Archival Science

Big Data on Human and Social Sciences – History, Issues and Challenges

Organisation: Institute of Contemporary History and the History Lab (Columbia University)
Where: Lisbon
When: 6 and 7 November 2017
Call for proposals: 10 September 2017 [EXTENDED DEADLINE]

The Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association annual conference will be held March 28-31, 2018 at the J.W. Marriott in Indianapolis, Indiana. Scholars from a wide variety of disciplines will meet to share their Popular Culture research and interests.

We are delighted to announce the launch of the programme and festival website for "Reimagining Human Relations in Our Time" a festival celebrating 70 years of the Tavistock Institute. This will be a four day event taking place in October (17-20 Oct 2017) at Swiss Church (Endell Street), with a one day symposium at Conway Hall, and other linked activities happening at Wellcome Library.

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International Family History - a day-long symposium looking at Family History in an international context. Manchester Central Library, 22 September 2017, 9-5.

Kindly sponsored by Ancestry.com

Please register in advance for catering - there will be coffee and lunch provided.

Speakers include:

Given the number of librarians on H-Net, this may be of interest. Please excuse cross-posting.

Call for Proposals: Journal of New Librarianship, "New Generation of Librarianship"

The Journal of New Librarianship ( http://www.newlibs.org/ ) seeks short columns (500 to 1000 words) that explore, examine, and discuss issues surrounding the New Generation of Librarianship. 

Call for Submissions 2018 - Fwd: Museums Journal - "Alien" 2018

Free to register

The symposium is limited to 200 participants to encourage productive and dynamic dialogue in a more intimate setting. We expect demand to exceed our supply of seats, so please register early to secure your spot.

In April 2018, the Faculty of Arts of KU Leuven and the KU Leuven Libraries are hosting a European Conference for the Humanities on behalf of the European Consortium of Humanities Institutes and Centres (ECHIC, http:/echich.org).

21 September 2017 (Senate House, London; reception at British Academy)
Deadline: 30 June 2017, via http://bit.ly/BlocksPlatesStones-Submit
Details: http://bit.ly/BlocksPlatesStones

KEYNOTE ROUNDTABLE
Dr Richard S Field (Yale), Prof James Mosley (Institute of English Studies), Dr 
Ad Stijnman (Leiden), Prof Michael Twyman (Reading) 

Dear colleagues,

Save the date! November 13-14 2017 in Jerusalem!

The next EVA/MINERVA International Conference on Digitisation of Culture will take place on November, Monday-Tuesday 13-14 November 2017 at the Van Leer Institute in Jerusalem. This is our 14th conference –held annually since 2004.

For the presentations at our last conference see: http://minervaisrael.org.il and the site at  http://www.digital-heritage.org.il