Women’s Film Heritage: Expanding the World’s Film Archives

This is a call for short and diverse pieces of creative and academic work for an online open access publication of the RSE-funded project Women’s Film Heritage: Expanding the World’s Film Archives.  

Abstracts / proposals are invited from international scholars and practitioners with a specialism in the history of global film cultures, for a publication that will map out the neglect of women’s film heritage throughout the world, and beyond the usual focus on the Western archives. We are looking for short (maximum 4,000 words) pieces, including essays, self-reflexive pieces, poems or other creative work, interviews, video essays, photographic essays, etc… We encourage submissions in your mother tongue, and we will provide English translations or subtitles of these pieces. It is hoped this will result in an inclusive, multi-lingual and imaginative publication that reflects the wide selection of approaches to the topic of global women’s film heritage. 

You could also consider the abstract submission as a proposal for the international conference in January 2023 in Cluj, Romania. Please indicate in your abstract if this is of interest. 

Dear members,

I am Isah Nasidi from University of Nigeria, and the Secretary of the Communication History Division. I am young media and communication researcher.

I wrote a book titled Political communication in the era of fake news: concepts, laws and strategies.

The manuscript is ready, but I want to get a  scholar outside my country to write a forward for the book, at least to INTERNATIONALISED the book.

2nd International Symposium on Media History and Theory

Call for Papers English - Llamado a Ponencias Español Arriba

Presentation

The International Symposium on Media History and Theory is a trading zone where scholars from communications, design, humanities, arts and science can present current research, creative pieces, reflections and critical positions in areas such as software studies, media archaeology and history, speculative and critical design, media art, multimedia, and visual studies. The aim is to extend media analyses to physical media, technical operations, techno-scientific principles and the design of the infrastructures behind texts, images and sounds.

The BBC at 100 symposium, National Science and Media Museum and online, 13-15 Sept 2022

Everyone is welcome to register for free for The BBC at 100 Symposium, which will be held at the National Science and Media Museum in Bradford and online from 13-15 Sept 2022. It is sponsored by the Arts and Humanities Research Council with the support of the National Science and Media Museum, the University of Bradford and Media History.The symposium is interdisciplinary, inclusive and free to attend in-person or online. It aims

• to act as a gathering of the tribes, encompassing everyone from established scholars to postgraduates
• to take stock of research about the past century of British broadcasting by scholars in history, media and cultural studies, literary criticism, music, technology and related fields
• to explore what conceptual and logistical changes are needed to foster new directions in research and teaching
• to bring together archivists and researchers to discuss how to expand access to BBC archival resources, especially audiovisual ones.

One hundred and fifty academics and archivists from every continent save Antarctica participate in thirty roundtables on aesthetics, Africa and the Middle East, audiences, children, digital broadcasting, digitised archives, diversity, documentary and features, domestic and international literary programming, education, entertainment, ethnicity and sexuality, global broadcasting, the interwar period, classical, jazz and popular music, local and regional radio, mainland Europe, Northern Ireland and ‘The Troubles’, oral and transnational histories of BBC women, politics and current affairs, popular culture and the overseas services, popular music, public service broadcasting, radio drama, realism, religion and television studies. The programme is rounded out by plenary roundtables about archives and the history of broadcasting history, a tour of the NSMM’s special exhibition on a century of broadcasting, a joint book launch for twenty volumes on broadcasting history published since Covid, a gala screening of This Is The BBC (1960) and a symposium dinner followed by Paul Kerensa’s one-man play The First Broadcast.

CFP: Special Issue of the Journal Internet Histories “Museums on the Web: Exploring the past for the future”

This Special Issue will shed light on the history of museums on the Web. The advent of online technologies has changed the way museums manage collections and access them, shape exhibitions, and build communities and participation. However, scant attention has been given to how museums’ online presence has developed over time, from the mid-1990s to the present. Research has been undertaken for histories about museums and digital technologies (see for example Parry 2007, 2009; Cameron 2003; Cameron and Kenderdine 2010; Bowen 2010; Gartner 2016; Legene 2016). However, this Special Issue invites scholars and museum practitioners to discuss specifically the histories of museums on the Web. How have online collections been built, circulated, and exhibited? How have (information) architecture and museum websites developed over time? And how have museums built and engaged with (online) communities? We are interested in the foundational work by the early Internet pioneers, as well as the ruptures and continuities throughout the history of museums on the Web.

Please follow the link to the full description of the special issue and the forms to submit an abstract.

Possible topics could include, but are not limited to:

Call for Papers: Information & Culture

Information & Culture is an academic journal printed three times a year by the University of Texas Press. It publishes original, high-quality, peer-reviewed articles examining the social and cultural influences and impact of information and its associated technologies, broadly construed, on all areas of human endeavor. In keeping with the spirit of information studies, we seek papers emphasizing a human-centered focus that address the role and reciprocal relationship of information and culture, regardless of time and place.

The journal welcomes submissions from an array of relevant theoretical and methodological approaches, including but not limited to historical, sociological, psychological, political and educational research that address the interaction of information and culture.

To learn more about our submission standards or submit an article for publication in Information & Culture, visit our submissions page.

We are pleased to announce an open access Special Section on “Exclusions in the History of Media Studies”. The seven articles, published in English or Spanish, are introduced by the editors in English and in Spanish translation. History of Media Studies is a new, peer-reviewed, scholar-run, diamond OA journal dedicated to scholarship on the history of research, education, and reflective knowledge about media and communication.

• “Exclusions/Exclusiones: The Role for History in the Field’s Reckoning” - Peter Simonson, David W. Park, and Jefferson Pooley

• “Exclusiones/Exclusions: El papel de la historia en saldar la deuda histórica del campo” - Peter Simonson, David W. Park, and Jefferson Pooley

• “Antonio Pasquali. Una práctica intelectual entre América Latina y Europa (1979–1989)” - Emiliano Sánchez Narvarte

• “Constituted and Constituting Exclusions in Communication Studies” - Sarah Cordonnier

• “El imaginario textil: una interpretación alternativa en los estudios de la comunicación” - Daniel H. Cabrera Altieri

• “Inequality: The Blind Spot of Western Communication Studies” - Boris Mance and Sašo Slaček Brlek

• “Journalism via Systems Cybernetics: The Birth of the Chinese Communication Discipline and Post-Mao Press Reforms” - Angela Xiao Wu

• “Matrices y vertientes de pensamiento sobre los medios indígenas en América Latina” - Maria Magdalena Doyle

• “West Berlin’s Critical Communication Studies and the Cold War: A Study on Symbolic Power from 1948 to 1989” - Maria Löblich, Niklas Venema, and Elisa Pollack

History of Media Studies is published by mediastudies.press, a non-profit, scholar-led OA publisher. The journal is affiliated with (1) the Working Group on the History of Media Studies and (2) the History of Media Studies Newsletter, which contains updates on the journal, among other relevant news.

Questions? Contact us at hms@mediastudies.press

Dear all,

Apologies for cross-posting. The CFP below has been updated and the deadline extended. They are looking for chapters with an historical focus on queer animators, creators, imagineers, and musicians in relation to the Walt Disney Company. They are also seeking chapters that discuss the ‘Gay Days’ at Disney’s theme parks. 

Queering Disney: History of The Walt Disney Company and the Queer Community

deadline for submissions: 

Call for papers: “Hollywood Film Style and the Production Code: Criticism and History”, a special issue of The Quarterly Review of Film and Video.

Schedule: 300-500 word proposals/abstracts, along with a short bio, to tom.brown@kcl.ac.uk by 01/08/2022.

10,000 word draft chapters will be due in June 2023 for publication in the journal in early-2024.

Almost 30 years since the Quarterly Review of Film and Video published a special issue on the Production Code edited by Lea Jacobs and Richard Maltby (1995; 15:4), the time is ripe for a re-consideration of the Code’s aesthetic impact on Hollywood. Facing head-on the vexed question of the interaction of industry regulation with the tone and style of films themselves, the essays in the collection look closely at the detail of film form while closely considering broader and more specific histories of Production Code Administration (PCA) regulation and the self-censorship it encouraged.

Call for Submissions

The Journal of 20th Century Media History, a new peer reviewed online academic journal, is soliciting original scholarly article manuscripts for its first issue. The journal is designed to be broadly interdisciplinary and address current scholarship across a wide range of subject areas. As the title suggests, we are looking to publish historical work about topics that, in the main, focus on people, events, ideas, and practices from the 20th century. Article submissions that make use of innovative research techniques and methodologies are highly encouraged, as is research that draws attention to previously marginalized or under-represented groups or forms of media practice.  The journal can be found at https://mds.marshall.edu/j20thcenturymediahistory/

Journal of 20th Century Media History | Marshall University

Possible subject areas for articles include:

Call for Papers

Women and Hollywood: Tales of Inequality, Abuse and Resistance in the Dream Factory

Edited by Karen McNally

Abstract Deadline: Friday 15 July 2022

Hi list,

In case you are interested in studies of material in web archives there is still a few seats left for the closing conference of the WARCnet network. The theme of the conference is “Web archive studies researching web domains and events”, and it takes place in Aarhus, Denmark, 17-18 October, just before the ECREA conference.

Since the beginning of 2020 the WARCnet international network has studied the history of (trans)national web domains and of transnational events on the web, drawing on the increasingly important digital cultural heritage held in national web archives, and beyond. Read more at warcnet.eu.

The programme of the final WARCnet conference is now on line at https://cc.au.dk/en/warcnet/meetings/aarhus-2022

Media and cultural life in German-occupied Western Europe (1940-1945)

Call for papers for a symposium in Brussels (7-8 November 2022)

During the Second World War Nazi Germany occupied the majority of Western Europe, but the mode of occupation differed substantially from place to place. Some areas were simply annexed to the Reich, while others were governed by German military authorities. Others still were administered by German and / or local civilian authorities. In all cases the Germans reauthorized local cultural production in order to create a semblance of normalcy for civilians and to further their own political and economic interests. Newspapers and radio broadcasts reappeared. Cinemas, theatres and concert halls reopened their doors. Media and cultural personnel resumed their activities under widely varying degrees of German control. While the press, radiobroadcasting and newsreel production were often embedded directly into the propaganda apparatus of the Third Reich - with the goal of normalizing occupation and cultivating sympathy for Germany - contact with local media personnel gave rise to various forms of negotiation, conflict, compromise, and even resistance. Meanwhile, operating primarily from Great Britain, the Allies mobilized film, radio , and print media (especially pamphlets) to influence Europe’s occupied territories.

Though research on the cultural, political, social, and economic dimensions of propaganda in Nazi-occupied territories has a rich academic tradition, it is far from exhausted. There is still much research to be done in local, national, and especially transnational perspectives. There is also still significant potential for interdisciplinary investigation. This symposium will contribute to the development of new interdisciplinary and transnational research on media and cultural life in German-occupied Europe. Specific attention will be paid to the opportunities and challenges offered by the digitisation of archival collections, printed newspapers and audio-visual sources.

Good afternoon,

Apologies for cross-posting. This is a reminder for the CFP below. The deadline for abstracts is June 30th:

Queering Disney: History of The Walt Disney Company and the Queer Community

With Disney’s initial apathetic response to the ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill which recently passed in the state of Florida, it is time to shed light on Disney’s complex relationship with the LGBTQIA2S+ community. Recently, there have been works which briefly discuss the relationship of queerness and Disney, such as Sean Griffin’s Tinker Bells and Evil Queens (2000), Melanie S. Kohnen Queer Representation, Visibility, and Race (2016), Jennifer Sandlin and Julie Garlen’s edited collection Disney, Culture, and Curriculum (2016), and Joseph Brennan’s edited collection Queerbaiting and Fandom (2019). However, the queer artist/contributor has yet to be the main topic of discussion. These previous works shed light on these areas, but a sustained scholarly inquiry to bring this insight to the forefront and examine the historical and cultural significance of The Walt Disney Company’s complex relationship with the queer community has yet to be done.

CFP – International Conference : The web, source and archive

The organizing committee and the partners of the ResPaDon project are pleased to invite you to participate in the international colloquium:

The web: source and archive

This international conference proposes to question the place of sources from the web in the scientific field and to situate web archiving practices in plural scientific approaches and questions.

Spilling the Tea: Gendering News in the Early Modern World

What makes something ‘news-worthy’? When is something gossip, and when is it cold, hard fact? In the early modern period, a rise in the news across Europe resulted in what some have called an ‘information revolution’, with cheap, widely-available printed news and a thriving manuscript news culture leading to the rise of the public sphere. But – in the past as well as today – the ways that news and information are discussed are highly gendered, with men’s communication networks framed as newsworthy and women’s denigrated as gossip, scandal, tattle, and even ‘dirt’. 

This 1-day conference, Aug 25, 2022, at Durham University UK seeks to reconcile and acknowledge the ways that information is gendered, inviting a fresh consideration of expertise, communication, and publicity, putting women’s contributions, networks, and methods at the centre of news cultures rather than the periphery. We invite scholars and journalists to join us as we consider gender and the rise of the information age. Proposals for 20-minute (presentation) or 10-minute (roundtable) contributions on gender and the news, broadly framed, throughout the early modern (1450-1800) world. This might include, but is not limited to, topics such as:

• Women producers of the news, including women writers, publishers, and creators
• Gendering news as ‘gossip’, ‘tittle-tattle’, or ‘tea’
• Women readers and consumers of the news, and the gendering of readerships
• Letter-writing and epistolary cultures in literature, art, and drama
• Handwriting the news
• Different types of news, including local, social and familial news
• ‘Reporting’ as a gendered action and activity
• Communication methods, information culture and the spread of news both nationally and internationally 
• The history of journalism and women’s roles in the field
• Masculinity, self-control, self-presentation, and public engagement
• Personal networks, alliances, and the sociality of information
• Scandal, rumour, and illicit news-sharing

Book History with Heurist: the challenges and potential of a databasing platform

Many book history projects are developed in Heurist (https://heuristnetwork.org), an open-source web application that enables researchers to develop relational databases without any prior knowledge of programming. To facilitate conversation between such researchers, the Heurist Book History User Group has recently been formed (https://groups.google.com/g/heurist-book-history).

The Heurist Book History User Group is arranging an online workshop for the 20th and 21st of July 2022. Participants will present their book history projects, discussing their Heurist databases and the challenges they pose. The online workshop has three main aims: (1) to inform the community about the possibilities offered by the platform, (2) to orient future developments of the platform, and (3) to promote Heurist as a tool for book history to new users.

The project presentations will last 20 minutes, followed by 10 minutes for questions. Two keynote speakers will speak on the development of book history projects in Heurist. Our first confirmed keynote speaker is Professor Simon Burrows (Western Sydney University), who will present his FBTEE and MPCE databases, which he recently converted to Heurist after more than a decade using bespoke MySQL databases.

NOS-HS Workshop: “Cinema as space of encounters before, during and after WWII”

29-30 Sep. 2022, Kristiansand, Norway

For many people in the 20th century, going to the movies was not just a leisure activity, but a necessity. As embodiment of democratic mass culture, movie theatres offered information and entertainment to everybody, regardless of age, gender, class, ethnic or religious background, even though the cinema-going practices were socially distinct and fragmented. People went to the movies for multiple reasons: to be entertained, to learn what was going on in the world and in the community, to find consolation, reassurance, or encouragement, to connect socially or find privacy in the dark, to be noticed or to disappear in the crowd.

The workshop “Cinema as space of encounters before, during and after WWII” is the first in the workshop series “Cinema, War and Citizenship at the Northern Periphery: Cinemas and their audiences in the Nordic countries, 1935-1950”. It asks how the Second World War altered the cinema-going experiences and the social functions of the movie theatre. The Nordic countries were affected very differently by the war. While Denmark and Norway were occupied by Nazi Germany, Iceland was first occupied by British and then by US forces. Finland fought alongside Nazi Germany and then against it, while Sweden remainedofficially neutral, but experienced a large influx of refugees from neighbouring countries. The movie theatre became a battleground between different factions of society. At the same time, the movie theatres became a space of cultural encounters with the enemy or the ally, both on screen and in the auditorium.

Annual CBI Award in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) History

The way people and computers work together has been the subject of intense study since the beginnings of the computer age in the early 1950s. A discipline, known as Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), eventually emerged to formalize this research, composed of computer scientists, psychologists, cognitive scientists, artists, and many others. Since these early days of focus on the user experience, Human-Computer Interaction has helped create and shape our always evolving digital world—from early graphics, networking, and graphical user interfaces to the Web, mobile, the Internet of Things, AI, and the Cloud.

The Annual CBI Ben Shneiderman Award in Human-Computer Interaction History recognizes excellence in advancing the history/social study (focus must be change over time) of HCI. The principal award is for a published book, article, documentary, podcast, website, or other media on HCI’s past; a second award is for a top dissertation or thesis (Ph.D./Master’s degree) on HCI history.

Available Awards

New issue of Historiography is now available.

We are pleased to announce publication of the newest issue of the online journal Historiography in Mass Communication.

You can access the issue at http://history-jmc.com. You may either read it online or download a pdf. It does not require a subscription — it is free!

Here’s a list of the contents:

Call for papers: Beyond Early Cinema: Persistence of Travelling Cinema Throughout the Twentieth Century

Workshop - Universite Paris-Nanterre, France, October 19, 2022

This workshop, part of the “Community Building at the Cinema” research project, aims to explore the persistence of travelling cinema practices throughout the twentieth century. So far, historiography has mostly focused on the history of travelling cinema and its entrepreneurs in Western Europe before the First World War. With this workshop and according to the project’s decentralising ambition, we would like to take into consideration recent scholarly works and move beyond this well studied space-time to uncover the wide range of travelling cinema practises in lesser-investigated historical and geographical contexts. Indeed, in recent years, increasing attention has been devoted to non-commercial travelling cinema for propaganda or advertising purposes as well as commercial mobile screenings long after the implementation of the (historiographically) dominant model of fixed-site cinemas.

This workshop will explore travelling cinema practises on a global scale in their historical, material and cultural diversity and will look at the ways in which they interfere with the communal identities of audiences. How communities - understood as porous, linguistic, ethnic, religious groups, crossed by various social and cultural dynamics - structured travelling cinema audiences and, conversely, how travelling cinema screening venues created, reinforced or perturbed community identities? The time span adopted goes from the 1920s to the end of the 20th century, up to the moment when television got rooted in the daily spectatorial practices and the VCR player developed (a point in time that differs according to local media histories).

Call for papers: Re-bordering the archive – European audiovisual archives and transnational entanglements

NEW issue 24: Re-bordering the archive: European audiovisual archives and transnational entanglements

Guest editors: Alec Badenoch, Emily Clark, Yasemin Baḡcı, Marek Jancovic

Publication date: fall/winter 2023

mediastudies.press is a scholar-led, nonprofit, no-fee open access publisher in the media, film, and communication studies fields. We are excited to announce the publication of our latest book, Sue Curry Jansen’s What Was Artificial Intelligence?.

When it was originally published in 2002, Sue Curry Jansen’s “What Was Artificial Intelligence?” attracted little notice. The long essay was published as a chapter in Jansen’s Critical Communication Theory, a book whose wisdom and erudition failed to register across the many fields it addressed. One explanation for the neglect, ironic and telling, is that Jansen’s sheer scope as an intellectual had few competent readers in the communication studies discipline into which she published the book. “What Was Artificial Intelligence?” was buried treasure. In this mediastudies.press edition, Jansen’s prescient autopsy of AI self-selling—the rhetoric of the masculinist sublime—is reprinted with a new introduction. Now an open access book, What Was Artificial Intelligence? is a message in a bottle, addressed to Musk, Bezos, and the latest generation of AI myth-makers.

The book is available online, and as a free download in PDF, ePub, and Mobi. The book is also available as a $5 paperback.

What Was Artificial Intelligence? appears in the Media Manifold series. Scholars interested in proposing volumes in this or other series are encouraged to reach out with a query.

Joseph McKerns Research Grant Applications Sought

The American Journalism Historians Association seeks applications for its annual Joseph McKerns Research Grant Awards.

The research grant is intended to provide research assistance and to recognize and reward the winners. Up to four grants for up to $1,250 each will be rewarded upon review and recommendation of the Research Committee. Grants may be used for travel or other research-related expenses, but not for salary.

Eligibility:

Dear friends and colleagues,

We are pleased to invite those of you who will be in Paris on May 25 to attend the Communication History Division’s preconference “Reconsidering Empires and Imperialisms in Media and Communication History.” 

The event is open to all but advanced registration is required as places are limited.

If you are planning to join us, please register using this link: 

Call for Papers

Symposium on the 19th Century Press, the Civil War, and Free Expression

November 3–5, 2022, via ZOOM and in person

The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga

Call for Papers: Broadside Extra!

News, songs and provocations in the history of cheap print and street literature

One-day conference Saturday 15th October 2022, hosted by the School of Media and the Centre for Critical Media Literacy (CCML) at Technological University DublinOrganised by the Traditional Song Forum and CCML, with the support of the Irish Traditional Music Archive and An Góilín Traditional Singers Club.This will be an in-person conference, with proceedings live-streamed for those who cannot be there. Admission is free.

We invite proposals for 15-to-20-minute presentations on any aspect of cheap print and street literature in Britain and Ireland (and their diasporas) – including intersections of the histories of journalism and other facets of the popular press.

CfP: Media histories of the 1980s and 1990s. Special issue of TMG – Journal for Media History.

Deadline (Abstracts): May 16, 2022

Contemporary research predominantly conceives of ‘new media’—i.e., media worthy of scholarly attention—as digital media and computer technologies (Peters, 2009; Borah, 2017). Media historical scholarship has responded to this in various ways. Media archaeologists, for example, argue that historicising media helps to counter teleological perspectives concerning the current digital media landscape, as well as the corporate-fed idea that present-day media are more disruptive and transformative than ever. Others seek to historicise the current media ecosystem and its conceptual underpinnings to investigate claims of their supposed “newness” (Balbi, Ribeiro, Schafer & Schwarzenegger 2021). Media history at large has thus shifted from a central focus on traditional mass media towards a more diverse set of research ambitions, also including transnational media histories. 

However, media and technologies that emerged or prospered over the course of the 1980s and 1990s have largely been neglected, some exceptions notwithstanding (e.g., Arceneaux 2005; Moe & Van den Bulck 2016; Slootweg 2018; Verhoef 2022). This is problematic, for it results in a gap in our socio-cultural knowledge. After all, scholars have abundantly made clear that media histories form an apt prism through which to analyse ‘a rich web of cultural practices and ideas’ (Douglas 1987: xv). Seminal works have highlighted the societal changes that older media technologies, such as the telegraph (Czitrom 1982), telephone (Fischer 1992), radio (Douglas 1987) and television (Spigel 1992) engendered and reflected—yet there is a dearth of similar histories pertaining to the 1980s and 1990s. An earlier special issue of TMG—Journal for Media History sought to bring electromagnetic media such as video back into the limelight. More needs to be done, however. We believe that encouraging 1980s and 1990s media histories is imperative to understand historical developments such as burgeoning individualisation, consumerism or neoliberalism—developments which continue to affect our lives today. In short, 1980s and 1990s media technologies moved fast and broke things, too. 

CFA: Brooke Hindle Postdoctoral Fellowship in the History of Technology, applications due 15 April

The Brooke Hindle Postdoctoral Fellowship in the History of Technology honors the contribution of Brooke Hindle to the work of the Society for the History of Technology. The Fellowship, made possible thanks to the great generosity of his family, is for $10,000 and may be used for any purpose connected with research or writing in the history of technology for a period of not less than three months during the calendar year following the award.

Applicants must hold a doctorate in the history of technology or a related field. The doctorate can be awarded no more than four years before the application deadline, and no later than nine months after the application deadline. (Applicants who graduated more than four years before the deadline but have extenuating circumstances, such as family commitments, may apply at the discretion of the committee chair.) Other awards may be held in conjunction with the Fellowship.

The proposal must be in a field related to the history of technology. Applicants should be intending either to prepare a dissertation for publication as articles or as a monograph, or to develop a new project based on primary research. Applications must be in English.

New issue of Historiography in Mass Communication is available now. We are pleased to announce publication of the newest issue of the online journal Historiography in Mass Communication.

You can access the issue at http://history-jmc.com. You may either read it online or download a pdf. It does not require a subscription — it is free!

Here’s a list of the contents:

• From the Editor: “How Media History Matters”
• Pat Washburn, In Memorium: Mike Sweeney
• Erin Coyle, “Analyzing Journalists’ Collective Conceptions of Press Freedom”
• Hiley Ward, How Media History Matters: “The Media and Political Values”
• Historian Interview: Andrew Pettegree
• Book Award Interview: Harold Holzer: The Presidents vs. the Press
• News and Notes

AJHA Journalism History Achievement Awards—Call for Nominations

The American Journalism Historians Association invites nominations for two awards honoring significant service to the study and understanding of media history.

Kobre Award

The Sidney Kobre Award for Lifetime Achievement in Journalism History is the organization’s highest honor. The Kobre Award recognizes individuals with an exemplary record of sustained achievement through teaching, research, professional activities, or other contributions to the field of journalism history. Award winners need not be members of the AJHA. Nominations for the award are solicited annually, but the award need not be given every year. Those making nominations should present, at minimum, a cover letter that explains the nominee’s contributions to the field and a vita or brief biography of the nominee. Supporting letters for the nomination are welcome and encouraged. For a list of past winners, see https://ajha.wildapricot.org/kobre.

Joint conference submission deadline extended until March 15!

The deadline to submit a proposal for the Joint Journalism and Communication History Conference has been extended until March 15. This annual conference (co-sponsored by the History Division and the American Journalism Historians Association) will be held virtually on Friday, May 13. It is free to attend. Please find the call for proposals and other details here: https://ajha.wildapricot.org/JJCHC2022Call

The conference is open to scholars at all levels working on any aspect of the history of journalism and mass communication.

Sincerely,

CFP for the Closing Conference of WARCnet — Web ARChive studies network researching web domains and events

Since the beginning of 2020 the WARCnet international network has studied the history of (trans)national web domains and of transnational events on the web, drawing on the increasingly important digital cultural heritage held in national web archives, and beyond.

The WARCnet network will have its closing conference 17-18 October 2022 in Aarhus, Denmark, in the days leading up to the ECREA conference, also to take place in Aarhus. The closing conference is open for submissions from researchers, web archivists, IT-developers, and practitioners from inside and outside the network who can contribute to the field of study of WARCnet.

Proposals for individual papers and panels can be submitted until 4 March 2022.

CFP: History and Theory of Photography Graduate Student Colloquium

Deadline: March 18, 2022

Call for Papers

The Developing Room’s Sixth Graduate Student Colloquium on the History and Theory of Photography (Virtual Event on Zoom)

Research Society for Victorian Periodicals
and
the Scottish Centre for Victorian and Neo-Victorian Studies

Four Nations and Beyond: Periodical Studies and National Identities in the British Isles and Ireland

Trades Hall, Glasgow. 20th May 2022

The Research Society for Victorian Periodicals and the Scottish Centre for Victorian and Neo-Victorian Studies invite paper proposals for a one-day workshop in May 2022. This event will explore how Victorian periodical and newspaper cultures operated in the different nations of the British Isles and Ireland, and in their diaspora cultures that emerged through emigration and imperialism. We hope to interrogate how periodicals constructed Irish, Scottish and Welsh identities, in relation to or in opposition to a range of ‘English’ identities, as well as examining how such English identities were unmade and remade in coeval relation with the neighbouring countries it governed. We particularly welcome papers that engage with these ideas in relation to languages and regional dialects; diasporas, immigrant cultures, and indigenous cultures; and transimperial dynamics.

The IEEE Annals of the History of Computing has been a central part of the history of computing community since the 1970s.

The IEEE Computer Society is now searching for a new editor-in-chief for Annals, for a three-year term beginning 1 January 2023. (An EIC can apply later for a second term of two years.)

For more information about the Computer Society and /Annals/, and to learn about the application process, see https://www.computer.org/press-room/2021-news/ieee-cs-pubs-seek-2023-editors-in-chief. Please note that the deadline for receipt of applications is 1 March 2022.

“Radio Soundscapes in (Post)Colonial Settings”

Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Lisbon, 7-8 July 2022

Over the last century broadcasting played a central role in the construction and dissemination of national cultures and shared identities. Used to promote the idea of nation within state borders, in the cases of the Imperial nations this role was extended overseas with the audio medium becoming central in the effort to unite the home countries with the expats living in the far reaches of the empires. In many territories under European rule, namely in Africa, this led to the creation of what were at first white soundscapes in which local cultures and languages were absent from the airwaves.

In the late 1950s, as the winds of decolonialism swept through Africa, state and private-owned imperial and colonial stations opened up their programming schedules to African languages and cultures. In some cases, such as the BBC, this aimed to safeguard the station’s listenership in the context of increasing competition from stations set-up by the new-born African states (Potter, 2012; Ritter, 2021), while in others, namely in the Portuguese Empire, programmes in African languages were used to indoctrinate the black population on the supposed benefits of colonialism (Ribeiro, 2017). Some of these overall broadcasts also coexisted with a developing commercial radio style and programming, where new jingles and music genres created a new and parallel irresistible (sonorous) empire (di Grazia, 2005; Domingos, 2021). But in this radio ecosystem that emerged in the mid-20th century in different regions in Africa there were as well other stations operated by independence movements that resorted to broadcasting to promote independence from colonial powers and to foster new national identities. In the postcolonial era, broadcasting was instrumental in fostering new cultural and political identities with the new independent state also resorting to the audio medium to create their own sound identity. 

Covert Award Call for Submissions

AEJMC’S History Division announces the 38th annual competition for the Covert Award in Mass Communication History for entries published in 2021.

The $400 award memorializes the esteemed Dr. Catherine L. Covert, professor of journalism at Syracuse University (_d._1983). Cathy Covert was the first woman professor in Syracuse’s Newhouse School of Journalism and the first woman to head the History Division, in 1975. Prof. Covert received the AEJMC Outstanding Contribution to Journalism Education Award in 1983.

Submit an electronic copy in pdf form of the published article/essay/chapter via email to Professor Thomas A. Mascaro, mascaro@bgsu.edu, by March 31, 2022. The publication may be self-submitted or submitted by others, such as an editor or colleague. Essays published exclusively online require date of publication, URL, verification of originality and authorship, and the essay in pdf format.

Call for Submissions: Seventh DHST Dissertation prize

The International Union of the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, Division of History of Science and Technology (IUHPST/DHST), is happy to invite submissions to its seventh DHST Dissertation prize, awarding promising young scholars in the broad field of the history of science and technology.

Initiated at the 22nd International Congress of History of Science in 2005 held in Beijing, IUHPST/DHST now awards the prize every two years. Up to three awards for recent Ph.D. historians of science and technology will recognize outstanding doctoral dissertations completed and filed between 1 September 2020 and 1 September 2022.

The Prize does not specify distinct categories, but submissions must be on the history of science, technology, or medicine. The Award Committee endeavors to maintain the broadest coverage of subjects, geographical areas, chronology and civilizations (African, North American, South American, Asian, Islamic, Western and Ancient Civilizations, and others not included in this list).

Forgotten Popular Culture: Asian Cinema and Film History

An online international conference

CFP

Popular cinema is closely associated with a wide range of social and cultural issues, such as audiences’ taste, collective memory, creative economy, cultural history, and social-political systems. Yet, often associated with low-brow entertainment, it could also be neglected by film critics or in official discourses for reasons such as censorship, cultural hegemony, cultural goods embargo, intellectual elitism, linguicism, and sexism. Whereas such oversight leads to amnesia of film history, it also reinforces the hierarchy of cultural criticism.

Audiovisual Cultures in the 19th Century – online event this Thursday

We are pleased to present the panel “Audiovisual Cultures in the 19th Century” this Thursday, 27th January, 4-5pm (UK) on Zoom, as part of the BARN Virtual Colloquia series.

The online panel will feature the following 20-minute presentations:

• Showcasing the Ghosts: Spirit Images and Their Voices in Nineteenth-Century Operas (Feng-Shu Lee, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University) * Early Film Documents as Sources for 19th Century Performance Practice (Jörg Holzmann, Bern University of the Arts)

ECREA Communication History Section Workshop (2-4 February 2022): registrations open

History of Digital Media and Digital Media Historiography workshop

February 2-4, 2022

This ECREA Communication History Section workshop, co-sponsored by the ICA Communication History Division, will take place in an hybrid format and registrations for online attendance are now open.

CFP: American Journalism Special Issue: The History of Investigative Reporting Call for Papers: American Journalism Special Issue: The History of Investigative Reporting

Nick Hirshon, nickhirshon@gmail.com

This year marks the fiftieth anniversary of the 1972 break-in at the Democratic headquarters at the Watergate complex, which precipitated some of the most heralded investigative reporting in American history and a classic journalism book and film, All the President’s Men. To mark this milestone, American Journalism is soliciting submissions of abstracts for original research on the history of investigative reporting in the United States. Submissions may examine reporting on the Watergate scandal itself, such as analysis of period journalism, the legacy of that coverage, and the production of All the President’s Men, or any aspect of investigative reporting before or after Watergate, no later than the year 2000.

Authors should submit an abstract of 300 words to americanjournalismeditor@gmail.com by 11:59 p.m. March 1, 2022.

Dear Friends and Colleagues

Further to my earlier communications, I am now delighted to let you know that the portals for the submission (with some additional suggestions for topics) for the Visible Evidence XVIII conference (Images of History) to take place in Gdansk this summer are unveiled below. Our vision is that the meeting will be a space which is rigorous and non-patriarchal, solid but fluid, safe but inclusive and bold. We do hope you will join us in person, or online if needed.

https://www.visibleevidence.org/the-xxviii-visible-evidence-conference-cfp/

As mentioned previously, and in accordance with the VE traditions, there will be a number of shared plenary sessions with keynotes Elizabeth Cowie, Michael Renov , Malgorzata Radkiewicz and myself. We can confirm that the very brilliant and controversial filmmaker Penny Lane will be one of our special guests.

Dear colleagues,

I'm co-organizing the Joint Journalism and Communication History conference this May. We are currently soliciting paper, panel and research-in-progress proposals. Would you mind circulating this call in your newsletter? Here's the wording, feel free to use whatever you'd like:

Call for proposals: 2022 Joint Journalism and Communication History Conference

The Joint Journalism and Communication History Conference, co-sponsored by the American Journalism Historians Association and the History Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, is now accepting submissions for its 2022 conference, to be held virtually via Zoom.

This free, one-day, interdisciplinary conference welcomes faculty, graduate students, and independent scholars researching the history of journalism and mass communication. Topics from all geographic areas and time periods are welcome, as are all methodological approaches. This conference offers a welcoming environment in which participants can explore new ideas, garner feedback on their work, and meet colleagues from around the world interested in journalism and mass communication history.

When: Friday, May 13, 2022, 9:00am to 5:00pm Eastern (U.S.) time

Where: Virtual (Zoom)

Proposals for paper presentations, research-in-progress presentations, or panels are all welcome. Your proposal should detail your presentation topic and offer a compelling rationale for why this research would interest an interdisciplinary community of scholars.

• Papers are completed research studies. The paper should be attached to the submission (as a Microsoft Word document or PDF) along with an abstract of up to 500 words.
  

• Research-in-progress (RIP) proposals are projects that are currently underway and that would benefit from collegial feedback in a conference setting. The JJCHC eagerly welcomes such work and prides itself on being a forum for generative thinking and feedback. RIP proposals should be described in an abstract of up to 500 words.
  

• Panels are pre-constituted presentations from multiple scholars working on similar topics or using similar methodological approaches. Panels generally consist of 3-4 scholars. To submit a panel proposal, please include an overview of the panel along with abstracts for each of the individual projects/presentations. The overview and the individual abstracts each may be up to 500 words.
  

Submissions should be emailed to JJCHC2022@gmail.com. Please remove any identifying information from your abstract and attach it to your email as a Microsoft Word document or a PDF. In the body of your email, please include your name, preferred email address, and institutional affiliation and title/rank (if applicable). If you are submitting a panel proposal, please include that information for all panel participants.

The deadline for proposal submissions is March 1, 2022. Authors will be notified as to whether their proposal was accepted no later than April 13, 2022. Please direct any questions to one of the conference co-chairs: A.J. Bauer (ajbauer2@ua.edu), Matthew Pressman (matthew.pressman@shu.edu), or Rich Shumate (rich.shumate@wku.edu).

Many thanks,

AJ

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Co-Editor | News on the Right
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Deadline extended - Best Journalism & Mass Communication History Book Award

The Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication History Division is soliciting entries for its annual award for the best journalism and mass communication history book. The winning author will receive a plaque and a $500 prize at the August 2022 AEJMC conference in Detroit, Michigan. Attendance at the conference is encouraged as the author will be invited to be a guest for a live taping of the Journalism History podcast during the History Division awards event. The competition is open to any author of a media history book regardless of whether they belong to AEJMC or the History Division. Only first editions with a 2021 copyright date will be accepted. Entries must be received by February 15, 2022. Submit four hard copies of each book or an electronic copy (must be an e-Book or pdf manuscript in page-proof format) along with the author’s mailing address, telephone number, and email address to:

Gwyneth Mellinger, AEJMC History Book Award Chair
James Madison University
54 Bluestone Drive, MSC 2104
Harrisonburg, VA 22807
mellingx@jmu.edu

If you have any questions, please contact Book Award chair Gwyneth Mellinger at mellingx@jmu.edu.

Thematic Section on “Old media persistence. Past continuities in the brand-new digital world”

Studies in Communication Sciences (SComS)

Deadline (abstracts): February 15, 2022

Edited by Gabriele Balbi (USI Universita della Svizzera italiana), Berber Hagedoorn (University of Groningen), Nazan Haydari (Istanbul Bilgi University)

Protecting, curating and making spaces for women’s film & television history

Happy new year everyone,

And apologies for cross-posting

To launch the revamped Women’s Film & Television History Network website, on Thursday 13th January 5.30-7.30pm we’re hosting an evening of events that focus on women’s film and television history. Tickets are still available and can be booked through the Eventbrite link below, which also includes further details and a Zoom link

AHRC-funded PhD Studentship - An Environmental History of Submarine Cable Telegraphy circa 1880-1940

Details

Supervisors: Dr R Noakes, Dr Cassie Newland, Prof Gareth Parry

The supervisors are historians of telecommunications with much experience supervising PhD students collaborating with heritage organisations on projects transforming understanding of our electrically-connected world. Noakes has published on the history of cable telegraphy and is currently supervising three AHRC-funded collaborative doctoral projects with BT Archives. In 2009-10 he was PI on the £289k AHRC-funded Connecting Cornwall: Telecommunications, Locality and Work in West Britain, 1870-1918, a collaborative research project with PK Porthcurno that produced a new exhibition, academic publications and online resources for specialist researchers and schools. Newland is an expert on industrial archaeology who worked on the AHRC-funded project Scrambled Messages: The Telegraphic Imaginary, 1857-1900, curated London Guildhall’s Victorians Decoded exhibition, and is currently finishing an academic monograph on submarine cables and environmentalism prior to the period of this project. The PK Porthcurno supervisor, Emeritus Professor Gareth Parry, combines experience supervising PhD students with public engagement work in science and engineering, and expertise in the history of submarine cable communication.

CFP for the Closing Conference of WARCnet — Web ARChive studies network researching web domains and events

Since the beginning of 2020 the WARCnet international network has studied the history of (trans)national web domains and of transnational events on the web, drawing on the increasingly important digital cultural heritage held in national web archives, and beyond.

The WARCnet network will have its closing conference 17-18 October 2022 in Aarhus, Denmark, in the days leading up to the ECREA conference, also to take place in Aarhus. The closing conference is open for submissions from researchers, web archivists, IT-developers, and practitioners from inside and outside the network who can contribute to the field of study of WARCnet.

Proposals for individual papers and panels can be submitted until 4 March 2022.