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CFP: (Digital) Retrospectives on Historiography from Africa: Decolonization, the African press, and the uses of knowledge (open)

CFP – (Digital) Retrospectives on Historiography from Africa: Decolonization, the African press, and the uses of knowledge (open)

Editors: Noemi Alfieri (CHAM, NOVA FCSH-UAc; Africa Multiple Cluster of Excellence, U. Bayreuth), Cassandra Mark-Thiesen (Africa Multiple Cluster of Excellence, U. Bayreuth)

The history of knowledge production in Africa is a rising topic in the backdrop of growing awareness of the uneven globalization of intellectual thought. Focusing on the era of decolonization in Africa, a growing number of scholars are especially exploring historiography as read in periodicals such as pamphlets, magazines, journals or newspapers (Mark-Thiesen, Alfieri, Thioub, Coquerey-Vidrovitch and others). They provide important impetus for understanding the link between media and emancipation,
political democracy, freedom of choice, self-awareness, and selective association.

This special issue of Práticas da História reflects on contemporary epistemological possibilities and constraints in the writing of history. Therefore, it welcomes both contributions that dwell on African journals (scholarly, literary, artistic and ephemeral periodicals) from the 1950s to 1980s, and on the histories behind said periodicals. We look forward to contributions that explore different and contested visions of decolonization and future-making for the African continent and its diaspora. We also invite articles investigating differently situated historiographies from Africa: that use local vernacular by incorporating idiom, local imagery, myth and folklore; that relate to the present or the deep past. We also encourage more nuanced takes on the “nationalist historiography” that when viewed as a monolith was so dominant at the time. For instance, Pan-Africanism and Négritude, while revolutionizing the political assets of the continent, remained contested as intellectual projects. Finally, articles problematizing the current conceptualisations of such historiography as either “colonial”, “traditional”, “radical”, eurocentric”, “afrocentric”, “Africa-centred”, and so forth, are highly welcomed.

Finally, on methodology, and given the current wave of digitisation and digitality, the guest editors encourage reflections on processes of digital preservation and recirculation of historiography from Africa, including their implications for Africa-based and African diasporic knowledge production in the arts, literature, and scholarship. How about their impact on the expansion of the public arena and community empowerment? How are online platforms fostering a re-positioning, re-calibrating and re-thinking of these bodies of knowledge from Africa? And what potentialities lie in the future? In short, we are interested in contributions that dwell on contemporary and future receptions of the above-mentioned publications and journals in the digital sphere.

Proposals (maximum 500 words) must be sent by 30 April 2024 to praticashistoria@gmail.com . Proposals must be accompanied by a short biographical note. The acceptance or refusal of the proposal will be communicated by 15 May 2024. The articles of accepted proposals must be submitted by 31 July 2024. Contributions in both English and Portuguese are welcome.

Contact Information

Noemi Alfieri: noemialfieri@fcsh.unl.pt ; Noemi.Alfieri@uni-bayreuth.de

Cassandra Mark-Thiesen: cassandra.mark-thiesen@uni-bayreuth.de

Contact Email

praticashistoria@gmail.com

URL

https://praticasdahistoria.pt/digital-retrospectives-historiography-africa

CFP: Making Nature: The Labor of Natural History

Inspired by the APS Museum’s upcoming exhibition Sketching Splendor: Natural History in America, 1750-1850 the American Philosophical Society is organizing a two-day conference that will explore the ways humans have imagined, depicted, and constructed representations and knowledge about the natural world over time. The conference aims to bring together an interdisciplinary group of scholars, scientists, naturalists, and collection professionals, as well as artists, filmmakers, climate activists, and others to consider the different forms of labor and expertise that have contributed to shaping past, present, and future understandings of nature as well as the place of humans within it. The conference will be held in-person at the Society in Philadelphia on June 6-7, 2024.

The program committee invites paper proposals from scholars in all fields as well as scientists, curators, artists, educators, collections stewards, and others whose work bears upon this theme. The committee especially welcomes proposals that situate natural history in a wide range of geographic and historical contexts.

Possible topics include but are not limited to:

  • The economic, social, and political implications of natural history collections and collecting practices over time.
  • The role of institutions, including botanical gardens, zoos, arboretums, libraries, museums, aquariums, and others, in shaping scientific and public understandings about the natural world.
  • The impact and contributions of local and Indigenous labor and expertise within natural history projects.
  • Critical studies addressing the relationship between natural history and empire.
  • Studies of how nature and the natural world inform art, music, film, literature, and other creative pursuits in the past and present.
  • The role of images, visualizations, and other non-text based approaches in conveying ideas about nature and natural history.
  • Discussions about specific techniques and craft knowledge used in the preservation and display of natural history.
  • The needs and opportunities of digital tools and platforms for past, present, and future work in natural history.
  • The impact of climate change and extinction narratives on understandings and depictions of nature.
  • Papers exploring decolonial and antiracist approaches to natural history.
     

Applicants should submit a title and a 250-word proposal along with a C.V. by February 15, 2024 via Interfolio: https://apply.interfolio.com/137229

All presenters will receive travel subsidies and hotel accommodations. Presenters may also have the opportunity to publish revised papers in the APS’s Transactions, one of the longest running scholarly journals in America.

For more information contact Adrianna Link, Assistant Director of Library & Museum Programming, at alink@amphilsoc.org.

Contact Information

Adrianna Link (alink@amphilsoc.org)

Thomas Johns (tjohns@amphilsoc.org)

Contact Email

alink@amphilsoc.org

URL

https://www.amphilsoc.org/making-nature-labor-natural-history-june-6-7-2024#par…

CFP: Spatial Humanities 2024

Call for Papers

Spatial Humanities 2024

Bamberg University, Germany, 25th–27th Sept 2024

https://spathum.uni-bamberg.de

We are delighted to announce that the 5th Spatial Humanities conference will be held in Bamberg on September 25th to 27th 2024.

Abstract submission deadline: 15th Feb 2024

Spatial Humanities 2024 welcomes submissions on all aspects of using geospatial technologies in humanities research, methodological innovations, and applied research that develops our understanding of the geographies of the past. We welcome contributions from anyone working on computational approaches to spatial questions in the humanities and arts. These disciplines include, but are not limited to, history (including fields from social history such as historical demography and environmental history), archaeology, heritage and conservation studies, literary studies, classics, linguistics, art history, anthropology and religious studies, as well as from interdisciplinary and/or technical fields including GIS, digital humanities, computational linguistics and computer science. Abstracts should be between 750–1000 words for full papers and 500–750 words for posters.

This year the conference will take place in Bamberg, Germany, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Accordingly, the conference will feature a special session with a focus on Spatial Humanities and Heritage. Heritage has spatial dimensions and heritage processes are linked to place: architecture and urban conservation, the listing of historic buildings, sites, cultural landscapes or heritage districts. Maps of heritage ‘assets’ and archaeological sites shape the way we perceive and understand places, as well as their cultural identity. How can these be studied to reveal cultural boundaries and exclusivity in heritage discourses? How can innovative multi-layered maps show alternative and diverse aspects of heritage?

We are delighted to announce that this year’s keynote speakers will be Francesca Ammon (University of Pennsylvania) and Ross Purves(University of Zurich).

Themes

Proposals are welcomed on, but not limited to, the following themes:

  • Gazetteers, e.g. urban, regional, national and international
  • Artificial intelligence, e.g. computer vision, NLP, deep learning, etc.
  • Spatial explorations of narratives, literary and imaginary places
  • GIS and spatial analysis including 3D modeling and spatial statistics
  • Deep mapping, experiences of places
  • Territorial representations, transgressions, subalternity and boundaries
  • Mapping mobility, spatial connections and networks
  • Linking the map and the text: mixed-method approaches
  • Geospatial ‘collections as data’, enrichment and annotation
  • Historical maps and georeferencing
  • Environmental humanities: landscapes, waterscapes and the blue humanities
  • Linked Open (Geo)Data
  • IIIF applications for maps and spatial data
  • Labs notebooks, workflows and infrastructure
  • Data mining, visualisation and the challenges of geolocation
  • Building, mapping and spatially analysing heritage inventories

Venue

Bamberg University, Markusstraße 8a, D-96047 Bamberg, Germany. The conference will be held in person.

Early Bird Rates

Full registration costs 170 €, reduced to 120 € for students including teas & coffees and lunches days. The conference dinner can be booked in addition.

Student Bursaries

To help support PhD students attend the conference we will be offering fee waivers to the three abstracts judged by the organisers to be the best. If you would like to be considered for this please mark this in the appropriate place on your submission. Note that we may require proof that when the abstract was submitted that you were registered as a PhD student.

We plan to offer a childcare service.

For further information see: https://spathum.uni-bamberg.de/

Email of the conference: spathum@uni-bamberg.de

Organisers

The Spatial Humanities Conference Association

Institutions organizing: Bamberg University, Centre for Heritage Conservation Studies and Technologies (KDWT); Ghent Centre for Digital Humanities; Lancaster University Centre for Digital Humanities; Digital Humanities Lab, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa; Northumbria University Architecture & Built Environment; and the UrbanMetaMapping consortium.

Contact Information

Carmen M. Enss on behalf of 
The Spatial Humanities Conference Association

Institutions organizing: Bamberg University, Centre for Heritage Conservation Studies and Technologies (KDWT); Ghent Centre for Digital Humanities; Lancaster University Centre for Digital Humanities; Digital Humanities Lab, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa; Northumbria University Architecture & Built Environment; and the UrbanMetaMapping consortium.

Contact Email

spathum@uni-bamberg.de

URL

https://spathum.uni-bamberg.de

CFP: Thinking in Community: “Universities and Power” Through Research and Practice

Call for Presentations
April 12th-13th, 2024
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Minneapolis, Minnesota

In what ways have colleges and universities historically been involved in the reproduction of power? That question is at the heart of our two day symposium. Higher education often serves as an important vehicle for economic and social mobility. However, these same institutions are also imbricated in the reproduction of social power and inequality. How can we make sense of these tensions? How can we explore the tremendous good that higher education does without overlooking the harm?

This symposium is less of a traditional gathering of academics and more of a space to engage various elements of the university in questions that affect all of us. Therefore we intend to reach a broad audience and we encourage students, administrators, archivists, historians, higher education studies, ethnic studies, american studies, and related fields to apply. Priority will be given to students, junior faculty, early-career scholars, and
staff, but all are encouraged to apply.

We are seeking 10-12 minute roundtable presentations that speak to any of the following questions or themes:

Research/Archives
● In what specific ways have colleges and universities been imbricated in inequality?
● How and who should research these tensions? What lines of inquiry should be opened What methodological tools should we employ?
● How should this research be presented, disseminated, and engaged with?
● What are some of the challenges to doing this work?
● What are the possibilities and impossibilities for redress?

Teaching/Mentoring
● How can faculty and instructors incorporate these issues and contradictions into their classes? Either via syllabi or creating new classes or experiential learning, etc.
● Reflections on how power operates in a classroom setting
● Calls for a reorientation within mentoring, teaching, or administration that correct past injustices

To submit a proposal, click here.

For those selected, travel & lodging will be covered and a modest honorarium will be provided. Also, if interested in attending or keeping up with developments surrounding this event, please let us know here.

Proposals Due: extended to Friday, February 16th
Organized by:
Yalile Suriel, Assistant Professor of Universities and Power, University of Minnesota
Ellen Holt-Werle, Institutional Archivist, University of Minnesota
Aaron Alvarado, Assistant Professor, University of Minnesota
Sponsored by: Imagine Fund, Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Inspired by: Boston University’s Critical University Studies Symposium
If you have questions, email us at universities-power@umn.edu.

CFP: Ukranian Oral History Association

Ukrainian Oral History Association (UOHA)—which unites, represents, and supports oral history scholars in Ukraine and abroad—is convening the international conference UOHA-2024 “Oral History in Wartime: Academic Knowledge and the Researcher’s Responsibility.” The conference will take place June 13-15, 2024, on the grounds of and with the support of Uzhhorod National University and Zakarpattia Museum of Folk Architecture and Life (Uzhhorod, Ukraine), the Huculak Chair in Ukrainian Culture and Ethnography, Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies at the University of Alberta (Edmonton, Canada), and the Ukrainian Institute of National Memory (Kyiv, Ukraine).

With the beginning of the full-scale phase of the Russian war against Ukraine that started on February 24, 2022, many activists, community-based scholars, academics, museum workers, journalists, and archivists, as well as diverse national and international research teams, began actively recording and documenting war-focused personal testimonies and accounts. Many engaged in this demanding work lacked appropriate training or experience in ethically sound interviewing methods. The above challenges and the unprecedented number of teams documenting testimonies of the Russian-Ukrainian war believed to be already the most documented modern war call for an open dialogue on what constitutes sound research and research practices in the oral history of wartime.

The conference is called to address and provide answers to the following questions. What is the difference between the academic standards of oral history and other initiatives that gained popularity with the beginning of the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine? What challenges of documenting events in the context of an ongoing war do the researchers face in their work? How should one address the questions of safety and adhere to ethical norms during interviewing? What are the personal, legal, and professional responsibilities of researchers pursuing the oral history of the unfolding war? What are the best practices for sharing scholarly accomplishments and academic output of Ukrainian oral historians on the international stage?

Thematic directions of the conference are:
● researcher’s responsibility in the process of preparation, implementation, analysis, and presentation of the results of the oral history project;
● archiving of oral histories—ethically, safely, and responsibly;
● oral history: from an umbrella term to the diversification of research practice;
● oral history and the production of new academic knowledge;
● the researcher as a (co)creator of oral history testimony.

Applications for participation in the conference will be accepted until March 15, 2024. To apply, fill in the Google form: Міжнародна наукова конференція УАУІ-2024 “УСНА ІСТОРІЯ У ВОЄННИЙ ЧАС: НАУКОВЕ ЗНАННЯ І ВІДПОВІДАЛЬНІСТЬ ДОСЛІДНИКА” (13-15 червня 2024 року, Ужгород, Україна) (google.com).
Participants will be selected on a competitive basis. A priority consideration will be given to members of the Ukrainian Oral History Association. Travel within Ukraine, accommodation, and meals will be provided by the conference organizers. Working languages: Ukrainian, English. Based on the results of the conference, a special issue of the “Scientific Bulletin of the Uzhhorod University. Series: History” (category B) is proposed. The requirements for the publications will be sent after the completion of the selection of applications on April 15, 2024.

We are looking forward to receiving your applications!
If you have questions, don’t hesitate to contact us: uoha.official@gmail.com, +380667245423

Contact Information

Conference organization committee:  +380667245423

Contact Email

uoha.official@gmail.com

URL

Міжнародна наукова конференція УАУІ-2024

CFP: 2024 Oral History Association Annual Meeting

Call for Proposals for the 2024 Oral History Association Annual Meeting, to be held in Cincinnati, Ohio, from October 30 to November 2. The URLs below should offer all the essential meeting info, but we will try to answer any question that they don’t! Those questions can go to the OHA’s home office (oha@oralhistory.org), Conference Committee Chair Ellen Brooks (ellen.b.brooks@gmail.com), or me (troy.reeves@wisc.edu).

We hope to see you in Cincinnati later this year!

URLs:

CFP: Graduate Student Program Proposals SAA Annual Meeting

The 2024 Student Program Subcommittee is accepting proposals for two special sessions dedicated to student scholarship during the 2024 Annual Meeting in August. Work from both master’s and doctoral students will be considered. This call encompasses proposals for sessions to be presented either in-person or virtually during the hybrid annual meeting.

Graduate Student Presentation

The work of three current archives students and/or SAA student chapters will be selected for presentation. Each speaker will be allotted fifteen minutes to present a paper. Be creative! Proposals from individual students as well as SAA student chapter groups will be considered. Proposals may relate to the student’s applied or theoretical research, research about the archives profession itself, or even practical/internship experiences. Student chapters may consider presenting on projects or initiatives conducted in the current term (Fall 2023 through Summer 2024). Participant selection will be based on the quality of proposals submitted.

Graduate Student Poster

The 24th annual Graduate Student Poster Session will showcase the work of both individual students and SAA Student Chapters.

All posters will be presented in-person and virtually in PDF format. More information about preparing posters will be shared upon acceptance. Posters will be available to all meeting attendees throughout the week of the conference and on the virtual platform.

Individual posters may describe applied or theoretical research that is completed or underway; discuss interesting collections with which students have worked; or report on archives and records projects in which students have participated (e.g., development of finding aids, public outreach, database construction, etc.). Submissions should focus on research or activity conducted within the previous academic year (Fall 2023 to Summer 2024).

Student chapter posters may describe chapter activities, events, and/or other involvement with the archives and records professions. A single representative should coordinate the submission of each Student Chapter proposal.

Submission Instructions and Deadline

To submit a paper or poster proposal, please complete the proposal form no later than March 15. (Proposals received after this date will not be considered.) Emailed submissions or submissions in any other format will not be accepted.

SAA encourages broad participation in the ARCHIVES*RECORDS 2024. All presenters—including speakers, session chairs, commentators, and poster presenters—are limited to participation in one session. Please alert the 2024 Student Program Subcommittee if you have agreed to participate in another accepted session.

If presenters wish to attend any portion of the 2024 Annual Meeting, they will need to secure institutional or personal funding to register for the conference. SAA is not able to consider complimentary registration for student presenters.

Proposals are due on March 15

Proposals received after this date will not be considered. If you have any questions, please contact conference@archivists.org.

Submit Your Proposal

CFP: CIMA Annual Conference

The 2024 hybrid Annual Conference for the Conference of Inter-Mountain Archivists will be held from May 29, 2024 to June 01, 2024 in Reno, Nevada, University of Nevada, Reno Libraries in the Mathewson-IGT Knowledge Center.

We are bringing it back to the basics and looking to the future for 2024 with a program focused on discussing core archival principles as well as innovative projects with an eye on the future! Session topics may include but certainly are not limited to workflows, processes, archival description, mentoring, outreach, relationship building, digitization, and beyond! 

For the full Call for Proposals and to submit, go to: cimarchivists.org/annual_conference

Proposals for the following are encouraged: Pre-conference workshops, Conference Sessions, Breakout rooms/roundtable discussions, and Posters.

Presenters can attend in person or present virtually. 

Submission deadline: February 16, 2024 (may be extended)

Call for Posters: Northwest Archivists Annual Meeting

Northwest Archivists’ 2024 Annual Meeting will be held in Spokane, Washington, from May 8-10. In 2024, the Spokane community will observe and celebrate the 50th anniversary of Expo ‘74, Spokane’s World’s Fair, the first such exposition to focus on the environment. Taking inspiration from the Fair, our theme is Seeking Balance: Sustainability and Adaptation. This theme invites consideration of how issues related to the environment, sustainability and adaptation intersect with archives and allied professions. While we seek balance, we are frequently required to adapt and react to changing circumstances. We must also be responsive to the changing climate, to different resource allocations, to new staffing models, and much, much more. 

Call For Posters:

The Northwest Archivists 2024 Program Committee welcomes poster proposals in broad support of the Annual Meeting theme Seeking Balance: Sustainability and Adaptation. Deadline for proposals is March 1, 2024. Notification will be made the week of March 11. Submit your proposal using 2024 Poster Proposal Form.

CFP: Southwest Oral History Association

The Southwest Oral History Association is a 40+-year-old organization celebrating oral history in and of the American Southwest. Our annual meeting will take place at the University of California, Riverside from May 31 to June 3, 2024. 

We invite independent oral historians, university-affiliated scholars, undergraduate and graduate students, teachers, community members, and others to submit a proposal.

Proposals from interdisciplinary fields (such as American studies, ethnic studies, gender and sexuality studies, musicology and critical dance theory, media and cultural studies, and education) along with traditional fields (such as history, anthropology, and sociology) are welcomed and should include clear evidence of oral history research and/or offer innovative insights on methodologies and practices.

Please consider submitting an abstract that includes, but is not limited to:

  • Community-based methodologies
  • Oral histories as repair work/reparative archives
  • Intersectional justice frameworks
  • Cross-collaborative memory work
  • Storywork/storytelling
  • Digital humanities
  • Decolonization and collective healing

To review submissions requirements and submit a proposal, visit: https://forms.gle/rW6WZQjVxPbKGCHe9 

Contact Information

Southwest Oral History Association 
SOHA@unlv.edu 

Contact Email

SOHA@unlv.edu

URL

https://southwestoralhistory.org/