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CFP: Fourth Workshop on Scientific Archives, University of California, San Francisco

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The Committee on the Archives of Science and Technology of the Section on University and Research Institution Archives of the International Council on Archives is pleased to announce the Fourth Workshop on Scientific Archives. This workshop aims to bring together a diverse community of collaborators participating in generating, preserving, arranging, processing, appraising, digitizing, providing access to the contemporary archives of science and technology.

Date: Wednesday, June 5 and Thursday, June 6, 2024
Hosted by: University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) Library, USA
Registration opens: January or February, 2024
Format: In-person workshop

Day 1 – June 5, 2024
The first day will include traditional presentations with an emphasis on the theme of open archives and open science. Topics may include but are not limited to the following:
•       Partnership between scientists and archivists in appraisal of modern scientific records
•       Barriers for creating open archives
•       Silences and gaps in scientific archives
•       Archives practices for increasing equity
•       Scientific archives and digital humanities/digital health humanities
•       AI and scientific archives
•       Collections and archives as data
•       Developing professional skills and knowledge base in scientific archives
•       Collaborative science and Big Team science challenges for archiving
•       Opportunities for engagement, teaching with and exhibiting scientific collections
Day 2 – June 6, 2024
The second day will be organized as an “unconference,” or a participant-driven meeting. We will come together to identify an agenda and discussion topics focused on prominent themes derived from input collected during the first day of the workshop. We will share challenges, develop solutions, generate ideas, and build partnerships. All attendees are welcome and encouraged to join and contribute. You don’t need to submit a proposal to participate in the unconference.

Call for Proposals:

The organizing committee is accepting presentation proposals of papers from archivists, historians, scientists, engineers, data specialists, curators, and others. These presentations will be 20 minutes and the committee is prioritizing proposals that represent the global context of scientific archives. Please submit a short abstract of 400 words with a bibliography of at least two items by Friday, January 5, 2024. Note that the bibliography does not count towards the 400-word maximum:  https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSedI4a6KDowhluZJSXUCHomIYU3lZkg9B-inpf0BsOJIjhF0A/viewform?usp=sf_link

Unfortunately, translation services are unavailable during the workshop, so only papers in English will be accepted.
Selections will be made by February 10, 2024 and selected speakers will be notified. The full program will be published in early March 2024. Limited travel funds will be available for interested speakers and participants. Applications for these funds will be made available between February and March 2024. Further information will follow.

As part of the organizing committee’s commitment to diversity, equality, and inclusion, we aim to make this workshop accessible to speakers and participants from different backgrounds, countries and perspectives. We look forward to receiving your abstracts and seeing you in San Francisco in 2024!

If you have any questions, please contact Polina Ilieva at polina.ilieva@ucsf.edu or check the workshop website: https://www.library.ucsf.edu/archives/about/fourth-workshop-on-scientific-archives/.

Organizing Committee:
•       Bethany Anderson University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA
•       Jean Marie Deken, SLAC Archives, History & Records Office (AHRO) and Research Library, Stanford, USA
•       Polina Ilieva, University of California, San Francisco Library (UCSF), USA
•       Rebekah Kim, California Academy of Sciences Library and Archive, USA
•       Anne-Flore Laloë, European Organization for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT), Germany
•       Melanie Mueller, American Institute of Physics, USA
•       Laura Outterside, European X-Ray Free-Electron Laser Facility, Germany
•       Patrick Shea, Othmer Library of Chemical History at the Science History Institute, USA
•       Venkat Srinivasan, National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS), Bengaluru, India

Call for Papers, 7th World Conference of the International Federation for Public History, University of Luxembourg

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Call for Papers

7th World Conference of the International Federation for Public History, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg, 3-7 September 2024

The International Federation for Public History (IFPH) now welcomes applications for its 2024 World Conference that will take place on 3-7 September, 2024. The conference will be hosted by the Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C²DH, University of Luxembourg), which is also the IFPH’s headquarters. Participants will enjoy a very international and multicultural environment in the heart of Western Europe.

International, Hybrid, and Green Event
Our aim for the conference is to be as inclusive and accessible as possible. In order to foster more international discussions, the IFPH and the C²DH have decided to offer hybrid opportunities for those presenting and attending the conference. Presenters can choose to present their papers on-site in Luxembourg or online through our video conferencing tool. Sessions will be facilitated to allow discussions between on-site and online presenters and attendants.
Hybrid conferences offer notable environmental advantages by curbing the carbon footprint associated with traditional, fully in-person events. By using the virtual attendance options, participants can significantly reduce travel-related emissions, contributing to lower air pollution and energy consumption. To go further, the conference will follow the recommendations of the General Directorate of Tourism of the Ministry of Economy of Luxembourg on Green Events organisation (a focus on local, organic and seasonal food, plant-based and vegetarian options, waste reduction, reusable and biodegradable serve ware, sustainable goodies, selection of hotels with Ecolabel). We encourage on-site participants to think green while preparing for their stay in Luxembourg: using public transportation (free in Luxembourg) and soft mobility, bringing your own coffee tumblers and refillable water bottles, digitising your business cards, etc.
Open Call
The field of public history is expanding rapidly. Similar to C²DH’s many activities, public history fosters accessibility, engagement, and participation for a wide range of people. The links between “history” and “publics” can take many forms including different audiences, contributors, spaces, projects, and uses of the past. In line with previous IFPH conferences, the 2024 event has an open call that invites proposals and discussions on history for, with, by, of, in, or among different publics.
Proposals may include (but are not limited to) the following topics:
•       Museums, archives, collections
•       Displaying, exhibiting, curating the past
•       Cultural heritage (historic sites, monuments, historic preservation)
•       (Video) games, audiovisual production, podcasts
•       Oral history, memories, family and community histories
•       Historical fiction, graphic novels, storytelling
•       Reenactments, pageants, festivals, performances
•       Digital public history (user-generated, crowdsourcing, social and transmedia)
•       Shared authority, coproduction, community-based practices
•       Commemoration, public policy, government, business, consulting, applied history
•       Teaching, ethics, theories of public history
•       Trauma, conflict, and reconciliation
•       Human rights, inequalities and discrimination, social justice
•       Migration, colonialism, decolonisation
•       Environment, landscape, natural resources, climate change
Application and Terms of Attendance
To support accessibility, there will be no conference registration fee. However, all presenters have to be members of the IFPH – please consult the website of the IFPH for more information on memberships. While online attendance will be free, we encourage you all to become members of the IFPH. Unfortunately, the conference organisers cannot provide any travel fund.
Applicants can propose:
•       a panel (thematic sessions, up to 4 presenters)
•       a working group (to explore in depth a subject of shared concern before and during the annual meeting and working towards the creation of an end output, white paper, publications, reports, guidelines – up to 10 discussants)
•       a workshop (hands-on and participatory experiences that impart practical information or skills)
•       a single paper
•       a poster (a separate call for poster proposals will be announced in early 2024)
If you wish to discuss your ideas about possible topics and sessions, you may use our online shared document.
Although fully online proposals are possible, we invite applicants to have at least one member of their session on-site to foster hybrid discussions. All sessions (including workshops) must be in English and will last 90 minutes.
Proposals (with abstracts and short biographies) must be submitted in English via our website.

For further details, please visit our page of instructions for submitting a proposal.