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Oral History in the Mid-Atlantic Region (OHMAR) , Chemical Heritage Foundation, Philadelphia, December 5th 2012

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Oral History in the Mid-Atlantic Region (OHMAR) announces its 2012 Workshop, “An Introduction to Oral History” with David J. Caruso, to be held on 5 December 2012 at the Chemical Heritage Foundation. There will be one full-day session.

Oral history is a method of preserving the unwritten past through the narrated recollections of an individual. Oral histories are not merely conversations with people recorded on some medium for posterity; oral histories are structured interviews that are designed with specific goals in mind, whether to understand the role that an individual played in a historic event or a specific culture, or to document better the history of, for example, a scientific object or technique or a piece of legislation. Participants in this workshop will discover the fundamental concepts of developing an oral history project and the interview process. By the end of the workshop, participants will know about subject selection, interview preparation, equipment usage, and how to conduct interviews. Additionally, they will be able to explain the principles of oral history processing and preservation. Should time permit, attendees may be able to conduct a mock interviewee for practice

 

David J. Caruso
President, OHMAR
Program Manager, Oral History
The Chemical Heritage Foundation
315 Chestnut Street
Philadelphia, PA 19106
Email: ohmar.contact@gmail.com
Visit the website at http://www.ohmar.org

Call for Papers: Public History in the Digital Age

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Public History in the Digital Age

Location: Maryland, United States
Call for Papers Date: 2013-01-18
Date Submitted: 2012-11-14
Announcement ID: 198777
The Society for History in the Federal Government and Oral History in the Mid-Atlantic Region announce a joint conference.

The program committee invites participants to broadly interpret the conference theme, “Public History in the Digital Age.” Topics might include the historiography of oral history practice and theory; the impact of technology on the practice and sharing of public history; the challenges of managing and distributing data in the digital age; the evolving relationship between public history and the web; oral history programs in federal history offices; and research in the history of the federal government. This expansive conference theme is intended to encourage a lively conversation among oral historians, archivists, and public historians.

The program committee invites entire panels and roundtables, as well as individual papers. We encourage presentations that include audio/visual components. We welcome proposals from graduate students, federal historians, public historians, archivists, oral historians, information technology professionals, enterprise architects, and scholars from other disciplines. We encourage panels composed of practitioners with a variety of backgrounds and experiences in these topics.

Paper proposals should include a brief abstract of 250-500 words, a biographical paragraph about the author, and contact information. Panel proposals should include brief abstracts for each paper as well as biographical paragraphs and contact information for each presenter.

The conference will be held 2-5 April 2013 at National Archives II in College Park, Maryland.

Please send all correspondence, including questions and proposals, to ShfgOhmar2013@gmail.com

Please visit SHFG and OHMAR’s websites for further information. www.shfg.org www.ohmar.org
David J. Caruso
Program Manager, Oral History
President, OHMAR
The Chemical Heritage Foundation
315 Chestnut Street
Philadelphia, PA 19106
(215) 873-8236
Email: ohmar.contact@gmail.com
Visit the website at http://www.ohmar.org

Call for Papers: Women’s Movements and Female Activists in the Aftermath of the First World War, 1918-1923

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Women’s Movements and Female Activists in the Aftermath of the First World War, 1918-1923

Location: Hungary
Call for Papers Date: 2012-12-07 (in 18 days)
Date Submitted: 2012-11-15
Announcement ID: 198795
REMINDER Call for papers. Women’s Organisations and Female Activists in the Aftermath of the First World War: Central and Eastern Europe in National, Transnational, International and Global Context. An interdisciplinary, international conference to be held at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary. 17th-19th May 2013. Recent developments in the social and cultural history of modern warfare have done much to shed new light on the experience of the First World War, and in particular how that experience was communicated in popular and high culture, and in acts of remembrance and commemoration after 1918. The post-war period (ca 1918-1923) is distinctive, both within individual nations and as a point of international comparison. It is characterised by the often troubled transition from a wartime to a peacetime society; continued conflicts over the repatriation of refugees and POWs; revolutionary and counter- revolutionary violence in parts of Central Europe; and new ethnic and national conflicts arising from the collapse of the former Russian, German, Austro-Hungarian, and Ottoman empires, and the cultural anxieties that surrounded these events. Within this context, the role of organised women’s movements and female activists in the post-war period takes on a new importance. The aim of this conference is to explore major comparative themes such as citizenship, suffrage, nationalism, commemoration, revolution and militarised technology from a national, international and transnational perspective. It will have a particular focus on movements and activists operating in or communicating with Central and Eastern Europe. It will examine the work of organisations and individuals able to move across international borders, such as the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) or the journalist Eleanor Franklin Egan, who reported on social conditions throughout post-war Europe. The role of such women and organisations in bringing about reconciliation and facilitating cooperation between former enemy nations (cultural demobilisation, ‘the dismantlement of the mindsets and values of wartime’—John Horne) will also be examined, as will the role of nationalist women’s organisations in perpetuating discourses of war and in facilitating the rise of new forms of ethno-nationalism and racial intolerance (‘cultural remobilisation’) during the period 1918-1923. This conference is the fourth in a series. The first conference, The Gentler Sex: Responses of the Women’s Movement to the First World War, 1914-1919, London, held in 2005, was followed in 2008 with Aftermaths of War: Women’s Movements and Female Activists 1918-1923, Leeds, and in May 2012 with Women’s Organisations and Activists: Moving Across Borders, Hamline. Publications arising from the earlier conferences include special issues of Minerva: Journal of Women and War and two edited volumes: Fell, A.S. and Sharp, I.E. (eds) (2007) The Women’s Movement in Wartime. International Perspectives 1914-1919. Palgrave Macmillan and Sharp, I.E. and Stibbe, M. (eds) (2011) Aftermaths of War: Women’s Movements and Female Activists, 1918-1923 (Brill). The Budapest Conference is linked in particular with the Hamline Conference which focused on the US experience and transnational organisations. It is supported by a network grant from the UK-based Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC). Two special issues of a peer-reviewed journal and a volume of comparative essays are planned for 2014, based on papers given at both conferences.Confirmed speakers include: Judit Acsády (Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest) Alison Fell (University of Leeds, UK) Susan R. Grayzel (University of Mississippi, USA) Gabriella Hauch (University of Vienna, Austria) David Hudson (Hamline University, USA) Ingrid Sharp (University of Leeds, UK) Olga Shnyrova (Ivanonvo State University, Russia) Matthew Stibbe (Sheffield Hallam University, UK) Nikolai Vukov (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia).

Proposals for papers and/or panels that deal with the work of women’s organisations or female activists between 1918 and 1923 are invited in the following areas: • Commemoration and discourses of heroism; • transnational organisations and activities transcending the nation state; • peace-building and reconstruction: cultures of resistance to war and the mind sets of war; • right-wing women and culture remobilisation • on-going campaigns for suffrage and women’s organisations post-suffrage, specifically in the Central and Eastern European context; • socialist women and revolutionary violence; • women and the technology of war; • women’s involvement in relief work and social activism, particularly in the Central and Eastern European context; • cultural reflections of post-war society in art, literature and film, particularly in the Central and Eastern European context

Contributions are welcome from any field or discipline, including literary and cultural studies, sociology and social anthropology, women’s and gender studies, peace and war studies, as well as history itself. Please send abstracts (500 words in English) to Ms Ingrid Sharp i.e.sharp@leeds.ac.uk and Professor Matthew Stibbe m.stibbe@shu.ac.uk by Friday 7th December 2012
Ingrid Sharp, University of Leeds
Matthew Stibbe, Sheffield Hallam University
Email: i.e.sharp@leeds.ac.uk; m.stibbe@shu.ac.uk

Democracy and Diversity in Education – Conference Buskerud University College, Norway 12-13 March 2013

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Democracy and Diversity in Education – Conference
Buskerud University College, Norway
12-13 March 2013
Conference website: http://www.hibu.no/citizenship/conference

The Faculty of Education at Buskerud University College, Norway invites you to participate in an international conference which will bring together researchers, teacher educators, policy-makers and practitioners to examine education for democracy and diversity.

Our keynote guest speaker will be Professor Dr James A Banks from the University of Washington in Seattle, USA. Dr Banks is the world’s leading scholar in the field of multicultural education and he will be making his first visit to Norway.
Overarching interest
Our overarching interest in this conference is: How are democracy and diversity (and specifically the relationship between these concepts) understood in society and in school?
The conference aims to bring together existing research in these fields and consider ways in which education for democracy and democratic citizenship might be strengthened in the context of diversity.
About the conference
We invite papers from scholars in Norway and internationally on the themes of democracy and diversity in education, and particularly the intersection between these two areas of scholarship. Papers may address theoretical and/or empirical research in this field. Proposals for practice-based workshops from those working in NGOs, schools and public services are also welcomed. Our aim is to rethink how policy and practice might more effectively incorporate education for living together within multicultural communities and a multicultural nation-state.
The conference language will be English. Parallel sessions will be conducted in either English or Norwegian and proposals for papers in either language are welcome.
Submission of abstracts
Abstracts should be a maximum of 300 words, including the tile and up to 4 key words. Those intending to present a paper in Norwegian should submit the abstract in both languages. Abstracts are welcome on (but not restricted to) the following topics:
–       education for democratic citizenship and human rights;
–       young people’s perspectives on schooling;
–        education against racism and extremism;
–       democracy and diversity in teacher education;
–       comparative studies on democracy and diversity;
–       developing multicultural/ intercultural perspectives in the curriculum.

Timetable
October 2012: call for papers
20 November 2013: deadline for abstracts – send these to banks@hibu.no
10 December 2012: decision on abstracts
13 February 2013: deadline for submission of final papers – send these to banks@hibu.no
Programme, conference fee and registration:
Click here for a draft programme.
Information about conference fee, registration, hotels and transport will be posted on the conference site shortly.
Persons who register their interest will receive this information per e-mail.
Buskerud University College is situated in Drammen, which is one hour by train from Oslo Airport Gardermoen.  Further enquiries to: banks@hibu.no

Call for Contributions 17th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries Valetta, Malta, September 22-26, 2013

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Call for Contributions
17th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries
Valetta, Malta, September 22-26, 2013

Full Information: http://www.tpdl2013.info

The International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries
constitutes a leading European scientific forum on digital libraries that
brings together researchers, developers, content providers and users in
the field of digital libraries. The 17th International Conference on
Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (TPDL 2013) is organized by the
University of Malta and it will be held in Valetta, Malta on September
22-26, 2013.

* Aims and scope *
Valuable and rapidly increasing volumes of data are produced or
transformed into digital form by all fields of science, education,
culture, business and government. For this purpose the digital libraries
community has developed long-term and interdisciplinary research agendas,
providing significant results such as conceptual models, added value
infrastructures, software tools, standards and services.

The advent of the technologies that enhance the exchange of information
with rich semantics is on the centre of the discussions of the community.
Information providers inter-link their metadata with user contributed data
and offer new services outlooking to the  development of a web of data and
addressing the interoperability and long-term preservation challenges.

TPDL 2013 under the general theme “sharing meaningful information”,
invites submissions describing original, unpublished research and not (and
will not be) simultaneously under consideration for publication elsewhere,
for the proliferation of scientific and research osmosis in the following
categories: Full Papers, Short Papers, Posters and Demonstrations,
Workshops and Tutorials, Panels and Doctoral Consortium. All submissions
will be reviewed on the basis of relevance, originality, importance and
clarity in a triple peer review process.

The TPDL 2013 proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag in the
Lecture Notes in Computer Science series
(http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs). According to the Registration
Regulation for TPDL 2013, inclusion of papers in the Proceedings is
conditional upon registration of at least one author per paper.

The authors of the best research papers presented to TPDL2013 will be
invited to submit substantially extended versions of their paper for
publication in a Focused Issue of the International Journal on Digital
Libraries
(http://www.springer.com/computer/database+management+%26+information+retrieval/journal/799).

Doctoral Consortium papers will be published by the Bulletin of the IEEE
Technical Committee on Digital Libraries (IEEE-TCDL Bulletin,
http://www.ieee-tcdl.org/Bulletin/current/index.html)

* Topics *
General areas of interests include, but are not limited to, the following
topics, organized in four categories, according to a conceptualization
that coincides with the four arms of the Maltese Cross:

Foundations
– Information models
– Digital Library conceptual models and formal issues
– Digital Library 2.0
– Digital library education curricula
– Economic and legal (e.g. rights management), landscape for digital
libraries
– Theoretical models of information interaction and organization
– Information policies
– Studies of human factors in networked information
– Scholarly primitives
– Novel research tools and methods with emphasis on digital humanities
– User behavior analysis and modeling
– Social-technical perspectives of digital information

Infrastructures
– Digital Library architectures
– Cloud and grid deployments
– Federation of repositories
– Collaborative and participatory information environments
– Data storage and indexing
– Big data management
– e-science, e-government, e-learning, cultural heritage infrastructures
– Semi Structured data
– Semantic web issues in digital libraries
– Ontologies and knowledge organization systems
– Linked data and their applications

Content
– Metadata schemas with emphasis to metadata for composite content
(Multimedia, geographical, statistical data and other special content
formats)
– Interoperability and Information integration
– Digital Curation and related workflows
– Preservation, authenticity and provenance
– Web archiving
– Social media, and dynamically generated content for particular
uses/communities (education, science, public, etc.)
– Crowdsourcing
– 3D models indexing and retrieval
– Authority management issues

Services
– Information Retrieval and browsing
– Multilingual and Multimedia Information Retrieval
– Personalization in digital libraries
– Context awareness in information access
– Semantic aware services
– Technologies for delivering/accessing digital libraries, e.g., mobile
devices
– Visualization of large-scale information environments
– Evaluation of online information environments
– Quality metrics
– Interfaces to digital libraries
– Data mining/extraction of structure from networked information
– Social networks analysis and virtual organizations
– Traditional and alternative metrics of scholarly communication
– Mashups of resources

* Important Dates *
– Full and Short papers, Posters and Demonstrations: March 23, 2013
– Panels, Workshops, Tutorials: March 4, 2013
– Notification of acceptance for Papers, Posters, and Demonstrations:
May 20, 2013
– Notification of acceptance for Panels, Workshops and Tutorials:
April 22, 2013
– Camera Ready Versions: June 9, 2013
– Doctoral Consortium Papers Submission Deadline: June 2, 2013
– Doctoral Consortium Acceptance Notification: July 2, 2013
– End of Early Registration: July 31, 2013
– Conference Dates: September 22-26, 2013

* Formatting Instructions *
Full papers (12 pages), short-papers (6 pages), posters and
demonstrations (4 pages) must be written in English and submitted in
PDF format. The TPDL 2013 proceedings will be published by
Springer-Verlag in Lecture Notes in Computer Science
(http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs). Therefore all submissions
should conform to the formatting instructions described in the “For
Authors” webpage
(http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0). For
Doctoral Consortium, papers are expected to have a maximum of 8-10
pages, including references. Papers is recommended to be formatted
according to Springer LNCS guidelines.

In case your paper includes images or screenshots please ensure that you
set image compression at 600dpi when you produce your PDF file.

* Submission *
All papers, short-papers, posters and demonstrations must be submitted
in electronic format (PDF) via the conference’s EasyChair submission
page (TBA).

* Organization *
General Chairs:
Milena Dobreva, University of Malta, Malta
Giannis Tsakonas, University of Patras, Greece

Program Chairs:
Trond Aalberg, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
Christos Papatheodorou, Ionian University, Greece

Organizing Chair:
Charles J. Farrugia, National Archives, Malta

CLIR Mellon Fellowships for Dissertation Research in Original Sources (deadline extended)

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CLIR Mellon Fellowships for Dissertation Research in Original Sources (deadline extended)

Fellowship Date: 2012-11-29 (in 15 days)
Date Submitted: 2012-11-02
Announcement ID: 198453
**Deadline extension: due to the widespread effects of Hurricane Sandy, the deadline to submit applications for the CLIR Mellon Fellowships for Dissertation Research in Original Sources has been extended to 5:00 pm Eastern time on Thursday, November 29, 2012.**The Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) is now accepting applications for the 2013 Mellon Fellowships for Dissertation Research in Original Sources.

The purposes of this fellowship program are to:

– help junior scholars in the humanities and related social-science fields gain skill and creativity in developing knowledge from original sources;
– enable dissertation writers to do research wherever relevant sources may be, rather than just where financial support is available;
– encourage more extensive and innovative uses of original sources in libraries, archives, museums, historical societies, and related repositories in the U.S. and abroad; and
– provide insight from the viewpoint of doctoral candidates into how scholarly resources can be developed for access most helpfully in the future.

The program will be offering about fifteen competitively awarded fellowships for 2013. Each provides a stipend of $2,000 per month for 9–12 months. Each fellow will receive an additional $1,000 upon participating in a symposium on research in original sources and submitting an acceptable report to CLIR on the research experience. Thus the maximum award will be $25,000.

Fellowship stipends will support research beginning between June 1 and September 1, 2013, and ending within 12 months of commencing. Fellowships will not be renewed or extended. Fellows are expected to devote full time to their dissertation research without holding teaching or research assistantships or undertaking other paid work. Applicants may apply simultaneously for other fellowships, including Mellon awards, but fellows may not hold other fellowships simultaneously with CLIR’s. Fellows may use stipends to meet living expenses, travel costs, and other expenses that enable dissertation research to be carried out, but not to defray tuition.

Applicants do not have to be U.S. citizens, but must be enrolled in a doctoral program in a graduate school in the United States.

For further information on eligibility, requirements, and deadlines, please visit CLIR’s website at http://www.clir.org/fellowships/mellon/mellon.html.

 
Council on Library and Information Resources
1707 L Street, NW
Suite 650
Washington, DC 20036
Email: mellon@clir.org
Visit the website at http://www.clir.org/fellowships/mellon/mellon.html

Politics and Education in the Very Long Eighteenth Century, 1660-1860

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Politics and Education in the Very Long

Eighteenth Century, 1660-1860

 

A one-day interdisciplinary conference to be held on Saturday 9 March 2013

at the Institute of Historical Research, University of London.

 

Convenors: Professor Michele Cohen, Dr Mary Clare Martin, Dr Mark Burden

Keynote Speakers: Kathryn Gleadle, Lissa Paul

 Despite a growing interest in the practices and principles of eighteenth-century education, and a continuing critical preoccupation with eighteenth-century political events and philosophies, there have been few attempts to explore the connections between them. Yet these connections were vital. Political events and ideas influenced teaching in schools, universities, the home, and the workplace. The education of eighteenth-century political figures affected their future beliefs and actions. The political strategies of the European powers helped to determine educational provision in America, India, Africa, and East Asia.

Changing legal frameworks altered the education of Roman Catholics, Protestants, and dissenters across Europe. Young women, as well as young men, used their education to become familiar with political rhetoric. Eighteenth-century ethics teaching was closely connected to early modern politics and natural law theory. Children’s literature contained explicit, implicit and concealed political messages, while educational texts were subject to the politics of production and exchange.

Call for Papers:

This one-day interdisciplinary conference will examine the ways in which education influenced politics, and the means by which politics affected educational provision in the long eighteenth century. To this end, we shall employ a broad definition of the term ‘education’, to include (for example) apprenticeships, family tutors, and educational conversation. Our definition of ‘politics’ will extend to political and moral thought, as well as political events, people, and texts. We encourage submissions for 20-minute papers from all branches of political, literary, social, and intellectual history. The conference follows our successful one-day workshop on ‘Education in the Very Long Eighteenth Century’ (2010) and marks the fifth anniversary of the ‘Education in the Long Eighteenth Century Seminar Series’ at the Institute of Historical Research, London. Possible subjects for panel papers might include:

  • parliamentary debates on education
  • the education of political figures
  • the political opinions of university tutors across Europe
  • political dimensions of the Grand Tour
  • the politics of charity schools
  • schools, academies and the law
  • political poetry by or for young people
  • education and class politics
  • political messages in children’s literature
  • the politics of educational publishing
  • education and gender politics
  • prosecutions of schoolmasters and tutors
  • the politics of science
  • the education of Roman Catholics, Protestants, and dissenters
  • the politics of language learning
  • the study of politics and natural law
  • the political opinions of young people
  • schoolboy rebellions
  • party political views on education
  • educating the labour force
  • political education in the home
  • the funding and cost of education

 

Submitting a Proposal:

Proposals of 300-500 words should be sent to the three workshop convenors, Professor Michele Cohen (cohenm@richmond.ac.uk), Dr Mary Clare Martin (m.c.h.martin@greenwich.co.uk) and Dr Mark Burden (m_k_burden@yahoo.co.uk), by 15 November 2012. We are happy to consider interdisciplinary studies, proposals from postgraduate students, and progress reports from new projects. Further information about the ‘Education in the Long Eighteenth Century’ seminar series may be found on the ELEC blog: http://dissentingreader.wordpress.com/, and the Institute of Historical Research website: http://www.history.ac.uk/events/seminars/252. Queries relating to the conference, or to the seminar series, may be emailed to Professor Cohen, Dr Martin, or Dr Burden at one of the above addresses.

 

Acknowledgements:

We are grateful to the Centre for the Study of Play and Recreation, School of Education, University of Greenwich, for sponsoring the conference.

 

ELEC

2012-13

EDUCATION IN THE LONG EIGHTEENTH        CENTURY SEMINAR (IHR)

Convenors: Michele Cohen, Mark Burden and Mary Clare Martin

5th SEASON (2012-13)

International Conference on Narrative 2013, International Conference on Narrative 2013

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 International Conference on Narrative 2013

Manchester Metropolitan University 27th-29th June

Plenary Speakers

Catherine Belsey – Swansea University

Diane Negra – University College Dublin

Nicholas Royle – University of Sussex

 Sponsored by the International Society for the Study of Narrative and hosted by Manchester Metropolitan University, the International Conference on Narrative is an interdisciplinary forum addressing all dimensions of narrative theory and practice. We welcome proposals for papers and panels on all aspects of narrative in any genre, period, discipline, language, and medium.

Proposals for Individual Papers

Please provide the title and a 300-word abstract of the paper you are proposing; your name, institutional affiliation, and email address; and a brief statement (no more than 100 words) about your work and your publications.

Proposals for Panels

Please provide a 700-word (maximum) description of the topic of the panel and of each panellist’s contribution; the title of the panel and the titles of the individual papers; and for each participant the name, institutional affiliation, email address, and a brief statement (no more than 100 words) about the person’s work and publications.

Please send proposals by email as a PDF, Word or RTF document to narrative@mmu.ac.uk

Deadline for receipt of proposals: Monday January 14 2013

Conference Coordinators: Ginette Carpenter and Paul Wake (MMU)

Please address any enquiries to narrative@mmu.ac.uk

Website: www.narrative2013.org

All participants must join the International Society for the Study of Narrative. For more information on ISSN, visit http://narrative.georgetown.edu

 

 

Call for proposals: Queering Archives special issue of the Radical History Review

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Queering Archives

Call for Proposals, due February 1, 2013

Editors: Daniel Marshall, Zeb Tortorici, and Kevin Murphy

This issue of Radical History Review reflects on the notion of the “archive” that has been radically opened up by activists, archivists, and scholars. Beginning with feminist and postcolonial critiques of institutional and bureaucratic consolidations of power, what has come to be called the “queer archive” has emerged from those who both collect new materials and critique existing historical materials across varied modes of public memory work. On the one hand, these include institutional libraries with LGBT/queer collections (e.g. Cornell University’s Human Sexuality Collection and the New York Public Library’s Gay and Lesbian Collection), grassroots community-based archives (e.g. the Australian Lesbian and Gay Archives and the Lesbian Herstory Archives), and queer archives of trauma and of the emotions. On the other hand, they include the recent critical and interpretive practice of “queering” colonial and national archives for multiple queer contents (and absences). While archives as places are distinct from the critical act of queering an archive, both endeavors are often characterized by preoccupations with the notion of in/visibility, the identification of LGBT/queer practices, and the question of the LGBT/queer historical and archival subject.

We are thus interested in how some queer archival narratives privilege models of historical subject recovery, such that they purport to recuperate (and define) particular voices and subjectivities of the past. In doing so, do such practices reassert traditional notions of archival authority? How have postcolonial and queer critiques of the archive and archival practice sought to alter the idiom through which the subjects of the archive are constructed? While avoiding simplistic laudatory readings of LGBT/queer archive formation, we aim to historicize the complications, omissions, and racial/gendered/class implications of queer archival engagements (as well as the ways in which some historians, archivists, and queer archival practices struggle against such phenomena).

Possible topics include, but are not limited to:

• Archival knowledge and LGBT/queer political campaigns.

• Archives as sites for reading political contests in histories of sexuality and gender (e.g. the Sex Wars, decolonization, anti-capitalism, the War on Terror).

• The archive’s performance of an educational role, including the ideas of public history and public pedagogy.

• The ways that scholars have sought to “queer” mainstream, national, state, municipal, judicial, and colonial archives.

• Personal and critical reflections on being “in” an archive (as part of the collection, archivist, volunteer, researcher, etc.).

• How archives sustain or attenuate particular activist, affective, intellectual and/or kinship relationships.

• Archival work as a site for enabling intergenerational collaboration and coalitionist work, understood broadly.

• The ways in which archives have interacted with and influenced the development of academic fields of research regarding sexuality, gender and history.

• Different modes or genres of archiving and public memory work.

• Innovations in archiving that have been generated by LGBT-specific public memory work, including the ways in which this work has built on, departed from or influenced mainstream practices (e.g. queer oral history methodologies).

• How LGBT/queer archives challenge (or affirm) prevailing notions of whose material ought to be collected, and what types of material ought to be collected.

• “Archival homonormativity” and erasures, in terms of language, ethnicity, race, (trans)gender, sexuality, (dis)ability and class.

The Radical History Review features scholarly research articles, but will also consider photo essays, film and book review essays, interviews, reflections, interventions, essays on public history activities, teaching materials, archival field-notes, and “conversations” between different interested parties such as community historians and academics, users of archives, archive volunteers, and older/younger generations of people involved in archive communities.

At this time we are requesting abstracts that are no longer than 400 words; these are due by February 1, 2013 and should be submitted electronically as an attachment to contactrhr@gmail.com with “Issue 120 submission” in the subject line. By March 1, 2013, authors will be notified whether they should submit a full version of their article to undergo the peer review process. The due date for completed drafts of articles will be July 1, 2013. An invitation to submit a full article does not guarantee publication; publication depends on the peer review process and the overall shape the journal issue will take.

Please send any images as low-resolution digital files embedded in a Word or rich text document along with the text. If chosen for publication, you will need to send high-resolution image files (jpg or tif files at a minimum of 300 dpi), and secure written permission to reprint all images.

Those articles selected for publication after the peer review process will be included in issue 120 of Radical History Review, scheduled to appear in fall 2014.

For preliminary e-mail inquiries, please include “Issue 120” in the subject line.

Abstract Deadline: February 1, 2013 contactrhr@gmail.com

 

contactrhr@gmail.com
Email: contactrhr@gmail.com

Re:Humanities – Call For Papers/Proposals Bryn Mawr, Haverford, and Swarthmore Colleges April 4-5, 2013

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Re:Humanities
Call For Papers/Proposals
Bryn Mawr, Haverford, and Swarthmore Colleges
April 4-5, 2013
rehumanities@gmail.com
www.haverford.edu/rehumanities
#rehum13

Keynote Speakers:
Tara McPherson, Ph.D. (Associate Professor, University of Southern California) and David Angel Nieves, Ph.D. (Associate Professor, Hamilton College) Re:Humanities 2013 explores various aspects of multimodal storytelling and argument. We seek  undergraduates who are exploring cross-platform approaches to course projects, digital
scholarship, and student collaborations. Topics might include, but are not limited to, interdisciplinary approaches to the following:
* Gaming and Narrative
* Transmedia Storytelling
* Infographics and Informatics
* Cultural criticism through the lens of new media platforms
* Digital forms of argumentation
* Visual models of record & witness
* Oral and auditory experimentations
We encourage submissions on these or related topics and invite you to contact
us with any questions.

We invite submission of criticism and projects at all stages of development, with
the understanding that the work will have reached a level of completion to
present at the conference, April 4-5, 2013. Presenters must be undergraduates at
the time the project was initiated.
Support: students selected to present will receive a small award to defray travel
costs. Lodging and meals will be arranged at no cost to participants.
Submission Deadline: November 20, 2012 (Midnight GMT)
Decisions announced: End of November 2012
Format for Submission: all submissions must include your name, institution, and a
titled description of your project (from 300-500 words). Send a .doc/.docx, .pdf
or .jpg file to rehumanities@gmail.com. (We are happy to accommodate you if
your submission requires a different format. In this case, please contact us before
the submission via email.)
We look forward to your participation!