CFP: Digital Preservation 2026 – Striking a Balance – Optimizing Labor for Sustainability and Resilience (due July 1)

Conference Format and Dates

Digital Preservation 2026 will be held virtually on November 4-5, 2026.

Conference Theme: Striking a Balance: Optimizing Labor for Sustainability and Resilience

As digital preservation professionals, we are accustomed to juggling diverse tasks and balancing multiple priorities. However, recent technological and political developments have impacted our perspectives on labor and how we can best allocate resources and effort. For the 2026 NDSA Digital Preservation conference, we invite proposals that explore the ways that we approach, manage, and perform labor from multiple angles. Which tasks can we assign to software applications, and which still require human intervention? How can we leverage the potential benefits of AI tools while protecting the security and integrity of our collections and digital assets from unauthorized exploitation? Our current reality of budget cuts and hiring freezes is coupled with ever-expanding digital collections. With this reality, what are the practical limits of our capacity and potential, and how do we line those up with our visions and ideals? How can we advocate differently to secure resources that can support a resilient preservation infrastructure in the midst of humanitarian and environmental crises? How can effective programs be established in the midst of constant change? Once established, what steps can be taken to stabilize a digital preservation program and ensure its continuance? What opportunities exist for community engagement that might help navigate these emerging challenges? What opportunities can we create? What self-care strategies can digital preservation practitioners adopt to manage the demands of productivity and the stress of an ever-changing environment?

Call for Proposals

We invite presentations that relate to the conference theme. Possible topics include but are not limited to:

  • Digital preservation and curation
  • Born-digital collections
  • Preservation metadata
  • Partnerships and consortia
  • Advocacy and outreach
  • Donor relations
  • Emotional labor and burnout
  • Project management
  • Change management
  • Contingency planning
  • Staff management
  • AI and machine learning in digital preservation
  • Workflows
  • Digital preservation tools
  • Copyright and privacy issues

Submission Information

Submission length and format

  • 5-minute lightning talks
  • 15-minute talks or demos. Talks will be grouped into panels of three presentations on a similar theme with a shared 15-minute question and answer period for the hour-long session.
  • 25-minute talks or demos. Talks will be grouped into panels of two presentations on a similar theme with a shared 10-minute question and answer period for the hour-long session.

Submission Requirements

  • Proposal title
  • First and last names, organizational affiliations, and email addresses for all authors / presenters
  • Abstract (50 words max)
  • Proposal (250 words)
  • All submissions are under a CC-BY 4.0 license, which allows for sharing and adaptation of content but requires appropriate credit and an indication of any changes made by others. Presenters must agree to share their work under this license in the submission form. After DigiPres 2026, works will be uploaded to NDSA’s YouTube channel and made available for viewing.

Evaluation Criteria

All submissions will be peer-reviewed by NDSA’s Digital Preservation 2026 Program Committee. The DigiPres Planning Committee will give strong preference to programming that is fully inclusive and reflects a wide range of expression and identity. When evaluating proposals, the Planning Committee will:

  • Consider the contribution of the submission to the overall conference program,
  • Recommend the proposal on a scale of 1-5 whether to reject or accept the proposal, and
  • Rate their familiarity with the proposal topic on a scale of 1-5 (1 being completely new, 5 being very familiar).
  • They may recommend the proposal for presentation as a lightning talk.

Submit your Proposal

Submit your proposal now. The submission deadline is July 1, 2026 at 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time.

Presenters will be notified of their acceptance starting in late July. All presentations must be recorded for playback during the conference. Presenters should be available for a live question and answer period during the scheduled session time. Presenters will receive support in the form of tutorials, resources, and individual assistance.

Note: All conference attendees are expected to abide by the NDSA Code of Conduct, and proposals should be submitted in the spirit of NDSA’s Values and Principles.

Questions?

Feel free to reach out to ndsa.digipres@gmail.com and someone will get back to you as soon as possible.

About the NDSA and Digital Preservation Virtual 2026

NDSA is a consortium of over 275 organizations committed to the long-term preservation and stewardship of digital information and cultural heritage. Digital Preservation 2026 is the conference hosted by NDSA. Open to members and non-members alike, it highlights the theory and practice of digital stewardship and preservation, data curation, the digital object lifecycle, and related issues.

Call for Chapter Contributors: Loss, Time, and Embodiment: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Understanding and Reconciliation

Loss, Time, and Embodiment: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Understanding and Reconciliation

Mitchel Stimers, PhD & Luma Mahairi, PhD, PharmD, Editors

We are seeking a contributor for the following chapter in our forthcoming two-volume interdisciplinary collection:

Volume I: Humanities and Social Sciences: Chapter 2: History: Erasure, Memory Wars, and Historical Grief

This collection is built on a conviction that loss takes genuinely different forms depending on the disciplinary position from which it is observed. We are not looking for a chapter that applies history to the topic of grief. We are looking for a scholar who can write from inside the discipline’s own way of seeing: one for whom the archive, the gap in the record, the contested account, and the silenced testimony are not illustrations of loss but the terrain in which a specific form of loss becomes visible in the first place.

History and oral history bring to this collection something no other field can offer: the capacity to show how loss is structured into the record itself, how erasure operates not only as an event but as an ongoing condition of what can be known, remembered, and mourned. The discipline encounters grief not as a private emotion but as a collective and political phenomenon, one whose weight accumulates across generations precisely because it was never acknowledged in its own time. Whether the chapter engages the suppression of testimony, the destruction of archives, the rewriting of official memory, contested monuments and memorials, or the communities whose losses were never entered into the historical record, the discipline’s encounter with loss should drive the argument rather than illustrate it. Oral history’s particular contribution, the recovery of testimony that the written archive could not or would not hold, makes this chapter’s terrain especially immediate for members of this community.

The collection asks each contributor to engage two anchoring concepts. Embodiment means that loss is not only a cognitive or emotional event but something that happens to bodies, structures, and material worlds, leaving traces that alter what can be perceived, inhabited, and remembered. Temporality means that loss disrupts the relationship among past, present, and future in ways that resist being located at a single moment on a timeline. For history, temporality is particularly pointed: losses that were never mourned in their own time do not stay in the past. Their weight accumulates, resurfaces, and reshapes the present in ways the discipline is uniquely equipped to trace. Contributors are not required to engage these concepts philosophically, but the chapter should reflect awareness of how the discipline’s encounter with loss is shaped by both.

The collection is designed to be read across disciplines. Contributors are asked to write with enough clarity that a careful reader outside history can follow the argument, without flattening the disciplinary perspective to reach that reader.

Full chapter description, contributor guidelines, word count, timeline, and submission details are available at: tinyurl.com/stimersmahairi

CFP: 2026 issue of the Journal for the Society of North Carolina Archivists

J-SNCA is a peer-reviewed journal that seeks to support the theoretical, practical, and scholarly aspects of the archival profession. The editorial board of J-SNCA invites members of the research and archival communities to submit articles for a general issue on archival topics to be published winter 26/27. Submissions on archival methodology, metadata, collecting practices, outreach, and rethinking the goals of archival work in our current age, are all welcome. We especially welcome submissions related to the theme of this year’s annual meeting, “Many Voices, Stronger Archives: Advocacy through Community” which calls us to reflect on the roles and impacts of advocacy and community within the archival profession.

The deadline for article submission is August 15, 2026. All members of the archival community, including students and independent researchers, are welcome to submit articles. Contributors need not be members of the Society of North Carolina Archivists or live in the state of North Carolina.

Submission contact: jsncajournal@gmail.com

Manuscript Submission and Preparation

The Journal accepts a range of articles related to the research, study, theory, or practice in the archival professions.

All members of the archival community, including students and independent researchers, are welcome to submit articles and reviews. Contributors need not be members of SNCA or live in the state of North Carolina.

A Word document via email attachment will be requested for accepted articles.

Please submit original, unpublished manuscripts only. The Journal will not reprint or republish articles submitted and accepted by other publications. If the article was presented at a conference, please supply the name and date of the conference on the cover page.

Submissions should be no longer than 30 pages or 7500 words, including citations. On the cover page, please provide a title for the article as well as the author(s)’s names, position(s), institutional affiliation(s), and business address(es). No other page of the manuscript should have the author’s name on it.

CFP: Thinking through Heirlooms (6th Nov 2026, University of Brighton)

Keynote Speaker: Prof Soumhya Venkatesan with Lydia Donohue (University of Manchester)

The word ‘heirloom’ evokes objects tucked away in wardrobes, imbued with woody, musty fragrance, aged with patina and eerie silence – rescued, retained, preserved, and remembered. Their fate remains unpredictable: second-hand stores, antique shops, auction houses, museum collections. Heirlooms chart different trajectories with different owners, soaked in different personalities, carrying a panoply of histories imposed by each owner. As objects moving between generations, heirlooms accrue, embody, and elicit multiple meanings, holding both personal and cultural relevance and developing their own life histories. Around this central object, scholars have explored postmemory, kinship, hidden heirlooms, space and homes, memorial samples, family archives, home cultures, migration, and industrial heritage. Not restricted to physical objects alone – what about the intangible? What if the heirloom no longer exists, resulting in ‘oral heirlooms’ (Ajit, 2015) or the passing of skill as inheritance?

This symposium unravels such complexities by examining alternative ways of listening and reading heirlooms, deconstructing established ideas of what an heirloom is, and unlocking new knowledge embedded within them. The symposium follows three themes:

1.     Person-Object Relationships: Laden with emotional weight, heirlooms share tenuous relationships with owner identity, invoking unique ‘person-object’ relationships (McCracken, 1988), suggesting multiple ways relations are articulated through things. Lying at the intersection of objects, people, and relationships, heirlooms reinforce the central role artefacts play in understanding culture and society, with materials and materiality serving as conduits for these relationships. One may also examine the making process of an heirloom, its crafting and craftsmanship, with materials ranging from metal, ceramic, wood, textiles, paper, and plastic, taking forms including pottery, decorative arts, needlework, clothing, photographs, furniture and furnishings, ornaments, musical instruments, recipes, letters, and diaries.

2.     Transference and Transactions: While heirlooms and intergenerationality are often intertwined, non-linear passing is not uncommon. Bequeathing may not always be from older to younger; heirlooms are sometimes passed before death, making one an ‘unprepared custodian’ (Dimmock, 2025). This theme subverts dominant ways of receiving heirlooms and the spaces they occupy, including archives and museum collections. Heirlooms do not always follow patrilineal lineage; thus, questions of hierarchy, value, and significance emerge. Further, not all heirlooms are held with importance; they are forgotten or misremembered. Such heirlooms matter too, inextricably connected to ways of remembering: material memory, cultural memory, and sensory memory.

3.     The New Heirlooms: Can heirlooms be chosen? What happens when one is left without ancestors, resulting in non-consanguineous heirlooms? What if heirlooms are intentional, specifically created? In crafting new heirlooms, what role can designers play in creating timeless, durable objects for longevity, encouraging custodianship through embedding memory? With rising eco-consciousness, what all do digital heirlooms entail (Giaccardi et al., 2012)? This theme engages with tensions and contradictions in the digital humanities, sustainability studies, and technology heirlooms – electronic artefacts, online memorialization and social media. How can we speculate imaginative futures around care and heirlooms, including exploring heirlooms as educational tools to foster better relationships?

We encourage submissions from design history, textile studies, design anthropology, sociology, cultural studies, museum studies, design research, archive studies, oral history, feminist studies, material culture, and beyond. We welcome encounters with heirlooms: theoretical and object-based studies, personal reflections and artistic explorations across media. We especially encourage submissions from affiliated and unaffiliated scholars, including graduate students, early career researchers, artists, independent researchers, designers, and practitioners.

Please send your proposals for a 15-minute presentation or a 5–10-minute video or performance as a 300–400-word abstract, by submitting on the form below, before 3rd July 2026. We will respond to all the submissions with a decision by the end of July. We aim to publish the knowledge and discussions that emerge from this symposium as a volume by a renowned publisher, subject to confirmation. If you have any questions or wish to discuss the submission in alternative formats, please do not hesitate to write to either of us.

Submission Link: CFP – Thinking Through Heirlooms: An Interdisciplinary Symposium (6th Nov 2026) – Fill out form

References

  • Ajit, A. (2015). Oral Heirlooms: The Vocalisation of Loss and Objects. Oral History, 70–78.
  • Dimmock, K. (2025). What Do I Do with all This Stuff? Inheritance and the Unprepared Custodian: Relating Meaning Through the Mediated Artistic Collection (Doctoral dissertation, Open Research Newcastle).
  • Giaccardi, E., Churchill, E., & Liu, S. (2012). Heritage Matters: Designing for Current and Future Values Through Digital and Social Technologies. In CHI’12 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2783–2786.
  • McCracken, G. (1990). Culture and Consumption. Indian University Press.

Contact Information

Symposium Organisers: 

Pragya Sharma (University of Brighton, UK)

p.sharma6@uni.brighton.ac.uk

Prof Saumya Pande (Slow Stitch Foundation, India)

pandesaumya17@gmail.com

Contact Email

PRAGYA.SHARMA57@GMAIL.COM

Attachments

Full Call for Papers

CFP: “The Architect Beyond the Building: Design and the Decorative Arts” ICOM-DESIGN Annual Conference, Barcelona, due date 30 June 2026

The Architect Beyond the Building: Design and the Decorative Arts  

Host institution: Museu Nacional D’Art Catalunya (MNAC)

CFP Due: 30 June 2026; notification of acceptance: 15 July 2026

Conference Dates: 11–12 November 2026 (Conference); 13–14 November November 2026 (Post-Conference Tour)

In 2026 Barcelona has been designated the World Capital of Architecture and  commemorates the anniversary of the death of the architect Antoni Gaudí, whose  imprint has shaped the city and its Mediterranean identity. 

Within this context, the 2026 annual meeting of ICOM DESIGN, to be held at the  Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya (MNAC), focuses on the figure of the architect  beyond the traditional role associated with architectural and urban projects. The  conference will revolve around architectural practice through the lens of design,  craftsmanship, and the intimate scale. 

This call invites papers that examine the wide range of outputs that architects  contribute to as part of, or outside of, building projects, including: furniture, glass,  lacquer, ceramics, jewellery, and goldsmithing; fashion and textiles; as well as graphic  design, mural painting, muséographie, and atmosphere, while also addressing the  fields of interior design and architectural ornamentation.  

We welcome submissions that explore these multidisciplinary practices beyond the  large scale, addressing projects, creative processes, and cultural influences from the  Middle Ages to the present day and across the globe.  

Could the intimate scale of design be the true space in which an architect’s identity is  manifested? What does an architect bring to the design of smaller scale objects or  interiors that makes their practice unique? How, in which historical contexts and for  which audiences have architects employed traditional techniques and crafts to enrich  sensorial experience? What are the challenges in conservation, exhibition, and  restoration of this heritage? What intimate stories are behind the creation of the  designs? How do architects use design as a bridge to imagine and construct other  possible worlds or to create playful and imaginative works?  

Proposals offering critical perspectives may consider (but are not limited to) the  following themes: 

– Architecture, a home for the total arts 

– Design and architectural photography 

– Material practices and intimate craft 

– Identity and gender 

– Heritage, conservation and collections

– Microarchitectures 

– Visionary, utopian, and playful creations 

– Sustainability, circularity, and materials 

This international congress aims to gather a limited number of contributions,  representing original studies and intended to foster discussion at the intersection of  academic and curatorial scholarship and professional practice.  

Why MNAC? 

The Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya (MNAC), in Barcelona is an ideal site for this  productive dialogue, as an institution dedicated to all artistic disciplines from the  Romanesque period to the twenty-first century, and it houses a unique collection of  decorative arts by architects such as Antoni Gaudí and Josep Maria Jujol, artists who  pushed the boundaries. 

The museum is entering a new phase marked by an ambitious expansion project at the  Palau Victoria Eugènia, scheduled for completion in 2029 to coincide with the  centenary of the 1929 Barcelona International Exhibition. This expansion will further  strengthen the Museum’s role as an institution without chronological or stylistic  boundaries, capable of representing and promoting the full scope of Catalan artistic  production.  

The ICOM DESIGN meeting in Barcelona proposes a rich programme of visits to  significant historical sites and museums throughout the city and its surroundings, while  engaging with contemporary collections and makers. 

How do I apply?  

– Abstract of 300-400 words 

– Short Resume or CV 

– Submit to icom-design-2026@museunacional.cat by June 30th. – Notification of acceptance: 15 July 2026  

– Post-conference tour: 13–14 November 2026 

Participants will be expected to give their presentations in English, which should last 15  minutes and include a visual presentation component. Proposals will be peer reviewed  and the results of the conference may be published. 

Presenters will be expected to cover their own registration and travel expenses. Travel  grants for young ICOM members (under 40 years old) will be available. Information will  follow for those applications.  

Membership requirements 

Please note that all participants must be individual members or representatives of  institutional members of ICOM DESIGN at the time of the conference. 

Find more information about how to become a member of ICOM and ICOM-DESIGN  here: https://icom.museum/en/get-involved

Contact Email

icom-design-2026@museunacional.cat

URL

https://icom-icdad.org/call-for-papers-annual-conference-barcelona-2026

CFP: Artificial Intelligence and Cultural Meaning: Language, Images and Interpretation in the Digital Age

Call for Chapters

Artificial Intelligence and Cultural Meaning: Language, Images and Interpretation in the Digital Age

Edited by  Ester Cristaldi

Under contract with Anthem Press

Chapter proposals are invited for the edited volume Artificial Intelligence and Cultural Meaning: Language, Images and Interpretation in the Digital Age, under contract with Anthem Press.

The volume examines artificial intelligence as a cultural, semiotic, social and media phenomenon. Rather than approaching AI only as a technical system or computational tool, the book investigates how AI participates in the production, circulation and transformation of meaning in contemporary digital culture.

The central premise of the volume is that AI does not simply process information. It increasingly mediates how people write, read, see, classify, imagine, remember and interpret the world. AI systems generate texts and images, organise visibility, shape public attention, classify social subjects, predict behaviour and participate in the construction of cultural narratives.

The book is grounded in semiotics and linguistics, but it also welcomes interdisciplinary perspectives from cultural studies, media and communication studies, media sociology, digital sociology, digital humanities, visual culture, platform studies, critical data studies, journalism studies, environmental humanities, science and technology studies, and related fields.

Topics

Possible topics include:

  • AI, language and meaning
  • Large language models and linguistic authority
  • AI and language inequality
  • AI-generated images and visual culture
  • Synthetic media and visual disinformation
  • AI, public trust and the crisis of mediation
  • AI, platforms and public attention
  • Algorithmic visibility and digital inequality
  • AI, datafication and social classification
  • AI, creativity and cultural production
  • AI, cultural labour and the creative industries
  • AI, archives and cultural memory
  • AI, embodiment, interfaces and everyday experience
  • AI, environment, infrastructure and digital materiality
  • AI, interpretation and cultural authority
  • AI, media ecologies and affective publics
  • AI, memory, archives and the digital humanities

Submission Guidelines

Interested contributors are invited to submit:

  • a provisional chapter title;
  • an abstract of approximately 250–300 words;
  • a short biographical note of approximately 100 words;
  • institutional affiliation and contact details.

Full chapters will be expected to be approximately 6,000–8,000 words, including references.

Timeline

Proposal submission deadline: 30 June 2026
Notification of acceptance: 15 July 2026
Full chapter submission: 30 November 2026
Editorial feedback: January 2027
Revised chapter submission: 28 February 2027
Final manuscript preparation: March–April 2027

Submission

Chapter proposals should be sent to:

Maria Pia Ester Cristaldi
Üsküdar University
mariapia.cristaldi  @ uskudar. edu.tr

Please include “Chapter Proposal – Artificial Intelligence and Cultural Meaning” in the subject line.

Contact Information

 Ester Cristaldi
Üsküdar University
mariapia.cristaldi @uskudar.edu.tr

Contact Email

mariapia.cristaldi@uskudar.edu.tr

Call for Applications: Exhibition Journal Editorial Advisors

Description:

Exhibition, the peer-reviewed journal of exhibition theory and practice, is published by AAM twice a year, with each issue organized around a theme. 

Exhibition offers 128 pages of thought-provoking articles, exhibition critiques and commentary, technical articles, and essays. 

Volunteer Editorial Advisors promote AAM’s mission and exhibition best practices through their service.

Download the Editorial Advisor volunteer role here!

Learn more about:

  • Exhibition journal
  • Who We’re Looking For
    • Accepting early, mid-, or senior-level industry experience professionals
  • What Editorial Advisors do
    • Our Editorial Advisors are a dedicated group of 10-12 individuals, who each serve a three-year rotating term. Advisors provide candid and critical feedback on the overall direction of the journal and help authors develop their articles through our peer-review process. Advisors represent a range of diverse perspectives within the museum field based on their own lived experiences as well as their work throughout the museum field—in institutions large and small, spread across the country and around the world, and of all types, including art, history, science and natural history, and those dedicated to living collections—and in industries including exhibition design, independent consultancies, and more.

Application Deadline is July 3, 2026. 

How to Apply

Volunteers Needed:

20 (18 open slots)

Experience Desired:

1 to 3 Years Industry Experience

Points:

250

Call for Submissions: 2026 Arline Custer Memorial Award

DEADLINE: July 31, 2026 

The Arline Custer Memorial Award  is presented by the MARAC Arline Custer Memorial Award Committee. This award honors the memory of Arline Custer (1909-1975), MARAC member and editor of the National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections.

Eligibility

The Arline Custer Memorial Award recognizes the best books and articles written or compiled by individuals and institutions in the MARAC region – the District of Columbia, Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia.

Works under consideration include, but are not limited to, monographs, popular narratives, reference works, and exhibition catalogs using archival sources.

Individuals or institutions may submit up to two works published between July 1, 2024 and June 30, 2025.

Evaluation

Works must be relevant to the general public as well as the archival community. They also should be original and well-researched using available sources. In addition, they should be clearly presented, well-written, and organized. Visual materials, if used, should be appropriate to the text.

Compiled works or works with multiple authors—such as edited volumes, co-authored works, or journals—will be reviewed in their entirety. Portions of a multiple-author work that do not meet award requirements may impact the submission’s final scoring.

Preference will be given to works by archivists.

Award

Up to three awards may be given, with a maximum value of $200.00 for books and $100.00 for articles. The 2026 award(s) will be announced at the Fall 2026 business meeting.

Electronic Submission Instructions

Please send a PDF of the entirety of the work along with a PDF of a letter of nomination to the Senior Co-Chair (2026-2027) of the Arline Custer Memorial Award Committee: Allison Fischbach at afischbach@jhu.edu.

Physical Submission Instructions

Please send two physical copies of each submission with a letter of nomination to the Senior Co-Chair (2026-2027) of the Arline Custer Memorial Award Committee. Please email the Senior Co-Chair,  Allison Fischbach at afischbach@jhu.edu to request the mailing address. Entries must be received by July 31, 2026.

CFP: British Records Association 2026 conference ‘All Mapped Out: Maps, Plans and Charts in the Archives’

BRA Conference 2026: Call for Papers

British Records Association conference 2026: ‘All Mapped Out: Maps, Plans and Charts in the Archives’

Date:       Tuesday 24th November 2026

Location: The Gallery, 77 Cowcross Street, London, EC1M 6EJ

Call for papers: abstracts submission deadline 5pm on Wednesday 1st July 2026

This year the British Records Association (BRA) annual conference will be held on the topic of records and archives which take the form of maps or geographical plans and charts. 

Submissions are invited which link this theme to the aims of the BRA, namely the preservation, understanding, accessibility and study of our recorded heritage for public benefit. Areas to be explored could include:

  • challenges of preserving maps owing to their scale or format
  • survival or absence of significant maps, or collections thereof
  • little known material, whether significant for design or purpose, for example
  • misleading maps
  • different reasons why maps have been produced
  • interesting discoveries or interpretations based on the study of maps
  • maps as a tool for public engagement
  • broadening access through digitisation, grant funded projects, or other means
  • relevant collaborations, such as between historians and collections managers
  • changes in how maps have been created, and insights these provide, such as the rise of digital cartography
  • whether existing map collections are under threat from technological advances

Abstracts of papers (twenty minutes) or lightning talks as part of a panel (five minutes) should be a maximum of 200 words and should be accompanied by a biography of all participants of up to 150 words. These should be submitted to the BRA Chair:  chair@britishrecordsassociation.org.uk

The British Records Association is a charity which aims to promote the preservation, understanding, accessibility and study of our recorded heritage for public benefit. It is open to anyone interested in records and archives whether local historians, academics, professional archivists, or custodians and owners of collections, or simply those who are curious about the record of our past. http://www.britishrecordsassociation.org.uk/

Matti Watton, BRA Chair, on behalf of the conference organising committee.

Contact Information

BRA Chair

Contact Email

chair@britishrecordsassociation.org.uk

URL https://www.britishrecordsassociation.org.uk/news/call-for-papers-for-our-2026-conference/

CFP: The Black Press at 200

“The Black Press at 200,” which will be held March 17–18, 2027 at Howard University in conjunction with the Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, home of the Black Press Archives. This free two-day symposium commemorates 200 years of Black journalism and examines the enduring significance of the Black Press as “one of the most vital and enduring institutions in American public life.” The symposium will convene scholars, journalists, archivists, artists, students, and community researchers to explore the historical legacies, contemporary practices, and futures of Black journalism.

Symposium schedule and deadline:

  • Abstract Submission Deadline: September 18, 2026
  • Notification of Acceptance: October 30, 2026
  • Symposium Dates: March 17–18, 2027 at Howard University

This conference particularly encourage submissions from graduate students, early-career scholars, community scholars, independent researchers, and practitioners whose work engages Black journalism, Black intellectual history, media studies, African American history, diaspora studies, archives, digital humanities, and related fields.

Contact Information

Questions and submissions for the conference may be directed to:

Michael Guy
mguy@blackpressresearchcollective.org

Contact Email

mguy@blackpressresearchcollective.org

URL

https://msrc.howard.edu