CFP: 2009 National Streams of Language, Memory, and Lifeways Conference for Tribal Archives, Libraries and Museums

CFP: 2009 National Streams of Language, Memory, and Lifeways Conference for Tribal Archives, Libraries and Museums

October 19-22, 2009
Portland Oregon

URL: http://www.tribalconference.org/conf09/call.html

I am pleased to inform you that we are now accepting Call for Proposal applications for the 2009 National Streams of Language, Memory, and Lifeways Conference for Tribal Archives, Libraries and Museums to be held in Portland, Oregon October 19-22, 2009. Please visit the www.tribalconference.org website to view the application. There are two ways to submit a proposal. You may either submit an online application through the conference website or download the application and mail a hard copy to:

MaryAnn Campbell, Tribal Conference Programs Co-Chair
Oregon Historical Society
1200 SW Park Avenue
Portland, Oregon 97205

Deadlines for submissions are:
Keynote Proposal applications is February 2, 2009
Pre-Conference & Conference Sessions is February 28, 2009

To briefly update you the 2009 Streams Conference Planning Committee and I are working hard to make this a meaningful and affordable conference for everyone to attend. In the very near future we will have a Scholarship Application available with deadlines posted for those who could not afford to attend otherwise. In addition, we are hopeful to be able to offer continuing education credits which will be included in the registration process. As soon as this information is ready for distribution I will be in contact with you again. I look forward to meeting you in Portland!


Malissa Minthorn Winks
2009 Streams Conference Director
Collections & Research Manager
Tamástslikt Cultural Institute
Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation
72789 Hwy 331
Pendleton, OR 97801
(541)966-1908


This conference is funded by a Laura Bush Librarians for the 21st Century Grant through the Institute of Museum and Library Services, sponsored by the Western Council of State Libraries, and hosted by the Oregon State Library & Tamástslikt Cultural Institute of the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation.

CFP: Society of Ohio Archivists (SOA) 2009 Annual Meeting

CFP: Society of Ohio Archivists (SOA) 2009 Annual Meeting

Call for Proposals: 2009 SOA Annual Meeting
"Archival Access & Accessibility: Tradition & Technology"
May 20-22, 2009 in Columbus, Ohio
Proposal Deadline: Monday, February 2, 2009

URL: http://www.ohiohistory.org/ohiojunction/soa/index.html

The Society of Ohio Archivists (SOA) invites proposals for presentations for its annual meeting "Archival Access & Accessibility: Tradition & Technology" to be held May 20-22, 2009 at the Ohio Historical Society in Columbus, Ohio. The Program Committee seeks proposals related to
improving access to archival materials. Proposals from graduate students and allied professionals are welcome. Sessions run 75 minutes. Panel discussions or other formats are acceptable. Graduate students are also encouraged to participate in poster sessions.

To submit a proposal, please send the session title, an abstract, and the name, contact information, and brief biography of the presenter/s.

Proposal deadline is Monday, February 2, 2009.

Submit proposals & questions to:
Emily Lockhart
Archives Associate Senior
Archival Services
The University of Akron
Akron, OH 44325-1702
erlockh@uakron.edu
Phone: 330-972-7832
Fax: 330-972-6170

CFP: Libraries, Archives, and Museums (Popular Culture Association and American Culture Association Meeting 2009)

CFP: Libraries, Archives, and Museums (Popular Culture Association and American Culture Association Meeting 2009)

Libraries, Archives, Museums, and Popular Culture Area
http://www.pcaaca.org/areas/libraries.php

The Popular Culture Association and American Culture Association annual conference will be held April 8-11, 2009, at the New Orleans Marriott in New Orleans, Louisiana. Scholars from numerous disciplines will meet to share their Popular Culture research and interests.

The Libraries, Archives, Museums, and Popular Culture area is soliciting papers dealing with any aspect of Popular Culture as it pertains to libraries, archives, museums, or research. In the past this has included descriptions of research collections or exhibits, studies of popular images of libraries or librarians, analyses of web resources such as Wikipedia and YouTube, and reports on developments in technical services for collecting popular culture materials.

Papers from graduate students are welcome.

Prospective presenters should send a one-page abstract with full contact information (electronic preferred) by November 30 2008, to:

Allen Ellis
Professor of Library Services
W. Frank Steely Library
Northern Kentucky University
Highland Heights, KY 41099-6101
USA
859-572-5527
FAX: 859-572-5390
E-Mail: ellisa@nku.edu


For more information, see the conference website at http://www.pcaaca.org

CFP: Society of Southwest Archivists Annual Meeting

CFP: Society of Southwest Archivists Annual Meeting

Shreveport, Louisiana
May 20-23, 2009
The deadline for session proposals is: Monday, December 1, 2008.

Plans are well underway for the Society of Southwest Archivist’s 2009 Annual Meeting in Shreveport, Louisiana. Laura McLemore and her enthusiastic Local Arrangements Committee are planning an exciting meeting revolving around the theme, Into the Future Full Steam Ahead! Attendees at the Shreveport meeting will experience lots of Southern hospitality peppered with local culture – art, music, film, and architecture.

The 2009 SSA Program Committee invites your proposals for program sessions. Full proposals are encouraged. Sessions are scheduled for 90 minutes and typically include three papers though panel discussions or other formats are also welcome. For proposals, include title and brief description of the session; titles and brief descriptions of each paper; names of session organizer and each presenter including affiliation; address, email address and phone numbers for all. Also include audio-visual equipment needs for the session, and whether or not session presenters will provide their own equipment. Individual papers may also be submitted with complete information included in the proposal. The committee may form sessions based on individual papers submitted.

The deadline for session proposals is: Monday, December 1, 2008.

Early proposals are encouraged.

Please submit all proposals online through the SSA website:

Call for Papers (electronic version): http://southwestarchivists.org/HTML/Program.htm
Session Proposal Form: http://southwestarchivists.org/HTML/cfp09.htm

Need ideas?
-Moving image archives
-Music/sound collections
-Architectural collections management (including CAD)
-Cartographic collections
-Collaborative projects
-Collections security/high profile
-thefts/forgeries
-Copyright
-Difficult/controversial collections
-Digital collections/management/
-projects/preservation
-Fundraising successes (other than grants)
-Minimal processing implementation
-Outreach
-Planning new facilities

Questions?
Brenda S. McClurkin, CA
Chair, 2009 SSA Program Committee
The University of Texas at Arlington
mcclurkin@uta.edu
phone: (817) 272-7512 fax: (817) 272-3360

CFP: Library and Archival Security (Peer Reviewed Journal)

CFP: Library and Archival Security (Peer Reviewed Journal)

Peer-reviewed and refereed, Library and Archival Security publishes papers on all aspects of security in libraries, archives, and other information centers, including physical security; data and communications security; relevant legislation; disaster preparedness and recovery; and studies of related social, legal, and ethical issues. The journal publishes research papers, case studies, and book and software reviews on anything which can adversely affect the delivery of services to their intended audiences. Papers of an historical nature are currently being sought, along with ones about disaster preparedness and recovery, and attendant legal issues. Library & Archival Security also contains research reports and case studies.

Intended for scholars and practitioners in the fields of library and archival science concerned with the security and availability of traditional and digital collections, Library & Archival Security
contains articles of theoretical and practical importance, on such topics as:

theft detection and prevention
related inventory methods
security systems and equipment
incidents involving public behavior and safety in libraries
challenges posed by digital collections and the Internet
the security, integrity, and confidentiality of electronic records,
networks, and communications, library Internet sites, and local library
automation systems
the legal and ethical implications of library record keeping

Instructions for authors are available at
http://www.haworthpressinc.com/store/product.asp?sku=J114

For additional information, please contact the editor,

Christopher Brown-Syed,
cbrownsyed@cogeco.ca
skype: cbrownsyed

ACRL invites applications for the position of editor of Rare Books & Manuscripts (RBM)

ACRL invites applications for the position of editor of Rare Books & Manuscripts (RBM)

ACRL invites applications and nominations for the position of editor of Rare Books & Manuscripts (RBM), the biannual, scholarly research journal of the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL). The editor is appointed for a three-year term, which may be renewed for an additional three years. Applicants must be a member of ALA and ACRL.

Qualifications include professional experience in academic libraries, a record of scholarly publication, editing experience, an ability to meet publication deadlines, an understanding of the scholarly communication process, and a broad knowledge of the issues confronting academic libraries.

Appointment will be made by the ACRL Board of Directors at the 2008 Annual Conference upon the recommendation of the search committee and of the ACRL Publications Committee. The incoming editor will assume full responsibility upon appointment in July 2008.

Nominations or resumes and letters of application, including the names of three references, should be sent to:

RBM Search Committee
c/o Dawn Mueller
ACRL
50 East Huron Street
Chicago, IL 60611
dmueller@ala.org


The deadline for receipt of applications is March 28, 2008.
Finalists will be interviewed at the ALA Annual Conference, Anaheim, 2008.

CFP: Web 2.0/History 2.0: Making History Together

CFP: Web 2.0/History 2.0: Making History Together

Web 2.0/History 2.0: Making History Together
The American Association for History and Computing (AAHC)
2008 Annual Conference
Access via Internet
April 20-22, 2008
Deadline: February 28, 2008

"The central principle behind the success of the giants born in the Web 1.0 era who have survived to lead the Web 2.0 era appears to be this, that they have embraced the power of the web to harness collective intelligence." -Tim O'Reilly, 2005

Join the American Association for History and Computing for an online exploration of the ways that technology is pushing the boundaries of the Web and the ways history is being presented. This conference will be of interest to anyone who is charged with bringing history to life - both online and in the academic and public worlds' such as archivists, librarians, historic preservationists, IT professionals, filmmakers, and academic historians. The conference will explore questions such as:

-What does Web 2.0 History involve?
-How does Web 2.0 History differ from Web 1.0 History?
-What does it enable us to do that could not be done in Web 1.0?
-What are the implications of Web 2.0 History for teaching and research?
-What are the positive and negative aspects of Web 2.0 History?

This online conference goes beyond theory into the realm of practice. It intends to highlight efforts to build history initiatives using the Web. The goal of this conference is to emphasize both practical and theoretical applications of Web 2.0. Web 2.0 enables the quick application and sharing of ideas; therefore, proposals that build something new or create new collaborations out of existing programs (i.e. "mashing-up") are especially encouraged.

Suggested topics for proposals include (but are not limited to):

-"Viral" history
-Open source programs used to interpret history
-Tagging and history
-Wikis and history
-Blogs and history
-RSS and history
-Data ownership: databases and history analysis
-Mapping history (Google-based documentation)
-Podcasting and history
-Digital video (such as YouTube) and history
-Virtual worlds (such as Second Life) and history

If you are an historian (academic, public, secondary education, graduate student) or engage history through a related discipline (librarian, archivist, publisher, editor, etc.), you are invited to submit your panel or single presentation proposals.

All presenters must be current members of the AAHC. For more information about membership, please visit our website at http://www.theaahc.org.

Proposals for complete panels should include a chair. All proposals must include a 200-word abstract for each paper, along with a brief vita for each participant. Please be sure to indicate which member of the panel will serve as the contact person for future correspondence. Please include name, address, telephone number, and email address for each participant.

The deadline for proposal submissions is February 28, 2008. Electronic submissions are encouraged.

Please direct submissions and inquiries to either:
Aaron Marcavitch
President, AAHC
Email: marcavitch@comcast.net

Or

Jillian Hinegardner
Phone: 440-449-5478
Email: jhinegardner@ursuline.edu

Call for papers - Provenance: The Journal of Public Record Office Victoria

Call for papers - Provenance: The Journal of Public Record Office Victoria

'Provenance' is the free scholarly journal of Public Record Office Victoria (PROV), the Victorian state archives. 'Provenance' features peer-reviewed articles, and other contributions, that present reseach drawing upon records in PROV custody.
Call for Papers for issue no. 8 - due 31 March 2008

The most recent issue of the journal is issue no. 7 (September 2007), which is available at:

And contains the following contributions:

* Lee-Ann Monk presents a case study of reports of patient abuse at Kew Asylum;

* Valerie Lovejoy examines the lives of Chinese miners on the Bendigo goldfield from 1854-1865;

* Cate Elkner reports on the digitisation of a truly unique record from PROV's collection - a 4.5 x 6 metre map of Victoria;

* Jan Croggon explains how Sovereign Hill historians have used public records to re-create the goldfields town;

and others

If you are interested in submitting an article for future issues or would like to receive an email reminder when each issue is published online, please contact the Editor, Sebastian Gurciullo by phone on (03) 9348 5600; or email

Regards

Sebastian Gurciullo
Editor, 'Provenance'

Dr Sebastian Gurciullo
Editor, Provenance: The Journal of Public Record Office Victoria
Public Record Office Victoria
North Melbourne Victoria 3051
Email: sebastian.gurciullo@prov.vic.gov.au
Visit the website at http://www.prov.vic.gov.au/provenance

Call for Papers: 2008 Virginia Forum

Call for Papers: 2008 Virginia Forum
Location: Fresericksburg, Virginia, United States
Conference Date: April 11-12, 2008
Deadline: September 28, 2007

The third Virginia Forum will convene at the University of Mary Washington, in Fredericksburg, on April 11-12, 2008. The Virginia Forum offers an opportunity for exchanges of ideas among scholars, teachers, archivists, librarians, museum curators, and all those interested in Virginia history, environment, and culture. The Virginia Forum welcomes proposals for presentations on all topics in Virginia history, but the centennial of the founding of UMW in 1908 offers a special opportunity for reconsidering themes related to the history of education and learning in Virginia. [To be clear, submissions on all aspects of Virginia history are encouraged.] The committee welcomes proposals for individual papers or complete panel sessions, panel discussions, workshops, poster sessions, or electronic/multimedia presentations.

Send a one-page proposal, along with a one-page vita of the presenter(s) to the chair of the program committee, Dr. Anthony Parent, Department of History, Wake Forest University at parentas@wfu.edu.

Proposal Deadline: September 28, 2007.

Dr. Anthony Parent
Department of History
Wake Forest University

Email: parentas@wfu.edu
Visit the website at http://virginiaforum.org/cfp.html

CFP: Association of Jewish Libraries - Jewish Libraries: Tradition, Text & Technology

CFP: Association of Jewish Libraries - Jewish Libraries: Tradition, Text & Technology

Conference Dates: June 22-25, 2008
Conference Location: Cleveland, Ohio
Call Deadline: November 1, 2007
URL: http://www.jewishlibraries.org/ajlweb/index.htm

Association of Jewish Libraries
Conference Announcement and Call for Papers

The Association of Jewish Libraries, Inc. will hold its 43rd annual convention at the Cleveland

Marriott East in suburban Cleveland on June 22-25, 2008. Librarians, archivists, and scholars from numerous disciplines will meet to share their interest in Judaica librarianship and related areas.

AJL is soliciting papers dealing with any aspect of Judaica librarianship or scholarship as it pertains to libraries, archives, museums, schools, synagogues, and related institutions. Typically, this has included workshops, panel discussions, and presentations about literature and other resources, programming, reader advisory services, special collections, technical services, library administration, materials selection, collection development, cataloging and classification of Judaic materials, digital and electronic resources, and local Jewish history. Papers should be both educational and interesting.

Those wishing to participate in poster sessions are also invited to submit proposals.

Prospective presenters should submit an abstract by Nov. 1, 2007. The abstract should include the title of the presentation, a one-paragraph summary, the presenter's name, address, phone number, email address, institution, and a 25 word bio. If the presentation requires audio-visual equipment, please indicate the type of equipment that will be needed.

Send abstracts to Linda Silver:

3729 Meadowbrook Blvd.
University Heights, OH 44118
silverlr@adelphia.net

CFP: How To Do Things with Letters (Modernist Studies Association)

CFP: How To Do Things with Letters (Modernist Studies Association)

Modernist Studies Association, 9th Annual Conference
1-4 November 2007 / Long Beach CA

“How To Do Things with Letters”

This panel seeks proposals on Modernist letter writing. Possible subjects include the personal correspondence of writers, how it enabled careers, travel and relocation, as well as community
formation; travel writing in epistolary form; letters and imperialism; the little magazines’ dependence on epistolary networks for subscriptions and submissions both solicited and not; “London” and “Paris” letters in American literary magazines; letters-to-editors; letters between writers and their publishers; letters between writers who met infrequently or not at all; epistolary novels; epistolarity and impressionism; temporality and letters; correspondence recycled into poems, novels, memoirs, biographies; and the editing and reception of published letters. A wide net is cast here because this field of study remains quite unorganized.

Please send proposals of 250-500 words and brief (no more than one page) CVs to Logan Esdale (esdale@chapman.edu), Assistant Professor at Chapman University (Orange CA), by 22 April 2007.

CFP: Archive Trouble - Society for Textual Scholarshop program at Modern Langugage Association

CFP: Archive Trouble - Society for Textual Scholarshop program at Modern Langugage Association

The Society for Textual Scholarship (www.textual.org) is organizing the following panel at the 2007 MLA Convention in Chicago:

ARCHIVE TROUBLE
The archive (broadly conceived, specifically rendered) as a site of loss, overspill, forgery, chaos, and anxiety -- in any period -- and the consequences for scholarship, editing, cultural practice, and textual theory. Email proposals to Andrew Stauffer (astauff@bu.edu) by March 6.

Andrew Stauffer
Department of English
Boston University

CFP: International Cultural Heritage Informatics Meetings

CFP: International Cultural Heritage Informatics Meetings
October 24-26, 2007
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
http://www.archimuse.com/ichim07/

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: DEADLINE APRIL 30, 2007

The bi-annual International Cultural Heritage Informatics Meetings (ICHIM) have --since 1991-- explored cultural heritage informatics on a global scale, with a strong focus on policy,
infrastructure and economic issues. They are attended by senior cultural, governmental,
academic and publishing professionals, including library, archives and museum directors and
managers, and cultural policy advocates and analysts.

You are invited to participate in the 2007 edition of the International Cultural Heritage
Informatics Meetings. Topics of interest include:

Heritage Information & Society
* Policy
* Law
* Economics and Funding
* Convergence of Institutions

Technologically Mediated Heritage
* Resources
* Public Programs
* Services
* Collaborations

Cultural Knowledge
* Acquisition
* Retrieval
* Preservation

Digital Heritage
* Digital Art
* Representations
* Delivery methods
* Evaluation

Organizational Policy
* Best Practices
* Impacts
* Innovations

Cultural Heritage Information Systems
* Research
* Prototypes and Models
* Innovative Design
* Applications
* Architectures
* Networks

Education and Infrastructures
* Cultural & Linguistic Diversity
* Educating Cultural Heritage Informatics Professionals

Session Formats
ICHIM meetings include formal papers, round table discussions, seminars, workshops, project
briefings and demonstrations. Those interested in participating are encouraged to describe what they wish to convey and to whom; if accepted, the Program Committee will suggest an appropriate delivery format.

Deadline for Proposals: April 30, 2007.
Submit your proposal using our on-line form. See
http://www.archimuse.com/ichim07/

ICHIM07 Program Committee
Co-Chairs: David Bearman and Jennifer Trant, Archives & Museum Informatics
* Maxwell Anderson, Indianapolis Museum of Art, USA
* David Arnold, University of Brighton, UK
* Liam Bannon, University of Limerick, Ireland
* Jean François Chougnet, Berardo Museum of Contemporary Art, Portugal
* Susan Chun, Metropolitan Museum of Art, USA
* Costis Dallas, Panteion University, and PRC Group SA, Greece
* David Dawson, MLA, UK
* Wendy Duff, University of Toronto, Canada
* Franca Garzotto, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
* Kati Geber, Canadian Heritage information Network, Canada
* Margaret Hedstrom, University of Michigan, USA
* Harald Kraemer, Universitry of Bern, Switzerland
* Ottmar Moritsch, Technisches Museum Wien, Austria
* Xavier Perrot, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, France
* Peter Sigmond, Rijksmuseum, The Netherlands
* Jane Sledge, National Museum of the American Indian, USA
* Kevin Sumption, Powerhouse Museum, Australia
* Nicole Vallières, McCord Museum, Canada
* Christabel Wright, Dept of Communications, IT and Arts, Australia

To learn more about ICHIM, see past papers on-line at
http://www.archimuse.com/conferences/ichim.html

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J. Trant jtrant@archimuse.com
Partner & Principal Consultant phone: +1 416 691 2516
Archives & Museum Informatics fax: +1 416 352 6025
158 Lee Ave, Toronto
Ontario M4E 2P3 Canada http://www.archimuse.com
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CFP: Second Annual Postal History Symposium Transportation Technology and the Mail

CFP: Second Annual Postal History Symposium Transportation Technology and the Mail Location: Pennsylvania, United States
Call for Papers Date: June 1, 2007

The Second Annual Postal History Symposium --- Transportation Technology and the Mail
Sponsored by the Smithsonian National Postal Museum, American Philatelic Society and the American Philatelic Research Library
October 21 22, 2007

American Philatelic Center Bellefonte, Pennsylvania
Through the application of new technologies, the postal service and transportation industries have encouraged mutual growth and development. The Postal History Symposium provides a forum in which philatelists, academic scholars, public historians and the public discuss and present research integrating philately and postal history in the broader context of American history.

The conference will open Sunday evening October 21, with a reception and plenary panel titled Further, Farther, Faster: Transporting the Mail. Fifteen miles from State College, Pennsylvania, the American Philatelic Center is home to the 43,000-member American Philatelic Society and the American Philatelic Research Library.

Proposals for symposium papers may be submitted either as individual papers or in panels. Papers outside the transportation theme will be considered. Posters should emphasize using visual elements to tell a story, and will be displayed throughout the conference. Deadline for proposals is June 1, 2007.

One-page proposals for papers and posters should be accompanied by a one-page curriculum vita with contact information (e-mail, phone, and address). For possible themes and technical specifications, please visit http://www.stamps.org/news/P1525.htm

Please e-mail complete proposals to symposium@stamps.org.
Notification of accepted papers will be issued in mid July.
Conference papers will be posted on the American Philatelic Society website and will be considered for possible publication.

David Straight
West Campus Librarian
Washington University
Campus Box 1061
One Brookings Drive
St. Louis, MO 63130-4899
Phone: (314)935-5465
Email: dls@wustl.edu
Visit the website at http://www.stamps.org/news/P1525.htm

An Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference on The Archive of the Future/The Future of the Archive

An Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference on The Archive of the Future/The Future of the Archive

April 6-7, 2007
Rochester, NY

In his essay Valery Proust Museum, Adorno associates museums with death rationalized, pointing at how a modernized form forces a chronological order onto the objects. This imposition, as he describes it, is partially a function of the physical layout of the archival space. In the digital age, however, archives no longer need necessarily be housed physically, nor must they abide by
chronological schema. Our present question concerns the future of the archive and what the archive of the future might look like or accomplish. Does the digitization of the archive give us an opportunity to rethink the archival project in terms of how the archive, its access and selection, has effects on knowledge, authority, and subjectivities?

Addressing the archive as an abstract concept, a concrete object, and a practice, we would like to consider theoretical explorations as well as projects focusing on libraries, museums, collections, collectors, the technical difficulties of archiving, standards or difficulties of preservation, and other theoretical, technical, or topical investigations.

Topics of interest can include but are by no means limited to:
-Legality, authority, or dissemination of archives
-Structures of the digital environment or how interfaces affect the archival enterprise
-Digitization and dynamics of globalization, imperialism, local movements
-Distinctions between public and private spaces Anonymity, erotics of encounter, role playing, and new or temporary subjectivities formed in contributing to or observing digital archives
-Archived memory in life-writing (autobiography, letters, journals, blogs, etc.)
-Archives, access, and the aura94 of a work
-The role of manuscripts, illuminated or otherwise
-Preservation and transmission of oral or written histories and memory
-Literary variorum
-Questions of old canons, new canons, and the end of the canon

The conference will be held the weekend of April 6th and 7th at the University of Rochester in Rochester, NY and will be hosted by the English Department and the Program in Visual and Cultural Studies, as well as being funded by the Humanities Project. There will be multiple keynote speakers. Previous conference proceedings have been published in (In)Visible Culture. We are seeking interdisciplinary work in various fields, given as 20 minute papers, artist presentations, or other scholarly/professional visual presentations.

Please submit 500 word abstracts, including 5-10 digital images if you are proposing an artist talk or visual presentation, to futureofthearchive@gmail.com by Monday, January 15, 2007.

For information and updates please see: http://www.rochester.edu/College/humanities/projects/?archive

CFP: LIBRARIES DURING THE NAZI PERIOD PROVENANCE RESEARCH AND HISTORY OF LIBRARIES

CFP: LIBRARIES DURING THE NAZI PERIOD PROVENANCE RESEARCH AND HISTORY OF LIBRARIES

March, 26th/27th 2008 in Vienna, Austria
Deadline for submission of abstracts: July, 31st 2007.

The conference “Libraries during the Nazi period” is organized by the Vienna University Library and the Vienna City Library in cooperation with the Association of Austrian Librarians. Taking place four years after the conference “Looting and Restitution in Libraries” in April 2003 at the Vienna City Hall, the focus of the 2008 conference will be on new projects and recent developments. The conference “Libraries during the Nazi period” is inviting papers on book looting, recent provenance research and aspects of the history of libraries during 1933 and 1945.

Topics of interest include:
-Recent developments in provenance research in libraries
-The looting of private and institutional collections between 1933 and 1945
-Aspects of the history of libraries relating to National Socialism (librarians before and during WWII, the politics of libraries, …)
-How libraries and other institutions with book holdings in German-speaking countries and in Central and Eastern Europe approach issues relating to looting and restitution.
-Archives and other sources of information for provenance research (Archival records; databases …)

Accepted papers will be published in conference proceedings. Proposals should be in Word and include a title and a summary of up to 300 words. These abstracts and a curriculum vitae with full contact details should be sent to:

Stefan Alker, Christina Köstner
Projekt Provenienzforschung
Universität Wien, Bibliotheks- und Archivwesen/
Vienna University Library
Dr.-Karl-Lueger-Ring 1, A-1010 Wien
Tel. +43-1-4277-15064
E-Mail: provenienzforschung.ub@univie.ac.at
Website: http://www.ub.univie.ac.at/provenienzforschung/

Christian Mertens
Wienbibliothek im Rathaus/Vienna City Library
Rathaus, A-1082 Wien
Tel. +43-1-4000-84978
E-Mail: christian.mertens@wienbibliothek.at
Website: http://www.wienbibliothek.at/

CFP: MINING MATERIAL CULTURE, 78th Annual Meeting, Southwestern Anthropological Association

CFP: MINING MATERIAL CULTURE, 78th Annual Meeting, Southwestern Anthropological Association

(April 12-15, 2007, Sacramento, CA.)

Deadline for Abstracts: Feb. 15, 2007.
The Southwestern Anthropological Association invites papers, posters, organized sessions and panel discussions that engage with material culture and materiality on substantive and theoretical levels. We particularly seek submissions that mine material culture for its epistemological limits and possibilities; for its embodiment of social and economic relations—both present and past; for its long and exceptional career as a marker of cultural identity and social distinction—generational, gendered, global, national, religious, and occupational; for its critical role in corporate branding, cultural imperialism, consumptive excess; and for its singular ability to express aesthetic and techno-scientific tradition and innovation, future and past—from iPods to IKEA and Clovis points to WMDs (however intangible and elusive).

The 21st century brings new meanings and sensibilities to the very notion of materiality—encouraging us to interrogate the archive as a repository of not simply the letter, the field note, the photograph, the map—but also the corporeal remnants and reflections of the newly fleeting and ephemeral: the digital image made material through the film, print, mapping and coding technologies that organize our everyday lives, from the medical to the mundane—the ultrasound and full body scan to the instant message and hand-held GPS.

We especially invite submissions from our colleagues outside the academy, including museum professionals and cultural resource managers—private, state, federal and tribal—who can speak to the poetics and politics of NAGPRA, repatriation, collections and collectors, archives and museums, heritage preservation and archaeological tourism. Further, we seek, with this year’s theme, to encourage a dialogue about the history of mining, the Gold Rush, and the continuing impact of these activities on indigenous, settler, and new immigrant societies in Northern California, the Sierra Nevada, and beyond.

Deadline for Submissions: February 15, 2007
Conference Venue: Holiday Inn-Capitol Plaza, Sacramento, CA

For more information about SWAA, visit
http://www.sjsu.edu/depts/anthropology/swaa.
Exhibitors, vendors, and presenters should direct queries about the annual meeting to:

Terri Castaneda, Ph.D.
President, Southwestern Anthropological Association
Department of Anthropology
California State University Sacramento,
6000 J. Street, Sacramento, CA 95819-6106.
Phone: 916-278-6067; tac@csus.edu

CFP: MLA 2007, session on Ink in early modern England

CFP: MLA 2007, session on Ink in early modern England

Early modern literature is awash, to quote George Herbert, with 'Oceans of
ink': whether it's Cleopatra calling for 'Ink and paper', or Hamlet's 'inky
cloak', or Westmoreland imagining turning 'your ink to blood', to cite only
well-known instances from Shakespeare. In manuscript miscellanies and
commonplace-books, recipes 'To make excellent Inke' are common: early modern
individuals were aware of ink's constituent parts, and the process of its
production. We invite proposals that consider the role of ink in early
modern English culture. What work did ink perform in early modern literary
texts, as both material and metaphor? What metaphorical associations
surrounded ink? What was the relationship between ink and (im)permanence;
between blotting, staining and corruption; between printer's and writer's
inks; between black and coloured letters; between ink and other liquids? We
particularly welcome papers that use archival research to throw new light on
literary texts.

Please send paper proposals of 400 words to Adam Smyth (a.smyth@rdg.ac.uk)
and Karen Britland (k.r.britland@keele.ac.uk) by 15 February 2007.