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Call for Papers EXTENDED: “Book: Re-imagined and Re-born”

On 29 -30 May 2023, Canada’s bibliographical and book studies community will gather for the Annual Conference of the Bibliographical Society of Canada at the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences for our first in-person conference since 2019. 

The third decade of the twenty-first century has ushered in unprecedented and challenging events. The Truth and Reconciliation Commission and the Black Lives Matters movement, alongside escalating climate emergencies, have brought home the urgent need for collective action in support of racial and climate justice. Against this backdrop, our conference theme invites you to explore and reflect critically on the past, present, and future of the book. We invite submissions that pertain, but are not limited, to: 

  • Revisions in bibliography and book history as reflections of decoloniality, anti-racism, and social justice 
  • Traditions, innovations, and responses to societal challenges in the practice of bibliography, book history, and special collections curation 
  • Books and print media as vehicles for inclusion, participation, and belonging 
  • Material and digital cultures of the book in relation to climate change, sustainability, and post-industrial technology-driven society 
  • Book creation, production, consumption, and collecting in personal, social, and institutional contexts 
  • Human interactions with books and print media and their diversity
  •  Partnering and collaboration beyond the book: galleries, libraries, archives and museums in partnership with custodians of aural, visual and other forms of knowledge 

Congress 2023 will be held at York University. Many Indigenous Nations have longstanding relationships with the territories upon which their campuses are located that precede the establishment of the University. The area known as Tkaronto has been taken care of by the Anishinabek Nation, the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, and the Huron-Wendat. It is now home to many First Nation, Inuit and Métis communities. We acknowledge the current treaty holders, the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation. This territory is the subject of the Dish with One Spoon Wampum Belt Covenant, an agreement to peaceably share and care for the Great Lakes region. 

Please submit a 250-word abstract proposal and brief biography in English or French (including your full name, professional designation, institutional affiliation, or place) no later than 28 February 2023 to proposals@bsc-sbc.ca. 

Du 29 au 30 mai 2023, la communauté bibliographique et des études du livre du Canada se réunira pour la Conférence annuelle de la Société bibliographique du Canada au sein du Congrès des sciences humaines et sociales, la première en personne depuis 2019. 

La troisième décennie du XXIe siècle a apporté des bouleversement et défis sans précédent. La Commission vérité et réconciliation, le mouvement Black Lives Matters, ainsi que l’accélération des changements climatiques, ont mis en évidence le besoin urgent d’une action collective pour la justice raciale et climatique. Dans ce contexte, le thème de notre conférence vous invite à explorer et à réfléchir de manière critique sur le passé, le présent et l’avenir du livre. Nous invitons des propositions de communications qui abordent, mais ne sont pas limitées, à : 

  • La révision en bibliographie et de l’histoire du livre pour refléter la décolonisation, l’antiracisme et la justice sociale 
  • Tradition, innovation et réponses aux défis sociétaux dans la pratique de la bibliographie, de l’histoire du livre et des collections spéciales 
  • Le livre et l’imprimé comme les vecteurs d’inclusion, de participation et d’appartenance 
  • Cultures du livre matériel et numérique en relation du changement climatique, l’avenir durable et la société post-industrielle axée sur la technologie 
  • Création, production, consommation et collection des livres dans des contextes personnels, sociaux et institutionnels 
  • Interactions entre la personne et le livre et l’imprimé et leur diversité 
  • Partenariat et collaboration au-delà du livre : galeries, bibliothèques, archives et musées en partenariat avec des gardiens de connaissances auditives, visuelles et autres 

Le Congrès 2023 se tiendra à l’Université York. De nombreuses nations autochtones entretiennent des relations de longue date et qui précèdent la création de l’Université avec les territoires sur lesquels se trouvent ses campus. Le territoire connu sous le nom de Tkaronto a été objet des soins de la Nation Anishinabek, la Confédération Haudenosaunee et les Hurons-Wendat. Il abrite maintenant de nombreuses communautés des Premières nations, inuites et métisses. Nous reconnaissons les titulaires actuels du traité, la première Nation des Mississaugas de Credit. Ce territoire est soumis au traité de la ceinture wampum (« Dish with One Spoon »), entente définissant le partage et la préservation pacifiques de la région des Grands Lacs. 

Veuillez soumettre un résumé de 250 mots et une courte biographie en anglais ou en français (y compris votre nom complet, titre professionnel, institution ou affiliation) au plus tard le 28 fevrier 2023 à propositions@bsc-sbc.ca. 

CFP: Imperial Lives Conference

Extended deadline for Call for Papers:
NEW: February 12th, 2023

Date: 30.-31.3.2023

Place: Online
For reasons of greater accessibility and sustainability, the conference will be held completely online.

After years of struggle, deflection, and hesitation, ethnographic museums are increasingly accepting the need for decolonization. Often, this is framed in terms of diversity and empowerment and with a special focus on creator communities and their diaspora. We agree: the victims of imperial violence and their descendants need to be at the centre of any fruitful decolonization process.

However, this leaves a momentous gap: what about the creators of the museum, the collectors who often violently amassed the collections, as well as those who are implicated in their legacy today? Whose acts of perpetration, violence, transgression, betrayal, superiority, exploitation, and misunderstanding lie at the foundation of the museum? When it comes to the actors in question and their agency, what prevails is often absence or a retreat into abstraction, both in academia and the museum.

The “Imperial Lives” conference wants to widen this perspective and offer a complementary approach: it aims at exploring ways of overcoming this colonial aphasia by focussing on the concrete, often messy biographies behind the institution “ethnographic museum”. We propose that the encounter with the personified past of empire – the biographies of imperial collectors – creates a space of unsettlement in which the personal implication of all members of a post-imperial democratic society can be explored and collective memory transformed.

Ethnographic museums, as one of the most visible sites of imperial continuity, offer an exemplary field for the exploration of imperial perpetration and implication that goes beyond the bounds of anthropology – especially when it comes to the interaction with broader audiences. This is why the conference will focus on both research and narration, inviting transdisciplinary perspectives from history, cultural, and literary studies as well as artistic, journalistic and activist practices.

We call for contributions addressing issues of biographic knowledge generation and representation, including questions such as:

How can biographic approaches to the legacy of empire contribute to the decolonisation of ethnographic museums?
What may be the archival foundation for biographic approaches to the imperial past? How can imperial personas be portrayed if the only archival material available was produced by themselves? What is the role of ethnographic collections as archives?
What kind of biographies are suited for such decolonial biographic research?
Who should be doing this research? How does the personal situatedness of the researcher affect the outcome?
What forms of representation, what narrative strategies should be used to depict imperial biographies?
With museums as the sites of a society’s collective memory: Which narrative approaches are fruitful contributions to the “work of remembrance”?
What is the relationship between historical factuality and biographic fiction, especially concerning the archival inequalities of empire?
In how far can artistic research and practice enrich modes of biographic display?

Conference language: English

There will be a recording of all papers, keynotes, and panels.

We are inviting scholars from the fields of:

ethnography, anthropology, literary studies, historical science, cultural studies, museology, art history, arts (e.g. fine arts, film, literature etc.), provenance research, journalism.

CfP:

Please hand in your abstract of max. 500 words (in English, + short bio) until 2023/02/12 via:

https://tinyurl.com/abstract-imperiallives2023

For any questions, feel free to get in touch via mail@imperiallives.com

New Issue: ESARBICA

ESARBICA Journal: Journal of the Eastern and Southern Africa Regional Branch of the International Council on Archives, Vol. 41 (2022)

Golden bulb covered with a dark cloth: memories of undocumented athletes in South Africa
Joseph Matshotshwane; Mpho Ngoepe

Website as a gateway for the provision of public archives and records management guidance
a Botswana – South Africa comparison
Olefhile Mosweu

Digitisation of audio-visual archives at the National Archives of Zimbabwe
Amos Bishi

Covid-19, a catalyst or disruptor? comprehending access to records and archives under the new normal
Simbarashe Manyika, Peterson Dewah

E-records guidance tools in records sharing at Tanzania Public Service College
Chiku M Chang’a, Kardo J Mwilongo

Management of electronic records in the South African public sector
Mpubane Emanuel Matlala, Asania Reneilwe Maphoto

Factors influencing access to archives at Botswana National Archives and Records Services
Manyeke Manek, Tshepho Mosweu

Records management in an ISO certified environment: a case study of Botho University in Botswana
Koketsego Sini Pitsonyane, Nathan Mnjama

Customer satisfaction in records management at Botswana Examinations Council
Gladness Richard, Priti Jain

Archiving the voices of the once voiceless: strategies for digital preservation of oral history at the KwaZulu-Natal Provincial Archives
Mbongeni Tembe (Malokotha), Zawedde Nsibirwa

Infrastructure for the implementation of artificial intelligence to support records management at the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research in South Africa
Mashilo Modiba, Patrick Ngulube, Ngoako Marutha

Digital records management practices in the public sector in Manicaland Province of Zimbabwe
Oscar Sigauke

Embedding digital preservation strategies in the management of institutional repositories in South Africa
Lungile Luthuli

Records management system at the eNews Channel Africa
Nduduzo Simphiwe Sithole, Isabel Schellnack-Kelly

Call for Expressions of Interest: The Bloomsbury Oral History Handbook

Co-editors Alistair Thomson, Alexander Freund, and Erin Jessee are inviting expressions of interest to contribute chapters to the forthcoming Bloomsbury Oral History Handbook.The Handbook is a substantial English-language volume of approximately 25 essays written by oral historians from around the world and speaking to the practice of oral history in different international contexts. The book will offer an international overview of contemporary oral history theory and practice. It is primarily intended as a scholarly work for academics, postgraduate researchers and advanced level undergraduates, while also being of interest to oral historians working outside the academy.

We are looking for chapters (7500 words) that speak to the following topics:

·Thematic interpretation of interview sets

·Explores how oral historians develop social and historical interpretations using sets of oral history interviews, in combination with other data, and the challenges and contributions of thematic interpretation

·Making oral history exhibitions and place-based installations 

·Explores issues and approaches in the range of practices and places when we make located oral histories that combine different media in multi-sensory ‘memoryscapes’ that engage users and audiences in distinctive ways

·Making audio visual histories

·Explores issues and approaches in making podcasts, website productions, radio programs and filmed documentaries

·Teaching oral history

·Explores approaches and issues in teaching and creating oral history in school, university and community settings, and the use of ‘witnesses’ and witness testimony in educational settings

We are keen to include authors from different parts of the world. We especially encourage submissions that bring creative practitioners into conversation with academic and/or community-based oral historians and related experts, as well as incorporate authors from a range of career stages. To facilitate this, Bloomsbury has agreed to pay a small honorarium to unsalaried contributors.

If interested, please send a revised title (if relevant), 250-word abstract, brief (3-4 sentence) biography for each proposed author, a list of your oral history publications, and a link to your personal or professional website to alistair.thomson@monash.edu; alexanderfreund9@gmail.com; and erin.jessee@glasgow.ac.uk by 15 February 2023.

Successful authors will be notified of their abstract’s acceptance by early March and will then be expected to submit their draft chapters for review by 1 October 2023.

Call for Participants: Archives, Slavery & Race-Making Summer School, King’s College London, July 3- 7, 2023

The Centre for Early Modern Studies (CEMS) at King’s College London is pleased to invite applications for a fully-funded, week-long summer school exploring new methodological approaches to the archives of race & slavery in the early modern world.  

Bringing together leading scholars in a variety of methodologies and disciplines, the Archives, Slavery & Race-Making Summer School aims to introduce a new generation of researchers to cutting-edge approaches to the field. This summer school comprises morning master classes with leading scholars, followed by afternoon sessions in which participants will have the opportunity to workshop chapters from their dissertation or a related article project. The topics covered will include:

Diana Paton (Edinburgh): Gender and Slavery in the Atlantic World

Stephanie Smallwood (Washington University): The Middle Passage

Farah Karim-Cooper (The Globe/KCL): Race and Contemporary Performance

Alexandre White (Johns Hopkins University): Sociological Approaches to Archives of Slavery 

Tamara Walker (Barnard): Visual and Material Culture

This workshop is open to PhD students actively researching their dissertation and ECRs, broadly defined, from any relevant discipline. This event is being organised and hosted by Medicine and the Making of Race, 1440-1720, a UKRI Future Leader’s Fellowship Project. MMoR will cover the cost of travel, (domestic or international), to London.  Participants will receive accommodation for six nights, and breakfast and lunches will be provided. We intend this workshop to be fully accessible to all; if extra assistance is required to participate, please feel free to raise this with us in advance.

Interested applicants are invited to submit a short application, including a CV and a (ca.1000 word) covering letter which includes a description of their research interests and how this workshop might benefit them. The name of one referee is required, but will only be contacted at point of shortlisting. Please note we expect participants to be in a position to submit pieces of writing c.5000 words at least a month in advance of the workshop. Participants will also be expected to carry out reading for each masterclass in advance, and attendance of all elements of the workshop are mandatory. This is an opportunity to meet and collaborate with other emerging researchers in the field from across the globe, and the week will include time for networking and for visiting relevant sites and archives in London.

Please send your application material to mmor@kcl.ac.uk by Friday March 3rd, 2023. Applicants will be selected with a view to research fit, as well as to ensuring a diversity of research interests, methodologies, and academic backgrounds. Priority will be given to those who might not otherwise have the opportunity to travel or network internationally. 

Contact Email: 

mmor@kcl.ac.uk

URL: https://www.mmor.co.uk/news/cfp-summer-school

Oral History Australia journal seeking section editors

The Editors and Chair of the Editorial Board of Studies in Oral History, the journal of Oral History Australia, are inviting expressions of interest for the positions of Reviews Editor and Reports Editor.

If you are interested in either of these roles, please send an email to journal@oralhistoryaustralia.org.au by 14 February 2023 including:

  • a short biography (300 word limit), and
  • a  paragraph explaining your interest in and suitability for the role(s).

Information about the Studies in Oral History is available at: https://oralhistoryaustralia.org.au/journal/journal-overview/.

Studies in Oral History is jointly edited by Carla Pascoe Leahy and Skye Krichauff. The Editorial Board includes: Alexandra Dellios (Chair), Lynn Abrams, Sean Field, Alexander Freund, Anna Green, Nepia Mahuika, Anisa Puri, Beth Robertson and Mark Wong.

Deadline extended – CFP – Conference “Transatlantic Women’s Networks: Cultural Engagements from the 19th Century to the Present”

Deadline: January 31, 2023

Transatlantic Women’s Networks:
Cultural Engagements from the 19th Century to the Present
11th – 12th May, 2023
Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Lisbon, Portugal

 CFP

The conference Transatlantic Women’s Networks: Cultural Engagement from the 19th Century to the Present aims to provide a space to unearth, discuss, map, and (re)situate networks and circuits of intellectual and cultural exchange among women across the Atlantic from the 19th century to the present. The conference will take place at Universidade Católica Portuguesa, in Lisbon, Portugal, on the 11th and 12th of May, 2023.


Traditionally, representations of sociopolitical, cultural, and artistic engagements have been dominated by male figures and national frameworks. However, from politics and gender to literary and cultural criticism, the role of women’s networks in shaping societies, literatures, and convivial relations across national borders has started to be resituated within these more traditional narratives both in and out of Academia. Particularly in the context of transcultural formations across the Atlantic, the role of movements and exchanges has become a central concern. Societies and cultural expressions have not only been deeply shaped by slavery and the slave trade, but also by less violent forms of migration, and productive dialogue. Women have played an important role here as well and made significant contributions to the cultural and social spheres. Arts, literature, translation, and criticism, in particular, have proved significant historical vehicles for women to foster convivial and transnational circuits of conversation and exchange, as well as intellectual, cultural and political rapprochement between countries and traditions.


The conference invites discussion on the potential of transatlantic women’s networks both historically and in the present moment. We want to honor subaltern, off-circuit, overlooked , and often-unrecognized contributions to cultural and social analysis that have the potential to reimagine, understand, and (re)situate the strategic position women have played in matters of gender, politics, and transnational affairs. How have women used conviviality and networking for sociopolitical, cultural, and artistic engagements across the Atlantic? What is the role of transatlantic networks for grassroots activism and alternative forms of resistance and circulation? How have historically transcontinental connections and exchanges between feminist thinkers impinged on current perspectives on gender, ethnicity, race, and class? What has brought women together as builders of communities and creators of knowledge? How do these transatlantic networks illuminate different geographic, temporal, cultural, and spiritual experiences? And what is the political impact of the host of vibrant, emerging peripherical actresses (indigenous, homosexual women, transgender etc.) in contemporary transatlantic networks, on and offline?


We welcome contributions from the fields of Cultural, Literary, Translation, Gender, Feminist, Archival and Memory Studies that focus on the works women have authored, published, directed, or have taken part in (novels, films, arts, correspondence), including non-alternative vehicles of transatlantic dialogue (newspapers and literary supplements, manuscripts, marginalia, journals, and postcards). These undiscovered, forgotten and often-times neglected vehicles have arguably functioned as incubators of experimentation in translation and artistic practice, cultural and literary criticism, and other forms of networking through which networks of conviviality with and among women across the Atlantic came into being.


Possible topics may include, but are not limited to:


● Transatlantic conviviality and correspondence among women
● Memory, women, and imaginative transatlantic networks of exchange
● Archives, migration, and gender across the Atlantic
● Feminisms, women and the black Atlantic
● Race and gender from a transatlantic perspective
● Transatlantic activism, women’s agency, and survival
● Feminist-feminine writing across in the Atlantic
● Diasporic and immigrant women writing across the Atlantic
● Women translators, women in translation, translated women across the Atlantic
● Luso-Brazilian women revisited
● Indigenous, native, and spiritual feminisms across the Atlantic
● Women and transatlantic grassroots and institutional activism
● Sisterhood, female circles, and collaboration across the Atlantic
● Online activist female spaces across the Atlantic

Keynote Speakers
Paulina Chiziane, Writer and Essayist
Anna Faedrich, Universidade Federal Fluminense
Harris Feinsod, Northwestern University
Adriana Martins, Universidade Católica Portuguesa

Scientific Committee
Ana Paula Ferreira, University of Minnesota
Sheila Khan, Universidade do Minho
Verena Lindemann Lino, Universidade Católica Portuguesa
Alexandra Lopes, Universidade Católica Portuguesa
Inocência Mata, Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa
Aretha Phiri, Rhodes University
Sofia Pinto, Universidade Católica Portuguesa
Nelson Ribeiro, Universidade Católica Portuguesa
Luísa Santos, Universidade Católica Portuguesa
Catarina Valdigem, Universidade Católica Portuguesa

Practicalities
We invite abstracts for individual and joint presentations using women’s networks as a lens for the analysis and discussion of cultural exchange or conceptualizing/problematizing their role across the Atlantic.


We also welcome abstracts for presentations and interventions that disrupt the traditional presentation format and academic ways of thinking and doing, including, but not limited to, artistic interventions and co-creative, performative presentations. Abstracts should be sent to twnconference2023@gmail.com no later than 31th January 2023 and include paper title, abstract in English or Portuguese (max. 250 words), name, e-mail address, institutional affiliation, and a brief bio (max. 100 words) mentioning ongoing research. Notification of acceptance will be sent by the 28th February 2022 at the latest.


After having been accepted, you will be asked to register for the conference and provide some personal details to that purpose.
The conference will take place in person, at Universidade Católica Portuguesa.

Costs
Registration fees                      Early Bird     Regular

Graduate/Student/Post-Doc       65 €              75 €
Senior Scholar/Researcher        70 €             100 €


*Fees include coffee breaks and conference materials.

The Organizing Committee may consider reducing or waiving a limited number of registration fees in case of documented financial difficulties. CECC researchers are exempted from the registration fee, but will still have to register.

Organizing Committee

Patrícia Anzini
Verena Lindemann Lino

Contact Info: 

Centro de Estudos de Comunicação e Cultura

Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Lisbon, Portugal

Contact Email: 

twnconference2023@gmail.com

URL: 

https://fch.lisboa.ucp.pt/events/transatlantic-womens-networks-cultural-engagements-19th-century-present-69171

Call for Chapters: Contemporary Issues in Information and Records Management in the Fourth Industrial Revolution

Editors
Josiline Chigwada, Bindura University of Science Education, Zimbabwe
Godfrey Tsvuura, Zimbabwe Open University, Zimbabwe

Call for Chapters
Proposals Submission Deadline: December 12, 2020
Full Chapters Due: February 24, 2021
Submission Date: February 24, 2021

Introduction
The book showcases contemporary issues in information and records management in the 4th industrial revolution especially in times of crisis like the recent COVID-19 pandemic. Chapters highlighting innovation, use of information and communication technology in information and records management, best practices, challenges encountered and how they are overcome are discussed.

Objective
The publication demonstrates the value of information and records management in the 21st century vis-à-vis the challenges that may be faced by information and records managers in the 4th industrial revolution. The book provides a summary of the key activities undertaken by information and records managers as they seek to make records and information management more visible to modern knowledge-driven society.

Target Audience
The target audience of this book will be composed of professionals, librarians, archivists, students, lecturers and researchers working in the field of library and information science, archives and records management, communication sciences, education, and information technology.

Recommended Topics
• Records management practices and systems • Challenges in managing records in the 21st century • Information management in the 4th industrial revolution • Knowledge management in the 4th industrial revolution • Quality assurance in information and records management • Research data management • Data, information and records • Big data • Open Science (Open access, open educational resources, open source, open methodology, Open peer review). • Digitisation of records • Continuous professional development • Social Media usage in records and information management • Managing difficult patrons • Inclusive librarianship • Cloud Computing • Services to Patrons with disabilities • Collection development and management • Institutional repositories • Community engagement • Cooperation between librarians and teaching staff • Information Communication Technology issues in information and records management • Resource sharing in information and records centres

Submission Procedure
Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit on or before December 12, 2020, a chapter proposal of 1,000 to 2,000 words clearly explaining the mission and concerns of his or her proposed chapter. Authors will be notified by December 26, 2020 about the status of their proposals and sent chapter guidelines.Full chapters are expected to be submitted by February 24, 2021, and all interested authors must consult the guidelines for manuscript submissions at https://www.igi-global.com/publish/contributor-resources/before-you-write/ prior to submission. All submitted chapters will be reviewed on a double-blind review basis. Contributors may also be requested to serve as reviewers for this project.

Note: There are no submission or acceptance fees for manuscripts submitted to this book publication, Contemporary Issues in Information and Records Management in the Fourth Industrial Revolution. All manuscripts are accepted based on a double-blind peer review editorial process.

All proposals should be submitted through the eEditorial Discovery® online submission manager.

Publisher
This book is scheduled to be published by IGI Global (formerly Idea Group Inc.), an international academic publisher of the “Information Science Reference” (formerly Idea Group Reference), “Medical Information Science Reference,” “Business Science Reference,” and “Engineering Science Reference” imprints. IGI Global specializes in publishing reference books, scholarly journals, and electronic databases featuring academic research on a variety of innovative topic areas including, but not limited to, education, social science, medicine and healthcare, business and management, information science and technology, engineering, public administration, library and information science, media and communication studies, and environmental science. For additional information regarding the publisher, please visit https://www.igi-global.com. This publication is anticipated to be released in 2021.

Important Dates
December 12, 2020: Proposal Submission Deadline
December 26, 2020: Notification of Acceptance
February 24, 2021: Full Chapter Submission
April 9, 2021: Review Results Returned
May 21, 2021: Final Acceptance Notification
June 4, 2021: Final Chapter Submission

Inquiries
Josiline Chigwada Bindura University of Science Education josyphiri@gmail.com +263733782906 Godfrey Tsvuura Zimbabwe Open University gtsvuura@gmail.com

Full call and submission

CFP: 9th International Summit of the Book 2020 & WBIMLC 2020 December 9th-11th Bihać, Bosnia & Herzegovina & Online

The 9th International Summit of the Book 2020 welcome papers on any of the topics listed here

WBIMLC 2020 welcome papers on any of the topics listed here 

Papers for both the International Summit of the Book and WBIMLC should be prepared using the WBIMLC template available here and submitted electronically to this email address  wbimlc2019@wbimlc.org

After the second cycle of Peer-Review, selected papers will be published in the International Summit of the Book and the WBIMLC Proceedings Book and in the Peer Reviewed Education for Information (indexed by SCOPUS) ISSN print: 0167-8329; ISSN online: 1875-8649.

Paper Submission: Submissions in any of the following forms are accepted:

  • Full paper to be published in conference proceedings
  • Presentation
  • Round table discussion
  • Poster session
  • Workshops
  • Symposia
  • PechaKucha

Instructions for authors/download: Papers should be written in English, prepared using the WBIMLC template, and submitted electronically to this email address wbimlc2019@wbimlc.org. After the second cycle of peer-review, selected papers will be published in the WBIMLC2020 Proceedings and in the peer-reviewed journal “Education for Information” (indexed by SCOPUS: ISSN print: 0167-8329; ISSN online: 1875-8649). Registration Fees: €300 Early Bird available up to 30th September 2020 (Request invoice) €350 Full fees after 30th September 2020 (Request Invoice) €400 Payment on Arrival The registration fee includes the following:

  • Preparation of the Proceedings
  • Promotional materials
  • Welcome drink
  • Refreshments during the conference
  • Galla Dinner

Important Dates:

  • Abstract Submission Deadline: 16th October 2020
  • Notification of Acceptance/Rejection:  28th October 2020
  • Full Paper Submission Deadline 11th November 2020
  • Dissemination of Final Programme by 30th November 2020
  • Conference dates: 9th-11th December 2020
  • Abstracts and Papers are to be sent to: wbimlc2019@wbimlc.org

Please note: all expenses, including registration for the conference, travel, accommodation etc., are the responsibility of the authors/presenters. No financial support can be provided by the Conference Committee, but a special invitation can be issued to authors.

Call for papers for the Tunnock Essay Prize (Scottish Archives)

We present you today a great opportunity to have your research published in a well-respected journal and receive a prize of £250.

The weather is wonderful and the archives are closed but you may well still be in a position to think about writing up an entry for the Tunnock Essay Prize. Aimed at post graduates and kindly sponsored by Thomas Tunnock Ltd, entries should focus on the use and interpretation of Scottish Archives both within Scotland and further afield.  Submissions should consist of between 4,000 and 6,000 words. Any submission that makes use of archival material to explore historical matters relevant to Scotland will be considered. The winning entry will be awarded a prize of £250 and, subject to peer review, will be eligible for publication in Scottish Archives, the journal of the Scottish Records Association.

The closing date for entries is 1 September 2020.

Further details are available on the SRA website at https://www.scottishrecordsassociation.org/the-tunnock-prize-2020 or email: editorscottisharchives@gmail.com