Change and Continuity

A Conference for Students and Beginning Professionals on Archives, Rare Books, and Special Collections

Saturday, March 6, 2010

Bloomington, Indiana

Indiana University’s student chapter of the Society of American Archivists is proud to announce our second conference for students and beginning professionals, to be held on Saturday, March 6, 2010 at the Lilly Library in Bloomington, Indiana.

If you are a student in a library science, archives, or rare books program or have entered the profession within the previous three years, we invite you to submit your papers on topics related to archives, rare books, or special collections for presentation at the conference. In addition to paper sessions, the day-long conference will include workshops and a tour of the Lilly Library, Indiana University’s rare books and manuscripts library.

Each paper session will be just under an hour and will include two presenters. Each presenter will have approximately 20 to 25 minutes to speak, and the session will conclude with a ten to fifteen minute period for questions and answers.

To be considered as a presenter, please submit your paper (or, if your paper is not yet complete, an abstract of 150 to 200 words and a working title) to iusaaconference@gmail.com by Friday, January 1, 2010. Along with your paper or abstract, please include your name, email address, institutional affiliation, and any audio/visual needs you may have.

The papers will be discussed and voted on in a blind judging process and you will receive an acceptance or rejection by the middle of January. If you have only submitted an abstract, your acceptance will be conditional. You will be required to submit the completed paper by mid-February to have your acceptance finalized.

If your paper is accepted, you will be sent a more detailed registration form. At this time, you will also be asked to submit a registration fee of $15 to cover your breakfast and lunch. More details about meals, accommodations available in Bloomington, etc. will also be provided at this time.

For more information on our previous conference, please visit http://www.indiana.edu/~saarchiv/gradconference.html, and feel free to send any questions you may have to iusaaconference@gmail.com.

We look forward to receiving your submissions!

Sincerely,

The Conference Committee

Peter J. Wosh
Director, Archives/Public History Program
History Department
New York University
53 Washington Square South
New York NY 10012
Phone: (212) 998-8601
Fax: (212) 995-4017

http://history.fas.nyu.edu/object/history.gradprog.archivespublichistory.html

Call for Graduate Student Poster Presentations

The Program Committee for the Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference (MARAC) Spring 2010 meeting in Wilmington, Delaware, is seeking poster session proposals from graduate students in archives, information studies, or public history programs in the region. Students must be currently enrolled in a graduate program or have graduated no earlier than Fall 2008.
Graduate Student Poster Session
The Graduate Student Poster Session welcomes submissions from individual students and groups of students.
Posters may describe completed or ongoing applied or theoretical research; discuss interesting collections with which students have worked; or report on archives and records projects in which students have participated (e.g., development of finding aids, public outreach, database construction, etc.).
Submissions that focus on research or activity conducted within the previous academic year are particularly encouraged. The committee will select participants based on the quality of proposals. Posters should not exceed 30 inches high by 36 inches wide and should not be mounted or laminated.
The posters for the accepted proposals will be on display during the MARAC conference in Wilmington, Delaware, April 29-May 1, 2010. Poster abstracts will be printed in a program supplement and will appear in the conference schedule on the MARAC Website.
Submission Instructions and Deadlines
Submissions must include the following:

National Council on Public History

2010 Annual Meeting – “Currents of Change” – Portland, OR

Call for Posters

The Poster Session is a format for presentations about projects that use visual evidence. It offers an alternative for presenters eager to share their work through one-on-one discussion, can be especially useful for work-in-progress, and may be a particularly appropriate format where visual or material evidence represents a central component of the project. The Call is open through December 10, 2009. Click here for more information, or visit www.ncph.org.

Awards

We also invite you to make nominations for the 2010 NCPH Awards program. Information about the following awards is listed at http://www.ncph.org/Awards/tabid/279/Default.aspx. Submissions are due December 10, 2009. Awards will be presented at the conference in Portland.

• Outstanding Public History Project – $1,000

• Excellence in Consulting Award – up to two $450 awards

• NCPH Book Award – $1,000

• G. Wesley Johnson TPH Article Award – $750

• Michael C. Robinson Prize for Historical Analysis – $500

• NCPH and HRA New Professional Awards – two $500 travel grants

• Student Project Award – $500 travel grant

• Graduate Student Travel Award – five $300 awards

Be a part of the 2010 NCPH Annual Meeting! Please let us know if you have questions.

For full details, visit http://www.ncph.org

All,

You might be interested in this Call for Papers for the Digital
Humanities annual conference; the theme is cultural heritage, the
conference will be held in London July 7-10 2010, and proposals are due
(rather precipitously) on October 31.

Cheers,

Amanda

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We are pleased to announce the Call for Papers for the Digital
Humanities 2010 Conference.

Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations Digital Humanities 2010
Call for Papers Abstract Deadline: Oct. 31, 2009

Proposals must be submitted electronically using the system which will
be available at the conference web site from October 8th. Presentations
may be any of the following:

•Single papers (abstract max of 1500 words) •
Multiple paper sessions (overview max of 500 words) •
Posters (abstract max of 1500 words)

Call for Papers Announcement

The International Programme Committee invites submissions of abstracts
of between 750 and 1500 words on any aspect of humanities computing,
broadly defined to encompass the common ground between information
technology and problems in humanities research and teaching. We welcome
submissions in all areas of the humanities, particularly
interdisciplinary work. We especially encourage submissions on the
current state of the art in humanities computing, and on recent
developments.

Suitable subjects for proposals include, for example,

* text analysis, corpora, language processing, language learning
* IT in librarianship and documentation
* computer-based research in cultural and historical studies
* computing applications for the arts, architecture and music
* research issues such as: information design and modelling; the
cultural impact of the new media
* the role of digital humanities in academic curricula

The special theme of the 2010 conference is cultural heritage old and new.

The range of topics covered is reflected in the journals of the
associations: Literary and Linguistic Computing (LLC), Oxford University
Press, and the Digital Humanities Quarterly,

http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/

The deadline for submitting paper, session and poster proposals to the
Programme Committee is Oct. 31th, 2009. All submissions will be
refereed. Presenters will be notified of acceptance February 24, 2010.
The electronic submission form will be available at the conference site
from October 8th, 2009 (which will be linked from

http://www.cch.kcl.ac.uk/dh2010/papers/call.html)

Anyone who has previously used the ConfTool system to submit proposals
or reviews or to register for a Digital Humanities conference should use
their existing account rather than setting up a new one.

If anyone has forgotten their user name and/or password please contact
dh2010 at digitalhumanities.org.

See below for full details on submitting proposals.

Proposals for (non-refereed, or vendor) demos and for pre-conference
tutorials and workshops should be made to the local conference organizer
as early as possible.

For more information on the conference in general please visit the
DH2010 web site. http://www.cch.kcl.ac.uk/dh2010/

Types of Proposals

Proposals to the Programme Committee may be of three types: (1) papers,
(2) poster presentations and/or software demonstrations, and (3)
sessions (either three-paper or panel sessions). The type of submission
must be specified in the proposal.

Papers and posters may be given in English, French, German, Italian or
Spanish.

1) Papers Proposals for papers (750-1500 words) should describe
original, unpublished work: preferably completed research with
substantial results, but also the development of significant new
methodologies, or rigorous theoretical or critical discussions.
Individual papers have 20 min. for presentation and 10 for questions.

Proposals concerning new computing methodologies should show how the
methodologies are applied to humanities research, and should critically
assess the application. Those concerning a particular application should
compare earlier traditional and computational approaches and should also
assess the new methodologies. References are naturally required. Those
describing the creation or use of digital resources should follow these
guidelines as far as possible.

2) Poster Presentations and Software Demonstrations Poster sessions
showcase some of the most important and innovative work being done in
humanities computing. Poster presentations may include technology and
project demonstrations. Hence the term poster/demo to refer to different
possible combinations of printed and computer based presentations. There
should be no difference in quality between poster/demo presentations and
papers, and the format for proposals is the same for both. The same
academic standards also apply, but posters/demos may be more suitable
way for late-breaking work, or work in progress. Both will be submitted
to the same refereeing process. The choice between the two modes of
presentation (poster/demo or paper) should depend on the most effective
and informative way of communicating the scientific content of the proposal.

Poster presentations are less formal and more interactive than talks.
Poster presenters can present their work and exchange ideas one-on-one
and in detail with those most deeply interested. Presenters will have
about two square meters of board space for display and may also wish to
provide handouts. Posters remain on display throughout the conference,
and are the sole focus of separate dedicated poster sessions. Additional
times may be available for software or project demonstrations.

As an acknowledgement of the special contribution of the posters to the
conference, the Programme Committee will award a prize for the best poster.

3) Sessions Sessions (90 minutes) take the form of either:

Three papers. The proposal should include a 500-word statement
describing the session topic, include abstracts of 750-1500 words for
each paper, and indicate that each author is willing to participate in
the session. All speakers are required to register for the conference
and to participate in the session. Focused sessions should have added
value when compared to the set of the individual papers.

or

A panel of four to six speakers. The proposal is an abstract of 750-1500
words describing the panel topic, how discussion will be organized, the
names and affiliations of all the speakers, and an indication that each
speaker is willing to participate in the session. All speakers are
required to register for the conference and to participate in the session.

International Programme Committee

Elisabeth Burr Richard Cunningham Jan-Christoph Meister Elli Mylonas
Brent Nelson John Nerbonne (Chair) Bethany Noviskie Jan Rybicki John Walsh

– Digital Humanities 2010 https://secure.digitalhumanities.org/

Dear Professor Wosh,
I am an active member of SAA and actually went to the session you participated in during this last meeting in Austin. Very interesting, indeed! Currently, I am the archivist of the Feminist Theory Papers at Brown University and a PhD student at Simmons. My purpose for writing is to ask if you have any graduate students currently working on issues of race, ethnicity, and diversity in the archives. The work could be focused around access, appraisal, filling in the “gaps,” theory, etc. If you do have such students, could you please have them contact me? We are looking for a possible participant in a winter colloquium entitled, “The Archives: In the Age of ‘Post-Feminism’, ‘Post-Race’, and ‘Post-Theory’. Thank you for your time.
Sincerely,
Amy

Amy Greer
Archivist of the Feminist Theory Papers
The Pembroke Center
Brown University
Box 1958
Providence, RI 02912
(401) 863-6268

Manuscript Librarian
Brown Family Papers
Brown University
(401) 863-2148

Peter J. Wosh
Director, Archives/Public History Program
History Department
New York University
53 Washington Square South
New York NY 10012
Phone: (212) 998-8601
Fax: (212) 995-4017

http://history.fas.nyu.edu/object/history.gradprog.archivespublichistory.html

Check out this URL for a forthcoming conference at McMaster University on “The Archive and Everyday Life” in May 2010. The call for papers has gone out, if you are interested in submitting something:

http://rikowski.wordpress.com/2009/08/29/the-archive-and-everyday-life-conference/

Peter J. Wosh
Director, Archives/Public History Program
History Department
New York University
53 Washington Square South
New York NY 10012
Phone: (212) 998-8601
Fax: (212) 995-4017

http://history.fas.nyu.edu/object/history.gradprog.archivespublichistory.html