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Call for Proposals : The Greater Boston Digital Research and Pedagogy Symposium

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On December 9, 2024

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The Greater Boston Digital Research and Pedagogy Symposium is a regional, one-day gathering of students, scholars, librarians, and other practitioners from the New England area working at the intersection of technology and the humanities. Hosted at a different institution each year, the Symposium provides an opportunity for promoting cross-institutional collaboration and showcases the diverse perspectives of our field.

The 2025 symposium will be held on Friday, April 11 at the Central Library of the Boston Public Library, with select sessions streamed online.

The Program Committee welcomes submissions covering a wide variety of topics related to the application of technology, computation, machine learning, and artificial intelligence to humanities research, pedagogy, and professional practice. Proposals on work at any stage in the research process may be submitted.

Given this year’s location at the Boston Public Library, the program committee is especially eager to receive submissions that highlight digital humanities scholarship and projects that intend to reach or engage with a public audience, or submissions that include discussion of the opportunities and challenges associated with developing a public-focused and/or community-engaged practice.

Other themes of particular interest for this year’s symposium include:

  • Sustainability, environmental impact, and reducing digital waste
  • Digital humanities professional practice, departmental development, and labor
  • Preservation of digital objects and scholarship
  • AI and humanistic research; implications of large datasets for human and computational use
  • Digitization practice and digital collection development in service of digital humanities
  • Queering and/or decolonializing digital humanities research and practice
  • Digital humanities and the intersection of identity, social justice, and technology
  • Digital research and pedagogy highlighting questions of diaspora and indigeneity

Proposals may be submitted for the following presentation types:

  • Individual talk (15 min) – 250 word max proposal
  • Panel or round table presentation (90 min) – 500 word max proposal
  • Poster session – 250 word max proposal
  • Workshop (90 min) – 500 word max proposal

For all submissions, please include the name(s) and affiliation(s) as well as a short biography (100 words max) for each participant. Links to presenter CVs or websites are also encouraged. Please indicate if you will need any accommodations that will allow you to participate. Submit a proposal here.

Submission deadline: Monday, February 3, 2025
Symposium: Friday, April 11, 2025; Central Library of the Boston Public Library, Boston, MA

Call For Papers: Forthcoming Aram Conferences July 2025

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On November 1, 2024

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The Aram Society for Syro-Mesopotamian Studies is hosting a series of conferences in July of 2024. Information on the different conferences can be found below

Alcohol in the Ancient Near East 3000 BC – 700 AD

Dates: June 3o – July  2, 2025

Transmission and Innovation: Scientific, technological and religious thought in the Ancient Near East (3000 BC – 700 AD), and its Fifty-Seventh International Conference, Part I, will study the theme of Alcohol in the Ancient Near East on 30th June – 2nd July 2025, at the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, the University of Oxford, UK. The theme will include many disciplines, such as the alcohol industry, medicine, physics, chemistry, history, archaeology, art, religion, and mythology.

The conference will start on Monday 30th June at 9am, finishing on Wednesday 2nd July at 1pm. Each speaker’s paper is limited to 45 minutes, with an additional 15 minutes for discussion. All papers given at the conference will be considered for publication in a future edition of the ARAM Periodical, subject to editorial review. If you wish to participate in the conference, please contact the ARAM Society, the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Oxford, Pusey Lane, Oxford OX1 2LE, UK. Tel. 01865-514041 Email: aram@ames.ox.ac.uk

Religious Offerings and Sacrifices in the Ancient Near East 3000 BC – 700 AD

Dates: July 2 – July 4, 2025

ARAM Society for Syro-Mesopotamian Studies is organizing its Fifty-Seventh International Conference, Part II, on Religious Offerings and Sacrifices in the Ancient Near East 3000 BC – 700 AD, 2nd -4th July 2025, at the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, the University of Oxford, UK.

The conference will start on Wednesday 2nd July at 4pm, finishing on Friday 4th July at 6pm. Each speaker’s paper is limited to 45 minutes, with an additional 15 minutes for discussion. All papers given at the conference will be considered for publication in a future edition of the ARAM Periodical, subject to editorial review. If you wish to participate in the conference, please contact the ARAM Society, the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Oxford, Pusey Lane, Oxford OX1 2LE, England.  Tel.  01865-514041 Email: aram@ames.ox.ac.uk

The Armenians BC: History and Archaeology

Dates: July 14 – 15, 2025

ARAM Society for Syro-Mesopotamian Studies is organizing its Fifty-Eighth International Conference (Part I) on the Aramaeans BC: History and Archaeology, to be held at the Faculty of Asian and Middle Easter Studies, the University of Oxford, on 14th – 15th July 2025.
The conference will start on Monday, July 14th at 9am, finishing on Tuesday 15th July at 6pm.

Each speaker’s paper is limited to 45 minutes, with an additional 15 minutes for discussion. All papers given at the conference will be considered for publication in a future edition of the ARAM Periodical, subject to editorial review. If you wish to participate in the conference, please contact the ARAM Society, Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Oxford, Pusey Lane, Oxford OX1 2LE, UK.  Tel.  01865-514041 Email: aram@ames.ox.ac.uk

NINO Annual Meeting | Call for Papers

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On September 16, 2024

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The NINO Annual Meeting offers an opportunity for advanced students and researchers of the Near East (ancient to the early modern) in the Netherlands to meet and exchange ideas about ongoing and envisioned research projects. The event is co-organized by the Netherlands Institute of the Near East (NINO) and an alternating host institution. This year the meeting is hosted by the University of Groningen, on the topic: “Heritage and politics in the Middle East: Historical Perspectives.”

The study of the Near East has historically been entangled with politics, from those of early modern states and empires, to those of foreign institutes, universities, and museums. This annual meeting focuses on heritage politics of the Middle East from a historical perspective. How have the studies of historical sources, archaeological remains, and texts from the past, been involved with early modern state formation, (de)colonization, cultural diplomacy, economic policies, memory practices? How was this involvement received by people living in the Middle East, and heritage institutions abroad? And today, how is it represented in the curricula of degrees focusing on the Middle Eastern past? How does it influence fieldwork and archive practices?

The committee is currently accepting 20 min. papers on studies pertaining to this topic. In addition, they invite 5 min. research introductions on any ongoing and envisioned research on the Near East. Junior scholars (MA, PhD) are particularly welcome to apply.

Please register via email if you wish to attend, present during the lightning session, or present a longer paper on the topic of Heritage and Politics.

Please include the following information:

  • Surname
  • Name
  • Title
  • Affiliation
  • E-mail address
  • I would like to attend and give a 20’ paper
    • Title of paper
  • I would like to attend and present a 5’ presentation in the lightning session
    • Title of lightning session
  • Abstract (250 words)

Please register by email to ninoconf25@gmail.com by November 1, 2024.

2024 World Neolithic Congress

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On May 8, 2024

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The 2024 World Neolithic Congress is set to take place in November at Şanlıurfa (Türkiye), and is currently open for paper submissions to be presented at the conference. The congress aims to foster debate on the development of sedentism, agriculture, domestication, and broader topics on Neolithization through global perspectives. There are numerous exciting sessions aiming to bring together archaeologists working in diverse geographic regions. These sessions may be seen here.

Paper abstracts are due May 20, 2024. For information on guidelines as well as how to submit, please see the submission form here.

Call for Papers | Collecting Her Thoughts: Lightning Talks on Women Art Collectors Across Time

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On April 11, 2024

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Boston University’s departments in History of Art & Architecture and Archaeology are currently open for submissions for their conference entitled “Collecting Her Thoughts: Lightning Talks on Women Art Collectors Across Time.”

In his introduction to 19’s 2021 issue on women collectors, Tom Stammers writes that “the renewed study of female collectors promises to reconfigure the history of art and the history of gender alike.” Across time, women’s access to the social and financial resources necessary to collect art has been different from that of their male counterparts, often more limited. Both because of and in spite of these limitations, women have served as art patrons, developed ideologically and materially expansive collections, and promoted art in public arenas. Yet, women collectors have been systematically excluded from museum and curatorial studies, perhaps in part because their collections and practices may manifest differently.

For this graduate student colloquium, we seek brief, 10-minute lightning talks that take up the theme of women art collectors. How does the study of female collectors challenge and expand existing museum studies scholarship? Who were these women, and why did they collect? How might a private or domestic collecting practice differ from a public-facing curatorial project?

Possible subjects include, but are not limited to:

  • Women collectors, women archaeologists, women’s collecting circles
  • Women’s roles in taste-making and national identity formation
  • Museum formation, overlooked contributions to museum studies
  • Domestic collecting and decoration, revisiting the “separate spheres” phenomenon
  • Women’s philanthropy, collecting as activism
  • Feminist curatorial practice
  • Intersectional perspectives of women collectors and museum practice
  • Barriers or opportunities for women’s art acquisition
  • New methodologies or approaches to collection, revising gendered collecting terminology

The coordinators welcome submissions from graduate students in the disciplines of art history, archaeology, literary studies, queer and gender studies, history, English, cultural studies, anthropology, sociology, philosophy, museum studies, and related fields. Projects at all stages, including works in progress are welcome, as this will be a space for community and conversation.

Submission Information

Submit a 150-word abstract and a current CV to dadonato@bu.edu by April 26, 2024. The organizers will be in touch by May 3. Unfortunately, they are not able to provide financial support for travel.

This colloquium is organized by Danarenae Donato, Ilaria Trafficante, and Toni Armstrong at Boston University. It is supported by Boston University’s History of Art and Architecture Department, Archaeology Department, and the Women’s and Gender Studies Department.

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