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Recent Issue: Journal of Digital Media Management

Volume 12 / Number 3 / Spring 2024
(subscription)

Editorial
Beckett, Simon

Revitalising legacy video ingest workflow: A case study on cultivating a digital mindset and gaining key stakeholder buy-in to transition to a cloud-based media asset manager
Collins, Rob; Neff, Dominique

Welcome to the purge: Digital records in an era of new limits
Cline, Tyler G.; Howell, Katie Causie

DAM as a brand ambassador: How digital asset management can be a strong ally of brand strategy
Burns, Kristin

Case study: Accessioning and describing digital archival acquisitions using encoded archival description crosswalks
Doub, Bo

Through a glass darkly: Lessons from The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens digital asset management implementation
Lee, Yvonne; Einaudi, Mario

Metadata remediation through migration, post-migration or necessary clean-up: A roadmap for success
Smith, Jason

Building the Black History and Visual Culture collection at Penn State University Libraries
Rea, Bethann; Green, Patrice R.; Clair, Kevin

Lehigh Libraries digital repositories migration: A case study
Japha, Alex

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

Recent Issue: Journal of the History of Collections

Volume 36, Issue 1, March 2024
(partial open access)

The art collections and museum of King William II of the Netherlands (1792–1849)
Ellinoor Bergvelt

Lucanian heritage across the world: the Spanish collections
Alain Duplouy and Mariana Silva Porto

Acquisition, duplicates and exchange: C. P. de Bosset’s collections from Cephalonia, Ithaca and Delphi in the British Museum
Amelia Dowler

Continuity and change in the British diplomatic service in the Levant: The ‘Levantine’ question and the lure of antiquities
Lucia Patrizio Gunning and Despina Vlami

Garden catalogues as sources for studying the collection and transmission of plants: Madeiran plants in the Ajuda botanical garden as a case-study
Sandra Mesquita and others

Creating the Bowes Museum: Collectors, dealers and auctions in mid-nineteenth-century Paris
Simon Spier

Collecting copper alloy portrait heads: A history of the acquisition and export of the Wúnmọníjẹ̀ heads in late colonial Nigeria
Tomos Llywelyn Evans

Reading between the lines: The Alba collection after the end of entailment (nineteenth and twentieth centuries)
Whitney Dennis

Andrew Carnegie’s museum of evolution
Diana Strazdes

Collecting antiquities in wartime: The First World War Antiquities (Queensland) Project
James Donaldson and others

Twentieth-century private collecting: Dr Philip Nelson’s acquisition of sculptures from the Kinnaird collection at Rossie Priory
Georgina Muskett

Rediscovering John Martin: Collecting the apocalypse in post-war Britain
Laia Anguix-Vilches

Book Reviews

Collective Wisdom: Collecting in the early modern academy
Paula Findlen

Dai Medici ai Rothschild: mecenati, collezionisti, filantropi
Jörg Zutter

Ulisse Aldrovandi: Naturalist and collector
Henrietta McBurney

Sarcophagi and other Reliefs, 4 vols., Part A.III of The Paper Museum of Cassiano dal Pozzo: A catalogue raisonné
Arnold Nesselrath

The Temple of Fame & Friendship: Portraits, music, and history in the C.P.E. Bach circle
Naomi J Barker

A Collection in Context: kommentierte Edition der Briefe und Dokumente Sammlung Dr. Karl von Schäffer
Jonathan Kagan

Wilhelm Bode and the Art Market: Connoisseurship, networking and control of the marketplace
Alan Crookham

Ancient Art and its Commerce in Early Twentieth-Century Europe: The John Marshall Archive. A collection of essays written by the participants of the John Marshall Archive Project
Lynn Catterson

The Circulating Lifeblood of Ideas: Leo Steinberg’s library of prints
Armin Kunz

CFP: Southern Association of Women Historians (SAWH) 2025, “Unspeakable Challenges”

Unspeakable Challenges

Southern Association for Women Historians 2025 Triennial

Click here for proposal form/instructions

The Southern Association for Women Historians (SAWH) invites proposals for its thirteenth triennial conference, to be held June 19-22, 2025, at Bethune-Cookman University in Daytona Beach, Florida. The conference provides a stimulating and congenial forum for discussing all aspects of southern women’s history and gender history. The program organizers seek to reflect the best in recent scholarship and the diversity of our profession, including college and university professors, graduate students, public historians, K-12 teachers, community organizers, and independent scholars.

In partnership with The Mary McLeod Bethune Institute for the Study of Women and Girls at Bethune-Cookman University, this SAWH meeting is an unprecedented opportunity for our organization to mark the 150th anniversary of Dr. Bethune’s birth (and the 120th anniversary of the university). This year’s theme, “Unspeakable Challenges,” is inspired by yet another taxing moment in history. The Bethune Institute is an artfully crafted resource for intentional research, programming, and support for issues paramount to the survival and success of women and girls. Of particular note are gender equity topics such as women’s leadership, food and housing security, body image, physical and sexual health and safety, LGBTQ+ challenges, mental health and emotional wellness, maternal health, and healthy relationships. In this spirit, we want to address the front lines of the battle to ensure a bright future for all in this state and nation.

We recognize the specific obstacles and challenges that traveling to Florida might present, and we acknowledge that these obstacles and challenges exist throughout the South and, increasingly, the nation. The organization is committed to providing a safe space for scholarship and conversations about “unspeakable challenges.”

Proposals on any topic related to Southern Women’s histories will be considered, but those related to this year’s theme are most likely to be accepted. Click here for proposal form/instructions.

Topics May Include:

  • Native American history and challenges
  • Immigration
  • Health Care
  • Education
  • Public History
  • Teaching in &/or about this Moment
  • Reproductive Rights
  • Sex, Sexuality and Gender
  • Safety
  • HBCUs
  • Student Movements
  • Teaching History in Florida and Other Southern Schools

The program seeks proposals for the following:

  1. Panels (we prefer to receive proposals for complete 3-paper sessions with a chair, but will consider individual papers as well). 
  2. Roundtables (informal discussions of a historical or professional issue).
  3. Workshops (informal discussions centered around professional development).
  4. Scholars or community leaders interested in chairing or commenting on a session are invited to submit a 500-word vita.

The submission deadline is September 1, 2024.

SAWH program committee:

Chairs: Françoise N. Hamlin & Robin Morris
Denise Bates
Beverly Bond
Lorri Glover
Pippa Holloway
Briana Royster

Contact Information

sawhsubmission@gmail.com

Francoise Hamlin and Robin Morris, Program Committee Co-Chairs

Contact Email

sawhsubmission@gmail.com

URL

2025 Triennial Call For Proposals

CFP: Markers: Annual Journal of the Association for Gravestone Studies

Call for article submissions for the 2026 issue of Markers, the scholarly journal of the Association for Gravestone Studies. The deadline is November 1, 2024.

The subject matter of Markers is defined as the analytical study of gravemarkers, monuments, tombs, and cemeteries of all types and encompassing all historical periods and geographical regions. Markers is of interest to scholars in public history, anthropology, historical archaeology, art and architectural history, ethnic studies, material culture studies, historic preservation, American studies, folklore and popular culture studies, linguistics, literature, rhetoric, local and regional history, cultural geography, sociology, and related fields. Articles submitted for publication in Markers should be scholarly, analytical, and interpretive, not merely descriptive or entertaining, and should be written in a style appropriate to both a wide academic audience and an audience of interested non-academics.

Questions and submissions to Markers should be sent to Editor Elisabeth Roark, Professor of Art History and Museum Studies at Chatham University, at roark@chatham.edu.  To learn more about the Association for Gravestone Studies, please visit our website at https://www.gravestonestudies.org/.

Contact Information

Dr. Elisabeth Roark, Editor, Professor of Art History and Museum Studies, Chatham University

Contact Email

roark@chatham.edu

URL

https://www.gravestonestudies.org/agspublications/markers

Reissued Call for Artists, Writers, and Academics: “Creative Responses to Holocaust Materialities” – A special issue of Holocaust Studies: A Journal of Culture and History

Holocaust Studies has given the editors permission to include creative work for the first time in the journal. 

In this special issue, we aim to further examine the ‘material turn’ of Holocaust studies through the lens of creative practices, which remains an understudied area of this movement. As Marianne Hirsch (2019) notes: “Commemorative artistic practices can themselves function as the connective tissue between divergent but related histories of violence and their transmission across generations. The arts offer a fruitful platform to practise the openness and responsiveness that allow such connections to emerge for the postgenerations”. Our scope includes contemporaneous and non-contemporaneous artistic, cultural, and literary works, established by those with and without a direct connection to this history. We are particularly keen to include contributions from creative writers and artists experimenting with and reflecting critically on their own creative processes, working, for instance, with line, genre, textiles, objects, images, or sound as an ephemeral artefact; and from critics showing how survivors or their descendants have represented the Holocaust through these materialities. One theme might be re-purposing, repackaging or even ‘recycling’ of materials: a material intended for one purpose which has been used or examined for other ends. Another concern might be the role of creativity in the phenomenology of viewing and interpreting historical materialities, or of creativity in the  effort to recover, or reconstruct, lost or stolen objects. A perennial concern is the researcher-artist’s role in relation to the archive.

Abstracts should be no more than 300 words, with a short biography (150 words max). Please send your proposals (or any questions) via email to: holocaustmaterialities@gmail.com by 1st September 2024 (extended submission date). We expect final submission of the journal issue to be in 2025.

If you are submitting creative work, please specify in your abstract how many images and approximate word count for any creative writing you expect to include as part of your final submission .

Normal word count for the journal’s critical essay submissions is 8-12k. For creative work, your final submission should include at least 2K words of critical reflection on your creative practice/contextual information. For the creative element, there is no minimum word count; however, the 12k word limit remains. 

The following approximate guidelines might be useful: 1 image = 250-500 words. 50 lines of poetry = 1,000 words.

Contact Information

Hannah Wilson and Jay Prosser

Contact Email

holocaustmaterialities@gmail.com

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…

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

CFP: The Anthem Impact in Historic Built Environments and Material Culture

The Anthem Impact in Historic Built Environments and Material Culture series publishes concise, cutting-edge scholarly works on architecture, landscapes, significant cultural artifacts and their respective overlaps and intersections with intangible cultural heritage. This series seeks scholarly works ranging from 20,000 to 30,000 words, delving into the exploration of how cultural traditions imbue meaning into places and artifacts. Given the interdependence between historic built environments, material culture, and ecosystems, we also welcome inquiries examining the role of natural heritage. The unique coverage of this series will be of interest to students, educators, scholars and lifelong learners. 

Series Editor 
Barry L Stiefel, College of Charleston, US. 

Proposals 
We welcome submissions of proposals for challenging and original works from emerging and established scholars and practitioners that meet the criteria of our series. We make prompt editorial decisions. Our titles are published in digital and print editions and are subject to peer review by recognized authorities in the field. Should you wish to send in a proposal for original research, literature review / analytical surveys, advanced tutorials or other reference works, please contact us at: proposal@anthempress.com.

Contact Information

Proposals can be submitted to proposal@anthempress.com

Questions can be submitted to stiefelb@cofc.edu 

Contact Email

proposal@anthempress.com

URL: https://anthempress.com/anthem-impact-in-historic-built-environments-and-material-culture

Call for Book Proposals: Palgrave Studies in Queer Literary, Visual and Material Cultures

NEW SERIES
Call for Proposals
Palgrave Studies in Queer Literary, Visual and Material Cultures

https://link.springer.com/series/17238

Series Editors

  • Michel Bronski, Professor of the Practice in Media and Activism in Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, Harvard University, USA
  • Dominic Janes, Professor of Modern History, Keele University, UK
  • Kate Thomas, K. Lawrence Stapleton Professor of Literatures in English, Bryn Mawr College, USA

Brief Description 

Palgrave Studies in Queer Literary, Visual and Material Cultures tests, contests and expands the boundaries of queer studies in global and transnational contexts and across historical periods. The series engages a wide range of cultural production including literature, graphic narrative, film, performance, architecture, art, virtual design, interior and furniture design, and landscape design. We welcome titles that bring “queer” cultures and sexualities into conversation with related areas of enquiry, especially critical race theory, trans studies, disability studies, feminist theory, eco-criticism, post-colonial theory, and Marxist theory. The series is dedicated to cross-cultural, interdisciplinary and intersectional work across many forms of difference and diversity.

Although the series will focus on Anglophone works we invite research that crosses over from other disciplines and cultural contexts. For example, a book on late Victorian British queer male writers might discuss the influence of the French decadent writers of that period, as well as other aspects of European literary production. Or, again, work that explores British visual and textual cultures from India might usefully contextualise them in relation to subcontinental practices and understandings of sexuality and art.

The editors welcome new book proposals for monographs (70,000-100,000 words) and edited collections (80,000-125,000 words).

If you’re interested in submitting a proposal, please contact the Executive Editor for Literature at Palgrave Macmillan, Molly Beck (molly.beck@palgrave.com). 

Contact Information

Executive Editor for Literature at Palgrave Macmillan, Molly Beck (molly.beck@palgrave.com). 

Contact Email

molly.beck@palgrave.com

URL

https://link.springer.com/series/17238