CFP: Global Digital Humanities Symposium 2027

Call for Proposals

Deadline to apply: 18 November 2026

Notification of acceptance: 11 January 2027

Please note that you will have to create an account in Oxford Abstracts to submit a proposal.

The 12th Global Digital Humanities Symposium is delighted to return, with events across countries and modalities in mid-May 2027. Michigan State University continues as host and is partnering with the University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada, as a lead into their annual DH@Guelph Summer Workshops.

The schedule of events will be as follows. All Symposium days will be live streamed. Multilingual days will be supported through human-generated, live interpretation:

  • 10 May (Monday) – In-Person Symposium at Michigan State University (in English)
  • 12-13 May (Wednesday-Thursday) – Virtual Symposium (in English, Spanish, and French)
  • 15 May (Saturday) – In-Person Symposium at the University of Guelph (in English and French)
  • Mid-May, Post Symposium – DH@Guelph Summer Workshops

We invite work at the intersections of critical DH that engages with anti-colonial and post-colonial frameworks, supports feminist and anti-racist praxis, and crosses political and disciplinary borders. We define the term “humanities” expansively to create space for a range of issues that encourage interdisciplinary understandings of the field.

This Symposium welcomes proposals by Wednesday, 18 November 2026 midnight in your timezone.

This year, we especially anticipate and welcome presentations on the following topics, and we are especially interested in hearing about specific practical, creative, and theoretical examples from the Global Majority context:

  • Multilingualism and language justice in DH
  • Indigenous led DH work and community engaged collaborations in DH
  • Globally situated human-AI collaboration and critique in DH
  • DH approaches to the study of the environment and considerations of environmental justice in DH infrastructure and practice

We are always interested to hear about the following topics, and their connections to the digital, as reflected in global research conversations and ethical DH practices across disciplines:

  • Relational, distributed, and/or creative frameworks and practices in global digital pedagogy
  • Public and community-engaged DH
  • Digital historical research and archives
  • Minimal, material, and sustainable approaches to DH
  • Surveillance, censorship, and/or data privacy in global contexts
  • Open data, open access, and data preservation as resistance
  • Borders, migration, and diasporas with an emphasis on the effects of warfare and conflict
  • Feminist and queer perspectives in DH
  • Disability justice and accessibility
  • DH methods in interdisciplinary and cross-regional research
  • Digital storytelling and artistic representations in digital spaces
  • Computational literary studies

Presentation Formats

Virtual

Submission and presentation language options: Spanish, French, English
Presentation materials (draft slides and presentation text) for lightning talks, 15 minute presentations, and panels must be submitted to conference organizers 2 weeks in advance of the Symposium (Monday, 26 April 2027).
7-min lightning talk

Proposal: 250-300 words

Dynamic, hyper-focused talks designed to provoke questions. No more than 2 speakers may present, but the number of listed authors is unlimited.
Presentation text and slides must be submitted to conference organizers 2 weeks in advance of the Symposium for language interpreters’ preparation.15-min presentation

Proposal: 250-300 words

Engaging talks that take a deep dive into a topic, method, or project. This may include reports on experimental, developing, or completed projects as well as critical and/or theoretical discussions.

Presentation text and slides must be submitted to conference organizers 2 weeks in advance of the Symposium for language interpreters’ preparation60-min panel

Proposal: 100 words describing the panel as a whole, plus 100 words for each presentation in the panel.

A pre-composed set of 3-4 presentations on a unified topic or theme. Panelists must leave at least 10 minutes for Q&A with the audience, but may structure the rest of their time as they like.

Presentation text and slides must be submitted to conference organizers 2 weeks in advance of the Symposium for language interpreters’ preparation.Project showcase and Artist Gallery

(Not live streamed; no live interpretation)

Proposal: 250-300 words

The Project Showcase and Artist Gallery is a session similar to a poster session, in which presenters share their work with small groups or individuals over the course of 30 minutes. Moderators will be present to support and facilitate the live discussions among presenters and audience members.These presentations are best suited for discussing concrete projects and digital art projects at any phase in their development, rather than for introducing theoretical frameworks or critiques. We invite artists and designers to submit data-driven online artworks related to this year’s theme.

In-Person

Submission and presentation language for In-Person at Michigan State University: English
Submission and presentation language options for In-Person at University of Guelph: English, French7-min lightning talk

Proposal: 250-300 words

Dynamic, hyper-focused talks designed to provoke questions. No more than 2 speakers may present, but the number of listed authors is unlimited.15-min presentation

Proposal: 250-300 words

Engaging talks that take a deep dive into a topic, method, or project. This may include reports on experimental, developing, or completed projects as well as critical and/or theoretical discussions.60-min panel

Proposal: 100 words describing the panel as a whole, plus 100 words for each presentation in the panel.

A pre-composed set of 3-4 presentations on a unified topic or theme. Panelists must leave at least 10 minutes for Q&A with the audience, but may structure the rest of their time as they like.

A pre-composed set of 3-4 presentations on a unified topic or theme. Panelists must leave at least 10 minutes for Q&A with the audience, but may structure the rest of their time as they like.Posters

(Not live streamed)

Proposal: 250-300 words

Presenters will share their work with small groups or individuals over the course of one hour. These presentations are best suited for discussing concrete projects at any phase in their development, rather than for introducing theoretical frameworks or critiques.

The Global Digital Humanities Symposium follows an open review process. Names and institutional affiliations of submitters will be shared with reviewers, and names and affiliations of reviewers will be shared with submitters along with a comment on their submission from each reviewer.

Submit a proposal: https://app.oxfordabstracts.com/stages/81897/submitter

Call for Contributions to Notes from the Field: Fall 2026, TPS Collective

Notes from the Field, a publication of the TPS Collective, is accepting submissions about teaching and working with primary sources for three series of peer-reviewed blog posts: Epic Fails, Collaborative Wins, and an Open Call.

Grounded in issues your colleagues in the field are exploring, this call is intended to highlight a broad range of voices from all sectors of the TPS community. Please see the calls below for more information.

Epic Fails

Not every class session goes according to plan—and sometimes, what happens instead teaches us more than a perfectly executed lesson ever could. Notes from the Field invites submissions for our “Epic Fails: Learning From Experience” series that reflects on teaching with primary sources when an activity fell flat, a carefully designed plan went awry, or an unexpected turn led to a surprisingly successful outcome. We’re especially interested in candid reflections on what authors learned from these experiences and how they shaped their teaching going forward.

Collaborative Wins

Did you recently collaborate with an archivist, librarian, faculty member, student, or community member?  Tell us about it!  What did you create (e.g., a TPS lesson plan, exhibit, or community event), and what steps did you take to ensure a successful collaboration? We’d love to celebrate your win and to learn tips for successful collaborations with different kinds of people in different kinds of spaces.

Open Call

We are also accepting submissions on topics related to teaching and working with primary sources to be featured in peer-reviewed blog posts. While we ask that contributions fall into either our “Reflective Practice” or “Practical How-To” categories, this fall we are once again open to reviewing submissions from a range of contexts. Our hope is that this call for miscellaneous submissions will create opportunities for practitioners to submit work that may fall outside our recent thematic calls.

Contributions should be 1000-1100 words and are subject to Notes from the Field’s peer-review process.

Posts will be published on a rolling basis beginning in December 2026. Full submission information is available in the Notes from the Field author and peer review guidelines.

Any questions, expressions of interest, or submissions can be sent to the Notes from the Field general email at tpsnotesfromthefield@gmail.com.

CFP: 7th Annual Ozarks Studies Association Meeting

Call for Presentations

Ozarks Studies Association 7th Annual Meeting
April 9th, 2027 at MSU-West Plains, West Plains, Missouri

The Ozarks Studies Association (OSA) invites presentations, papers, and posters for its seventh annual meeting in West Plains, Missouri on April 9, 2027. Presentations from across the disciplines on broad array of issues related to any aspect of Ozarks life throughout Arkansas, Oklahoma, Missouri, and Kansas are invited. 

We invite proposals 

  • of complete panels (with or without a chair) or individual papers
  • by scholars, archivists, museum staff, independent scholars, and graduate students
  • in the fields of anthropology, archelogy, biology, environmental studies, engineering, geography, geology, history, literature, museum design, pedagogy, preservation, urban studies, zoology, etc.

To be considered, submit

  • an abstract 
  • a two-page CV
  • label it as paper or poster

To Dr. Jared Phillips at jmp006@uark.edu. 

All materials must be received by January 16th, 2027. Notifications will be made by February 16th, 2027. 

Please remember, beginning this year, to present at the OSA Annual Meeting, you must be a member in good standing (meaning you have paid your annual dues of $30 for academics and independent scholars or $15 dollars for graduate students.)

If you would be willing to chair a panel, submit a two-page CV Dr. Jared Phillips by March 5th, 2027.

All inquiries should be sent to Dr. Jared Phillips at jmp006@uark.edu. 

Contact Information

Jared Phillips

Teaching Associate Professor of History 

University of Arkansas

President, Ozarks Studies Association

Contact Email

jmp006@uark.edu

URL

https://history.uark.edu/directory/index/uid/jmp006/name/Jared+Phillips

CFP: Artefacta Conference: Sustainability and Heritage, 14–16 April 2027, Estonia

We are delighted to announce the 5th International Artefacta Conference: Sustainability and Heritage.

The Fifth International Artefacta Conference will be held in Estonia on 14–16 April 2027, organised by the Estonian National Museum and the University of Tartu.

At the core of the Artefacta Conferences are things and artefacts, as well as the materiality and material culture associated with them.

The theme of the Fifth International Artefacta Conference is “Sustainability and Heritage”, which connects objects and material culture to discussions of sustainability and cultural heritage. Sustainability is increasingly significant and relevant to the study of artefacts, material culture, and heritage. Beyond cultural, social, and economic sustainability, concerns about ecological viability and the climate crisis are prompting scholars to view artefacts, material culture, and the materiality of cultural heritage in new light and contexts, and to ask new questions. The meaning of cultural heritage, both tangible and intangible, is shifting from an object of preservation to a cultural resource for sustainability and resilience.

The 2027 conference focuses on the importance and advances in the study of objects and material culture through the combined lens of sustainability and cultural heritage. It also examines the inherent and potential innovative links between cultural heritage and sustainability. The conference invites participants to theorise “sustainable artefacts”, “material cultures of sustainability”, and “sustainable cultural heritage”, and to ask what they might be and how best to study them.

Keynote speakers:

– Tim Ingold (Emeritus Professor of Social Anthropology, University of Aberdeen; Fellow of the British Academy and the Royal Society of Edinburgh)
– Chiara Bortolotto (Chairholder of the UNESCO Chair in Intangible Cultural Heritage and Sustainable Development, CY Cergy Paris University)

Abstract proposals and submission

The conference welcomes abstract proposals on the theme “Sustainability and Heritage” from around the world and from interdisciplinary perspectives, including material culture studies, history, archaeology, ethnology, anthropology, folkloristics, craft science, conservation, museology, art history, design, architecture, heritage science, cultural policy, and related fields. The conference is open to all kinds of academic research, including practice-led and artistic research.

The deadline for submissions is 15 November 2026.

Submissions are welcome via the conference web page.

Further details are available on the conference web page: www.artefacta2027.ee

The conference is organised in collaboration with the Estonian National Museum, the University of Tartu Viljandi Culture Academy, and the UNESCO Chair on Applied Studies of Intangible Cultural Heritage at the University of Tartu.

Conference e-mail: artefacta@artefacta2027.ee

Sincerely,

Tenno Teidearu (Estonian National Museum), head of the conference committee

Liisi Jääts (Estonian National Museum)

Tiina Kull (Estonian National Museum)

Ave Matsin (University of Tartu Viljandi Culture Academy)

Elo-Hanna Seljamaa (UNESCO Chair on Applied Studies of Intangible Cultural Heritage at the University of Tartu)

artefacta@artefacta2027.ee

CFP: ‘Sustainable Fashion and Textile Futures: Intersections of Heritage, Craft and Innovation’

Call for Papers: International Journal of Sustainable Fashion & Textiles

Special Issue: ‘Sustainable Fashion and Textile Futures: Intersections of Heritage, Craft and Innovation’

Special Issue Guest Editors
Pratibha Mishra
Professor & HoD, Department of Fashion Design & Department of Interior Design, School of Architecture & Design, Manipal University Jaipur, India
pratibha.mishra@jaipur.manipal.edu

Deepshikha Sharma

Associate Professor, Department of Fashion Design, School of Architecture & Design, Manipal University Jaipur, India
deepshikha.sharma@jaipur.manipal.edu

To view the full call click here>>

https://www.intellectbooks.com/international-journal-of-sustainable-fashion-textiles#call-for-papers

The International Journal of Sustainable Fashion & Textiles (SFT) invites contributions to the Special Issue ‘Sustainable Fashion and Textile Futures: Intersections of Heritage, Craft and Innovation’. The issue investigates how heritage knowledge, craft practices, material cultures and carefully governed technological innovation can contribute to socially just, culturally grounded and environmentally responsible fashion and textile systems.

Fashion and textiles sit at a difficult intersection. The sector is under pressure to reduce resource use, waste and emissions, while also addressing opaque supply chains, precarious work, cultural extraction and short product lifecycles. Heritage craft systems are frequently presented as an easy sustainability solution. That claim needs scrutiny. Traditional craftsmanship contains accumulated knowledge of materials, repair, local production, natural processes and intergenerational skill transmission; UNESCO’s safeguarding framework explicitly recognizes the skills and knowledge associated with traditional craftsmanship as intangible cultural heritage (UNESCO 2003). Yet craft is not automatically equitable, low-impact or economically secure. Artisans may remain excluded from design authorship, intellectual-property rights, data ownership and the financial value generated from their cultural labour.

Cultural sustainability in fashion requires more than incorporating craft motifs or handmade techniques into commercial collections. It concerns the continuation, recognition and fair transmission of textile knowledge, skills and cultural expression across generations (Boța-Moisin 2017; Fletcher 2014). It also demands attention to who defines innovation, who owns the resulting data and designs, and who benefits when heritage is translated for contemporary markets. Research on craft-led sustainability therefore needs to address material and environmental questions alongside labour, gender, community agency, cultural rights, market access and governance.

Technological change intensifies these questions. Digital documentation, virtual archives, traceability systems, e-commerce platforms, artificial intelligence, augmented reality and smart materials may assist preservation, provenance and market access. They can also reproduce unequal control over knowledge and data.

In the European policy context, Digital Product Passports are being developed to provide standardized digital access to product information that can support sustainability, circularity, traceability and regulatory compliance (European Commission 2026). Their relevance to fashion and textile value chains is clear. Their implications for artisan enterprises, informal producers, small firms and heritage-based production systems remain insufficiently examined.

This Special Issue seeks rigorous work that moves beyond celebratory accounts of both craft and technology. It welcomes empirical, conceptual, methodological and practice-based submissions that examine the conditions under which heritage, craft and innovation can contribute to sustainable fashion and textile futures. Particular attention is encouraged for scholarship based in the Global South, work with artisan communities and craft clusters, and research that takes community knowledge, consent, attribution and benefit-sharing seriously.

Suggested themes

Submissions may address, but are not limited to, the following themes:

  • Heritage crafts, traditional textiles and sustainable fashion systems
  • Craft communities, artisan livelihoods, social sustainability and equitable value creation
  • Indigenous, vernacular and place-based textile knowledge
  • Traditional dress, identity, memory, folklore and cross-cultural fashion narratives
  • Cultural heritage conservation, regeneration and contemporary fashion practice
  • Craft revival, craft clusters and collaboration between artisans, designers, brands and industry
  • Material heritage, natural fibres, local materials and sustainable textile innovation
  • Traditional knowledge systems, repair, reuse, remanufacturing and circular textile practices
  • Zero-waste design, low-impact production and resilient craft-based material systems
  • Gender, labour, care work and intergenerational knowledge transmission in craft sectors
  • Cultural appropriation, authorship, intellectual property, consent and benefit-sharing in fashion and textiles
  • Digital documentation, digital archives and preservation of textile and craft heritage
  • Digital Product Passports, provenance, traceability and transparency in heritage and craft value chains
  • Data ownership, digital inclusion and technological capability in artisan and small-enterprise contexts
  • Artificial intelligence, parametric design, augmented reality, virtual reality and the ethics of craft digitization
  • Smart textiles, sustainable technologies and material innovation
  • Digital platforms, e-commerce and market access for artisan enterprises
  • Sustainable fashion communication, consumer engagement and representations of heritage
  • Museums, exhibitions, tourism, retail and the commodification of craft heritage
  • Participatory design, co-design, design education and community-centred methods
  • Climate adaptation, material scarcity and sustainable futures for textile and craft communities
  • Methodological and conceptual advances in heritage, craft and sustainable fashion research

This list is indicative, not exhaustive. We invite submissions that critically examine the intersections of cultural heritage, craft, sustainability and innovation in fashion and textile contexts.

Contribution types

SFT invites contributions in the following formats:

  • Research Articles: 6000–8000 words

Submission guidelines

Please submit via the link below: 

https://submission.pubkit.co/publisher/29/journal/670/login

All submissions must follow Intellect’s house style:
https://www.intellectbooks.com/journal-editors-and-contributors#style-guide

Authors are responsible for securing permissions for all copyrighted images, illustrations, tables and other third-party material. All manuscripts will be assessed through the journal’s independent and anonymous peer-review process. Final acceptance remains subject to editorial decision.

Provisional schedule

The special issue is scheduled for Volume 7, Issue 1 (2028). The following timeline is proposed for approval:

· Full-paper submission deadline: 30 April 2027

· Peer-review process completed: 30 September 2027

· Final revised manuscript deadline: 30 January 2028

· Issue publication: 30 April 2028

All dates are subject to confirmation by the Journal Editor and Intellect Limited.

References cited in the CFP

Boța-Moisin, A. (2017), ‘The cultural sustainability of fashion: The role of traditional craftsmanship’, in K. Niinimäki (ed.), Sustainable Fashion in a Circular Economy, Aalto University, pp. 1–14. [Please verify page range and final bibliographic details against the source you wish to cite.]

European Commission (2026), ‘Digital Product Passport’, European Commission, https://single-market-economy.ec.europa.eu/single-market/digital-product-passport_en. Accessed 29 August 2026.

Fletcher, K. (2014), Sustainable Fashion and Textiles: Design Journeys, 2nd ed., London: Routledge.

UNESCO (2003), Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage, Paris: United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, https://ich.unesco.org/en/convention. Accessed 29 August 2026.

Contact Information

Pratibha Mishra

Professor & HoD, Department of Fashion Design & Department of Interior Design, School of Architecture & Design, Manipal University Jaipur, India
pratibha.mishra@jaipur.manipal.edu

Deepshikha Sharma

Associate Professor, Department of Fashion Design, School of Architecture & Design, Manipal University Jaipur, India
deepshikha.sharma@jaipur.manipal.edu

URL https://www.intellectbooks.com/international-journal-of-sustainable-fashion-textiles#call-for-papers

CFP: IASSIST Conference 2027

Sea Change: Transforming Data Practices

Call for Proposals

The International Association for Social Science Information Services and Technology (IASSIST) invites you to join us in-person in Vancouver, Canada for IASSIST 2027, our annual conference, on May 25-28, 2027.

Nestled between the Burrard Inlet and the Salish Sea (Strait of Georgia), Vancouver is the largest city in British Columbia. With a population of just over 660,000, Vancouver enjoys two research universities (Simon Fraser University and the University of British Columbia) along with several comprehensive universities and colleges. It is a beautiful and vibrant city with both cultural and outdoor attractions.

We welcome submissions for papers, individual presentations, panels, posters or demonstrations, lightning talks, or workshops that embrace our conference theme, Sea Change: Transforming Data Practices. We want to hear from data and data services professionals about how their data practices are adapting or changing in the current environment of Artificial Intelligence, budget and funding challenges, climate considerations, and the rapidly changing realities faced by academic and research institutions.

Possible topics include (but are not limited to):

  • Reproducibility and the integrity of the data record
  • Data reference, consultation, and collaboration
  • Data discovery in a shifting landscape
  • Ethics, governance, and data sovereignty and community-led approaches
  • Data management under pressure
  • Teaching and data literacy
  • The changing data profession
  • Partnerships across boundaries
  • Data rescue and advocacy
  • Data documentation and metadata
  • Technology, platforms, and tools

We request that submitters limit themselves to one proposal per format type.

The deadline for submissions is November 13, 2026.

Decisions regarding submissions will be sent out in early January 2027.

See below for information about different presentation formats. Questions about presentation submissions may be sent to the Program Co-Chairs (Meryl Brodsky and Sandra Sawchuk) at programme [ at ] lists.iassistdata.org.

Financial Support for Attending the Conference

The IASSIST Fellows Program supports data professionals from countries with emerging economies and underrepresented regions who are developing information infrastructures regarding the use and preservation of public and private data, implementing information policy decisions, and providing data services at their home institutions.

The IASSIST Early Professional Fellows Program supports data professionals from under-resourced institutions. It recognizes the value of new and innovative ideas from graduates and professionals new to data in the social sciences, who may not otherwise have the funding to travel.

Applications will close on November 2, 2026. Please address questions about the Fellows Program to Fellows Committee Co-Chairs (Florio Arguillas and Robert Buwule) at fellows [ at ] iassistdata.org.

Submit your fellowship application: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd_UZN2M7qBK71ucv1A3Vb0WdivmgVwD0_1-nQ7aN96bimOBA/viewform

For information about traveling to Vancouver, check out the conference website.

Presentation Formats

The Program Committee welcomes proposals for the following formats:

  • Individual Presentation: This format is a 15-minute talk. It can be accompanied by a written paper, but it is not required. If your proposal is accepted, you will be grouped into an appropriate session with similar presentations.
  • Paper Competition: Paper writers are required to submit an original research paper in advance of the conference by April 15, 2027. You need not be present or attend the conference to submit a paper for the competition. A winning paper will be selected based on this rubric. The paper selected as “Best Paper” will win a prize of one free registration for a future IASSIST conference. All papers will be eligible for publication consideration in IASSIST Quarterly.
  • Panel: You may propose an entire session (90-120 minutes) with a minimum of three speakers to “deep dive” into a specific resource or concept. The session can take a variety of forms, e.g., a set of three to four presentations, a discussion panel, a tutorial (with less substance than a pre-conference workshop), a discussion with the audience, etc. If accepted, the person who proposed the session becomes the session organizer and is responsible for securing speakers and a Chair. Please note: the names of all speakers and the moderator must be included in the proposal.
  • Poster or Demonstration: Proposals in this category should be clear about the message being conveyed in the poster or demonstration.
  • Lightning Talks: A lightning talk is a short, highly visual presentation. Presentations in this category are timed, and each speaker is restricted to 5 minutes. Presentations may have a maximum of 15 slides, but there is no restriction on how many minutes you stay on each slide or the exact format of the presentation as long as you stay within the strict time limit. These are not your typical conference presentations. They tend to be “lighter” either in the topic or delivery.
  • Workshops: Successful workshop proposals will blend lecture and active learning techniques. The conference planning committee will provide classroom space and, possibly, computing supplies for workshops. Proposals should outline needed computer hardware and software, if any, or specify if participants should bring their own. Workshops are typically half-day with 2-hour and 3-hour options. PLEASE NOTE: All workshop leaders are required to register and pay the registration fee for the conference; registration for individual days will be available.
  • Other Formats: Session formats are not limited to the ideas above; session organizers are welcome to suggest other formats. We will consider interactive formats that encourage audience participation.

NOTE: When submitting you will be required to select one of the proposal formats above, but it is possible that your submission may be accepted on the condition of adapting it to another format (e.g., an individual presentation proposal might be accepted if you are willing to adapt it to a poster or a Lightning Talk). If this is the case, you will be given the choice to accept this format change or to decline being in the conference program when notified of its acceptance.

Submitting a Presentation Proposal

Please use the online submission form on Openconf to submit your presentation proposal (below).

Submit your proposal: https://www.openconf.org/iassist27/openconf.php

All submissions should include the proposed title and an abstract. The abstract should be no longer than 300 words and written for a general audience. NOTE: Abstracts longer than 300 words will be returned to be shortened before being considered. Also, if the reviewers can’t understand what a proposal is about, it will be rejected.

About IASSIST

The International Association for Social Science Information Services and Technology (IASSIST) is an international organization of professionals working with information technology and data services to support research and teaching.

CFP: NAGARA 2027

NAGARA’s strength is the collective knowledge of its members, and we want to learn from you. If your work has solved a hard problem, tested a new approach, or taught you something the hard way, we invite you to submit a proposal for NAGARA’s 2027 professional development lineup.

You choose which program or programs your proposal is for, and it is considered only for those, so each session lands in the setting it was designed for. Pre-conference workshops have their own proposal form, so they are reviewed separately from general sessions.

  • The most-requested training topics have barely changed in four years: long-term preservation of electronic records, data governance, shared drives, email, records systems, retention schedules, and training the people who create records. Project management tops the program administration list every year.
  • Most attendees work in local or state government and identify as records managers, usually in a small unit inside a large organization.
  • Attendees want the “how”: case studies from people who did the work, including what went wrong; panels and discussions; hands-on demonstrations; and templates, checklists, and policies they can take home.
  • Sessions should say who they are for. Attendees asked for content labeled by experience level and audience, with real depth for experienced practitioners and clear fundamentals for people new to the job.
  • Archivists asked for more sessions on processing, digital accessioning, preservation, and conservation.
  • Because so many members learn virtually, Online Forum and webinar proposals matter as much as conference sessions. The best-attended NAGARA webinars of the last three years were on retention schedules, disposition, records audits, disaster preparedness, standard operating procedures, and email.

See full call for proposals.

Reading Discussion: Journal of Contemporary Archival Studies Reading Group

Free Event | Wednesday, October 21, 2026, 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm

Join New England Archivists for a discussion and Q&A with the author of “Factors Associated with the Implementation of the Protocols for Native American Archival Materials: An Exploratory Study.” The paper highlights results from a 2023 survey of archivists and memory workers at non-Tribal institutions with collections related to Indigenous communities, and discusses the factors affecting the implementation of PNAAM. Anyone interested in ethical stewardship, culturally responsive care of Indigenous collections, and best practices is welcome to attend.     

Attendees are invited to join in an open discussion of the article, where they can hear more from the author, pose questions to the group, and discuss how the article reflects or informs their own work. 

Article link: Factors Associated with the Implementation of the Protocols for Native American Archival Materials: An Exploratory Study
Protocols link: Protocols for Native American Archival Materials

This event will not be recorded so please plan to attend live.

For questions about the event please contact education@newenglandarchivists.org. Questions about registration? Please contact NEA’s Registrar, Becky White at registrar@newenglandarchivists.org.

ACCESSIBILITY & CODE OF CONDUCT
New England Archivists is committed to creating an accessible and inclusive environment for all of our events. For questions or concerns about accessibility, interpretive services, religious observance, or any other accommodations that would make the meeting more accessible for you, please contact NEA’s Inclusion and Diversity Committee at diversity@newenglandarchivists.org. 

All participants including presenters, instructors, vendors, or others involved in the event are required to abide by the NEA Code of Conduct, which can be found here: https://www.newenglandarchivists.org/Code-of-Conduct

CFP: Archives and Resistance: A Virtual Symposium on Digital Preservation and Publication in the Context of African, African American, and Diaspora Studies

Archives and Resistance: A Virtual Symposium on Digital Preservation and Publication in the Context of African, African American, and Diaspora Studies

Call for Proposals

We invite proposals for a virtual symposium on February 19–20, 2027, focused on archival preservation, digital publication, and community collaboration in projects that relate to African, African American, and Diaspora studies. We seek proposals for individual 15-minute presentations or panels consisting of 3–4 presentations (15 minutes each) that focus on ways that researchers, archivists, students, community members, and others are using digital tools and methodologies to recover archival materials and make them available and accessible to expand our understanding of the past and reclaim and promote histories that have been overlooked, suppressed, or erased. Through this event, we hope to highlight innovative work being carried out in the context of African, African American, and Diaspora Studies, and to create opportunities for scholars to connect and build community. This symposium is co-sponsored by the Association for Documentary Editing, the Society for Textual Scholarship, Mapping the Black Digital and Public Humanities, African American Digital & Experimental Humanities (AADHum), and eLaboratories.

Submission information:

  • For individual presentations: please submit a title and abstract (250 words max.) and a short bio (2–3 sentences) for each presenter.
  • For panel presentations: please submit a panel title and description (150–250 words), a title and abstract for each presentation (250 words max.) and a short bio (2–3 sentences) for each presenter.

All proposals should be submitted by November 20, 2026, by completing this survey. 

If you have questions, contact Clayton McCarl, clayton.mccarl@unf.edu.

CFP: MATTER & MEMORY: The Preservation of Cultural and Material Heritage

SESSION CALL:

MATTER & MEMORY: The Preservation of Cultural and Material Heritage

PORTO 

Conference: Heritages 2027

Dates: 16-18, June, 2027

Abstracts due: 10 Dec, 2026

https://amps-research.com/porto-ipca-themes/

SESSION CALL

Cultural heritage is continually interpreted, preserved and transformed through changing historical, social and artistic contexts. This session builds on this and examines how societies construct, transmit and reassess cultural memory through objects, monuments, artworks, archives and historic environments. We argue that within history and art history, such processes raise important questions about authenticity, authorship, representation and the changing meanings attached to cultural artefacts and sites. 

Contributions might consider contemporary interventions in historic buildings, restoration and reconstruction, digital technologies, museum practices, or new approaches to documenting and interpreting the past. 

The broader strand also invites examination of contested heritage, colonial and postcolonial histories, changing approaches to monuments and memorials, conservation ethics, provenance and restitution, and the relationship between tangible and intangible heritage.

Together, we hope that these debates will encourage reflection on how acts of preservation and reinterpretation shape historical narratives, cultural identities and understandings of the past for present and future communities.

Part of the University of Porto, AMPS & IPCA Conference: Critical Heritages, 2027

Abstracts due: 10 Dec, 2026

https://amps-research.com/porto-ipca-themes/

Contact Information

May Thorpe, Lígia Lopes, Claudia Lima, Raj Kumar

Contact Email

program@amps-research.com

URL https://amps-research.com/porto-ipca-themes/