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I am posting this reminder on behalf of Fiorella Foscarini. The closing date for proposals is Friday 6th February.
Apologies for any cross-posting.
The Seventh International Conference on the History of Records and Archives
ICHORA 7
CALL FOR PROPOSALS FOR PAPERS
Following previously successful I-CHORA conferences in Toronto (2003), Amsterdam
(2005), Boston (2007), Perth (2008), London (2010) and Austin (2012), the
University of Amsterdam, Media and Information Program is pleased to announce the
forthcoming seventh International Conference on the History of Records and Archives
to be held in Amsterdam from July 29-31, 2015. The conference will take place at De
Bazel Conference Centre (http://www.debazelamsterdam.nl/index.html), located in
the building that hosts the Amsterdam's City Archives.
The theme of the conference is: Engaging with Archives and Records: Histories and
Theories. We invite proposals for papers that explore different ways of historicizing
and theorizing recordmaking, recordkeeping, and archiving practices from a range of
disciplinary perspectives and through the eyes of creators, custodians, and users.
Topics might include, but are not limited to:
• hidden (and not so hidden) histories of particular recordmaking and
recordkeeping cultures and communities
• the making/unmaking/remaking of records in times of conflict and war
• silences in the records
• communities and diasporas of records
• histories of archival concepts, functions, and methods through time and
across disciplines
• user perspectives on the archive through time and across disciplines
• theorizing the history of archives in the wake of the archival turn
• historicizing and theorizing the archive and archives in the digital world
Proposals for papers should be made in the form of abstracts of 450-500 words and
should be sent to [log in to unmask] by Friday, February 6, 2015. We will advise
acceptance by early March 2015.
Following the conference, presenters will be invited to submit their contributions for
a peer-reviewed, post-conference publication on the theme of the conference.
Organizing and Program Committee:
Fiorella Foscarini, University of Amsterdam & University of Toronto, Canada
Agnes Jonker, University of Amsterdam
Heather MacNeil, University of Toronto, Canada
Bonnie Mak, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Gillian Oliver, University of Victoria, Wellington, New Zealand
Theo Thomassen, University of Amsterdam
Stefano Vitali, Soprintendenza Archivistica per l’Emilia-Romagna, Bologna, Italy