This is very late-notice, but the New England American Studies Association conference's theme this year is Digital Revolutions, and it seems to me Wikipedia and GLAM would fit in perfectly. The deadline for proposals is May 3 (this Thursday). Anyone interested?
Dominic
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Call for Papers—Deadline Extended to May 3, 2012
New England American Studies Association 2012 Conference URI Campus, Providence, Rhode Island October 12–13, 2012
Digital Revolutions: Interpreting and Historicizing American Culture
Recent developments in digital technologies have transformed the place of the humanities in American life. From online versions of Cotton Mather's Magnalia Christi Americana to a daily John Quincy Adams Twitter feed to the Smithsonian's publicly accessible Archives of American Art to the Women Writers Online Project, digital technologists are reshaping our sense of history, place, community, and identity. Digitization of America's cultural heritage has also fundamentally transformed work in the humanities itself.
From universities to libraries to cultural institutions, the information
infrastructure has brought forth digital collaborations across disciplines and beyond the academy, as well as between scholars, educators, archivists and programmers. But it has also brought forward concerns about copyright, control and access to information and the future of print media.
Are such changes unprecedented? Prior evolutions in communications technology suggest otherwise. From broadsides to blogs, such changes have reshaped the way Americans interact and understand themselves both in the present and the past. The 2012 NEASA conference, Digital Revolutions, invites participants to consider what these developments are, how they are redefining work in the humanities and what previous media revolutions suggest for the future.
This conference will combine scholarly investigation of the cultural, political and economic significance of communications media with a series of panels, workshops and participatory forums that can take advantage of technologies now available to us. In addition to individual paper proposals, we also welcome submissions for roundtable discussions, hands-on workshops and multimedia sessions such as film screenings, online presentations and 5-minute micropapers.
Proposals should include a one page abstract and title, as well as the author's name, address (including email), and institutional or professional affiliation. For panel proposals please include contact information for all participants, as well as a brief (no more than two page) description of the session topic and format. Submit proposals to neasaconference12@gmail.comby the revised deadline of May 3, 2012. Proposal or queries may also be sent to:
Sara Sikes, NEASA President
Massachusetts Historical Society, The Adams Papers
1154 Boylston Street
Boston, MA02215
ssikes@masshist.org
For more information about the conference and NEASA, including an expanded Call for Papers, please visit www.neasa.org.
-- Tracy Potter, Reference Librarian Massachusetts Historical Society 1154 Boylston Street, Boston, MA 02215 Tel: 617-646-0571, Fax: 617-859-0074 www.masshist.org - America's Oldest Historical Society - Founded 1791
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