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CFP: ARMA Canada Information Conference 2025

We invite you to contribute to the ARMA Canada Information Conference by submitting your proposal today. By participating in the ARMA Canada Information Conference, you have the opportunity to play a significant role in redefining and progressing the field of information governance. Your insights and contributions can serve as a catalyst for future developments and improvements within the industry, driving forward the evolution of best practices and standards that meet the challenges of tomorrow.

By presenting at this prestigious conference, you will enhance your professional reputation and connect with fellow experts and decision-makers in the industry. We encourage proposals that are interactive, innovative, and provide practical insights that participants can apply in their organizations. In addition to the opportunity to present at the conference, your participation promises a revolutionary experience for both attendees and presenters. Your sessions will not only educate but also spark significant changes and advancements within the field of information governance. By sharing innovative strategies and solutions, you have the potential to revolutionize practices and inspire transformative growth in organizations across Canada and beyond. Engage with peers who are equally passionate about paving the way for a future-oriented approach to information management. This could be a pivotal moment for enhancing your influence and contributing to a revolutionary shift within the industry. Don’t miss the chance to inspire change and foster innovation—submit your proposal now and be part of this transformative event.

The deadline to submit a proposal is December 3.  Click on the 2025 Call for Proposals menu for details on submitting and the link to the submission form.

CFP: 2025 NAGARA

NAGARA is built on the collective knowledge and experiences of its members, and we want to hear from you! Whether you have a groundbreaking idea, a new approach, or lessons learned in your work, we invite you to submit a session proposal for the 2025 NAGARA Annual Conference in Oklahoma City. Let’s come together next July to share insights, exchange best practices, and inspire one another.

The Annual Conference Program Committee encourages professionals across all levels of government, backgrounds, and experiences to submit a session proposal. While all topics are welcomed, consider addressing some of the following timely subjects that have sparked interest within our membership (listed in alphabetical order):

  • Advocating for Archives and Records Management Programs
  • Archives Outreach, Exhibits, and Cultural Storytelling
  • Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Archives, Records, and Information Management
  • Developing and Launching RIM Programs (working with a limiting budget and low maturity)
  • Development of Policies, Standards, Workflows, and Tools
  • Diversity and Inclusion in Archives and Records Programs
  • Electronic Records ISO Standards, Preservation, and Access
  • Indigenous and Tribal Archives and Records
  • Leadership and People Management
  • Managing Disparate Information Systems (I.E. SharePoint; Shared Drives; Databases; HRIS)
  • Microsoft 365 (implementation, labels, policies, retention, etc.)
  • Program Administration in Archives and Records
  • Public Records Requests/FOIA

Those selected to present at the conference will receive a 25% discount on their registration fees. The deadline to submit is Friday, January 17, 2025. We encourage you to share your expertise and contribute to shaping the future of our profession. Submit your session proposal ideas today and help us make next year’s 2025 NAGARA Annual Conference an exceptional experience for all!

When submitting a conference session proposal, please consider how it:

  • Informs: Tell the audience about a topic in order to transfer knowledge.
  • Improves: Provide the audience with new knowledge that can be applied.
  • Inspires: Energize the audience with innovative ideas.
  • Involves: Include the audience, the profession, and our users.

 The 2025 Annual Conference Program Committee will assess each proposal based on these factors:

  • Completeness and clarity of the proposal
  • Presenter expertise and relevance to the topic
  • Practical takeaways and actionable tools for attendees
  • Relevance to NAGARA’s membership and mission
  • Promotion of diversity in experience, opinion, and background

The 2025 NAGARA Annual Conference will be an in-person event only. All session participants must register for the conference and attend in person. Presenters will receive a 25% discount on their registration fees. The deadline for proposal submissions is Friday, January 17, 2025.

We encourage you to share your expertise and contribute to shaping the future of our profession. Submit your session proposal today and help make the 2025 NAGARA Annual Conference an exceptional experience for all!

CFP: SHARP 2025

SHARP 2025 ROCHESTER
“Communities and Values of the Book”
Call for Papers

The SHARP 2025 co-organizers seek abstracts up to 500 words for the 2025 annual SHARP conference: “Communities and Values of the Book.” The conference will be  held July 7 – 11, 2025 in Rochester, New  York,  at the University of Rochester and the Rochester Institute of Technology. 

We invite participants to explore the ideas of Values and Communities separately or together, and to interrogate the idea of value and its intersection with the idea of community (or communities) within book culture and bibliographic history.  Proposals are due by December 1, 2024, 11:59 pm USA EST.

The city of Rochester and the surrounding  regions of Western and Central New York have a rich history of book culture, including the vibrant written culture associated with the Burned Over District and the spiritualism, abolition, and suffrage movements, independent presses such as BOA and Open Letter Press, historic presses and printing companies, including Roycroft-Hubbard and Leo Hart, and major institutional collections and programs, such as the Visual Studies Workshop, the Eastman Museum Library, the Strong Museum of Play, and the RIT Archives and Cary Collection at the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT). This region’s history is also one of dispossession and disenfranchisement. Marginalized and non-mainstream communities in the area have their own rich and vibrant book cultures, including textual, oral, and performative texts, such as those of the Haudenosaunee people, or those of the Deaf community. Who is included, or excluded, when we think expansively about value, community, and the definitions of texts and objects? 

A primary goal of this conference is to bring together the broader Rochester bibliographic community, including writers, creators, publishers, archivists, institutions, and sellers. If a primary value of an international conference is the opportunity to build community amongst scholars, an attendant value in holding a conference in a specific location is the opportunity to deepen and broaden community across time and spaces, while also expanding the way in which we imagine communities and the values that color them.  

This conference will leverage a wide array of knowledge and perspectives surrounding literary production and book creation. A key aspect to our conference organization is the intentional inclusion of traditionally marginalized communities and objects in our programming and presentations. This includes, but is in no way limited to, the Rochester Deaf community, the Haudenosaunee community, Black creators in Rochester and the broader region, Latinx creators, diasporic and refugee movements and practices, LGBTQ+ creators and communities, local comics dealers and creators, zine makers and networks, artist cooperatives, community college initiatives, and other local groups of creators, readers, and sellers. We are interested in the expansive and inclusionary ways in which we can imagine and problematize what books are (comics, zines, tattoos, etc.) and what creation and use can look like (self-publishing, DIY, Kickstarters, textiles, etc.). 

Questions and topics to consider

  • What is book culture? How is the idea of book culture dependent upon the values of different communities? 
  • What are the ways in which geography, ethnicity, race, gender, sexuality, and class intersect with politics, culture, and economic systems in the assignment of value to books, makers, authors, and cultures? 
  • How do these intersections happen locally in the broader Rochester and Western/Central New York area? This is a complicated region that is urban, suburban, rural, the home of the Seneca people, and the location of multiple prisons and detention facilities. It is the historic home of Frederick Douglass and Susan B. Anthony, while The University of Rochester and the Rochester Institute of Technology are home to the papers of authors Frederick Exley, John A. Williams, John Gardner, Robert Panara, Sam Greenlee, publishers Open Letter Press and BOA Editions, Ltd., Case-Hoyt printers, 19th century lithography companies, the Print Club of Rochester – to name just a few. 
  • What is the value of alternative ways of looking at book culture, including printing, publishing, creating, reading, collecting, trading, and selling?
  • What are the values that we assign to different book cultures, and what are the implications of those value systems? 
  • How can we productively disrupt value systems? How can we productively build value systems? 
  • How can we problematize or trouble the traditional value of book culture in a way that is productive and inclusionary? 
  • How are the values of intellectual, archival, and commercial communities intertwined? 

Submission of Proposals

We seek proposals for organized panels, for individual presentations (traditional paper, lightning talk, 5-1-5 presentation, workshop), and for hands-on workshops. Panels can take the format of traditional papers, roundtables, 5-1-5 presentations, or lightning talks. We’re particularly interested in proposals for demonstrations and hands-on workshops that expand and have attendees critically examine traditional Western valuation and conceptualization of texts, their creators, and their users.

A limited amount of travel funding is available for students, independent scholars, contingent workers, and the unwaged. If you would like to be considered for travel funding, please indicate this when you submit your abstract.

Individual papers (20 minutes)
All proposals and papers will be written in English. Proposals must include a title and an abstract (max 500 words)  and a specification of A/V needs. 

Lightning presentations (7 – 10 minutes)
Proposals should include the same elements as an individual paper: title, abstract (500 words max), and specification of A/V needs.

5-1-5
5-1-5 sessions are comprised of five presentations, each limited to five minutes and one slide. This format is particularly well-suited for introductions to objects, questions, and conundrums without answers. They are intended to be a low-stakes format for exploration and experimentation. Proposals should include a title, abstract (500 words max), and A/V needs.

Hands-on workshops
We particularly encourage the submission of hands-on workshops and demonstrations. Proposals should include a title, abstract (500 words max), A/V and/or material needs.

Panels
Preference will be given to panels organized in advance by presenters. These panels should consist of either traditional papers, lightning presentations, or 5-1-5 presentations.
Panel proposals must include, for each participant, the required elements for individual papers and a description indicating the title of the panel, the presenters, the panel format, and the theme. All information should be compiled into one document for submission.

Roundtables
Roundtables enable presenters to discuss issues of broad or topical interest, such as theory, methodology, pedagogy, etc. These should include a title, abstract (500 words max), A/V needs, and the names of presenters (with individual presentation titles if applicable). All information should be compiled into one document for submission.

All abstracts must be submitted via our Indico site. Proposals are due by December 1, 2024, 11:59 pm USA EST.

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