afford agency
  • Reveal the ramifications of platform capitalism, mediated labor relations, and the development and/or subversion of political consciousness
  • Develop posthuman challenges to agency by scrutinizing the impact of emerging technologies such as Artificial Intelligence
  • Trace the political ramifications of digital platforms and agency at play: video games, streaming, and/or social media
  • Compare imaginations and practices of algorithmic governance
  • Interrogate datafication as a constraint against or catalyst of networked subjectivities

Please send all submissions and inquiries to digitalplatformsandagency@gmail.com. Potential authors should submit a 500-word abstract by June 30, 2023 to Platforms and Agency co-editors Elaine Venter and Reed Van Schenck to be considered for publication. Abstracts will be reviewed by the editors by August 30, 2023. Final submissions for publication of 5,000–9,000 words expected by March 1, 2024. All submissions will undergo a double-anonymous peer review process according to journal policies.

Contact Info: 

Reed Van Schenck and Elaine Venter

Contact Email: digitalplatformsandagency@gmail.com

URL: https://csalateral.org/upcoming/#digital-platforms-agency