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CFP: 2025 NCPH Annual Meeting

SOLIDARITY | SOLIDARITÉ (PDF) 

NATIONAL COUNCIL ON PUBLIC HISTORY ANNUAL MEETING
MONTRÉAL, QUÉBEC, CANADA | MARCH 26-29, 2025
PROPOSAL DEADLINE: JULY 15, 2024 

Solidarity (from the French solidarité) is a word for shared responsibilities and mutual obligations. It conveys a sense of interconnectedness with our world and interdependence upon each other. Long present in France’s code civile, to be in solidarity is to assume shared debts and claim shared successes, so that when we rise, we rise together.

As 21st century public historians, we work through multiple lenses, share diverse stories, and often interpret and make relatable to the public complex histories that sometimes counter long-held ‘truths.’ As a result, our work beckons for unity, togetherness, and collective purpose to support achieving common ground across the field and “put history to work in the world.”

The 2025 NCPH Annual Meeting will center around the theme Solidarity. Pondering the question—What does Solidarity mean in the field of public history?—leads us to consider what we collectively value in the field and how we progress together as public history workers. Amplifying voices, building connections, unifying our audiences, advocating for and revealing authentic histories, fostering and promoting safe spaces, and mirroring these values internally within our organizations are a few examples of how we realize Solidarity across the field.

While submissions on all topics are welcome, in exploring Solidarity, the Joint 2025 Program and Local Arrangements Committee co-chairs particularly encourage you to consider a few of the examples below:

  • Sessions related to public history labor and public historians as workers, including efforts to improve compensation and working conditions in the field and in our institutions;
  • Sessions which model collaboration between public historians and relevant stakeholders, especially community members and grassroots organizers;
  • Sessions which demonstrate solidarity between public historians and activist movements or protests;
  • Sessions which display international cooperation and collaboration across borders;
  • Sessions which explicitly consider our shared responsibilities as public historians: to each other, to the communities we serve, to the pasts, people, and places we interpret, and to the world we live in;
  • Sessions which ask us to evaluate the past work of public history to consider the shared debts we must pay;
  • Sessions which consider public history work as a projet de société—in Québec, a societal project.

PRESENTATION FORMATS MAY INCLUDE:

ROUNDTABLE (90 mins): Roundtables are typically about half presentation and half discussion among presenters and the audience. Presenters should bring targeted questions to pose to others at the table in order to learn from and with each other.
STRUCTURED CONVERSATION (90 mins): These facilitated, participant-driven discussions are designed to prioritize audience dialogue and may contain little or no formal presentation component.
TRADITIONAL PANEL (90 mins): At least three presenters, a chair, and optional commentator. While this is the most traditional format, we still highly discourage the reading of papers.
COMMUNITY VIEWPOINTS (90 mins): A showcase that features a variety of stakeholder and collaborator perspectives across stages of the project’s development, with a particular focus on community participants and grassroots collaborators.
INDIVIDUAL (~30 mins): While individual proposals are welcome, individual presentations will either be shorter than a full session or will be combined with similar proposals to make a full session. These should be presentations of your work and, like all other sessions, not a reading of a paper.
WORKING GROUP (2 hrs): Facilitators and up to 12 discussants grapple with a shared concern. Before and during the meeting, working groups articulate a purpose they are working toward or a problem they are actively trying to solve and aim to create an end product. Proposals are submitted by facilitators, who will seek discussants after acceptance. Note that this format is submitted via a special form.
WORKSHOP (4 or 8 hrs): A half- or full-day workshop is a more intensive and skills-based deep-dive into a topic that includes concrete practical tools and lessons for a smaller group of attendees (recommended 15- 30 people). Note that this format is submitted via a special form.

PROPOSAL SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

OPTIONAL EARLY TOPIC PROPOSALS: Consider submitting an optional early topic proposal by June 15, 2024 to gather suggestions on your topic, seek collaborators or co-presenters, and get feedback from the 2025 Program Committee and members of the NCPH community. Respondents will contact the original submitter directly with their ideas or offers, and the submitter may choose to select additional participants, refine the proposal, and complete a full proposal form online by the July deadline.

FINAL PROPOSALS: Submit your fully formed session, working group, or workshop proposal online by July 15, 2024 via the forms in the dropdown menu at right. (Please note that working group and workshop proposal forms are separate from the main session proposal form. Individual presentations–not papers–can be proposed through the session proposal form.)

When filling out your proposal, please let us know if your session will be in English or in French, as we are planning for a track of sessions in French with simultaneous translation.

While individuals are not prohibited from presenting in consecutive years at the meeting, session proposals that include new voices will receive preference. Additionally, participants may be presenting members of only one session, but may also be discussants in Working Groups or serve as chair/facilitator on a second session.

QUESTIONS? PLEASE EMAIL PROGRAM MANAGER MEGHAN HILLMAN AT MEGHILLM@IU.EDU. THE CALL FOR POSTERS AND CALL FOR WORKING GROUP DISCUSSANTS WILL COME IN SUMMER 2024.

SOLIDARITY | SOLIDARITÉ (PDF EN FRANÇAIS)

RÉUNION ANNUELLE DU CONSEIL NATIONAL DE L’HISTOIRE PUBLIQUE À MONTRÉAL, CANADA
26 AU 29 MARS 2025

Solidarity (du français solidarité) est un terme qui désigne les responsabilités partagées et les obligations mutuelles. Il transmet un sentiment d’interconnexion avec notre monde et d’interdépendance les uns avec les autres. Longtemps présent dans le code civil de la France, être solidaire est d’assumer des dettes communes et de revendiquer des succès communs, de sorte que lorsque nous nous élevons, nous le faisons ensemble.

En tant qu’historiens publics du 21e siècle, nous travaillons sous des angles multiples, partageons des histoires diverses, interprétons et vulgarisons des histoires complexes qui vont parfois à l’encontre de « vérités » de longue date. En conséquence, notre travail appelle à un sens de l’objectif collectif pour soutenir la recherche d’un terrain d’entente dans le domaine et « mettre l’histoire au travail dans le monde ».

La réunion annuelle du CNHP de 2025 sera centrée sur le thème de la solidarité. Penser à ce que signifie Solidarité dans le domaine de l’histoire publique, nous amène à considérer ce que nous valorisons collectivement dans le domaine et comment nous progressons ensemble en tant que travailleurs pour l’histoire publique. Faire entendre les voix, créer des liens, unifier nos publics, défendre et révéler des histoires authentiques, favoriser et promouvoir des espaces sûrs et refléter ces valeurs en interne au sein de nos organisations sont quelques exemples de la manière dont nous réalisons notre mission en solidarité dans le domaine.

Bien que les soumissions sur tous les sujets soient les bienvenues, dans l’exploration de la solidarité, les coprésidents du Comité conjoint du programme 2025 et des arrangements locaux vous encouragent particulièrement à considérer quelques-uns des exemples ci-dessous:

  • Sessions liées au travail d’histoire publique et aux historiens publics en tant que travailleurs, y compris les efforts pour améliorer la rémunération et les conditions de travail sur le terrain et dans nos institutions;
  • Sessions qui modélisent la collaboration entre les historiens publics et les parties prenantes concernées, en particulier les membres de la communauté et les organisateurs locaux;
  • Sessions qui font preuve de solidarité entre les historiens publics et les mouvements ou manifestations militants;
  • Sessions qui démontrent de la coopération et de la collaboration internationale au-delà des frontières;
  • Sessions qui considèrent explicitement nos responsabilités partagées en tant qu’historiens publics: les uns envers les autres, envers les communautés que nous servons, envers le passé, les personnes et les lieux que nous interprétons, et envers le monde dans lequel nous vivons;
  • Sessions qui nous amènent à évaluer le travail passé et présent de l’histoire publique pour considérer les dettes partagées que nous devons payer;
  • Sessions qui considèrent le travail d’histoire publique comme un projet de société, ainsi nommé au Québec.

LES TYPES DE PRÉSENTATION PEUVENT ÊTRE :

TABLE RONDE (90 minutes) : les tables rondes sont généralement composées d’une moitié de présentation et d’une moitié de discussion entre les présentateurs et le public. Les présentateurs doivent apporter des questions ciblées à poser aux autres participants afin d’apprendre les uns des autres.

CONVERSATION STRUCTURÉE (90 minutes) : ces discussions facilitées et dirigées par les participants sont conçues pour donner la priorité au dialogue avec le public et peuvent ne contenir que peu ou pas de composante de présentation formelle.

PANEL TRADITIONNEL (90 minutes) : au moins trois présentateurs, un animateur et un commentateur optionnel. Bien qu’il s’agisse du format le plus traditionnel, nous décourageons toujours fortement la lecture de documents.

Points de VUE de la COMMUNAUTÉ (90 minutes) : une vitrine qui présente une variété de points de vue des parties prenantes et des collaborateurs à travers les étapes du développement du projet, avec un accent particulier sur les participants de la communauté et les collaborateurs locaux.

INDIVIDUEL (~30 minutes) : Bien que les propositions individuelles soient les bienvenues, elles seront soit plus courtes qu’une session complète, soit combinées avec des propositions similaires pour former une session complète. Il devrait s’agir de présentations de votre travail et, comme toutes les autres sessions, pas d’une lecture d’un document.

GROUPE DE TRAVAIL (2 heures) : les animateurs et jusqu’à 12 participants se penchent sur une question commune. Avant et pendant la réunion, les groupes de travail définissent un objectif qu’ils poursuivent ou un problème qu’ils tentent activement de résoudre et visent à créer un résultat final. Les propositions sont soumises par les animateurs, qui rechercheront des participants après validation.

ATELIER (4 ou 8 heures) : Un atelier d’une demi-journée ou d’une journée est une immersion plus intensive et axée sur les compétences dans un domaine, qui comprend des outils pratiques concrets et des leçons pour un groupe plus restreint de participants (de 15 à 30 personnes).

DIRECTIVES POUR LES SOUMISSIONS DE PROPOSITIONS

PROPOSITIONS DE SUJETS PRÉLIMINAIRES FALCULTATIVE : envisagez de soumettre une proposition de sujet préliminaire facultative d’ici le 15 juin 2024 pour recueillir des suggestions sur votre sujet, rechercher des collaborateurs ou des coprésentateurs et obtenir des commentaires du Comité du programme 2025 et des membres de la communauté CNHP. Les répondants contacteront directement l’auteur de la proposition initiale pour lui faire part de leurs idées ou de leurs offres, et l’auteur de la proposition pourra choisir de sélectionner d’autres participants, d’affiner la proposition et de remplir un formulaire de proposition complet en ligne avant la date limite du mois de juillet.

PROPOSITIONS FINALES : soumettez votre proposition complète de session, de groupe de travail ou d’atelier en ligne d’ici le 15 juillet 2024 via https://ncph.org/conference/2025-annual-meeting/cfps/. (Veuillez noter que les formulaires de proposition de groupe de travail et d’atelier sont distincts du formulaire de proposition de session principale.)

Lorsque vous remplissez votre proposition, veuillez nous indiquer si votre session sera en anglais ou en français, car nous prévoyons une série de sessions en français avec traduction simultanée.

Bien qu’il ne soit pas interdit aux individus de présenter une session plusieurs années de suite, les propositions de sessions qui incluent de nouvelles personnes seront privilégiées. En outre, les participants peuvent être membres présentateurs d’une seule session, mais peuvent également être participants aux discussions dans les groupes de travail ou être présentateur/facilitateur lors d’une autre session.

DES QUESTIONS? VEUILLEZ ENVOYER UN COURRIEL À LA RESPONSABLE DU PROGRAMME, MEGHAN HILLMAN, À MEGHILLM@IU.EDU. L‘APPEL POUR LES PRÉSENTATIONS ET L’APPEL POUR LES PARTICIPANTS AUX DISCUSSIONS DES GROUPES DE TRAVAIL SERONT LANCÉS AU PRINTEMPS 2024.

SUBMISSION FORMS

Submit an optional early topic proposal by June 15 for feedback: https://ncph.org/conference/2025-annual-meeting/cfps/topic-proposal-form/
Submit a session proposal (including individual presentations) by July 15, 2024: https://ncph.org/conference/2025-annual-meeting/cfps/session-proposal-form/
Submit a working group proposal by July 15, 2024: https://ncph.org/conference/2025-annual-meeting/cfps/working-group-proposal-form/
Submit a workshop proposal by July 15, 2024: https://ncph.org/conference/2025-annual-meeting/cfps/workshop-proposal-form/

CFP: ICA Section on Archives of Literature and Art Symposium

Please contact Heather Dean, hdean  @ uvic.ca (no extra spaces) with questions!

International Council on Archives
Section on Archives of Literature and Art
November 20-21 2024 | Virtual Symposium

The English author Edward Bulwer-Lytton is credited with the well-known phrase, “the pen is mightier than the sword.” This sentiment on the power of literature and art can be found across cultures. Those in the arts are uniquely poised to provide social commentary, to speak truth to power, and to provide an unflinching portrayal of our shared humanity. Literary and artistic archives include archives created by journalists, poets, novelists, painters, sculptors, and other writers and artists, as well as arts organizations, galleries, publishers, editors, and all of those involved in arts creation and dissemination. These archives – like the creators and works they document – are bestowed with a unique and resonant power.    

The International Council on Archives’ Section on Archives of Literature and Art welcomes proposals for a 2024 virtual symposium celebrating and interrogating the power of the arts and cultural archives. 

The Program Committee encourages proposals on the following themes. Note: Proposals on other themes related to archives of literature and art will also be considered:    

  • The intersection of human rights, archives, and the arts, such as the archives of dissident artists and writers, journalists, and other creatives and arts organizations who have challenged injustice.
  • Born digital archives and the unique challenges of preserving and providing access to archives of artists and writers.
  • Ensuring the enduring preservation of arts archives during times of political unrest and turmoil.
  • Approaches to decolonizing archives with particular focus on arts and cultural archives.
  • The role of cultural archives in truth and reconciliation and fostering cultural resilience.  

Session Formats 

The symposium will be held online over two days (November 20 and 21) to accommodate various time zones. The conference will take place in English, however, speakers are invited to present in their language of choice, and translation into English will be provided. 

You do not need to be a member of ICA to submit a proposal, however, we ask that presenters consider joining the ICA.  

Single Paper: Submissions of single presentations, of no more than 15 minutes, are welcome, and will be coordinated into panels by the programme committee.  

Roundtable Talks: These sessions are comprised of 5-6 speakers providing short presentations which are thematically related, and which may include a more informal discussion in response to questions organized in advance by the session moderator.  The moderator is responsible for organizing speakers and distributing questions in advance. Please include the name of the moderator and speakers.  

Panels: Panels are comprised of 3 speakers, each providing a 15 minute talk on a related topic. These sessions are 60 minutes (inclusive of time for questions). These can be pre-arranged between groups (please include an abstract and title for each paper), or submitted individually. 

Symposium Language

The symposium seeks to foster a global exchange of perspectives and ideas. While the symposium will largely take place in English, proposals for presentations in any language are welcome and a limited number of translators will be available to provide live translation into English.  

Submission Process

Proposals are due on Sunday, June 30, 2024. Submissions will be reviewed by the programme committee starting the first week of July and decisions will be shared by July 31. 

Please complete the following form with your submission details: forms.gle/FYUVDFhe7rPUXSSs8. 

Important Dates

June 30                              Deadline for Submissions

July 31                                  Notification of Submissions 

August 14                          Confirm Attendance

September 1                     Registration Opens

November 20-21:            Symposium 

Call for Proposals: RAO Marketplace of Ideas 2024

The Reference, Access, and Outreach Section (RAO) of the Society of American Archivists (SAA) seeks proposals for the 2024 Marketplace of IDEAs to be held during the Virtual Annual Meeting on Thursday, July 25, 2024 at 4pm EDT/3pm CDT/2pm MDT/1pm PDT.

Topics related to the sub-committee areas of Teaching with Primary Sources, Exhibits and Events, and Public Services Assessment are encouraged.
Proposals addressing topics or themes related to the following will also be prioritized:
– evolving the archival profession, public services, new ideas, fresh perspectives
– orienting reference, access, and outreach efforts as Inclusive, Diverse, Equitable, and Accessible
– collaborations/co-sponsorships with other Sections

Submission Due Date: Tuesday, June 18, 2024

Submission Form: forms.gle/TaGwUREqpuarbJSGA

CFP: History, Memory, and Heritage

CALL FOR PROPOSALS

RMC History Symposium 2024

History, Memory, and Heritage

Location: Royal Military College (Kingston, Ontario)

Date: September 26-27, 2024

The History Department at the Royal Military College of Canada (RMC) extends a special invitation to all scholars, graduate students, researchers, and custodians of traditional knowledge to submit papers and panels for its next annual symposium to be held at the RMC campus, September 26-27, 2024, in Kingston, Canada. The theme for the 2024 History Symposium is “History, Memory, and Heritage.”

For more than four decades, historians from various fields have been studying how societies remember and commemorate. In doing so, they seek to understand how, who, and why peoples and nations construct versions of the past that celebrate certain individuals and events while forgetting others. Historians acknowledge that memory has been an important instrument of power mobilized in the name of nation, ethnicity, race, and religion. As part of this complex process, this symposium aims to discuss whose collective memory has a privileged place in textbooks, films, museums, and monuments as well as whose version of the past has prevailed. Topics include but are not limited to:  

–       Memory and war 

–       Public memory and history

–       Historical consciousness and commemoration

–       The politics of remembrance and forgetting

–       Heritage and celebration

–       World heritage and Indigenous peoples in the Americas, Asia, Africa, and Oceania

–       The impact of disinformation and fake news in history, memory, and heritage

Keynote Speakers
The Symposium organizers are pleased to welcome Dr. Dara Price (Director, History and Heritage, Department of National Defence) and Dr. Tim Cook (Chief Historian and Director of Research, Canadian War Museum) as this year’s opening and closing keynote addresses.

Instructions

Individual Submissions: Individual proposals should include an abstract in (250-word maximum), and the email and affiliation of presenter(s).

Panel Submissions: Panel proposals should comprise a 250-word summary, abstracts, and the e-mails and affiliations of all panelists. A minimum of three participants is required.

Presenters are welcome to submit an abstract or panel in French or English.

Deadline for submission of proposals: June 1, 2024.

For questions and/or inquiries, please e-mail rmc.symposium.cmr2024@gmail.com.

Organizers:

Vanessa S. Oliveira and Katherine Rossy (Co-chairs)

Caroline D’Amours

Emanuele Sica

Contact Email

rmc.symposium.cmr2024@gmail.com

Call for Participants and Presentations: SAA Research Forum

Call for Participants and Presentations

Society of American Archivists 

2024 SAA Research Forum

hosted by the Committee on Research, Data, and Assessment

July 17 from 12:00 – 4:00 pm CT

July 24, 12:00 – 4:00 pm CT

Virtual Meetings

MAY 1 DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION OF ABSTRACTS FOR THE SAA RESEARCH FORUM 

On behalf of the 2024 Research Forum Program Committee, we invite you to submit abstracts (of 300 words or fewer) for either 10-minute platform presentations or 3-minute lightning talks. Topics may address research on, or innovations in, any aspect of archives practice or records management in government, corporate, academic, scientific, or other settings. 

The 2024 Research Forum will be conducted as two Zoom-based virtual sessions, each four hours long, on July 17 from 12:00 – 4:00 pm CT and July 24, 12:00 – 4:00 pm CT. 

The Committee is pleased to announce format changes to the Research Forum in response to feedback from the last year’s Forum. The 2024 Research Forum will be made up of 10-minute platform presentations, extended from 8 minutes, and 3-minute lightning talks, which will replace the poster presentations. A limited number of presentations will be accepted to allow for longer presentation times, extended Q&A periods, and opportunities for discussion between attendees. An abstract submission rubric will be used by the Committee to evaluate submissions. The 2024 Research Forum webpage provides additional information about the schedule and links to past Forum proceedings.

We invite presentations on research results that may have emerged since the 2023 Joint Annual Meeting Call for Proposals deadline, as well as reports on research completed within the past three years that are relevant and valuable for discussion as defined by the rubric. On the submission form, please indicate whether you intend a platform presentation or a lightning talk. See the full call here: https://www2.archivists.org/publications/research-forum.

The Research Forum Committee and CORDA encourage submissions on a range of topics, which may include:

  • Global challenges and their implications for archives and archivists, such as climate change, armed conflicts, environmental disaster, and human rights; 
  • Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Social Justice (EDISJ) as a core value for archives and archivists; 
  • Collaborating across domains—archives, libraries, galleries, and museums; 
  • Repository-level data: how archives measure their output, outcomes, and activities over time;
  • Centering users in the design of archival systems for discovery; and/or, 
  • Building audiences to increase the impact of archives on society. 

These themes can be found in the CORDA Research and Innovation Roadmap (v1.4). 

Abstracts will be evaluated by the 2024 Research Forum Committee convened by Sarah Pratt Martin (Harvard University) and Chris Marino (Stanford University).

Deadline for submission of abstracts: May 1, 2024. You will be notified of the Committee’s decision by June 1, 2024.

Proposals should be submitted here.

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