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.

2022 Mark Samuels Lasner Fellowship in Printing History

The American Printing History Association (APHA) is accepting applications for the 2022 Mark Samuels Lasner Fellowship in Printing History. An award of up to $2,000 is available for research in any area of the history of printing, including all the arts and technologies relevant to printing, the book arts, and letter forms.

The Mark Samuels Lasner Fellowship supports the study of printing history, in any time period or geographic region. APHA fellowships are open to individuals of any nationality. Previous applicants are encouraged to re-apply. The fellowship can be used to pay for travel, living, and other expenses, including internet access, dependent care during the period of research, and fees for image reproduction.

Applications and supporting materials are due by Sunday, January 9, 2022. The fellowship will be formally awarded at the annual meeting of the American Printing History Association on Saturday, January 29, 2022. The meeting will be virtual. Full information, the application form, and a sample budget may be found on the APHA Fellowship page (https://printinghistory.org/programs/fellowship/).

Selling Britain: The BBC German Service in the Post-War Period

Arts and Humanities Research Council Funded Collaborative Doctoral Award (DTP SWW)

### Supervisors:

Professor Vike Martina Plock, University of Exeter, v.plock@exeter.ac.uk

Maurice Daumas Prize - ICOHTEC’s Article Prize

The International Committee for the History of Technology, ICOHTEC, welcomes submissions for the Maurice Daumas Prize, which aims to encourage innovative scholarship in the history of technology. ICOHTEC is interested in the history of technological development as well as its relationship to science, society, economy, culture, and the environment. There is no limitation as to theoretical or methodological approaches.

The prize will be awarded to the author of the best article submitted which deals with the history of technology in any period of the past or in any part of the world and which was published in a journal or edited volume in 2020 or 2021. Eligible for the prize are original articles published in (or later translated into) any of the official ICOHTEC languages (English, French, German, Russian or Spanish). Submissions are welcomed from scholars of any country who are currently in graduate school or have received their doctorate within the last seven years. Please send your submission and a brief (not to exceed one-page) cv to each of the nine Prize Committee members no later than 15 January 2022. Electronic submissions are preferred. The winner will be contacted in late April 2022.

The prize will be awarded at our 49th Symposium, will take place virtually. It will occur in 3 phases, each lasting two days. The 1st meeting will be in June (17, 18), the 2nd in September (24, 25), and the 3rd in October (15, 16). The winner will receive a cash prize of Euro 500. Alongside the first prize, articles in the second and third-ranking positions will receive an honorarium/diploma award.

Dear All,

I hope you’re well.

I’m pleased to let you know that the John Scholes Transport History Prize competition for 2022 is open, with a deadline for submissions of 31 July2022.

The prize consists of £150 of vouchers to spend with SAGE, €250 in cash and a year’s membership of the International Association for the History of Transport, Traffic and Mobility (T2M).

Research Society for American Periodicals Article Prize 2020-21

http://www.periodicalresearch.org/rsap-article-prize-2020-21/

Deadline for submissions: December 15, 2021

Contact: Tim Lanzendörfer – tlanzend@em.uni-frankfurt.de

Media and the Dissemination of Fear: Pandemics, Wars and Political Intimidation

Edited by:  Nelson Ribeiro and Christian Schwarzenegger

Part of the Global Transformations in Media and Communication Research - A Palgrave and IAMCR Series book series. Available here: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-84989-4

• - Discusses the role of different media in the creation and dissemination of fear

• - Examines the mechanisms of persuasion that trigger willingness to accept extreme measures or actions during crises

• - Argues that fear is recurrently used by political and social actors to increase their own power in different societies

History of Digital Media and Digital Media Historiography

A ECREA Communication History Section Workshop, co-sponsored by the ICA Communication History Division

2-4 February 2022, Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C2DH

www.c2dh.uni.lu, University of Luxembourg

To whom it may concern

The editors of Internet Histories are pleased to announce that

Volume 5, Issue 3-4, September-December 2021 is complete, and available online.

One article is open access.

Hodson Trust - John Carter Brown Fellowship (four months, $20,000 + housing)

The Starr Center for the Study of the American Experience and the John Carter Brown Library invite applications for the Hodson Trust - John Carter Brown Fellowship, a unique research and writing fellowship. The Hodson Trust - John Carter Brown Fellowship supports work by academics, independent scholars and writers working on significant projects relating to the literature, history, culture, or art of the Americas before 1830. Candidates with a U.S. history topic are strongly encouraged to concentrate on the period prior to 1801. The fellowship is also open to filmmakers, novelists, creative and performing artists, and others working on projects that draw on this period of history. 

The 2022-23 fellowship award supports two months of research and two months of writing. The stipend is $5,000 per month for a total of $20,000, plus housing and university privileges. The research is conducted at the John Carter Brown Library on the campus of Brown University in Providence, R.I., which has one of the world’s richest collections of books, maps and documents related to North and South America and the Caribbean between 1492 and 1830. The research must be completed within the academic year (September to May). Housing will be provided convenient to the library. 

The writing period of the fellowship will be at the Starr Center at Washington College in Chestertown, Md. The Starr Center is dedicated to innovative approaches to the nation’s past and present, and to fostering outstanding writing on American history and culture. (Chestertown is located on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, approximately 90 minutes from Washington D.C. and Philadelphia, and three hours from New York City.) The two-month writing term will be during the summer following the research term (June-August). The Hodson Trust - John Carter Brown Fellow will be provided with an office in the Starr Center’s c. 1745 waterfront Custom House, as well as exclusive use of its Fellows’ Residence in Chestertown’s historic district. (The house is large enough to accommodate a family.) 

Call for Proposals:
Reconsidering Empires and Imperialisms in Media and Communication History

A bilingual pre-conference (English & French) sponsored by the Communication History Division, International Communication Association

Paris, May 25, 2022

Organizers: Jade Montané (Agence France-Presse and Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines), François Robinet (Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines), and Dominique Trudel (Audencia Business School)

New CfP: Curation and Appropriation of Digital European Heritage

Deadline for submissions of abstracts: January 14, 2022

Guest editors: Abby S. Waysdorf and Eggo Müller

The VIEW Journal of European Television History and Culture welcomes submissions for the upcoming special issue #23 on “Curation and Appropriation of Digital European Heritage”, set to be published in June 2023.

Call for thematic dossier: HoST – Journal of History of Science and Technology (December 2023)

HoST - Journal of History of Science and Technology  is an open access, on-line peer-reviewed international journal devoted to the History of Science and Technology, published in English by a group of Portuguese research institutions and De Gruyter/Sciendo. HoST encourages submissions of original historical research exploring the cultural, social and political dimensions of science, technology, and medicine (STM), both from a local and a global perspective.

Past thematic issues have dealt with topics as diverse as circulation, science communication or the relation between science and politics. Future issues might deal with both established and emerging areas of scholarship. The editors of HoST are looking for proposals for one thematic dossier to be published in 2023 (HoST volume 17, issue 2). The thematic dossier should be prepared by the guest editor(s) and include four research papers along with an introduction.

Proposals should include the following items:

Turriano ICOHTEC Prize 2022 - Call for Submissions

The Turriano ICOHTEC Prize is an Early Career Prize for Books on the history of technology, sponsored by the Juanelo Turriano Foundation and consists of 2,500 Euro. The prize-winning book will be presented and discussed at a special session of the next ICOHTEC symposium, that will take place as part of the 27th International Congress for the History of Science and Technology. . ICOHTEC, the International Committee for the History of Technology, is interested in the history of technology, focusing on technological development as well as its relationship to science, society, economy, culture and the environment. The history of technology covers all periods of human history and all populated areas. There is no limitation as to theoretical or methodological approaches.

Eligible for the prize are original book-length works in any of the official ICOHTEC languages (English, French, German, Russian or Spanish) in the history of technology: published or unpublished Ph.D. dissertations or other monographs written by scholars in the early stages of their career. Articles and edited anthologies are not eligible. If the work is a Ph.D. thesis, it should have been accepted by your university in 2020 or 2021; if it is a published work, the year of publication should be 2020 or 2021.

For the ICOHTEC Prize 2022, please send an electronic copy (PDF or Word) of the work you wish to be considered for the prize to each of the four Prize Committee members. (Note: Hard copies are only accepted for published works not available electronically.) Your submission must be emailed no later than 28 February 2022. Please also include an abstract of no more than a half-page in length. If your book is in Spanish or Russian, please also supply a summary in English, French or German of about 4,500 words. In that case, the prize committee will find additional members, who are familiar with the language in which your book is written.

Call for Proposals: Film History Book Series

We are seeking proposals for complete/in-progress/planned manuscripts and edited collections for a proposed book series. The series will focus on film history: both the history of film as media texts and the history/evolution of the cinematic apparatus.

RIT press has expressed interest in this series and has asked that we secure some projects before moving forward with approval.

Potential topics include but are not limited to:

Protecting, Curating and Making Spaces for Women’s Film and Television History - Wednesday, December 1, 2021, 5:30pm

Dear Members,

You are warmly invited to the following event organised by the network. Please do join us!

Protecting, Curating and Making Spaces for Women’s Film and Television History

New CfP: Curation and Appropriation of Digital European Heritage

Deadline for submissions of abstracts: January 14, 2022

Guest editors: Abby S. Waysdorf and Eggo Müller

The VIEW Journal of European Television History and Culture welcomes submissions for the upcoming special issue #23 on “Curation and Appropriation of Digital European Heritage”, set to be published in June 2023.

2022 ACM History Fellowships Call for Proposals

The Association for Computing Machinery, founded in 1947, is the oldest and largest educational and scientific society dedicated to the computing profession, and today has 100,000 members around the world. To encourage historical research, the ACM History Committee plans to support up to four research projects with awards of up to $4,000 each. Successful candidates may be of any rank, from graduate students through senior researchers. The current and past winners of the fellowship can be found here.

Proposals are due by February 15, 2022.

More information can be found at:

Feminist Film Heritage: Emancipating the World’s Film Archives

Call for Expressions of Interest

10-14 Jan 2022: Global Networking Event (online)

Expressions of interest are invited from international scholars and practitioners with a specialism in the history of global cinema, for a series of networking events that aim to map out the neglected women’s film heritage of the world. We particularly want to invite those with an interest in women’s cinema from the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. This project aims to establish an international network of scholars working on decentring film history, and to do so by countering feminist film history’s continued neglect of filmmakers from outside Europe and the US. Hoping to give shape to fuller configurations of the internationalist feminist movement, we look at the cinema of the Non-Aligned Movement, highlight historically transnational networks and reactivate those past alliances.

Call for Essay Proposals: American Journalism: The Future of Historic Research in Journalism & Mass Communication

American Journalism is soliciting submissions of essay proposals for think-piece essays to run in special 40th anniversary issues. We are soliciting original perspectives on the present and future of media history scholarship, written by graduate students and junior (non-tenured) faculty, as part of a broader celebration of the journal. The essays should be original and not previously published.

Submissions may explore a wide range of topics, including the present and future of historiographical frameworks and methodologies, trends in research, challenges facing the scholars of tomorrow, and vision-casting for the future of media history research. Possible essay topics include how particular frameworks or methods could become more popular or less common in coming decades, or how historical scholarship might be impacted by ongoing social and political movements and world events such as the COVID pandemic.

Narrating Cold Wars

An international, interdisciplinary conference at Hong Kong Baptist University, 11–13 November 2021

Draft programme and registration details:

We are very pleased to announce the launch of a new international journal, History of Media Studies, and the publication of 16 short, programmatic essays written by the editors and members of the editorial board. () is an open access, refereed academic journal dedicated to scholarship on the history of research, education, and reflective knowledge about media and communication broadly conceived—as expressed through academic institutions; through commercial, governmental, and non-governmental organizations; and through “alter-traditions” of thought and practice often excluded from the academic mainstream. aims to open space outside the commercialized academic publishing industry—space that is nonprofit, community-led, care-based, and transparent. The journal’s inaugural essays address the geopolitics of the history and historiography of the media and communication fields, structural inequities and exclusions that have helped constitute them, and alternative conceptualizations and methodologies for investigating them, among other topics. .

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

The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga’s twenty-ninth annual Symposium on the 19th Century Press, the Civil War, and Free Expression will be held Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, November 11–13, 2021. The purpose of the conference is to share current research and to develop a series of monographs on the 19th century press, the Civil War and the press, and 19th century concepts of free expression. Papers from the first five conferences were published by Transaction Publishers in 2000 as a book of readings called The Civil War and the Press. Purdue University Press published papers from past conferences in three distinctly different books titled Memory and Myth: The Civil War in Fiction and Film from (2007),  (2008), and  (2009). In 2013, Transaction published , and in 2014, it published . In 2017, Transaction (now Routledge/Taylor & Francis) published , and our latest book, , was published by Routledge/Taylor & Francis in 2019. 

IAMHIST Online: Make Film History/Reusing the Archive in Filmmaking with Maurice Fitzpatrick

Ciara Chambers will introduce the Make Film History project, followed by a discussion with academic and filmmaker Maurice Fitzpatrick on engaging with the archive when writing and screening history and politics.

Call for Papers: Seventh Annual Conference on the History of Recent Social Science (HISRESS)

Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, University of Toronto

Feminist Film Heritage: Emancipating the World’s Film Archives

Call for Expressions of Interest

10-14 Jan 2022: Global Networking Event (online)

Expressions of interest are invited from international scholars and practitioners with a specialism in the history of global cinema, for a series of networking events that aim to map out the neglected women’s film heritage of the world. We particularly want to invite those with an interest in women’s cinema from the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. This project aims to establish an international network of scholars working on decentring film history, and to do so by countering feminist film history’s continued neglect of filmmakers from outside Europe and the US. Hoping to give shape to fuller configurations of the internationalist feminist movement, we look at the cinema of the Non-Aligned Movement, highlight historically transnational networks and reactivate those past alliances.

CFP: Lippmann’€™s €˜Public Opinion€ at 100: The yesterday and tomorrow of post-truth, disinformation and fake news

Guest Editor: Frank Durham (The University of Iowa)

Disillusioned with his experience as propagandist for the Wilson government during the First World War, the then journalist Walter Lippmann shut himself in his summer cottage to write a book about the limits of popular self-government in contemporary complex societies. Given that journalism was unable to provide an accurate and comprehensive picture of events to a mostly inattentive audience, it was time to acknowledge that a group of insiders should pre-cook the choices for the outsiders at large.

IAMHIST Master Class on Media and History

Thursday, 13 January 2022

Location: Volda University College, Norway

Reception Studies and the History of the Book seminar (online, 21-22 Oct. 2021)

The research group Book History and Reception at the University of Oslo, Norway is hosting the symposium Reception Studies and the History of the Book on 21–22 October 2021 (Central European Time). The event will be held in Oslo and all proceedings streamed via Zoom.

Keynote addresses:

Call for Applications: MITACS Post-Doctoral Fellowship at the Regent Park Film Festival

Archive/Counter-Archive and The Regent Park Film Festival are pleased to announce a competition for a 1-year MITACs Accelerate Post-Doctoral Fellowship position hosted by York University and The Regent Park Film Festival.

Archive/Counter-Archive: Activating Canada’s Moving Images Heritage is a seven-year SSHRC Partnership Grant dedicated to researching and remediating audiovisual archives created by women, Indigenous Peoples, the LGBTQ2+ community and immigrant communities. Political, resistant, and community-based, counter-archives disrupt conventional narratives and enrich our histories. The project’s research is committed to finding solutions for safekeeping Canada’s audiovisual heritage. We seek to research and remediate audiovisual heritage that is most vulnerable to disappearance and inaccessibility, fostering a community and network dedicated to creating best practices and cultural policies.

The  (RPFF) is a non-profit cultural and educational media arts organization. It is Toronto’s longest-running, free community film festival, and is the sole community film festival in Canada’s largest and oldest public housing neighbourhood. In addition to its annual festival in November, it offers year-round screenings, a School Program, workshops, and community events at no cost. RPFF is dedicated to showcasing local and international independent works relevant to people from all walks of life. The key communities it serves are Black, Indigenous and People of Colour (BIPOC) communities, people with low-income, people who live in public housing, and Regent Park residents.

Job: new senior position in the History of Information Technology at Princeton University’s History Department

The Department of History at Princeton University invites applications from scholars who work on the history of information technology.

The time period, geographical emphasis, and field of specialization are open, but the candidate should be prepared to offer an undergraduate survey on the history of information technology that includes developments in computing up to the 21st century, as well as upper-level undergraduate courses and graduate seminars on specialized aspects of this field.

Review of files will begin November 1, 2021, but applications will be considered until the department chooses to close the search. Applicants should provide a detailed letter of application, curriculum vitae, book abstract(s) and chapter outline(s), and one chapter-or article-length writing sample. Applicants should also provide contact information for at least three potential recommenders as part of the online application process. Anticipated start date, September 1, 2022.