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CFP: IPRES 2027

Get ready for the next installment of iPRES! iPRES 2027 will be happening in Quebec City, Canada, October 4-8, 2027.  We’re pleased to announce the launch of the Call for Proposals<https://event.fourwaves.com/ipres2027>.

Our themes for this conference are Accountability, Authenticity and Adaptability<https://event.fourwaves.com/ipres2027/pages/c1507c8f-9a8b-4d29-8d00-133f5e820202>.

Deadline for peer-reviewed submissions: 12 March 2027
Deadline for Non-Peer Reviewed Submissions: 14 April 2027
More information to come on Digital Preservation ‘Bake Off’

For more details on how to prepare your proposals, please refer to our website<https://event.fourwaves.com/ipres2027> for more information.

We look forward to seeing everyone next year!

iPRES 2027 General Committee

info@ipres2027.ca

About iPRES

Held since 2004, iPRES<https://ipres-conference.org/> brings together colleagues from all over the world to share, learn, and foster relationships on the topic of digital preservation.

CFP: Global Digital Humanities Symposium 2027

Call for Proposals

Deadline to apply: 18 November 2026

Notification of acceptance: 11 January 2027

Please note that you will have to create an account in Oxford Abstracts to submit a proposal.

The 12th Global Digital Humanities Symposium is delighted to return, with events across countries and modalities in mid-May 2027. Michigan State University continues as host and is partnering with the University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada, as a lead into their annual DH@Guelph Summer Workshops.

The schedule of events will be as follows. All Symposium days will be live streamed. Multilingual days will be supported through human-generated, live interpretation:

  • 10 May (Monday) – In-Person Symposium at Michigan State University (in English)
  • 12-13 May (Wednesday-Thursday) – Virtual Symposium (in English, Spanish, and French)
  • 15 May (Saturday) – In-Person Symposium at the University of Guelph (in English and French)
  • Mid-May, Post Symposium – DH@Guelph Summer Workshops

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

This Symposium welcomes proposals by Wednesday, 18 November 2026 midnight in your timezone.

This year, we especially anticipate and welcome presentations on the following topics, and we are especially interested in hearing about specific practical, creative, and theoretical examples from the Global Majority context:

  • Multilingualism and language justice in DH
  • Indigenous led DH work and community engaged collaborations in DH
  • Globally situated human-AI collaboration and critique in DH
  • DH approaches to the study of the environment and considerations of environmental justice in DH infrastructure and practice

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:

  • Relational, distributed, and/or creative frameworks and practices in global digital pedagogy
  • Public and community-engaged DH
  • Digital historical research and archives
  • Minimal, material, and sustainable approaches to DH
  • Surveillance, censorship, and/or data privacy in global contexts
  • Open data, open access, and data preservation as resistance
  • Borders, migration, and diasporas with an emphasis on the effects of warfare and conflict
  • Feminist and queer perspectives in DH
  • Disability justice and accessibility
  • DH methods in interdisciplinary and cross-regional research
  • Digital storytelling and artistic representations in digital spaces
  • Computational literary studies

Presentation Formats

Virtual

Submission and presentation language options: Spanish, French, English
Presentation materials (draft slides and presentation text) for lightning talks, 15 minute presentations, and panels must be submitted to conference organizers 2 weeks in advance of the Symposium (Monday, 26 April 2027).
7-min lightning talk

Proposal: 250-300 words

Dynamic, hyper-focused talks designed to provoke questions. No more than 2 speakers may present, but the number of listed authors is unlimited.
Presentation text and slides must be submitted to conference organizers 2 weeks in advance of the Symposium for language interpreters’ preparation.15-min presentation

Proposal: 250-300 words

Engaging talks that take a deep dive into a topic, method, or project. This may include reports on experimental, developing, or completed projects as well as critical and/or theoretical discussions.

Presentation text and slides must be submitted to conference organizers 2 weeks in advance of the Symposium for language interpreters’ preparation60-min panel

Proposal: 100 words describing the panel as a whole, plus 100 words for each presentation in the panel.

A pre-composed set of 3-4 presentations on a unified topic or theme. Panelists must leave at least 10 minutes for Q&A with the audience, but may structure the rest of their time as they like.

Presentation text and slides must be submitted to conference organizers 2 weeks in advance of the Symposium for language interpreters’ preparation.Project showcase and Artist Gallery

(Not live streamed; no live interpretation)

Proposal: 250-300 words

The Project Showcase and Artist Gallery is a session similar to a poster session, in which presenters share their work with small groups or individuals over the course of 30 minutes. Moderators will be present to support and facilitate the live discussions among presenters and audience members.These presentations are best suited for discussing concrete projects and digital art projects at any phase in their development, rather than for introducing theoretical frameworks or critiques. We invite artists and designers to submit data-driven online artworks related to this year’s theme.

In-Person

Submission and presentation language for In-Person at Michigan State University: English
Submission and presentation language options for In-Person at University of Guelph: English, French7-min lightning talk

Proposal: 250-300 words

Dynamic, hyper-focused talks designed to provoke questions. No more than 2 speakers may present, but the number of listed authors is unlimited.15-min presentation

Proposal: 250-300 words

Engaging talks that take a deep dive into a topic, method, or project. This may include reports on experimental, developing, or completed projects as well as critical and/or theoretical discussions.60-min panel

Proposal: 100 words describing the panel as a whole, plus 100 words for each presentation in the panel.

A pre-composed set of 3-4 presentations on a unified topic or theme. Panelists must leave at least 10 minutes for Q&A with the audience, but may structure the rest of their time as they like.

A pre-composed set of 3-4 presentations on a unified topic or theme. Panelists must leave at least 10 minutes for Q&A with the audience, but may structure the rest of their time as they like.Posters

(Not live streamed)

Proposal: 250-300 words

Presenters will share their work with small groups or individuals over the course of one hour. These presentations are best suited for discussing concrete projects at any phase in their development, rather than for introducing theoretical frameworks or critiques.

The Global Digital Humanities Symposium follows an open review process. Names and institutional affiliations of submitters will be shared with reviewers, and names and affiliations of reviewers will be shared with submitters along with a comment on their submission from each reviewer.

Submit a proposal: https://app.oxfordabstracts.com/stages/81897/submitter

CFP: 7th Annual Ozarks Studies Association Meeting

Call for Presentations

Ozarks Studies Association 7th Annual Meeting
April 9th, 2027 at MSU-West Plains, West Plains, Missouri

The Ozarks Studies Association (OSA) invites presentations, papers, and posters for its seventh annual meeting in West Plains, Missouri on April 9, 2027. Presentations from across the disciplines on broad array of issues related to any aspect of Ozarks life throughout Arkansas, Oklahoma, Missouri, and Kansas are invited. 

We invite proposals 

  • of complete panels (with or without a chair) or individual papers
  • by scholars, archivists, museum staff, independent scholars, and graduate students
  • in the fields of anthropology, archelogy, biology, environmental studies, engineering, geography, geology, history, literature, museum design, pedagogy, preservation, urban studies, zoology, etc.

To be considered, submit

  • an abstract 
  • a two-page CV
  • label it as paper or poster

To Dr. Jared Phillips at jmp006@uark.edu. 

All materials must be received by January 16th, 2027. Notifications will be made by February 16th, 2027. 

Please remember, beginning this year, to present at the OSA Annual Meeting, you must be a member in good standing (meaning you have paid your annual dues of $30 for academics and independent scholars or $15 dollars for graduate students.)

If you would be willing to chair a panel, submit a two-page CV Dr. Jared Phillips by March 5th, 2027.

All inquiries should be sent to Dr. Jared Phillips at jmp006@uark.edu. 

Contact Information

Jared Phillips

Teaching Associate Professor of History 

University of Arkansas

President, Ozarks Studies Association

Contact Email

jmp006@uark.edu

URL

https://history.uark.edu/directory/index/uid/jmp006/name/Jared+Phillips

CFP: Artefacta Conference: Sustainability and Heritage, 14–16 April 2027, Estonia

We are delighted to announce the 5th International Artefacta Conference: Sustainability and Heritage.

The Fifth International Artefacta Conference will be held in Estonia on 14–16 April 2027, organised by the Estonian National Museum and the University of Tartu.

At the core of the Artefacta Conferences are things and artefacts, as well as the materiality and material culture associated with them.

The theme of the Fifth International Artefacta Conference is “Sustainability and Heritage”, which connects objects and material culture to discussions of sustainability and cultural heritage. Sustainability is increasingly significant and relevant to the study of artefacts, material culture, and heritage. Beyond cultural, social, and economic sustainability, concerns about ecological viability and the climate crisis are prompting scholars to view artefacts, material culture, and the materiality of cultural heritage in new light and contexts, and to ask new questions. The meaning of cultural heritage, both tangible and intangible, is shifting from an object of preservation to a cultural resource for sustainability and resilience.

The 2027 conference focuses on the importance and advances in the study of objects and material culture through the combined lens of sustainability and cultural heritage. It also examines the inherent and potential innovative links between cultural heritage and sustainability. The conference invites participants to theorise “sustainable artefacts”, “material cultures of sustainability”, and “sustainable cultural heritage”, and to ask what they might be and how best to study them.

Keynote speakers:

– Tim Ingold (Emeritus Professor of Social Anthropology, University of Aberdeen; Fellow of the British Academy and the Royal Society of Edinburgh)
– Chiara Bortolotto (Chairholder of the UNESCO Chair in Intangible Cultural Heritage and Sustainable Development, CY Cergy Paris University)

Abstract proposals and submission

The conference welcomes abstract proposals on the theme “Sustainability and Heritage” from around the world and from interdisciplinary perspectives, including material culture studies, history, archaeology, ethnology, anthropology, folkloristics, craft science, conservation, museology, art history, design, architecture, heritage science, cultural policy, and related fields. The conference is open to all kinds of academic research, including practice-led and artistic research.

The deadline for submissions is 15 November 2026.

Submissions are welcome via the conference web page.

Further details are available on the conference web page: www.artefacta2027.ee

The conference is organised in collaboration with the Estonian National Museum, the University of Tartu Viljandi Culture Academy, and the UNESCO Chair on Applied Studies of Intangible Cultural Heritage at the University of Tartu.

Conference e-mail: artefacta@artefacta2027.ee

Sincerely,

Tenno Teidearu (Estonian National Museum), head of the conference committee

Liisi Jääts (Estonian National Museum)

Tiina Kull (Estonian National Museum)

Ave Matsin (University of Tartu Viljandi Culture Academy)

Elo-Hanna Seljamaa (UNESCO Chair on Applied Studies of Intangible Cultural Heritage at the University of Tartu)

artefacta@artefacta2027.ee

CFP: IASSIST Conference 2027

Sea Change: Transforming Data Practices

Call for Proposals

The International Association for Social Science Information Services and Technology (IASSIST) invites you to join us in-person in Vancouver, Canada for IASSIST 2027, our annual conference, on May 25-28, 2027.

Nestled between the Burrard Inlet and the Salish Sea (Strait of Georgia), Vancouver is the largest city in British Columbia. With a population of just over 660,000, Vancouver enjoys two research universities (Simon Fraser University and the University of British Columbia) along with several comprehensive universities and colleges. It is a beautiful and vibrant city with both cultural and outdoor attractions.

We welcome submissions for papers, individual presentations, panels, posters or demonstrations, lightning talks, or workshops that embrace our conference theme, Sea Change: Transforming Data Practices. We want to hear from data and data services professionals about how their data practices are adapting or changing in the current environment of Artificial Intelligence, budget and funding challenges, climate considerations, and the rapidly changing realities faced by academic and research institutions.

Possible topics include (but are not limited to):

  • Reproducibility and the integrity of the data record
  • Data reference, consultation, and collaboration
  • Data discovery in a shifting landscape
  • Ethics, governance, and data sovereignty and community-led approaches
  • Data management under pressure
  • Teaching and data literacy
  • The changing data profession
  • Partnerships across boundaries
  • Data rescue and advocacy
  • Data documentation and metadata
  • Technology, platforms, and tools

We request that submitters limit themselves to one proposal per format type.

The deadline for submissions is November 13, 2026.

Decisions regarding submissions will be sent out in early January 2027.

See below for information about different presentation formats. Questions about presentation submissions may be sent to the Program Co-Chairs (Meryl Brodsky and Sandra Sawchuk) at programme [ at ] lists.iassistdata.org.

Financial Support for Attending the Conference

The IASSIST Fellows Program supports data professionals from countries with emerging economies and underrepresented regions who are developing information infrastructures regarding the use and preservation of public and private data, implementing information policy decisions, and providing data services at their home institutions.

The IASSIST Early Professional Fellows Program supports data professionals from under-resourced institutions. It recognizes the value of new and innovative ideas from graduates and professionals new to data in the social sciences, who may not otherwise have the funding to travel.

Applications will close on November 2, 2026. Please address questions about the Fellows Program to Fellows Committee Co-Chairs (Florio Arguillas and Robert Buwule) at fellows [ at ] iassistdata.org.

Submit your fellowship application: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd_UZN2M7qBK71ucv1A3Vb0WdivmgVwD0_1-nQ7aN96bimOBA/viewform

For information about traveling to Vancouver, check out the conference website.

Presentation Formats

The Program Committee welcomes proposals for the following formats:

  • Individual Presentation: This format is a 15-minute talk. It can be accompanied by a written paper, but it is not required. If your proposal is accepted, you will be grouped into an appropriate session with similar presentations.
  • Paper Competition: Paper writers are required to submit an original research paper in advance of the conference by April 15, 2027. You need not be present or attend the conference to submit a paper for the competition. A winning paper will be selected based on this rubric. The paper selected as “Best Paper” will win a prize of one free registration for a future IASSIST conference. All papers will be eligible for publication consideration in IASSIST Quarterly.
  • Panel: You may propose an entire session (90-120 minutes) with a minimum of three speakers to “deep dive” into a specific resource or concept. The session can take a variety of forms, e.g., a set of three to four presentations, a discussion panel, a tutorial (with less substance than a pre-conference workshop), a discussion with the audience, etc. If accepted, the person who proposed the session becomes the session organizer and is responsible for securing speakers and a Chair. Please note: the names of all speakers and the moderator must be included in the proposal.
  • Poster or Demonstration: Proposals in this category should be clear about the message being conveyed in the poster or demonstration.
  • Lightning Talks: A lightning talk is a short, highly visual presentation. Presentations in this category are timed, and each speaker is restricted to 5 minutes. Presentations may have a maximum of 15 slides, but there is no restriction on how many minutes you stay on each slide or the exact format of the presentation as long as you stay within the strict time limit. These are not your typical conference presentations. They tend to be “lighter” either in the topic or delivery.
  • Workshops: Successful workshop proposals will blend lecture and active learning techniques. The conference planning committee will provide classroom space and, possibly, computing supplies for workshops. Proposals should outline needed computer hardware and software, if any, or specify if participants should bring their own. Workshops are typically half-day with 2-hour and 3-hour options. PLEASE NOTE: All workshop leaders are required to register and pay the registration fee for the conference; registration for individual days will be available.
  • Other Formats: Session formats are not limited to the ideas above; session organizers are welcome to suggest other formats. We will consider interactive formats that encourage audience participation.

NOTE: When submitting you will be required to select one of the proposal formats above, but it is possible that your submission may be accepted on the condition of adapting it to another format (e.g., an individual presentation proposal might be accepted if you are willing to adapt it to a poster or a Lightning Talk). If this is the case, you will be given the choice to accept this format change or to decline being in the conference program when notified of its acceptance.

Submitting a Presentation Proposal

Please use the online submission form on Openconf to submit your presentation proposal (below).

Submit your proposal: https://www.openconf.org/iassist27/openconf.php

All submissions should include the proposed title and an abstract. The abstract should be no longer than 300 words and written for a general audience. NOTE: Abstracts longer than 300 words will be returned to be shortened before being considered. Also, if the reviewers can’t understand what a proposal is about, it will be rejected.

About IASSIST

The International Association for Social Science Information Services and Technology (IASSIST) is an international organization of professionals working with information technology and data services to support research and teaching.

CFP: NAGARA 2027

NAGARA’s strength is the collective knowledge of its members, and we want to learn from you. If your work has solved a hard problem, tested a new approach, or taught you something the hard way, we invite you to submit a proposal for NAGARA’s 2027 professional development lineup.

You choose which program or programs your proposal is for, and it is considered only for those, so each session lands in the setting it was designed for. Pre-conference workshops have their own proposal form, so they are reviewed separately from general sessions.

  • The most-requested training topics have barely changed in four years: long-term preservation of electronic records, data governance, shared drives, email, records systems, retention schedules, and training the people who create records. Project management tops the program administration list every year.
  • Most attendees work in local or state government and identify as records managers, usually in a small unit inside a large organization.
  • Attendees want the “how”: case studies from people who did the work, including what went wrong; panels and discussions; hands-on demonstrations; and templates, checklists, and policies they can take home.
  • Sessions should say who they are for. Attendees asked for content labeled by experience level and audience, with real depth for experienced practitioners and clear fundamentals for people new to the job.
  • Archivists asked for more sessions on processing, digital accessioning, preservation, and conservation.
  • Because so many members learn virtually, Online Forum and webinar proposals matter as much as conference sessions. The best-attended NAGARA webinars of the last three years were on retention schedules, disposition, records audits, disaster preparedness, standard operating procedures, and email.

See full call for proposals.

CFP: Archives and Resistance: A Virtual Symposium on Digital Preservation and Publication in the Context of African, African American, and Diaspora Studies

Archives and Resistance: A Virtual Symposium on Digital Preservation and Publication in the Context of African, African American, and Diaspora Studies

Call for Proposals

We invite proposals for a virtual symposium on February 19–20, 2027, focused on archival preservation, digital publication, and community collaboration in projects that relate to African, African American, and Diaspora studies. We seek proposals for individual 15-minute presentations or panels consisting of 3–4 presentations (15 minutes each) that focus on ways that researchers, archivists, students, community members, and others are using digital tools and methodologies to recover archival materials and make them available and accessible to expand our understanding of the past and reclaim and promote histories that have been overlooked, suppressed, or erased. Through this event, we hope to highlight innovative work being carried out in the context of African, African American, and Diaspora Studies, and to create opportunities for scholars to connect and build community. This symposium is co-sponsored by the Association for Documentary Editing, the Society for Textual Scholarship, Mapping the Black Digital and Public Humanities, African American Digital & Experimental Humanities (AADHum), and eLaboratories.

Submission information:

  • For individual presentations: please submit a title and abstract (250 words max.) and a short bio (2–3 sentences) for each presenter.
  • For panel presentations: please submit a panel title and description (150–250 words), a title and abstract for each presentation (250 words max.) and a short bio (2–3 sentences) for each presenter.

All proposals should be submitted by November 20, 2026, by completing this survey. 

If you have questions, contact Clayton McCarl, clayton.mccarl@unf.edu.

CFP: MATTER & MEMORY: The Preservation of Cultural and Material Heritage

SESSION CALL:

MATTER & MEMORY: The Preservation of Cultural and Material Heritage

PORTO 

Conference: Heritages 2027

Dates: 16-18, June, 2027

Abstracts due: 10 Dec, 2026

https://amps-research.com/porto-ipca-themes/

SESSION CALL

Cultural heritage is continually interpreted, preserved and transformed through changing historical, social and artistic contexts. This session builds on this and examines how societies construct, transmit and reassess cultural memory through objects, monuments, artworks, archives and historic environments. We argue that within history and art history, such processes raise important questions about authenticity, authorship, representation and the changing meanings attached to cultural artefacts and sites. 

Contributions might consider contemporary interventions in historic buildings, restoration and reconstruction, digital technologies, museum practices, or new approaches to documenting and interpreting the past. 

The broader strand also invites examination of contested heritage, colonial and postcolonial histories, changing approaches to monuments and memorials, conservation ethics, provenance and restitution, and the relationship between tangible and intangible heritage.

Together, we hope that these debates will encourage reflection on how acts of preservation and reinterpretation shape historical narratives, cultural identities and understandings of the past for present and future communities.

Part of the University of Porto, AMPS & IPCA Conference: Critical Heritages, 2027

Abstracts due: 10 Dec, 2026

https://amps-research.com/porto-ipca-themes/

Contact Information

May Thorpe, Lígia Lopes, Claudia Lima, Raj Kumar

Contact Email

program@amps-research.com

URL https://amps-research.com/porto-ipca-themes/

CFP: Travelling Cultural Heritage. Circulation and Digital Afterlives

Romania

Travelling Cultural Heritage

Circulation and Digital Afterlives

Call for Papers

Cultural Heritage Lab International Conference

4th edition

Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, Romania

December 10-11, 2026

Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, as part of the FORTHEM Alliance, invites scholars, researchers, and practitioners to submit proposals for the 4th edition of the Cultural Heritage Lab International Conference, dedicated to exploring cultural heritage as a dynamic process of circulation across cultural, geographical, institutional, and historical boundaries.

The 2026 edition focuses on Travelling Cultural Heritage (TCH): an approach that understands heritage not as a fixed repository, but as a process through which cultural forms, practices, ideas, and meanings move, encounter different contexts, and are transformed along the way. Drawing on Edward Said’s concept of “travelling theory”, Mieke Bal’s “travelling concepts”, and scholarship on cultural circulation, TCH shifts attention from mobile objects to the processes through which heritage is transmitted, adapted, appropriated, reinterpreted, and re-signified.

Heritage travels through migration, exchange, conquest, education, trade, tourism, collecting, translation, transmedial transfer, and institutional networks. Migrants adapt cultural practices acquired abroad to their home contexts; travelling elites import fashions, recipes, and other cultural products; artistic styles acquire regional forms as they circulate; and networks of institutions, scholars, dealers, and historical circumstances determine how artefacts enter major collections. Such movements involve adaptation and transformation, but also appropriation, exclusion, and unequal centre–periphery relations.

Circulation may allow heritage to acquire new meanings, but it may also entail loss. The large-scale purchase, digitisation, and destruction of books for AI training suggests a future in which physical heritage disappears while its digital avatars survive—an extreme form of travel across media and material states, combining virtual preservation with material destruction. More optimistically, AI, data science, interoperable infrastructures, and spatial visualisation can trace cultural circulation, compare contexts, and recover seemingly lost artefacts, including previously unreadable ancient manuscripts.

We welcome contributions that engage with Travelling Cultural Heritage from disciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives, including cultural and heritage studies, anthropology, archaeology, sociology, history, linguistics and literary studies, political science, art history, architecture, digital humanities, economics, media studies, religious studies, drama, film, the performing arts, museum studies, memory studies, and food studies.

Contributors are invited to submit abstracts on, but not limited to, the following themes:

  • Travelling Cultural Heritage: theories, concepts, and methodologies;
  • Cultural circulation, transmission, adaptation, and re-signification;
  • Heritage: migration, displacement, and diaspora;
  • Museums, collections, objects, routes, networks, intermediaries, and infrastructures of cultural circulation;
  • The movement of architectural forms, artistic practices, rituals, and cultural traditions;
  • Colonial, postcolonial, and decolonial circulations of cultural heritage;
  • Digital heritage, digital infrastructures, AI, platforms and computational approaches to cultural circulation;
  • Heritage in translation: what changes when cultural forms travel between languages and the production of new heritage meanings
  • Local content, foreign forms: adaptation and naturalisation across literatures;
  • World Cultural Heritage: comparative approaches to heritage beyond national frameworks;
  • Archaeological evidence for mobility, exchange, and cultural contacts;
  • Memory and heritage: overlappings and differences;
  • Case studies of cultural forms, practices, objects, ideas, or meanings that have travelled across contexts.

Submission Guidelines

Please submit an abstract of 250–300 words, along with a short biographical note (max. 100 words), to Ovio Olaru (ovio.olaru@ulbsibiu.ro) and Daniela Stanciu-Păscărița (daniela.stanciu@ulbsibiu.ro) by November 1, 2026.

The organisers’ decision regarding submissions will be communicated by November 15.

For effectiveness, please include “Cultural Heritage Lab conference submission” in the subject line of your email.

The conference will be held in English, German, and French, and will take place exclusively on-site.

We look forward to your contributions!

Kind regards,

The organisers

Contact Information

Junior Lecturer Ovio Olaru // ovio.olaru@ulbsibiu.ro

Junior Lecturer Daniela Stanciu // daniela.stanciu@ulbsibiu.ro

Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu

Contact Email

ovio.olaru@ulbsibiu.ro

URL: https://grants.ulbsibiu.ro/elabchrom/cultural-heritage-lab/

CFP: Midwest Archives Conference 2027

Call for Session Proposals: Omaha 2027

The Midwest Archives Conference will hold the 2027 Annual Meeting on May 13-15, 2027, at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, in Omaha, Nebraska. For more information about the host and conference, see the meeting website.

Theme: Bridging New Frontiers

Situated at the crossroads of the Missouri River, our host region has long been defined by connection, departure, and discovery. Here, the Bob Kerrey Pedestrian Bridge connects Nebraska and Iowa, and historic paths like the Oregon and Mormon Trails once launched bold journeys west.

Proposal Submissions

The Program Committee encourages submissions from newer professionals, first-time presenters, and colleagues from non-academic institutions. We also want to hear from solo archivists and those with more limited institutional support! MAC membership is not required. Presenters may submit more than one proposal but may present only one session OR poster. For complete details on submitting proposals, visit the Call for Session Proposals 2027 page.

To facilitate collaboration among those brainstorming session ideas, the Program Committee encourages use of the MAC Facebook page and this spreadsheet for brainstorming session proposal ideas.

The deadline for submitting session proposals for the 2027 MAC Annual Meeting is Friday, October 23, 2026 at 5pm CT. To submit your proposal, use the Call for Proposals form.

If you have any questions about the proposal process, please contact the 2027 Program Committee Co-chairs, Olivia Garrison (oliviatg@iastate.edu) and Jeff Jenson (jjenson@gustavus.edu).