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10×10 Research Grants on Photobook History - 2025

updated: 
Friday, February 7, 2025 - 12:05pm
10x10 Photobooks
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, March 10, 2025

10×10 Photobooks is pleased to announce a new grant cycle and call for applications as part of its ongoing photobook research grants program to encourage and support scholarship on under-explored topics in photobook history.

UCL Artists' Books Symposium: Structures/Infrastructures

updated: 
Thursday, February 6, 2025 - 10:39am
Killian Beashel / University College London (UCL)
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, April 11, 2025

This symposium, due to be held on 9th June 2025, proposes to investigate the formal or informal infrastructures and networks which sustain (or, perhaps, inhibit) the production, preservation, curation, distribution and analysis of artists’ books in Britain now. We are actively seeking contributions not just from academics and doctoral students working in the field, but from all those involved in the artists’ books and small press ecosystem, from retailers to publishers to librarians to artists. This symposium is supported by a grant from the Association for Art History.

Textiles and the texture of ideas in early modern Europe (1589-1801): How the craft and its products interacted with philosophy, literature and the visual arts

updated: 
Friday, January 31, 2025 - 8:42pm
Anna Maria Cimitile / University of Naples 'L'Orientale'
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, February 20, 2025

 Textiles and the texture of ideas in early modern Europe (1589-1801): How the craft and its products interacted with philosophy, literature and the visual arts

Joint project: University of Naples L’Orientale - Université de Haute-Alsace, Mulhouse. Two joint conferences will be organized:

1. Conference 1: Textiles: The texture of ideas in early modern Europe (1589-1801). Designs, patterns, craftsmanship and the early modern imagination – Will be Held at Procida Island (University of Naples L’Orientale), 8-14 September 2025.

2. Conference 2: The circulation of textile designs, patterns, skills and representations in early modern Europe – Will be held at Université de Haute Alsace – Mulhouse, June 2026.

8th International Public History Summer School

updated: 
Saturday, January 25, 2025 - 5:27am
University of Wrocław
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, March 16, 2025

The Historical Institute of the University of Wrocław, Poland (HI UWr), Depot History Centre, the International Federation for Public History, and the Commission for Public History of the Committee of Historical Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences invite students, PhD candidates and practitioners to participate in the eighth Public History Summer School to be held in hybrid format (on-site and on-line), 9-13 June 2025.

C19 Podcast: Call for Proposals

updated: 
Friday, January 17, 2025 - 4:10am
C19 Podcast
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, February 15, 2025

The C19 Podcast invites proposals from individuals and collaborators of all ranks for single podcast episodes that offer creative, story-driven analysis of topical events that spark connections to nineteenth-century America. We are especially interested in episodes that help make both the nineteenth-century and the specific disciplinary knowledge of our scholarly community legible and exciting to a wide audience.  As our podcast grows, we seek to expand its potential to engage diverse publics in the civic and cultural life of the past.

Dis/Trusting the Institution(s) of Literature

updated: 
Monday, January 13, 2025 - 3:50pm
Tim Groenland and Adam Kelly (University College Dublin)
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, February 3, 2025

Dis/Trusting the Institution(s) of Literature

University College Dublin, Ireland

17-20 June 2025

Keynote Speakers –    Sarah Brouillette (Carleton University)

                                Christopher Newfield (Independent Social Research Foundation)

                                Simone Murray (Monash University)

Crossroads of Literary Creation: Fact, Fiction, and Everything In-between

updated: 
Thursday, January 9, 2025 - 3:18pm
London Arts-Based Research Centre
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, January 15, 2025

Crossroads of Literary Creation:
Fact, Fiction, and Everything In-between
A Transdisciplinary Conference
Online, February 5-6, 2025

Conference Webpage: https://labrc.co.uk/fact-fiction/

Fees: 100 GBP
15% discount for LABRC members

 

Call for Papers:  

“Fiction is the truth inside the lie” – Stephen King

“There is no doubt fiction makes a better job of the truth.” – Doris Lessing

Telling the Story of Oceans and Archives: Rethinking the Novel Form

updated: 
Sunday, December 15, 2024 - 4:27pm
Lanya Lamouria (Dept. of English, Missouri State University), Sunayani Bhattacharya (Dept. of English, Saint Mary's College of California
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, February 1, 2025

Telling the Story of Oceans and Archives: Rethinking the Novel Form

 

Dictionaries and disability for special issue of journal Dictionaries

updated: 
Thursday, December 5, 2024 - 12:15pm
Dictionaries: Journal of the Dictionary Society of North AmericaDictionary Society of North America
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, December 31, 2024

Dictionaries: Journal of the Dictionary Society of North America invites submissions for a special issue on “Dictionaries and Disability: Ideologies, Definitions, and Depictions.”

STS 2025: Textual Remediations

updated: 
Monday, December 2, 2024 - 5:18am
Society for Textual Scholarship
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, February 1, 2025

STS 2025: Textual Remediations University of Pennsylvania
May 28-30, 2025

It has been a quarter of a century since Jay David Bolter and Richard Grusin released Remediation: Understanding New Media. In it, they introduced the term “remediation” as a way of naming the friction generated by material forms as they shape content. Although remediation was originally conceived as “a defining characteristic of new digital media,” the term’s influence has been felt not only in digital studies but across a network of related fields, from book history and textual scholarship to media history and digital humanities. 

Linda Hall Library, 2025-26 Fellowships

updated: 
Tuesday, November 26, 2024 - 10:30am
Linda Hall Library
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 17, 2025

The Linda Hall Library is now accepting applications for our 2025-26 fellowship program. These fellowships provide graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, and independent scholars in the history of science and related humanities fields with financial support to explore the Library’s outstanding science and engineering collections. Fellows also participate in a dynamic intellectual community alongside in-house experts and scholars from other Kansas City cultural and educational institutions.

Call for Applications: RSVP's Curran Fellowships

updated: 
Tuesday, November 26, 2024 - 9:42am
Research Society for Victorian Periodicals
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, January 15, 2025

The Curran Fellowships are travel and research grants intended to aid scholars studying British magazines and newspapers from the long nineteenth century in making use of primary print and archival sources. Made possible through the generosity of the late Eileen Curran, Professor Emerita of English, Colby College, and inspired by her pioneering research on Victorian periodicals, the Fellowships are awarded annually.

Information, Medium & Society: Twenty-third International Conference on Publishing Studies

updated: 
Friday, November 1, 2024 - 1:15pm
Common Ground Research Networks
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, May 25, 2025

Information, Medium & Society: Twenty-third International Conference on Publishing Studies. 25-26 June 2025, University of Hawaii, Hilo, USA.

Information, Medium & Society: The Publishing Studies Research Network was founded in 2003 with the inaugural International Conference on the Future of the Book. Since then, the Research Network has expanded its scope in two phases. The first was in 2009 when it became the Books, Publishing, and Libraries Research. In this iteration, the Research Network began to look beyond the book as the primary site of investigation. In 2019 the network underwent another change, to become Information, Medium & Society - The Publishing Studies Research Network.

 

Oxford Medieval Graduate Conference 2025: Rituals and Ceremonies

updated: 
Friday, November 1, 2024 - 12:45pm
Oxford Medieval Graduate Conference Committee
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, December 6, 2024

The Oxford Medieval Graduate Conference committee is delighted to announce this year's Call for Papers! We look forward to receiving submissions for 20 minute papers from graduate students on ‘Rituals and Ceremonies’. 

The conference will be held in person on the 24th and 25th of April, 2025. Submissions are welcome from all disciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives. There are no limitations on geographical focus or time period, so long as the topic pertains to the medieval period.

Topics could include, but are certainly not limited to:

Conference on Voices and Visions in the Victorian Periodical Press

updated: 
Thursday, October 31, 2024 - 6:37am
Research Society for Victorian Periodicals
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, November 15, 2024

The Research Society for Victorian Periodicals (RSVP) will hold its annual conference in downtown Chicago, July 10-12, 2025. The conference will be an in-person event. RSVP remains committed, however, to making our gatherings accessible to as wide a range of members as possible. The two keynote addresses and Annual General Meeting will be transmitted live and freely available without registration. In addition, we are planning a series of online Digital Events on the conference theme in the weeks leading up to the conference (tentatively June 13, 20, and 27, pending interest).

Call for Applications: The Linda H. Peterson Fellowship

updated: 
Tuesday, October 29, 2024 - 5:13am
Research Society for Victorian Periodicals
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, November 15, 2024

The Linda H. Peterson Fellowship was named after the widely influential Yale professor and longtime RSVP Board member and Vice President, Linda Peterson. The purpose of the Peterson Fellowship is to support one scholar for four full-time months to enable him or her to conduct a research project on the British periodical and newspaper press of the long nineteenth century. It was created with funds from a generous bequest to RSVP by the late Eileen Curran, pioneering researcher and Emerita Professor of English at Colby College.

Call for proposals for Bibliographical Society of America (BSA) Events

updated: 
Sunday, October 20, 2024 - 1:05pm
Bibliographical Society of America
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, November 1, 2024

The Bibliographical Society of America (BSA) is currently inviting proposals for events that will take place between February 2025 and May 2025. The deadline for applications is November 1.

 

The BSA can offer financial and logistical support for a variety of events, including lectures, panel presentations, hands-on workshops, conference sessions, or other online or in-person events.  Examples of past and upcoming events can be found here. Please reach out to the Events Committee if you have questions about event formats, financial support, or topics.

 

Henry James and the Archive

updated: 
Monday, September 30, 2024 - 12:50pm
Henry James Review
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, April 1, 2025

The Henry James Review invites essays between 1,000 and 12,500 words on any aspect of Henry James Studies and archives for a special Fall 2025 Forum issue on “Henry James and the Archive.”

 Topics could include, for example:

 • Using archives for Henry James scholarship

• Changes in how we understand the nature of the Henry James archive

• New archival sources for Henry James scholarship

• Collecting or collections of Henry James-related material(s)

• Overlooked or forgotten archives or archival research methods for Henry James scholarship

• James’s use of archives, archival concepts, and/or the archival in his fiction or non-fiction

• Henry James as archivist

Henry James Review special issue: Henry James and the Archive

updated: 
Sunday, September 29, 2024 - 7:37am
Henry James Review
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, April 1, 2025

CALL FOR PAPERS

 

 

Henry James and the Archive

 

 

The Henry James Review invites essays between 1,000 and 12,500 words on any aspect of Henry James studies and archives for a special fall 2025 forum issue on “Henry James and the Archive.” 

 

Topics could include, for example:

 

• Using archives for Henry James scholarship

• Changes in how we understand the nature of the Henry James archive

• New archival sources for Henry James scholarship

NeMLA 2025 Future of the American Literary Archive - Deadline 9/30

updated: 
Tuesday, September 24, 2024 - 9:09am
NeMLA 2025 (March 6-9, Philadelphia) / RALS (Penn State UP)
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 30, 2024

"The Future of the American Literary Archive" panel at NeMLA 2025 (March 6-9, Philadelphia) invites panelists to share archival discoveries in American literature while also engaging in broader methodological reflections on the state of archival research in the humanities. In the context of explaining their own archival work and/or pedagogy, panelists will discuss how archival research has been impacted—for better or for worse—by tectonic shifts in the US humanities landscape including technological developments (AI, digitization), declining undergraduate humanities enrollments, and calls for more public-facing humanities scholarship readable to a general audience.

LITERARY AND ARTISTIC MAGAZINES IN THE AMERICAS IN THE 20TH CENTURY: A TRANSAMERICAN PERSPECTIVE

updated: 
Tuesday, September 24, 2024 - 4:08am
Anne Reynes-Delobel, Aix Marseille Université
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, October 31, 2024

Congrès de l’Institut des Amériques

Campus Condorcet, Aubervilliers, October1-3, 2025

https://congresida2025.sciencesconf.org/resource/page/id/15

Workshop:

LITERARY AND ARTISTIC MAGAZINES IN THE AMERICAS IN THE 20TH CENTURY: A TRANSAMERICAN PERSPECTIVE

While the literary and artistic magazines from various regions of the Americas and the Caribbean have been the topic of books, monographs and case studies, often in connection with Europe —particularly since the “material turn” in the humanities— they have seldom been examined from a trans-American angle.

(Revised Deadline!) Migrant Institutions: The Impact of Postwar Newcomers on British Cultural Life

updated: 
Monday, September 16, 2024 - 3:00pm
Institute of English Studies, University of London
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, September 26, 2024

Migrant Institutions: The Impact of Postwar Newcomers on British Cultural Life

Institute of English Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London

Monday, 9 December 2024

 

The Institute of English Studies invites proposals for a symposium exploring the impact of postwar migration on British cultural institutions. This one-day event will be held at Senate House, University of London on December 9th, 2024.

 

Call for Reviews on Free Speech and Censorship

updated: 
Monday, September 16, 2024 - 5:50am
Randy Robertson / Modern Language Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, March 1, 2025

Modern Language Studies, the journal of the Northeast Modern Language Association, is seeking reviews for the summer 2025 issue. In recent years, the temperature has risen around free speech debates, and books on censorship and free speech come out with such frequency that it is hard to keep abreast of the new scholarship. I am interested in receiving reviews and review essays on academic books published in the last several years that are in some way related to free speech. The books to be reviewed can center on any historical, geographical, or disciplinary context, and the reviews and review essays can be written from (almost) any theoretical perspective.

Divergence and Interconnectivity: Global Premodernity in Five Objects

updated: 
Sunday, September 8, 2024 - 1:09pm
New York University, Medieval and Renaissance Center
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, October 1, 2024

Call for papers: New York University’s Medieval and Renaissance Center invites proposals for ten-minute papers for its annual conference to be held May 1-2 2025.

 Divergence and Interconnectivity: Global Premodernity in Five Objects

 Keynote speaker: Lia Markey, Director of the Center for Renaissance Studies, Newberry Library

Archival Discoveries and Scholarly Bibliographies

updated: 
Wednesday, September 4, 2024 - 6:36pm
*Resources for American Literary Study* (Penn State UP)
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, October 1, 2024

Resources for American Literary Study, a peer-reviewed journal of archival and bibliographical scholarship published by Penn State UP, invites submissions for upcoming volumes. Covering all periods of American literature, Resources for American Literary Study welcomes both traditional and digital humanities approaches to archival discovery. The journal also publishes scholarly bibliographies and other bibliographical overviews. Typical contributions include newly discovered letters and documents, checklists of primary and/or secondary writings about American authors, and biographical and compositional studies drawn from archival materials.

CFP Hannah Crafts Discovered! Anthology

updated: 
Monday, August 19, 2024 - 11:11am
Hollis Robbins / University of Utah
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, November 1, 2024

Hannah Crafts Discovered! is an anthology following up on Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

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