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CFP: Archives*Records 2025

ARCHIVES*RECORDS 2025: Making it Count

Sunday, August 24, 2025 – Wednesday, August 27, 2025

Anaheim, California

As archivists, records managers, information professionals, and cultural heritage workers, we are charged with making an impact through our work. We are compelled to acknowledge a world where professional concerns are amplified by political, social, and environmental forces that shape how we work and will work in the future. The challenge, then, is to adjust practices, question our assumptions, and seek partnerships to ensure what we do counts in the future.

The Program Committee seeks perspectives from across our profession that emphasize the results and impacts of our work and our workers. The conference theme-Making it Count-encourages proposals that demonstrate the impacts of our work and even expand our understanding of what counts in our profession. The Committee recognizes that part of making our work count for others means making sure it counts for us as well, and we invite proposals that challenge what counts as success in our work. Overall, we seek proposals that explore how our profession can expand our ideas about impact, results, and what counts in a rapidly changing world. Among other topics, proposals might consider:

  • Impactful innovations in collection development, management, arrangement, and description.
  • Making access and outreach count for users and communities.
  • Applications of AI in our work and the ethical implications of its use.
  • Partnerships and collaborations, including post-custodial or community-led initiatives-making the way we engage count for others.
  • Accessibility of archives, both as repositories and workplaces-broadening the way collections and institutions can be counted on to work for everyone.
  • Labor and making our profession responsive to workers’ needs and growth-making it count for us.
  • Assessing the outcomes of our work-making our impacts count.
  • Data gathering and use of data in our profession-how we analyze our work

We welcome proposals on other topics related to archives and archival work.

Read the complete Call at www2.archivists.org/am2025/program/calls/… and consider sharing with your networks!

CFP: Archiving 2025

We are thrilled to announce the Call for Papers for Archiving 2025, focusing on Science, Sustainability, and Security in cultural heritage preservation.

Program Topics Include:

  • Digitization/Imaging: Developments in tech, advanced techniques, large-scale systems, and quality control.
  • Preservation/Archiving: Metadata management, preservation models, large-scale analysis.
  • Access/Presentation: Dissemination of digitized materials, AI and ML applications, open access strategies.
  • Management/Policy: Strategic planning, work models, impact analysis.

Submission Types:

  • Journal-first Paper: Published in JIST or JPI before the conference, included in proceedings.
    • Deadline: 15 NOV 2024
  • Conference Proceedings Paper: Traditional paper on original work.
    • Deadline: 28 FEB 2025

Short Course Proposals: Teach a course on your expertise. Deadline: 1 DEC 2024

Prepare your work now; the submission site opens in mid-October.

Learn More: Archiving 2025 Details imaging.org/Archiving 

CFP: Archives as Data: New Directions in Historical Research

Conference: January 3, 2025

Call for Papers

Archives as Data: New Directions in Historical Research

We are excited to announce a conference on “Archives as Data: New Directions in Historical Research.” It will occur in January 2025 at Columbia University, and feature new work in the field of digital history and digital archiving, as well as roundtables and plenary discussions about the future of research using text as data. 

The conference is funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, and is a continuation of Columbia’s “Archives as Data” program. That program has just been extended to 2025 and 2026 thanks to a new grant from the NEH Institute for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities program.

This conference will highlight the innovative work and new research opportunities emerging from the increasing volume of digitized and “born digital” materials for archivists and historians. The event will feature research presentations, roundtables, and plenary discussions about digital history and archives more generally, including some from participants of Columbia’s previous “Archives as Data” Summer Institutes (list copied below). However we are opening this call to all interested applicants in hopes we can further expand and connect the community of people working on these problems.

Those interested in presenting new projects at the conference should complete this form. We particularly welcome applications from people who have not previously had the opportunity to present work in this field, and collaborative projects that include historians as well as archivists. 

How to apply: Complete this application form

(https://forms.gle/n8SSbgUvdMMJG393A) 

Conference Dates: January 3, 2025

Application timeline: Applications will be reviewed beginning October, with notification around mid-October. 

Location: Lehman Center, Columbia University, New York City

Financial support: We hope to cover the travel costs and two nights hotel stay for conference presenters who would not otherwise be able to participate.

Invited Speakers at the 2023 and 2024 “Archives as Data” workshops:

Cameron Blevins, University of Colorado Denver

Merlin Chowkwanyun, Columbia University

Greg Eow, Center for Research Libraries

Jo Guldi, Southern Methodist University

Tim Hitchcock, University of Sussex

Barbara Rockenbach, Yale University

Heidi Tworek, University of British Columbia

Presentations Available: «Zugang zu Archiven – Recht oder Pflicht?»

Association of Swiss Archivists
Die Präsentationen unserer Fachtagung 2024 sind hier abrufbar.

«Access to archives – right or duty?»

The presentations from our 2024 conference are available here.

CFP: Global Digital Humanities Symposium 2025

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


Proposals should include:

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

Submission Guidelines

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

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

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

Information and dates regarding submissions:

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

Contact Email

pragueconference@memorystudiesassociation.org

URL

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

CFP: ai4Libraries Conference – October 23, 2024 (Virtual Conference)

ai4Libraries is now accepting proposals for their second-year conference. This conference is a free, virtual event that is scheduled to take place on October 23, 2024 (time to be determined). Please note that the registration limited to 500 attendees this year. 

The conference is accepting proposals for the following session types: 

  • Lightning Talk (10 minutes, includes Q&A)
  • Presentation or Library Project Demo (20 Minutes, includes Q&A)

We are particularly interested in learning more about your AI projects with:

  • Technical Services, including cataloging
  • Electronic resource workflow
  • Collection development and assessment
  • Licensing workflows
  • Archives projects

Submit your proposal at: bit.ly/4caBLax

Important Dates

  • Submission deadline: Friday, September 2, 2024
  • Acceptance notifications: September 16, 2024
  • Registration opens: Monday, September 30, 2024

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: 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…

Call for Proposal: The Material Text in Latin America – 2025 College Art Association Annual Conference session

This session, sponsored by the Bibliographical Society of America, will explore textual artifacts that have originated or been adapted for use in one or more Latin American cultures. The interplay between cultures, including relationships between different Latin American cultures or between Latin American and other cultures, will be a particular focus. Papers that address any period up to 1914 will be prioritized. A variety of media will be considered, including painted pottery, carved stucco, coins and other metalwork, engraved stone, and manuscripts or printed materials. Examples include the use and reuse of items bearing Indigenous or European script; the reinterpretation of imagery from elsewhere to illustrate Latin American texts; the early European historiography of indigenous Latin American ideographs and pictographs. While attending to the specificity of local traditions, the session will consider the significance of these textual artifacts in intercultural and historiographic perspective. The geographical definition of “Latin America” is open.

Contact Information
Send proposals (title and 250-word maximum abstract) and your CV by 29 August 2024 to Jeanne-Marie Musto, Librarian, New York Public Library, and Bibliographical Society of America liaison to the College Art Association.

Contact Email
musto.jeannemarie@gmail.com
URL
https://caa.confex.com/caa/2025/cfp.cgi