Archival Science

Call for Submissions 2020
Fwd: Museums Journal - Home

Submission form & more info: 
https://tinyurl.com/Fwd2020

Produced and edited by University of Illinois at Chicago Museum and Exhibition Studies graduate students and published by Chicago-based StepSister Press, Fwd: Museums strives to create a space for challenging, critiquing, and providing alternative modes of thinking and production within and outside of museums. 

Finding aids:

Willard Warren Cummings papers, circa 1911-1997

The Willison Foundation Charitable Trust

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Executive Director

College of Charleston, Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture

The College of Charleston’s Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture is seeking an Executive Director to provide innovative and visionary leadership for this premier cultural institution.

The following jobs were posted to the H-Net Job Guide from 13 May 2019 to 20 May 2019. These job postings are included here based on the categories selected by the list editors for H-Announce. See the H-Net Job Guide website at http://www.h-net.org/jobs/ for more information. To contact the Job Guide, write to jobguide@mail.h-net.org or call +1-517-432-5134 between 9 am and 5 pm US Eastern time.

Special Feature Section: “American Studies in the Archive”

The New Americanist seeks articles for its fourth issue’s special feature section “American Studies in the Archive.” Articles whose framework largely depends on archival materials, or which theorize the role of the archive – either historically or in current practice – will be considered. Special consideration will be given to articles which take race, transnational, LGBTQ, or disability studies approaches.

The Holodomor Research and Education Consortium (HREC) announces the availability of stipends to support attendance by early career scholars at the conference Documenting the Famine of 1932-1933 in Ukraine: Archival Collections on the Holodomor outside the former Soviet Union, to be held at the University of Alberta on November 1-2, 2019. A conference concept and preliminary program may be found on the HREC website, www.holodomor.ca 

The web of digitized collections and archives in the field of arts and culture is expanding rapidly. As with any technological burst, the digital imperative evokes promises for an improved functionality, but also brings about new challenges and perils. Many museums, like other memory institutions, embrace the digitalization of their archives and collections as means to attract new audiences, for instance, and further their participation and engagement in their collections, their program of activities, and their research.

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Washburn Gallery records, 1906-2017

Memory Lives On: Documenting the HIV/AIDS Epidemic is an interdisciplinary symposium exploring and reflecting on topics related to archives and the practice of documenting the stories of HIV/AIDS.