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Call for Contributions: Email Archiving Symposium

The Email Archives: Building Capacity and Community program is pleased to announce a Call for Contributions for the Email Archiving Symposium. The symposium will take place over the course of three days and online, from June 13 to June 15, 2023. 

Email archives are a valuable source of information and evidence. As more institutions grapple with challenges, and as others realize the full potential of email archives as a resource, age-old questions are being looked at anew.  The goal of the EA Symposium is to highlight the ways that now, more than ever, we can and must fully integrate email preservation and access into archival practice. Whether it’s libraries, archives, museums, government, or corporations, every institution that uses email needs a solution for managing and archiving it.

The symposium will explore the current state of email archiving and reflect on future opportunities for progress. We welcome contributions on all aspects of email archiving including:

  • Discovery and uses of email archives
  • Social and cultural value of email records and collections 
  • Email management and retention policies and practices
  • Technologies for managing email archives
  • Outstanding community needs and future developments
  • Email as a resource for research and scholarship

The deadline for submission is Friday, March 3, 2023. 

For more information about the submission process, please visit https://emailarchivesgrant.library.illinois.edu/email-archiving-symposium/.  

CHRISTOPHER J PROM, PHD (HE/HIS)

Interim Juanita J. and Robert E. Simpson Dean of Libraries and University Librarian (Designate)

CFP: Corporeal Conversations | Conversations Corporelles

CALL FOR PAPERS

CORPOREAL CONVERSATIONS | CONVERSATIONS CORPORELLES

March 10-11, 2023
Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island

Keynote Address:
DR. NORA MARTIN PETERSON
Associate Professor of French Cultural Studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln

“Je suis moi-même la matière de mon livre” announces Michel de Montaigne to the readers of his autobiographical Essais. While initially speaking to the reader, Montaigne would later become a reader himself, critically conversing with his own text in the margins of previous editions. This archive of edits underscores the materiality of a “body” of work as a site and subject of conversation between readers, authors, and critics alike. As a literary experiment in both style and voice, the Essais continue to shape and be shaped by conversations. In this tradition, Equinoxes 2023 seeks to provoke new dialogues around existing corpuses, to think about our relationship to creative works and the archive of criticism that comes with them.

Works of art call out to each other, engaging in conversations that span borders and epochs. From the circulation of written works within salon culture to the power of images to capture a movement, how might we understand our interactions with media and each other as conversations centered around and facilitated by bodies? Bodies continue to be a site of political struggle, from the policing of race, gender, and reproduction to the increasing awareness of our own environmental entanglements. What might we learn from listening to and/or reading bodies, in their various material representations? Papers may address the following topics: the construction of a corpus, the relationship between text and criticism, issues of voice, how bodies speak for themselves, the legibility of a body as racialized, gendered, and/or disabled, the afterlife of a work of art, the legacy of creative traditions, the construction of archives, and texts as living documents. Finally, how might our own interventions be understood as corporeal conversations in their own right?

As an interdisciplinary conference, Equinoxes encourages submission from a variety of fields, including but not limited to literature, philosophy, history, ethnography, anthropology, media studies, disability studies, sociology, art history, religious studies, Women’s and Gender Studies, and political science, provided that the presentation relate to French or Francophone studies.

We welcome papers related (but not limited) to the following topics:

● Bodies of work

● Theories of the corpus and canonicity

● Posthumous publishing

● Editorial processes

● Archive(s)

● Palimpsests

● Criticism of theory and praxis

● The works of Michel de Montaigne

● Autobiography / Autofiction / Autotheory

● Networks of communication and writing

● Written or recorded conversations

● Voices and the voiceless

● Survival, testimony and inheritance

● Death, mourning and remains

● Embodiment

● The sensing body

● Body and voice

● Body language

● Disability

● Gendered bodies / (Wo)man and the body

● Corporeal Feminism

● Women’s writing / écriture féminine

● Rhetoric and Speech Acts

● Worldbuilding / Worlds from words

Graduate students who wish to participate in the conference should submit an abstract of no more than 250 words, along with a short bio. Abstracts must be sent, as attachments, to equinoxes-conference@brown.edu before January 15, 2023. Emails should include the author’s name, institutional affiliation, and contact information. Presentations, whether in English or in French, should not exceed 20 minutes.

APPEL A CONTRIBUTIONS

CORPOREAL CONVERSATIONS | CONVERSATIONS CORPORELLES

10–11 mars 2023
Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island

Conférencière principale :
DR. NORA MARTIN PETERSON
Maître de conférences en Études Culturelles Françaises à l’Université du Nebraska-Lincoln

“Je suis moi-même la matière de mon livre” annonce Michel de Montaigne dans son ouvrage autobiographique, les Essais. S’il s’adresse tout d’abord à son lecteur, Montaigne en deviendra un lui-même par la suite, conversant de manière critique avec son propre texte dans les marges de ses éditions antérieures. Ces archives d’apports et d’ajouts soulignent la matérialité d’un “corps” relatif à l’œuvre en tant que site et sujet de conversation pour lecteurs, auteurs et critiques. En tant qu’expérience littéraire, tant au niveau du style que de la voix, les Essais continuent de façonner et d’être façonnés par les conversations qui s’y rapportent. C’est dans l’esprit de cette tradition qu’Équinoxes 2023 cherche à initier de nouveaux dialogues autour de ces corp(u)s existants et inviter à la réflexion vis-à-vis de notre rapport aux œuvres créatives de même qu’aux archives de la critique qui les accompagnent.

Les œuvres d’art s’interpellent entre elles, invitant des conversations qui dépassent les frontières et transcendent les époques. De la circulation d’œuvres écrites dans le contexte de salons littéraires au pouvoir qu’ont les images de capturer un mouvement, comment comprendre nos interactions avec nous-même, les autres et les médias sous formes de conversations qui soient à la fois centrées sur le(s) corp(s) et facilitées par ce(s) dernier(s) ? Les corps continuent d’être le théâtre de luttes politiques, qu’il s’agisse de régulations autoritaires encadrant les questions de race, de genre et de reproduction, ou bien la prise de conscience accrue de nos enchevêtrements environnementaux. Que pouvons-nous apprendre en écoutant et/ou en lisant des corps, dans le cadre de leurs diverses représentations matérielles ?

Nous encourageons les communications à traiter des sujets suivants : la construction d’un corpus, la relation entre texte et critique, les questions de voix, les corps qui parlent pour et par eux-mêmes, la lisibilité d’un corps racisé, sexué et/ou handicapé, la postérité d’œuvres d’art, l’héritage de traditions créatives, la construction d’archives, et les textes en tant que documents vivants. Enfin, comment comprendre nos propres interventions en tant que conversations corporelles à part entière ?

S’inscrivant dans des contextes français ou francophones, les propositions de communication peuvent, sans forcément s’y limiter, appartenir aux domaines d’études suivants : la littérature, la philosophie, l’histoire, l’ethnographie, l’anthropologie, les études de médias, les études sur les questions liées au handicap, la sociologie, l’histoire de l’art, les études religieuses, les études de genre et de théories queer et féministes, et les sciences politiques.

Nous accueillons les propositions de communication liées, sans y être strictement limitées, aux thèmes suivants :

● Le(s) Corps de texte(s)

● Les théories de corpus et de canons

● Publications posthumes

● Processus éditoriaux

● Archive(s)

● Palimpsestes

● Critique de la théorie et de la praxis

● Les oeuvres de Michel de Montaigne

● Autobiographie / Autofiction / Autothéorie

● Les réseaux de communications et d’écritures

● Conversations écrites ou enregistrées

● La voix et les sans-voix

● Survie(s), témoignage(s) et héritage(s)

● La mort, le deuil et les dépouilles

● Incarnations

● Le corps sensible

● Le corps et la voix

● Le langage corporel

● Le handicap

● Les corps genrés

● Féminisme corporel et qui prend corps

● Écriture des femmes et écriture féminine

● Rhétorique et actes de paroles

● Les mondes fait de mots

Tout.e doctorant.e souhaitant participer à la conférence est invité.e à envoyer un résumé de 250 mots maximum accompagnés d’une brève notice bio-bibliographique en pièce jointe à equinoxes-conference@brown.edu avant le 15 janvier 2023. Chaque proposition de candidature doit inclure : le nom de l’auteur.e, l’affiliation institutionnelle, et une adresse email. Les communications, en français ou en anglais, seront limitées à 20 minutes par personne.

Contact Info:

Brown University

French and Francophone Studies Department

equinoxes-conference@brown.edu

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

CFP: AERI

The School of Library & Information Science (SLIS) at Louisiana State University (LSU) is proud to host the fifteenth annual Archival Education and Research Institute (AERI), the first to be held in-person and in-hybrid formats since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. AERI will be held from June 19 through 23, 2023 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, on the LSU campus.

We invite proposals for contributions that fit within AERI’s goals. These could include short papers (15 minutes), panels (1.5 hours, with 3 or more speakers), pedagogical, curricular, methodological, and technological workshops (half day or full day), posters, works in progress, or lighting talks (students only). Proposals should include an abstract of between 300 and 500 words, plus a short biographical note about the presenter(s). For panels or group activities, each participant should submit a proposal with the same title and abstract. Since this is a working institute, all participants, with the exception of students who are about to commence their studies, are expected to contribute in some way to the working meeting. This might be in a variety of roles including, but not limited to presenters, instructors, mentors, chairs, and AERI initiative leaders.

AERI 2023 will accept a limited number of virtual presentations in order to create participation options for those who cannot attend the Institute in person. Due to the significant labor and costs involved in offering a fully hybrid conference, virtual options will be limited to those who can present synchronously. AERI 2023 will provide live and recorded access to all plenaries and one track of presentations per day.

Complete your application here.

Timeline for Applications

December 16, 2022 – CFP opens for applications
February 3, 2023 – Deadline for submissions
March 3, 2023 – Applicants notified of admission/registration open
May 1, 2023 – Registration deadline
June 19-23, 2023 – AERI

Frequently Asked Questions

How much will AERI 2023 cost?

The registration rates will be finalized and provided within the acceptance notice in March. The current draft rate ranges are $550-$650 (USD) for non-students and $350-$450 (USD) for students. The rates will include housing and several meals. The final rates may be lower due to sponsorships and other outside funding.

Do all co-presenters need to submit an application/proposal?

Yes, we are collecting contact information, a personal statement, and a data release for each presenter in this process.

I cannot travel to LSU for AERI 2023, can I still participate?

AERI 2023 will accept a limited number of virtual presentations in order to create participation options for those who cannot attend the Institute in person. Due to the significant labor and costs involved in offering a fully hybrid conference, virtual options will be limited to those who can present synchronously. AERI 2023 will provide live and recorded access to all plenaries and one track of presentations on per day.

For more information, please contact:

Dr. Edward Benoit, III
Associate Director & Associate Professor
ebenoit@lsu.edu

Seeking Presenters for Digital Records & Collection Management Webinar

The Collection Management Section will be hosting a webinar this spring on the theme of digital records and collection management, and we are actively seeking presenters!

Do you have clever workflows for managing electronic (or hybrid) records and collections? What information are you tracking, and what tools are you using? What are some of the challenges or hurdles that you’ve encountered in implementing a system for managing electronic records? How do you distinguish between born-digital and digitized records (or do you)? How do you distinguish between donor-digitized materials and originals in a collection management system? If any of this sounds like something you are excited to present about, we would love to hear from you!

We are looking for speakers to share their experience in a 10-15 minute virtual presentation planned tentatively for March or April, date TBD based on presenters’ availability. We would love to have diverse presenters and institutions represented: speakers from small institutions, HBCUs, and community archives are encouraged to apply. 

If you’re interested in presenting, please send a brief proposal to Rita Johnston at ritajohnston@miami.edu by January 31st. Please feel free to email with any questions!

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Jane Gorjevsky
Head of Collections Management
Columbia University Rare Book and Manuscript Library
jg2138@columbia.edu

CFP: Visual Resources Association

The VRA invites you to submit proposals for papers, sessions, special interest/user groups, and workshops for the 2021 Conference program.

The VRA’s 2021 Annual Conference will be held in Chicago, IL from Tuesday, March 23th through Friday, March 26th, 2021 at the Westin, Michigan Avenue. We are exploring hybrid (in-person and online) conference options, so please consider ways you could present materials to both physical and virtual audiences.

About the VRA:

We are a multidisciplinary organization dedicated to furthering research and education in the field of image asset management within the educational, cultural heritage, and commercial environments. For more information on VRA: http://vraweb.org/.

Presenting at the VRA Conference provides you with the opportunity to see how your ideas, research, work, and passion connect to those of other dedicated professionals while building networks and friendships in an open, collaborative environment.

Presentation Types:

  • Individual Paper- A paper is an individual idea submission, which will be reviewed for possible grouping into a session. Your ideas, whether they come to us alone or in a group, are equally valued in the Board’s proposal and selection process.
  • Session – A session is typically a 60-minute moderated panel with 3 presenters, speaking for 15 to 18 minutes, followed by a brief facilitated question and answer period. If you feel your session topic requires more time, consider dividing it into two sessions, consisting of a Part I and a Part II.
  • SIG/SUG- A special interest/user group is a 60-minute informal, community -driven, facilitated group discussion on topics related to a specific segment of the VRA membership.
  • Workshop- A workshop is a 2, 4, or 8-hour workshop to develop skills and experience in the field of visual resources with hands-on activities.

All proposals are welcome, and if you have other conference ideas or suggestions that do not fit the conference proposal form, please reach out to the Vice President for Conference Program, Sara Schumacher at vpcp@vraweb.org.

To Apply:

The deadline for submissions is Monday, July 27, 2020. Program submissions received after this date will not be considered for the 2021 conference.

Preview the Paper, Sessions, Special Interest/User Groups Submission Form. Preview the Workshop Submission Form.

Submit your proposal here: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/cfpvra2021.

All speakers/presenters must register for the conference and may register under the Conference Speaker rate for the full conference (same as member rate) or under the one-day rate. Speakers/Presenters may apply for Travel Awards through the VRA Travel Awards Committee or through select VRA Chapters.

Suggested topics:

  • Challenges and Lessons Learned from Remote
    • The Workplace, Institutional Transitions, Personnel Issues
    • Copyright & IP in Education and Beyond
    • Teaching & Research Needs, Visual Literacy
    • Equity, Ethics, Privacy, Advocacy
  • Metadata
    • Best Practices and Standards (VRA Core 4, CCO, etc.)
    • Critical Cataloging, Alt-Text, Rights Statements, Geolocation Data
    • Crowdsourcing
  • Managing Collections
    • Digital Asset Management, Digital and Institutional Repositories
    • Preservation, Planning for Collections Growth
  • Outreach and Instruction
    • Instruction using Materials, Special, and Digital Visual Collections
    • Accessibility, Universal Design, Open Educational Resources, Online Exhibitions, Social Media
  • Emerging Technologies and Applications
    • 3D Photography Imaging and Digitization, Audio and Video Editing
    • Coding, GIS, IIF, Omeka S, Story Maps
    • Digital Humanities/Scholarship Tools, Projects, Research Processes

Sara Schumacher
Vice President for Conference Program
VRA, http://vraweb.org/
Architecture Image Librarian
Architecture Library
Texas Tech University Libraries
sara.schumacher@ttu.edu
806.834.1245
Pronouns: she, her, hers

New/Recent Publications

 

Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture: Archives on Fire: Artifacts & Works, Communities & Fields

Archives and Creation: New Perspectives on Archives. This workbook reports on the work carried out during the third stage (2015-2016) of the project “Archives and creation: new perspectives on archival science.”

Teaching and Learning in Virtual Environments: Archives, Museums, and Libraries, by Patricia C. Franks, Lori A. Bell, and Rhonda B. Trueman.

A Matter of Life and Death: A Critical Examination of the Role of Official Records and Archives in Supporting the Agency of the Forcibly Displaced, by Anne J. Gilliland.

Framing Collaboration: Archives, IRs, and General Collections, by Amy Cooper Cary, Michelle Sweetser, Scott Mandernack, and Tara Baillargeon.

https://mla.hcommons.org/deposits/item/mla:1023/

Digital Heritage. Progress in Cultural Heritage: Documentation, Preservation, and Protection, 6th International Conference, EuroMed 2016, Nicosia, Cyprus, October 31 – November 5, 2016, Proceedings, Part II, Editors: Ioannides, M., Fink, E., Moropoulou, A., Hagedorn-Saupe, M., Fresa, A., Liestøl, G., Rajcic, V., Grussenmeyer, P.

Developing a Primary Source Lab Series: A Collaboration Between Special Collections and Subject Collections Librarians, Adam Rosenkranz, Gale Burrow, and Lisa L. Crane.

A Modern Look At The Banco De’ Medici: Governance And Accountability Systems In Europe’s First Bank Group, by Marco Fazzini, Luigi Fici, Alessandro Montrone, and Simone Terzani.

Archives, memory and colonial resistance in the work of the Portuguese filmmakers Margarida Cardoso and Filipa César, by Antonio Marcio Da Silva.

Sailing into Metrics: Rethinking and Implementing Metrics and Assessment in Archives, by Amy C. Schindler.

Practical Digital Curation Skills for Archivists in the 21st Century, presentation by Myeong Lee, Mary Kendig, Richard Marciano, and Greg Jansen.

Memory hole or right to delist? Implications of the right to be forgotten on web archiving, by Melanie Dulong de Rosnay, Andrés Guadamuz.

What are we talking about when we talk about sustainability of digital archives, repositories and libraries? by Kristin R. Eschenfelder, Kalpana Shankar, Rachel Williams, Allison Lanham, Dorothea Salo, and Mei Zhang.

Mapping the UK information workforce in the library, archives, records, information management, knowledge management and related professions, by Hazel Hall and Robert Raeside.

The retrieval of moving images at spanish film archives: the oversight of content analysis, by Rubén Domínguez-Delgado and María-Ángeles López Hernández.

NEH Support for Archives and Cultural Heritage, presentation by Jesse Johnston.

Walking with the Archives: Mapping Newfoundland Identity through Ghost Stories and Folklore, a thesis by Andrea Johnston.

Oral History Sources as Learning Materials: A Case Study of the National University of Science and Technology, by Gugulethu Shamaine Nkala, Rodreck David.

The Case of the Awgwan: Considering Ethics of Digitization and Access for Archives,
Peterson Brink, Mary Ellen Ducey, and Elizabeth Lorang