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CFP: Avec Attention: Archives, Archivistes, et Sociétés/ “With Attention: Archives, Archivists, and Societies”

French

Nous vous invi­tons à pren­dre connais­sance de l’appel dans sa glo­ba­lité et des moda­li­tés de réponse en le télé­char­geant.

Les axes de com­mu­ni­ca­tion

1) Quelle place pour les archi­ves dans une économie de l’atten­tion ?
Axe 1.1 : La pro­duc­tion des don­nées et les stra­té­gies qui s’y atta­chent : com­ment assu­rer nos mis­sions afin de docu­men­ter les déci­sions publi­ques et poli­ti­ques qui tou­chent les popu­la­tions ?
Axe 1.2 : Les poli­ti­ques de numé­ri­sa­tion mas­sive et la sura­bon­dance des res­sour­ces acces­si­bles en ligne : quels effets sur l’accès, la recher­che, et sur les pra­ti­ques pro­fes­sion­nel­les ?
Axe 1.3 : Quels modè­les à venir pour l’accès aux don­nées et aux docu­ments numé­ri­sés ?

2) Comment favo­ri­ser l’atten­tion aux archi­ves, quel­les curio­si­tés encou­ra­ger et de la part de qui ?
Axe 2.1 : Les nou­veaux espa­ces de l’atten­tion aux publics
Axe 2.2 : Les nou­veaux dis­po­si­tifs d’atten­tion aux publics
Axe 2.3 : Quelle atten­tion conjointe aux archi­ves ? Quel rôle des archi­vis­tes : média­teur ou pres­crip­teur ?
Axe 2.4 : Archives, droits humains et enjeux de société
Axe 2.5 : Archives et curio­si­tés
Axe 2.6 : Archives et expé­rien­ces esthé­ti­ques

3) Comment l’atten­tion rené­go­cie-t-elle les mis­sions des archi­vis­tes ?
Axe 3.1 : Dans les poli­ti­ques de col­lecte
Axe 3.2 : Dans les poli­ti­ques de clas­se­ment
Axe 3.3 : Dans le déve­lop­pe­ment de poli­ti­ques de conser­va­tion pré­ven­tive conver­gen­tes avec les enjeux envi­ron­ne­men­taux

4) Quels archi­vis­tes pour quel­les atten­tions ?
Axe 4.1 : Quelle(s) iden­tité(s) pro­fes­sion­nel­les(s) pour les archi­vis­tes ?
Axe 4.2 : Quelle éthique et déon­to­lo­gie pour les archi­vis­tes ?
Axe 4.3 : Quelles for­ma­tions et par­cours pro­fes­sion­nels ?
Axe 4.4 : Quel envi­ron­ne­ment pour les archi­vis­tes
Axe 4.5 : Quelle capa­cité avons-nous à col­la­bo­rer, à coo­pé­rer au niveau local, natio­nal et inter­na­tio­nal ?
Axe 4.6 : Comment main­te­nir une dis­po­ni­bi­lité au monde ambiant, com­ment lais­ser œuvre émotions et sen­sa­tions. Existe-t-il un archi­viste flâ­neur ?

Cet appel à communication est ouvert jusqu’au 30 septembre 2024 inclus.

English

We invite you to read the call in its entirety and the response procedures by downloading it .

The communication axes

1) What place for archives in an attention economy?
Axis 1.1: Data production and the strategies associated with it: how can we carry out our missions in order to document public and political decisions that affect populations?
Axis 1.2: Mass digitization policies and the overabundance of resources accessible online: what effects on access, research, and professional practices?
Axis 1.3: What future models for access to digitized data and documents?

2) How to encourage attention to archives, what curiosities to encourage and from whom?
Axis 2.1: New spaces for attention to the public
Axis 2.2: New systems for attention to the public
Axis 2.3: What joint attention to archives? What role for archivists: mediator or prescriber?
Axis 2.4: Archives, human rights and societal issues
Axis 2.5: Archives and curiosities Axis
2.6: Archives and aesthetic experiences

3) How does attention renegotiate the missions of archivists?
Axis 3.1: In collection policies
Axis 3.2: In classification policies Axis
3.3 : In the development of preventive conservation policies convergent with environmental issues

4) Which archivists for which attentions?
Axis 4.1: What professional identity(ies) for archivists?
Axis 4.2: What ethics and professional conduct for archivists?
Axis 4.3: What training and professional paths?
Axis 4.4: What environment for archivists? Axis
4.5: What capacity do we have to collaborate, to cooperate at the local, national and international level? Axis
4.6: How to maintain an availability to the surrounding world, how to let emotions and sensations work. Is there a strolling archivist?

This call for papers is open until September 30, 2024 inclusive.

CF: La Gazette de archives (France)

French

La Gazette des archives est une revue professionnelle scientifique éditée par l’Association des archivistes français (AAF). Découvrez la refonte de la revue à notre webinaire du 25 juin 2024 !

La Gazette des archi­ves est une revue à comité de lec­ture à ambi­tion pro­fes­sion­nelle et aca­dé­mi­que qui pro­meut et contri­bue au déve­lop­pe­ment de la recher­che et de la réflexion en archi­vis­ti­que. Elle s’adresse prio­ri­tai­re­ment aux archi­vis­tes fran­çais et fran­co­pho­nes ainsi qu’à la com­mu­nauté aca­dé­mi­que inter­na­tio­nale des cher­cheurs en archi­vis­ti­que ou qui mènent une réflexion sur des aspects tou­chant à la ges­tion des archi­ves et à leur contexte de pro­duc­tion, à leurs usages ou à leur place dans la société (cher­cheurs en his­toire, scien­ces de l’infor­ma­tion, socio­lo­gie, psy­cho­lo­gie, etc.). Elle a pour objec­tif de publier des tra­vaux ori­gi­naux rela­tifs à la théo­rie et à la pra­ti­que archi­vis­ti­que, de favo­ri­ser le dia­lo­gue entre les dis­ci­pli­nes, entre les champs pro­fes­sion­nels et de contri­buer à la cir­cu­la­tion des connais­san­ces sur les archi­ves à tra­vers le monde.

Participez à notre webi­naire le 25 juin 2024 pour en savoir plus !

Comment écrire dans La Gazette des archi­ves ?

La Gazette des archi­ves publie des numé­ros thé­ma­ti­ques et des varias. Pour les numé­ros thé­ma­ti­ques, un appel à contri­bu­tions est dif­fusé sur la page Internet de la revue et sur les réseaux. Les contri­bu­tions non thé­ma­ti­ques sont accep­tées au fil de l’eau.

La revue com­prend plu­sieurs rubri­ques :
–  Article ori­gi­nal : publi­ca­tion ori­gi­nale pré­sen­tant un propos argu­menté, démon­tré et étayé par une ana­lyse de la lit­té­ra­ture et des sour­ces (archi­ves, enquête…), sus­cep­ti­ble de faire avan­cer la recher­che ou la réflexion sur les archi­ves
–  Pistes et pers­pec­ti­ves : arti­cle qui peut adop­ter un ton plus spé­cu­la­tif et expri­mer une réflexion nova­trice sur la théo­rie ou la pra­ti­que archi­vis­ti­que. Il est recom­mandé de pren­dre contact avec le comité de rédac­tion
au préa­la­ble
–  Entretien : entre­tien inédit avec une per­son­na­lité, pré­sen­tant un apport pour la théo­rie ou la pra­ti­que archi­vis­ti­que
–  Étude de cas : retour d’expé­rience ana­ly­ti­que sur un projet ou une acti­vité qui pré­sente un carac­tère ori­gi­nal et apporte une réflexion sur la pra­ti­que archi­vis­ti­que
–  Compte rendu : compte rendu pro­blé­ma­tisé d’un ouvrage ou d’un événement scien­ti­fi­que qui pré­sente des réflexions archi­vis­ti­ques

La revue accepte des contri­bu­tions en langue fran­çaise. Pour une contri­bu­tion en langue étrangère, il convient de contac­ter au préa­la­ble le comité de rédac­tion.

Les arti­cles ne sont pas rému­né­rés. Les auteurs signent une auto­ri­sa­tion de publi­ca­tion et sont tenus de res­pec­ter le format d’édition : uti­li­sa­tion d’une charte éditoriale et d’un modèle de texte com­mu­ni­qués par la rédac­tion et dis­po­ni­bles ci-des­sous. De même, vous y trou­ve­rez un manuel d’écriture inclu­sive à consul­ter libre­ment.

English

La Gazette des archives is a professional scientific journal published by the Association of French Archivists (AAF). Discover the redesign of the journal at our webinar on June 25, 2024!

La Gazette des archives is a peer-reviewed journal with professional and academic ambitions that promotes and contributes to the development of research and reflection in archives. It is primarily aimed at French and French-speaking archivists as well as the international academic community of researchers in archives or who are thinking about aspects relating to the management of archives and their production context, their uses or their place in society (researchers in history, information sciences, sociology, psychology, etc.). Its objective is to publish original work relating to archival theory and practice, to foster dialogue between disciplines, between professional fields and to contribute to the circulation of knowledge on archives throughout the world.

Join our webinar on June 25, 2024 to learn more!

How to write in the Archives Gazette  ?

The Gazette des archives publishes thematic issues and miscellaneous issues. For thematic issues, a call for contributions is published on the journal’s website and on social networks. Non-thematic contributions are accepted on an ongoing basis.

The magazine includes several sections:
–  Original article : original publication presenting a reasoned argument, demonstrated and supported by an analysis of literature and sources (archives, survey, etc.), likely to advance research or reflection on archives
–  Tracks and perspectives : an article that may adopt a more speculative tone and express innovative thinking on archival theory or practice. It is recommended to contact the editorial board in
advance
–  Interview : unpublished interview with a personality, presenting a contribution to archival theory or practice
–  Case study : analytical feedback on a project or activity which presents an original character and provides a reflection on archival practice
–  Report : problematized report of a work or a scientific event which presents archival reflections

The journal accepts contributions in French. For a contribution in a foreign language, please contact the editorial board in advance.

The articles are not remunerated. The authors sign a publication authorization and are required to respect the publishing format: use of an editorial charter and a text model communicated by the editorial staff and available below. Likewise, you will find an inclusive writing manual to consult freely.

CFP: Studies in Oral History (Australia)

Studies in Oral History, Issue No. 47

Editors: Skye Krichauff and Carolyn Collins

The Power of Oral History – Risks, Rewards & Possibilities

Peer-Reviewed Articles

Contributions are invited from Australia and overseas for the peer-reviewed articles section of the 2025 issue of Studies in Oral History, the journal of Oral History Australia (OHA).

Oral history can be powerful in so many ways: interviews generate potent emotions, recordings capture the power of voice as well as the power of silence, and multimedia productions engage and connect new audiences with the complexities of the past.

Fundamentally, oral history transforms the historical archive and challenges mainstream histories. It can shift traditional power dynamics, bring forth new voices and perspectives, reshape policies and politics, and shake up old certainties.

Yet these possibilities come with risk as well as reward – recording sensitive subjects is never easy. Creating an oral history production takes time, skill and care, and sometimes goes wrong. Imaginative re-uses of oral history recordings can raise ethical and legal complexities. And oral histories that disrupt accepted narratives can generate pain and conflict in families, communities and nations.

We invite papers that employ or interrogate oral history methodologies and illuminate aspects of the risks, rewards and possibilities of oral history. Contributions across the following themes are suggested (although not mandatory):

  • Indigenous oral histories and oral traditions
  • Oral history, culture and language
  • Interpreting memory in oral history
  • Transgressing boundaries with oral history
  • Documenting diverse voices with oral history
  • Histories of protest, activism and rights
  • Contested memories and histories
  • Oral histories of working lives and social class
  • Migrant and refugee history
  • Gender and oral history
  • LGBTIQA+ oral histories
  • Ethical issues in oral history
  • Technology and oral history
  • Archiving and oral history
  • Oral histories of family, community or place
  • Creative uses of oral history recordings
  • Oral history in galleries, libraries and museums

As all articles are subject to anonymous peer review, pleasure ensure your submission contains no identifying material. Articles submitted to the Oral History Australia Editorial Board for peer review will first be assessed for suitability by the Editorial Board. Please consult the Guidelines for Contributors, the Peer review FAQ and Journal Style Guide for further information.

Word Limits and Deadlines

To be considered for peer review, articles should be no more than 8,000 words, including references. Publication of the issue is anticipated in late 2025.

The submission deadline for articles for peer review is 17 January 2025.

Submission

Send submissions to: Dr Alexandra Dellios, Chair, Oral History Australia Editorial Board, email editorialboard.journal@oralhistoryaustralia.org.au.

Reports

Submissions are also invited for the reports section of the 2025 issue of Studies in Oral History. Reports may describe oral history projects conducted by museum curators, heritage professionals, consulting historians, community historians, academic historians and more. Projects may have resulted in public outcomes such as websites, exhibitions, podcasts, theses, articles or books. Please note the reports section is not peer-reviewed; notes from the field, updates on exciting new work, or reflections on the process and/or outcomes of oral history projects are encouraged. Reports which relate to the issue theme are welcome but not mandatory.

Word limit: 1,500 words.

Deadline for report submissions: Monday 30 April 2025.

Please send reports to our Reports Editor Alexandra Mountain:  reports.journal@oralhistoryaustralia.org.au

Please note that while the reports are not peer-reviewed, we cannot accept all reports for publication and accepted reports will need to be edited for length, clarity and adherence to the Style Guide. Reports will be selected on the basis of quality of writing, the diversity of oral history perspectives showcased across the reports section and relevance to the special issue theme. Please consult the Guidelines for Contributors and Style Guide for further information.

CFP: Historic House Museums: Nordic Perspectives

The anthology Historic House Museums: Nordic Perspectives (tentative title) presents a broad range of perspectives on historic house museums in the Nordic countries – Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Greenland, Faroe Islands, and Iceland. The book sheds light on how the Nordic countries understand, define, preserve, exhibit, manage, and communicate about our historic house museums. This includes house museums in the broadest sense of the word – from farmhouses, manor houses, artist homes, bunker museums, open air museums, and other types of historic buildings that have been preserved, and where people have lived for shorter or longer periods of time.

Much of the current literature on historic house museums comes from the US or the UK, where many efforts have been made to create overviews, categories, and definitions that clarify a typology for historic house museums and how historic house museums can be understood.

In our anthology, we want to contribute to this literature by presenting perspectives on historic house museums from the Nordic countries, where our unique cultures, history, and climate come into play. In some ways, the Nordic countries are very different from one another, but in other ways we are closely connected, not least through political history, language, culture, and to some extent – climate. This anthology will present perspectives from the Nordic countries regarding the most pressing issues, challenges, and potentials related to historic house museums in this region of the world. This includes perspectives on preservation and conservation, organisational perspectives, interpretation, collections, dissemination and visitor communication, community and identity, material or immaterial heritage, and not least more general discussions of how historic house museums are defined, categorised, and understood in the different Nordic countries.

The anthology targets museum staff, researchers, and academic students who work within the fields of museums & cultural heritage. It aims at giving Nordic house museums and Nordic house museum researchers a voice in international discussions about the definitions and value of this unique category of museums.

More about the call and the topics: https://museologi.au.dk/publikationer/call-for-papers

We ask authors to submit article proposals of between ½ and 2 pages.

The submission date is October 1st, 2024

Information about submissions can also be found at this link:

https://museologi.au.dk/publikationer/call-for-papers

Contact Information
Project manager, Mia Falch Yates
Department of Art History & Museology, Aarhus University
Contact Email: my@cc.au.dk

URL: https://museologi.au.dk/publikationer/call-for-papers

Attachments

Call for Papers. Pdf

CFP: Tandanya-Adelaide Declaration Symposium 2024

We are pleased to announce the call for papers for the Tandanya-Adelaide Declaration Symposium 2024, which will take place during this year’s conference on 24 October 2024 at the Te Pae Convention Centre, Ōtautahi | Christchurch, Aotearoa. Join us on the lands of the Ngāi Tahu to reflect on and discuss the implementation of the Tandanya-Adelaide Declaration.

The Tandanya-Adelaide Declaration (the Declaration) is a milestone document that was launched by the International Council of Archives (ICA) and the National Archives of Australia (NAA) on 25 October 2019. The Declaration called on the jurisdictional archives of the world to acknowledge and adopt themes and commitments of the declaration for immediate action. 

The Tandanya-Adelaide Declaration Symposium will provide opportunities to critically reflect on the Declaration, both as a statement of purpose but also as a guide to practical action. The event is an opportunity to hear from and connect with First Nations community members, GLAM practitioners and allies on work undertaken to implement the Tandanya-Adelaide Declaration. 

Themes

The Symposium Programming Committee invites community, organisational and institutional perspectives on the use of the Declaration. Participants are encouraged to share the ways in which they have been utilising the Declaration in their work and activities. The day aims to focus on discussing existing projects and invites critical conversations on gaps and needed improvements. 

The Symposium Programming Committee will give preference to lightning talks that align with the Tandanya-Adelaide Declaration’s five themes:

  1. Knowledge authorities
  2. Property and ownership
  3. Recognition and identity
  4. Research and access
  5. Self-determination

Important Dates

Submission Deadline: Monday 22 July 2024, midnight (AEST)

Submission

You can find full details and how to submit your abstract here.

Questions? Contact the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Special Interest Group

Symposium Programming Committee: Indigenous Archives Collective and ASA Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Special Interest Group

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 Papers: Forgotten Journalists: Lived experiences and professional identities in the past

Various Belgian partners organise in June 2025 an international academic conference on the lived experiences and professional identities of forgotten journalists. The deadline to submit an abstract is 30 August 2024. 

The conference aims to reconstruct the careers and lived experiences of a mass of anonymous news workers. Three groups of forgotten media professionals stand out (amongst others): war correspondents and foreign correspondents, female journalists, and those who founded and shaped professional journalists’ associations and trade unions behind the scenes. Thanks to the ever-increasing amount of digitised historical news media, the digitisation of genealogical sources and the growing access to the archives of professional journalists, the lives and works of forgotten journalists have become easier to trace. By focusing on lived experiences and professional identities from a historical and decentered perspective, we want to make visible those whose work has been underestimated, or whose journalistic (or partly journalistic) careers have been neglected. 

All information can be found in the attached CfP. 

Contact Information

Liberas

Kramersplein 23

9000 Ghent

Belgium

christoph.despiegeleer@liberas.eu

Contact Email

christoph.despiegeleer@liberas.eu

URL https://www.liberas.eu/call-for-papers-colloquium-forgotten-journalists-2025/

Attachments

Full Call for Papers

CfP: Artefacts XXIX: New Digital Practice for Science and Technology Collections | Science Museum Research Centre, London

Artefacts XXIX, 2024: New Digital Practice for Science and Technology Collections / Congruence Engine End of Project Conference

The Artefacts Consortium is an international network of museum professionals and scholars of the history of science, technology, and medicine who promote the use of objects in research. Annual Artefacts meetings, each organised under a pertinent theme, provide a collegial venue to gather to discuss exciting work being done with collections in museums and universities across the globe.

Call for Papers

How are digital techniques changing museum practice: for objects, for museum workers, for audiences? With digital approaches: Is it becoming easier for the objects and documents within collections to be found, researched and displayed? Is the texture of day-to-day museum practice changing? Are visitors and researchers enabled to have new kinds of experience in museums or online, or use collections in new ways?

This year’s Artefacts conference will be held October 13th-16th at the Science Museum Research Centre, London, back-to-back with the final conference of the Museum’s Congruence Engine digital collections-linking research project.

Artefacts

For the traditional Sunday-Tuesday Artefacts conference days, we are inviting contributions on the theme of new digital practice in science and technology museums. We are looking for contributions (papers, panels, demonstrations, etc) that reveal the ways in which science museums internationally are embracing the affordances of new digital techniques. For example:

• Collections as data

• Uses of machine learning (ML) and other artificial intelligence (AI) techniques with

catalogue data

• Online complements to exhibitions

• Novel uses of new media -visual or sonic – in exhibition and gallery contexts

• Virtual- and augmented-reality techniques

• Digital means to enable access to reserve collections

• How museum work is changing because of digital techniques

• Histories of electronic, digital and new media practice in museums

Please submit an outline of up to 300 words per individual paper or up to 1000 words for whole sessions by 1st June to: research@sciencemuseum.ac.uk We plan to send acceptances no later than mid-August.

Congruence Engine

Tuesday 15th and Wednesday 16th will be the associated Congruence Engineend of project conference, which is primarily to report the research, findings and recommendations from the project. This exciting major three-year project, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council under its Towards a National Collection funding stream has been experimenting with using machine learning and other computational techniques to link collections of all kinds for the sake of better curation of science collections and to ease historical work using those collections for historians of all kinds. Themes will include:

• The ‘social machine’ approach to creating linked industrial collections.

• AI and machine learning for data enhancement and collections linkage

• Taxonomies, thesauruses and ontologies for linking collections.

• Spatial and geospatial approaches to collections linkage

• Narrative sources and collections linkage

• Responsible and ethical digital collections research

• New historiographies and new curatorial practices

The conference will also see the launch of the Science Museum Group’s Digital Research Cluster; plenary sessions will address some of the broader issues and opportunities of the current digital moment.

Attendees are warmly encouraged to attend both sides of the conference.

Organisers: Tim Boon, Nayomi Kasthuri Arachchi, Max Long, Arran Rees, Nina Webb-Bourne

Contact Information

Tim Boon, Nayomi Kasthuri Arachchi, Max Long, Arran Rees, Nina Webb-Bourne

Contact Email

research@sciencemuseum.ac.uk

URL

https://www.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/sites/default/files/2024-04/Artefacts%20X…

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

Imago Mundi journal at the International Conference on the History of Cartography, July 2024

Date: July 1, 2024 – July 5, 2024

Location: France

The editors of Imago Mundi are looking forward to attending ICHC 2024 in Lyon, France. Imago Mundi turns 90 years old in 2025 and ICHC 2024 offers us a chance to reflect on and connect with our community. They are eager to speak with researchers about prospective submissions, as well as to discuss the journal’s scope and reach. 

The editors will lead a workshop on Wednesday, 3 July. Attendees will tackle questions that include how, in the next decade, Imago Mundi might:

  • foster debate on methodological and conceptual questions, advance pedagogy, increase public impact?  
  • ensure a full range of maps and mapmaking practices are presented? 
  • contribute to connecting researchers, collectors, librarians and archivists? 

In short, we invite the map history community’s thoughts on what a flagship journal should strive for as it looks towards a second century.

Additionally, the editors will be available for discussions and one-on-ones during the lunch session each day during the conference. Please feel free to approach Jordana Dym or Katie Parker at the ICHC to chat about possible article topics, how to write an article, special issues, or other matters. Alternatively, reach out ahead of time to plan a time. 

Questions? Please contact editor.imagomundi@gmail.com. We will see you in Lyon and remember, early bird registration ends April 20! Learn more at https://ichc2024.univ-lyon3.fr/registration  

Contact Information

Katie Parker and Jordana Dym, editors

Contact Email

editor.imagomundi@gmail.com