CFP: Women in Leadership Conference - Cambridge, Massachusetts - July 16-17, 2025

Women in Leadership Conference - Harvard Faculty Club | July 16-17, 2025

Empower. Inspire. Lead.

Join us at the 2025 Women in Leadership Conference, a prestigious gathering of trailblazing women in higher education. We're seeking dynamic speakers and panelists to illuminate key topics shaping the future of academia.

We're looking for speakers on:

• Leadership & Governance
• AI & Technology's Impact
• Women's Career Advancement
• Creative Fundraising & Finance
• STEM Education & Research
• Multicultural Perspectives & Equity
• Emerging Trends in Higher Education

We are looking for panelists on: 

• The Future of Higher Education: Visions from University Presidents
• Strategic Leadership: Provosts' Role in Shaping Institutional Vision
• Advocacy and Governance: How Deans Influence Policy
• Guiding the Way: Women at the Forefront of State Higher Education Systems
• Women Leading in Non-Traditional Roles: Athletic Directors, ROTC, and Beyond
• Navigating the Shift: From Faculty Expertise to Administrative Leadership
• AI & Education: The Integration of Artificial Intelligence in Academia 
• Financial Acumen: Budgeting and Financial Planning for Higher Ed Leaders
• Engaging Stakeholders: Keeping Faculty, Students, and Donors Informed When It Matters Most
• Transforming Tomorrow: Shaping the Future of STEM Education
• And more!

Share your story:

Whether you have a transformative success story, pioneering strategies, or groundbreaking research, we invite you to submit your proposal. With over 60 panel opportunities available, you can contribute as a speaker, panelist, or both.

Multiple opportunities available:

• Speaker presentations
• Panel discussions (60+ openings!)

How to submit: 

Just use the speaker submission form to submit your proposal (or apply for both!). The early-selection deadline is July 31, 2024.
 

Conference Details

Location: Harvard Faculty Club, Cambridge, Mass. (Google map)
Date: July 16-17, 2025
Audience: Mid-to-senior career higher-ed administrators and faculty 
 

Thanks so much for your support!

Best regards,

Lynn Larkin (she/her/hers)
Women in Leadership 2024 | Oct. 8-9, 2024 | Cambridge, MA
Women in Leadership 2025 | July 16-17, 2025 | Cambridge, MA
Office: 702-900-8651 
Web: https://natdc.org

 

Call for Chapters: From Fargo to Hawkins: Exploring 21st Century Midwestern Culture

From Fargo to Hawkins: Exploring 21st Century Midwestern Culture

Midwestern culture in the 2000-2025 era entered a distinct phase. The ubiquity of the internet, the coming of iphones, the demise of movie rental stores, the collapse of once-powerful urban newspapers, the thinning out of the cinema infrastructure, the fragmentation of media spaces, and the persistence and decline of institutions of regional culture all transformed the Midwest’s media and cultural landscape. Hastings College Press seeks proposals exploring all of these developments and various aspects of Midwestern culture throughout the first quarter-decade of the twenty-first century. Topics could include, but are not limited to, the Omaha-based movies of Alexander Payne, the Golden Age of television or prestige TV (did it pass the Midwest by?), the friction between a postmodern v. a traditional Midwest and the collapse of metanarratives, the creation of new literary journals (and their termination), new literary voices such as J. Ryan Stradal, the rise of new Muslim voices (--that novel set in Indiana, can’t remember at moment), the complexities of Rust Belt identity, Native American media (“Reservation Dogs”)) and writers (David Trauer), Barack Obama’s Kansas and Chicago, the television series “Fargo,” the Indiana of “Stranger Things,” how the Midwest was excluded from the Marvel Universe, Cleveland jokes (on “Thirty Rock” and elsewhere), the rise and exhaustion of trauma plots, essayists like Meghan O’Gieblyn, Roxanne Gay, and Debra Marquart, the emergence of gay rights themes (“Boys Don’t Cry”), Covid battles in the Midwest, Hannah Horvath (Lena Dunham) in Oberlin and Iowa City, the Caitlyn Clark media phenomena, the effective end of Prairie Home Companion, the free speech debate (the University of Chicago statement) as intertwined with CRT and wokeness, the “pretendian” controversy and Native American identity, the weakening of traditional Midwestern masculinity, and the “middle-ness” (or Midwest-ness) of Middle Earth and the Shire in the LOTR trilogy. Please send vita and 300-word proposals to Jon.Lauck@usd.edu, who will edit the collection to be published by Hastings College Press in 2026. Proposal deadline January 1, 2025.

Contact Email - Jon.Lauck@usd.edu
URL - https://sites.google.com/hastings.edu/hastings-college-press/calls-for-proposals

CFP: Ticker: The Academic Business Librarianship Review #OAJournal #BusinessLibrarianship

Hello!

Ticker: The Academic Business Librarianship Review is seeking articles for Volume 10, Issue 1, to be published in the Summer of 2025. This is a great opportunity for librarians interested in doing research in any and all areas related to business librarianship. We are an open access journal committed to promoting the widest possible discussion of original and translational research, evidence-based pieces, case studies, and more. 

Recent peer-reviewed research featured in our journal has included:

• Hartman-Caverly, S., (2022) “ ‘The Da Vinci Code for IP Research’: Case Study of a Course-Integrated Educational Escape Room for Entrepreneurship Education”, Ticker: The Academic Business Librarianship Review 7(1): 2. doi: https://doi.org/10.3998/ticker.2931 
• Hosoi, M., (2021) “Free Lunch? Vendor Offers during COVID-19”, Ticker: The Academic Business Librarianship Review 6(1). doi: https://doi.org/10.3998/ticker.1377
• McCauley, A. et. al, (2020) “Investigation of British Columbia Entrepreneurs' Secondary Market Research Habits and Information Needs”, Ticker: The Academic Business Librarianship Review 5(1). doi: https://doi.org/10.3998/ticker.16481003.0005.107 

If you’re interested in sharing your insights and ideas in a non-peer-reviewed format, we also publish editorials in a number of areas including:

• Teaching and Learning
• Tips
• Business Libraries by Design
• International Outlook 
• Conference Reports; and, 
• Opinions & Thought Pieces

We especially encourage submissions from early career librarians and those interested in supporting a fully open access publication! Peer-review articles will be due October 18, 2024. Editorials will be due January 10, 2025. 

For more information about each section and their requirements, please visit our journal's website: https://journals.publishing.umich.edu/ticker/site/about/.

Please reach out to Ash Faulkner, Editor in Chief with any questions at faulkner.172@osu.edu. 

Best,

Ash Faulkner, Editor in Chief

Kelly LaVoice, Managing Editor

CFP: New “ITAL &” column in Information Technology and Libraries (ITAL)

Information Technology and Libraries Journal (ITAL) is seeking authors for a new column titled “ITAL &”.

The “ITAL &” column is a non-peer-reviewed, featured column that focuses on ways in which the library’s role continues to expand and develop in the information technology landscape. The emphasis will be on emerging ideas and issues, with a particular aim to recruit new-to-the-profession columnists.

Some examples of possible topics include:

AI: How will the rise of artificial intelligence and machine learning change various aspects of librarianship and different types of libraries? How are library professionals working with or fighting against artificial intelligence? Are libraries using generative AI in marketing materials or using large language models to streamline workflows? What cybersecurity implications arise?

General technology review: Looking back at the ten-year range, what are the major changes or improvements in library technologies that have occurred since 2014? What are the current and emerging technologies that enable telecommuting, cloud computing, and hybrid learning in libraries? What are the potential scenarios and implications of library technologies in the next five and ten years, and what are the best practices and strategies to prepare for them? This column could provide a platform to discuss and envision prospective library technologies.

Other topics of interest could include, but are not limited to: disability and accessibility, cybersecurity and privacy, the open movement / open pedagogy, linked data and metadata, digital humanities / digital praxis, digitization efforts, programming and workshops, the overlap between library technology and other library departments (acquisitions, readers advisory, information literacy and instruction, scholarly communications), or other emerging technologies and their implications for library work.

This column is intended to be practitioner-focused, and we will happily entertain submissions from folks who have expertise in libraries and technology but who may not work in a traditional “library” environment or role. We are also happy to work with first-time authors and folks based outside of North America, though columns need to be submitted in English.

Since this is a non-peer-reviewed column, there is also an opportunity to engage in new ways or different formats, so creative submissions will also be considered. (Examples: comics, zines, videos, autoethnography, case studies, white papers, policy documents, interviews, reports, or other things commonly referred to as "grey literature.") If you would like your column to be in a format that differs from a standard editorial essay, please explain in your proposal.

Those who are interested in being an author for this column should submit a brief proposal / abstract that outlines the topic to be covered. Proposals should be no more than 250 words. Please submit your proposals to this Google Form no later than June 30, 2024.

Authors of accepted proposals will be notified by July 8, 2024, with the submission deadline for our quarterly issues on the first of February, May, August, and November. Completed column submissions should be roughly 1500-2000 words.

Please contact column editor Shanna Hollich (shollich@gmail.com) with any questions. Please forward this call to any colleagues who may be interested. Thank you!