Austin, Texas, November 3-6, 2013

The 2013 Digital Library Federation (DLF) Forum is seeking proposals for presentations, panel discussions, workshops, research updates, and hands-on, problem-solving sessions. The Digital Library Federation is a robust and diverse community of practitioners who advance research, teaching, and learning through the application of digital library research, technology, and services. The Forum is a working meeting where DLF members come together to discover better methods of working through sharing and collaboration. It serves as a resource and catalyst for collaboration among digital library developers, project managers, and all who are invested in digital library issues.

Participation is open to all those interested in contributing to and playing an active part in the successful future of digital libraries, museums, and archives services and collections. In that spirit, and to maximize the Forum’s benefit and better facilitate the community’s work, the Forum’s schedule will provide many opportunities to actively engage and network.

For the 2013 DLF Forum, the Program Planning Committee is requesting proposals within the broad framework of digital collections and their effect on libraries, museums and archives services, infrastructure, resources, and organizational priorities. Proposals should strive to contribute to the following topics:
• Digital technology design
• Management and assessment
• Data
• Collaboration

We welcome proposals on these and other areas from current community members and non-members who are interested in joining the DLF community. For more detailed examples, please see the 2012 DLF Forum schedule:  http://www.diglib.org/forums/2012forum/2012-dlf-forum-schedule/.

Session genres include:
• Presentations and Panels
Traditional lecture format with question-and-answer sessions. Speakers are requested to use only half of the allocated time for the presentation, including how they wish to engage the DLF c community in their work. The second half of the session should focus
on conversations about next steps, engagement with the community, and clarification of points raised during the presentation.

• Workshops
In-depth, hands-on training about a tool, technique, workflow, etc. You can recommend a topic or trainer, or you can volunteer to share your own expertise.

• Research Updates
An opportunity for those working in digital collections research to present their preliminary findings for community feedback and discussion.

• Working Sessions
Creative problem solvers, including project managers, developers, and/or administrators, gather to address a specific problem. This does not have to be a computational problem. The approach
can be applied to workflow issues, metadata transformations, or other complex problems that would benefit from a collective, dynamic solution approach.

• Community Idea Exchange
A modified poster session. Presenters will have the opportunity to interact with Forum participants to discuss their current research projects, and/or demonstrate tools or services they have
developed or are using in their digital library environment. Demos must include a poster element.

Proposal Submission Guidelines and Evaluation Procedures
Complete proposals should be submitted using the online submission form (http://www.diglib.org/forums/2013forum/proposals/) by 11:59 PM on June 28, 2013.
Proposals must include a title, session leader, session genre, proposal description (maximum 300 words), and proposal abstract (maximum 100 words).

After an initial review by the Program Planning Committee, all proposals will be posted on the DLF website for community polling. The community vote will be taken into consideration, and the Program Planning Committee will make the final decisions. Those that submitted complete proposals will be notified of their status by August 9, 2013. Presenters will be guaranteed a registration place.

The 2013 DLF Forum will be held in Austin, TX at the AT&T Executive Education and Conference Center, November 3–6, 2013. More information about the 2013 DLF Forum can be found at http://www.diglib.org/forums/2013forum.

Louisa Kwasigroch
Digital Library Federation
Council on Library and Information Resources
lkwasigroch@clir.org www.clir.org | www.diglib.org

After the success of 2012 Women of Appalachia: Sisters in Science conference, the planning committee is moving forward in organizing this year’s conference around the theme of “Sisters in STEM” scheduled on October 17-18, with the possibility of extension to October 19, 2013.

The Keynote
speaker for this year’s conference is Dr. Sharon Denham, Professor of Nursing at Ohio University. Dr. Denham is a renowned and dedicated scientist, nurse scholar and educator leading research and community efforts to promote and advocate for family health in Appalachian Ohio. Over the years she has led and conducted a number of research studies with Appalachian populations about topics related to family health issues including, bereavement, abuse and violence, tobacco use, and family routines. Her current work focuses on diabetes prevention in Appalachia.

We are now calling for proposals/abstract submissions for consideration for the October conference. Proposals can be submitted for paper presentations, full panel presentations, and/or roundtable discussions. Suggested topics might include, but are not limited to “Communicating information to educate about a topic, issue or concept, with focus on not only formal classroom learning, but also community education in and outside the classroom”. This could take the form of (or a combination of) the following categories:

Science, Technology, Engineering and/or Math Education Community Education (environment, health, biodiversity, conservation) Music and/or Visual Arts Education Language Arts Education (poetry, song lyrics, screen plays)

Please submit a 250- to 300-word abstract to Dr. Mawadda Al-Naeeli al-naeel@ohio.edu or Ms. Chris Shaw shaw@ohio.edu by Monday, July 15, 2013. Presentations should run only 20 minutes in length for each presenter.You will be asked to provide your audiovisual needs upon acceptance of your proposal. If you have any questions, email Mawadda or Chris.

Dr. Mawadda Al-Naeeli
Email: al-naeel@ohio.edu
Visit the website at http://www.ohio.edu/zanesville/womenofappalachia/callforpaper.cfm

CALL FOR PAPERS
“They Work Hard for the Money: Gender, Labor, and Livelihood”

An area of multiple panels for the 2013 Film & History Conference on
Making Movie$: The Figure of Money On and Off the Screen November 20-24, 2013
Madison Concourse Hotel (Madison, WI)
www.filmandhistory.org/The2013FilmHistoryConference.php
DEADLINE for abstracts: July 1, 2013

AREA: “They Work Hard for the Money: Gender, Labor, and Livelihood”

Work and the workplace serve as the context and the focus of countless film and television narratives.  In some, who makes money – and how – seems to be taken for granted, while in others it is the central problem.  This area seeks submissions that consider the ways in which money, and the work done to earn it, are – or are not – gendered in cinematic and televisual representations.

On television, comic working-class figures such as Laverne and Shirley, complex crime fighters such as Mary Shannon (In Plain Sight) and Grace Hanadarko (Saving Grace), and post-divorce professionals such as Alicia Florrick (The Good Wife) or Dani Santino (Necessary Roughness) create a robust definition of “working girl.” Those images are reinforced and amplified on the silver screen in Cinderella stories such as Maid in America, family dramas such as Baby Boom, and even action films such as Salt and Mr. and Mrs. Smith.  Do these characters, as wage earners and career women, face challenges and concerns that are different or similar from those of generations past? In what ways does their status as women inform their orientation to work and money?

Similarly, what are the taken-for-granted norms for male workers on the big and small screen?  Do Don Draper of Mad Men and Harvey Spector of Suits respond differently to the pressures to succeed than did their television predecessors in series such as The Dick Van Dyke Show or L.A. Law?  Has the era of the land/oil/big money patriarch passed (Dallas), or is it experiencing a revival?  Is the disaffected working class in television (Movin’ On) and film (Swing Shift) portrayed as predominantly male?  How do cinematic and televisual narratives portray those who earn no money at all (Mr. Mom)?
This area, comprising multiple panels, welcomes proposals on the subject of gender, class, and wealth in films and television programs. Possible topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

•        Rags to Riches (Maid in Manhattan; The Pursuit of Happyness)
•        It’s a Man’s World (Mad Men, Suits,)
•        (Un)equal Partnerships (Mr. and Mrs. Smith; Moonlighting)
•        Patriarchs and Powerbrokers (Dynasty; Dallas; Citizen Kane)
•        The Glass Ceiling (9-to-5, Remington Steele)
•        Gender and the Dissatisfied Worker (Working Girl; Norma Rae; Tootsie)
•        Just Another (Doctor, Executive, Cop, Lawyer) Looking for Love (The Proposal; Saving Grace; Necessary Roughness)
•        She’s Such a B—-: Women On Top (The Devil Wears Prada; Network; Mildred Pierce)

Please send your 200-word proposal by e-mail to the Area Chair by July 1, 2013:

Dr. Laura Mattoon D’Amore, Area Chair
They Work Hard for the Money: Gender, Class and Wealth
Roger Williams University
Email: ldamore@rwu.edu

Proposals for complete panels (three related presentations) are also welcome, but they must include an abstract and contact information, including an e-mail address, for each presenter. For updates and registration information about the upcoming meeting, see the Film & History website (www.uwosh.edu/filmandhistory).

*Only nine days left to book!*

Places for this year’s Digital.Humanities @ Oxford Summer School
are filling up already, so book your place soon! Visit
http://digital.humanities.ox.ac.uk/dhoxss/2013/ for more information.

If you are awaiting the results of local funding and want to to
see whether your chosen workshop is almost full, email
courses@it.ox.ac.uk to find out!

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The Digital.Humanities @ Oxford Summer School (DHOxSS) is an
annual event for anyone working in the Digital Humanities. This
year’s Summer School will be held on 8 – 12 July, at the
University of Oxford. If you are a researcher, project manager,
research assistant, or student of the Humanities, this is an
opportunity for you to learn about the tools and methodology of
digital humanities, and to make contact with others in your
field. You will be introduced to topics spanning from creating,
managing, analysing, modelling, visualizing, to publication of
digital data for the Humanities. Visit
http://digital.humanities.ox.ac.uk/dhoxss/2013/ for more information.

With the DHOxSS’s customisable schedule, you book on one of our
five-day workshops, and supplement this by booking several guest
lectures from experts in their fields.

The main five-day training workshops this year are:

1. Cultural Connections: exchanging knowledge and widening
participation in the Humanities
2. How to do Digital Humanities: Discovery, Analysis and
Collaboration
3. A Humanities Web of Data: publishing, linking and querying on
the semantic web.
4. An Introduction to XML and the Text Encoding Initiative
5. An Introduction to XSLT for Digital Humanists

There are a variety of evening events including a peer-reviewed
poster session to give delegates a chance to demonstrate their
work to the other delegates and speakers. The Thursday evening
sees an elegant drinks reception and three-course banquet at
historic Queen’s College, Oxford! (Well worth it!)

DHOxSS is a collaboration for Digital.Humanities @ Oxford between
the University of Oxford’s IT Services, the Oxford e-Research
Centre (OeRC), the Bodleian Libraries, and The Oxford Research
Centre in the Humanities.

If you have questions, then email us at courses@it.ox.ac.uk for
answers.
More details at: http://digital.humanities.ox.ac.uk/dhoxss/2013/

A Revolutionary Moment:
Women’s Liberation in the late 1960s and early 1970s

March 28-29, 2014 Boston University

Despite its immense achievements, the women’s liberation movement of the late 1960s and early 1970s has been minimally documented in print or on film. In recent years, however, celebrations of the movement’s accomplishments have proliferated and new films have revived interest in this revolutionary period. It seems timely therefore to bring together activists, scholars, artists, writers, and filmmakers to reflect on the movement: its accomplishments in so many domains, its unfinished business, and its relevance to contemporary work that is advancing women. The conference will engage with political, intellectual, artistic, literary, legal, and personal elements of the movement, and especially with the ways in which these elements intertwined and often reinforced each other. Films of and about the movement will be screened and a signature play of the period will be performed. Linda Gordon, University Professor of the Humanities and Florence Kelley Professor of History at New York University, will deliver the conference keynote address.

The organizers invite proposals for individual papers, pre-constituted panels, and non-traditional presentations. Applications from junior scholars and activists are particularly encouraged. Travel allowances will be available to bring to Boston those who could not otherwise participate.

Topics for conference presentations include but are not limited to the following:
• What groups and individuals created the women’s movement of the late 1960s and early 1970s? What were the contributions of radical, working class, rural, African American, and Latina women? Of lesbian and heterosexual women? Of men? At what moments did women work together across boundaries of class, ethnicity, generation, and sexuality and at what moments did they pursue their goals independently?
• What have been the impacts of the movement on the lives of women and men? On the arts and literary work? On political organizing? To what extent were intellectual disciplines transformed by feminist insights, and to what extent have these changes been sustained? How did developments in different disciplines affect and reinforce each other?
• What are the reigning narratives today about the women’s liberation movement, and to what extent do these narratives obscure or illuminate what has been important about the movement? How is the women’s movement of the late 1960s and early 1970s depicted in contemporary scholarly work? In popular culture? By different generations? Which elements of the movement and which movement figures have received the most attention, and which have been overlooked?
• How has more recent theorizing complicated our understandings of the women’s liberation movement and the goals for which it fought? What impact has gender theory, queer theory, and other post-structuralist theory had on the cause of women’s liberation?
• What of the tools and methods of the women’s liberation movement? Is there a role for consciousness-raising groups today?

Proposal deadline: July 1, 2013

For individual 15-minute presentations, please submit an abstract of 500 words. Include a 2-3 sentence biographical statement that includes your institutional or professional affiliation, if any, and your research/artistic/activist interests. For complete panels, please submit a 200-word proposal along with individual paper abstracts with biographical statements for each panelist.

We also welcome alternative presentations by activists, artists, and non-academics, including art installations, performances, workshops, film screenings, and more. Please submit a 500-word proposal providing an explanation of your presentation and a 5-sentence biographical sketch. Include a description of your space and A/V needs.

If you would be unable to travel to Boston without some assistance with travel costs, please note what a necessary travel award would be.

All materials should be sent to conference organizer Deborah Belle, Director of Boston University’s Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies Program, at debbelle@bu.edu. Use “Women’s Liberation Movement Conference” as the subject line in your email. All submissions will be acknowledged by email. For more information, please contact wgs@bu.edu or debbelle@bu.edu.

Deborah Belle
Director of Boston University’s Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies Program
Email: debbelle@bu.edu

Digital Humanities Luxembourg (DHLU) 2013 – Reading historical sources in the digital age

The Centre Virtuel de la Connaissance sur l’Europe (CVCE), together with the Jean Monnet Chair in History of European Integration (University of Luxembourg, FLSHASE) and its research programme ‘Digital Humanities Luxembourg’ — DIHULUX (research unit Identités-Politiques-Sociétés-Espaces (IPSE)) — and the University of Luxembourg’s Master’s in Contemporary European History, are pleased to organise the DHLU Symposium 2013.

After the inaugural DHLU Symposium in 2009 that focused on ‘Contemporary history in the digital age’ and a second edition which tackled the methodological and theoretical implications of considering websites as primary sources (March 2012), this third edition will focus on the use of online thematic research corpora.
Given that more and more sources for contemporary history are being made available online as digital research corpora — as on the CVCE’s site — and following on from the first two editions which examined the methods used to develop these sources, this third edition of Digital Humanities Luxembourg will focus on the various ways in which this material is used by humanities researchers, particularly contemporary historians and more specifically specialists in European integration.
The Symposium will be structured around the following research clusters, but may also include other related approaches:

Distant/close reading — Data retrieval, analysis and visualisation As increasing quantities of historical data are published on the web, the prospect of making simple use of these data — i.e. reading PDFs on screen or printing them out to read on paper — is becoming increasingly less realistic and methodologically sustainable. What options are open to researchers, and what are the concomitant methodological issues? This cluster will cover various themes, including: (big) data, text mining and semantic analysis, quantitative data approaches, network analysis, data visualisation (including GIS), and more generally the links between distant and close readings.

Community reading
Several online digital thematic collections, and more generally many online services available for research, offer users the possibility of registering, and sometimes of working together with other researchers, either directly or indirectly. This can lead to a collaborative and interactive reading of historical sources. Moreover, given the proliferation of these collections, what challenges and opportunities exist for cooperation and interoperability between communities? What consequences will this have on the way we currently conduct research in the humanities?
Writing history & Assessing scholarship
Once researchers begin to use digital thematic collections, will it change the way they write history? This cluster will include practical papers (e.g. on how to cite digital resources) as well as more theoretical ones. It will also embrace issues relating to the validity and quality of data and research outputs based on digital thematic collections, as well as the evaluation of those collections as a new kind of online scholarly publication.

We welcome papers focusing on digital humanities and social sciences from researchers and scholars at all stages of their careers. Papers examining cases related to European integration studies (EIS) are especially encouraged. Abstracts (max. 500 words), submitted together with a short CV (max. 250 words) and a list of publications, can be written in English or French and should be sent to the following contact email address, which can also be used for any enquiries: frederic [point] clavert [at] cvce [point] eu

The authors of the selected proposals will be invited to present their contributions in French or English at the DHLU Symposium 2013, to be held in Luxembourg, and their papers will be published in the Symposium proceedings (only English versions of the revised full papers will be accepted for publication). Participation costs will be covered up to a set limit.

Deadline for proposals: 30 June 2013

Scientific committee
* Claire Clivaz (University of Lausanne)
* René Leboutte (University of Luxembourg)
* Claudine Moulin (Trier University)
* Serge Noiret (European University Institute, Florence)
* Stéfan Sinclair (McGill University)
* Frédéric Clavert (CVCE)

Frédéric Clavert
Centre Virtuel de la Connaissance sur l’Europe
Château de Sanem
Luxembourg
Email: frederic.clavert@cvce.eu
Visit the website at http://www.cvce.eu/c/document_library/get_file?uuid=9442e254-4547-4c27-b4af-d5a4742eef78&groupId=10136

Annual Conference of the Leibniz Graduate School for Cultures of Knowledge in Central European Transnational Contexts in cooperation with the Professorship for Contemporary European History since 1945 at the University Siegen on the 12th and 13th of December, 2013 Venue: The Herder Institute for Historical Research on East Central Europe – Institute of the Leibniz Association, Gisonenweg 5-7, 35037 Marburg
Organisation: Prof. Dr. Claudia Kraft, Prof. Dr. Peter Haslinger, Ina Alber, M.A., Stanislava Kolková, M.A., Kinga Kuligowska, M.A. Deadline: 17 June 2013

Gender history, as well as history of knowledge and science, has been part of the established repertoire of the wide array of historical and cultural research studies in recent years. Yet primarily national perspectives and the focus on either gender or knowledge/science remains predominant. At its annual meeting, the Leibniz Graduate School for Cultures of Knowledge in Central European Transnational Context invites academics to discuss the different aspects of knowledge, science and gender in the perspective of historical research, sociology of knowledge and gender theory. It seems to be especially promising to integrate East Central Europe into the ongoing debates about gender and knowledge production.
According to this approach, our concern is to analyze the process-based production of the categories knowledge and gender, their performative aspects, as well as the relations between them. One must bear in mind that the category of gender must always be seen as an interplay between power and knowledge, and at the same time the category of knowledge must be understood as an interplay between power and gender. This is necessary in order to not only introduce the “women question” into the history of knowledge/science, but also to analyze the complex interdependencies of the categories of knowledge, gender and power, and to think critically about science as well as two-gender hegemony. The institution of science has an important role in this as the production of knowledge about gender manifests itself differently in this institution according to changes in historical context. It is clear that in this process several expert- and knowledge-cultures, known as traveling concepts as well as methods of knowledge transfer within East Central Europe can be reconstructed. The annual conference provides a forum to explore these interdependencies of knowledge and gender creation in historical perspective and to discuss them on the basis of different empirical, methodological and theoretical contributions. The emphasis is on the period between the 18th century and the present day, but contributions from other time periods are also welcome. The geographical focus is on East-Central Europe, comparative perspectives from other geo-political contexts are very welcome.

The invited keynote speakers are:
Prof. Dr. Theresa Wobbe (University of Potsdam)
Prof. Dr. Bożena Chołuj (European University Viadrina, Frankfurt/Oder)

Speakers interested in further thematic sections are invited to submit proposals for a 20-minutes presentation. Possible thematic questions are:
Gender specific cultures of knowledge and knowledge production: o What are the consequences of gender spaces and practices? o How are different kinds of knowledge (professional knowledge, medical knowledge, general knowledge) in different time periods gender-coded and in which ways?
o What role do the categories gender and emotion play in the production of knowledge?
o Through which media and in which ways was knowledge about gender produced in specific historical contexts?
Academic careers and gender:
o How have enrollment restrictions to universities and other centers of knowledge production changed?
o Which gender-specific differences become apparent between natural and social sciences?
o What role does the category gender play in the transfer of knowledge within expert cultures?
o What is the importance of gender-specific migration in the transfer of knowledge and concepts?

Intersectionality of the categories gender, ethnicity, class, religion and knowledge orders in East Central Europe: o How can political movements (emancipation movements, national movements) in East-Central Europe be analyzed from a gender/knowledge specific perspective?
o What connections arise between the categories of gender, knowledge and nation in East-Central Europe?
o What role does religion and denomination play?
o How has the political and labor market status of women and men in different time periods changed, and in doing so what role did the knowledge about gender play?

Papers may be submitted either in English or German; the conference will be bilingual; there will be no simultaneous translation. The organizers suppose that the participants are able to follow the papers in both languages. Travel and accommodation costs for the speakers will be covered. Please send your abstract (maximum of 4,000 characters) as well as a short CV with details of your current research interests and recent publications by the 17th of June, 2013 to Ina Alber (ina.alber@herder-institut.de). A reply message will reach you by the 31st of August, 2013. The selected abstracts will be distributed among the participants.
For further inquiries, please contact the managing director of the Leibniz Graduate School, Ina Alber.

Ina Alber M.A.
Herder Institute for Historical Research on East Central Europe –
Institute of the Leibniz Association
Gisonenweg 5-7, 35037 Marburg, Germany
Tel: +49 6421 184-122
Fax: +49 6421 184-194
www.facebook.com/HerderInstitut

Email: ina.alber@herder-institut.de
Visit the website at http://www.herder-institut.de

CONFERENCE REMINDER

History of Women Religious Conference being held at St Catherine University from June 23-26, 2013.

Scholars from the US, Canada, Australia and Europe will be presenting their latest work.
Scheduled keynote speaker Sr. Florence Deacon, osf, current president of the LCWR.
Registration Form and Complete Program may be found at www.chwr.org For further information please contact, Elizabeth McGahan, program chair at:
emcgahan@nbnet.nb.ca

Elizabeth McGahan
University of New Brunswick – Saint John
PO Box 5050
Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada
506 633 – 2997
Email: emcgahan@nbnet.nb.ca
Visit the website at http://www.chwr.org