History Lab Bulletin 8 April 2013
Dear all,
See below for projects and events that may be of interest to History Lab members.
In this issue:
• Next in History Lab
• Call for papers
• Conferences
• Job opportunity
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Next in History Lab
Wednesday, 8 May
10:00
Methods Workshop: Digital Histories, Theories and Practices.
When
Wed, 8 May, 10:00 – 17:00
Where
University of Roehampton, (Digby Stuart College) Roehampton Lane, London SW15 5PU
Description
A one-day study day organised by the Centre for History and Theory at Roehampton University and History Lab
This study day is directed towards postgraduate (Masters and doctoral) students who wish to look at current historical theory and the ways in which theory can be used in producing historical research. It is made up of a series of interactive workshops in which invited academics, and Roehampton staff, introduce theoretical ideas which have influenced their own historical work and explore the ways in which these ideas can be deployed in research and writing.
The focus of the day will very much be on the practical value of theory and digital practice, and there will be ample opportunities for students to reflect on and discuss the role of theory in their own work.
PLACES ARE LIMITED, SO REGISTRATION IS ESSENTIAL
TO REGISTER PLEASE FOLLOW THE LINK BELOW
DIGITAL THEORY REGISTRATION FORM
Programme
10.00-10.30 Registration; (Fincham 001)
10.30-11.15 Carmen Mangion (Birkbeck) ‘Considering Prosopography in Historical Research: Producing group biographies’
11.15 -12.00 Doug Brown (Kings) ‘Using GIS Mapping: The Business of the New Poor Law in England and Wales 1834-c.1901 ’
12.00 - 1.00 Lunch; (available at campus cafés or feel free to bring your own)
1.00-1:45 Meg Arnot (Roehampton) 'Clio’s consciousness wired? Some impacts of the digital world on historical knowledge'
1:45-2:30 Ted Vallance (Roehampton) 'Crowd-sourcing and history: more in hope than expectation?'
2.30-2:45 Tea/Break; own arrangements
3.00 -4.00 Breakout sessions; (Hi209 and Fin204)
4.00-5.00 Round table and summing up;
Thursday, 9 May 17:30
Seminar - Jason Brock (Royal Holloway) - J.A. Hobson's Place in British Inter-War Political Discourse
When
Thu, 9 May, 17:30 – 19:30
Where
Room STB5, Basement, Stewart House, 32 Russell Square, London, WC1B 5DN
Description
Michael Freeden credits John Atkinson Hobson as ‘by far the most original and penetrating of the new liberal theorists at the turn of the century… with a much larger amount of influence than is generally realised’. (1) In spite of this he remains a somewhat marginalised figure in both the history of political thought and economic theory. This paper aims to posit Hobson within the intellectual discourse of the inter-war years in Britain.
This paper contends, contrary to the common argument that Hobson underwent no theoretical innovation after the second edition of The Industrial System in 1910, that Hobson not only continued to revise his theories up until his death in 1940 but he was also an important figure on the political left and in the Labour Party during the inter-war years. This coincides with a shift, although not an altogether consistent one, in Hobson’s thought away from liberalism and towards social democracy. Both the Independent Labour Party and Oswald Mosley adopted Hobsonian ideas in the 1920s and 1930s and Hobson offered both ideological and pragmatic proposals for dealing with the economic malaise of the inter-war situation. Furthermore, Hobson played a role in the long-run development of the ‘Keynesian revolution’ and G.D.H. Cole even went so far as to argue that it should more properly be termed the Hobsonian revolution. (2)
The argument pursued here is that despite the lack of a coherent Hobsonian School of thought, Hobson’s intellectual legacy can be seen in the work of Cole, R.H. Tawney, and H.N. Brailsford amongst others. The theoretical dialogue between Hobson and other political thinkers will be discussed, as well as the way in which his thought was transformed into practical policy, especially in the post-1945 period. Finally, this paper aims to outline the case for considering Hobson as a figure in the historical canon of modern liberalism and social democracy.
1. M. Freeden, The New Liberalism (Oxford, 1978), p. 253.
2. G.D.H. Cole, New Statesman, 56 (1958), p. 12.
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Call for papers & Conferences
Victorian Body Parts - St Bartholomew’s Pathology Museum, Clerkenwell, Saturday 14th September 2013
Keynote Speakers: Dr Katharina Boehm (Universitat Regensburg), Dr Kate Hill (Lincoln) and Dr Tiffany Watt-Smith (QMUL)
“Mr Wegg, if you was brought here loose in a bag to be articulated, I’d name your smallest bones blindfold equally with your largest, as fast as I could pick ‘em out, and I’d sort ‘em all, and sort your wertebrae, in a manner that would equally surprise and charm you.” (Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend, 1865)
Why were the Victorians so interested in atomizing the body? What was causing nineteenth-century bodies to come apart at the seams? From articulated bones to beating hearts, from wooden legs to hair bracelets, from death masks to glass eyes, the Victorian body was chattering with its own discorporation.
The results of this fragmentation are successors to the recent scholarly work on material culture in examining the atomisation of the body as a symptom of being surrounded by the commodities generated by the nineteenth century. From objects under glass domes to pieces of the body in glass cases (authentic specimens of which fill St Bartholomew’s Pathology Museum), commodification and dissection have much in common.
This conference thus seeks to explore, develop and enrich perspectives on the numerous and varied ways in which the Victorians approached their anatomy, bringing together postgraduate, early career and established researchers to consider why body parts provided such an urgent and stimulating focus within the nineteenth-century cultural imagination.
Possible topics could include, but are by no means limited to:
§ Mementos of the body and the culture of mourning
§ Disability and the “substitution” of the body part
§ Dress and the exaggeration of, or emphasis on, elements of the body
§ Darwin and bodily means of expression in science
§ The“queering” of the body part
§ Measuring the body: deviation from the standards of Western patriarchy
§ Preserving the body: collecting and museum cultures
Proposals of up to 300 words should be sent to victorianbodyparts@gmail.com by Friday 31st May 2013.
Blog:victorianbodyparts.wordpress.com
Twitter: @victbodyparts
Normality in an uncertain world
6th ENQUIRE Postgraduate Conference, 10th and 11th September 2013
Call for Abstracts
This conference aims to bring together post-graduates and researchers, with an interest in normality, to explore the development, current application and possible future of such research.
We are pleased to confirm our keynote speakers:
Derek McGhee, Professor of Sociology, University of SouthamptonAngharad Becket, Associate Professor of Political Sociology, University of LeedsJulia O’Connell Davidson, Professor of Sociology, University of Nottingham
In a world of uncertainty, never has ‘the normal’ been so important. All societies operate normative patterns of behaviour that are enforced by sanctions. Such patterns are now interwoven and valorised at global, national, communal and personal levels so that ‘the normal’ has become a powerful entity. Ideas of biopower and self-governance are structured around the control of bodies and the creation of ‘normal’ ways of being. It can now be argued that tyrannies of perfection structure contemporary social life.
While social research has often focused on explaining deviance and the abnormal, such explanations are dependent upon a perception of ‘the normal’ for their existence. ‘The normal’, therefore, becomes important across disciplines, resonating with researchers as a central concept in addressing the pressing sociological issues of our time.
The idea of a ‘normal’ raises pertinent questions for future research. Who defines normality? What are the implications for deviance? Why do researchers construct and deconstruct the abnormal? Does normality serve as a mechanism of control? What function does normality play in different cultures/societies? Is normality inevitable?
Such questions apply across the discipline and call into question the normality of research itself. Indeed, are there such things as normal and abnormal methodologies? How important is the statistical norm? What structures the conception of ‘valid’ or ‘useful’ research?
In order to create a conference that pushes the boundaries and stimulates further and continued debate, we welcome broad interpretations of the conference title. Example themes for papers include but are not limited to:
Gender and sexualityFamilies
Migration and CitizenshipGlobalisation
Health, illness and disabilityThe body
StatisticsMethodology
CultureTechnology
Social policyPolitical action
Please submit abstracts of no more than 300 words by Friday 3rd May 2013 to enquire@nottingham.ac.uk
We are pleased to announce the Third Annual Roles Postgraduate Gender and Sexuality Conference, 10th May, University of Birmingham, UK.
This one-day event offers PG researchers from a diversity of disciplines the opportunity to present their work in an international academic conference, as well as providing PGs with the chance to follow research being carried out in other areas of the field of gender and sexuality studies and meet fellow researchers. For information about how to submit a proposal for a 20-minute paper please see the page entitled ‘CFP‘ or to book your place on the conference please visit the page marked ‘Registration‘.
We are happy to confirm our key note speaker, Dr. Nadine Muller (LJMU).
Nadine Muller is a Lecturer in English Literature and Cultural History at Liverpool John Moores University. Before joining LJMU, she gained her Ph.D. in English Literature at the University of Hull in 2012. Nadine’s research covers Victorian and neo-Victorian literature and culture, contemporary women’s fiction, feminist theory and practice, and cultural histories of women and gender from the nineteenth century through to the present-day. She is currently working on two book projects: a monograph based on my doctoral research on The Feminist Politics of Neo-Victorian Fiction, 2000-2010 and a study entitled The Widow in British Literature and Culture, 1850-2000. Nadine is the co-editor of the six-volume anthology Women and Belief, 1852-1928 (Routledge, 2012) and of Postfeminism and Contemporary Hollywood Cinema (Palgrave, 2013). In November 2012, she launched The New Academic (www.nadinemuller.org.uk/blog/the-new-academic) a blog that seeks to collate advice and experiences about the increasingly demanding and complex challenges of academia for postgraduate and early-career researchers.
Nadine will be presenting her latest research:
A Queer & Dangerous Presence: The Widow in British Literature & Culture, 1900-2000
The widow transgressed mid-Victorian gender and social norms, not least due to her ambiguous status as a woman who was more respectable than a spinster (because of her former status as wife), yet also sexually experienced, able to own her own property, unguarded by a male protector, and available for remarriage. In the subsequent century – which will be the focus of this paper – she came to hold a long-lasting and often equally complex and contradictory position in British culture. The figure of the widow played a key role in campaigns for women’s suffrage in the first two decades of the twentieth century, became a prime object of psychoanalytic and psychiatric inquiry in the medicalization of grief in the 1930s and 40s; was a central image in war propaganda and in debates surrounding the development and perceived failures of the welfare state, while at the turn of the new millennium, has come to function as a site of national and cultural memory. The widow’s sustained but changing role in British culture is reflected and further illuminated in her representations in British literature and (popular) culture during these periods. This paper aims to sketch out a literary and cultural history of the gendered significance and anxieties reflected in these various representations of the widow throughout the twentieth century by drawing on her appearances in fiction, film, feminist activism, and political discourse. What this history reveals, I suggest, is that the widow is often defined as a queer and dangerous figure, threatening to question and disrupt – from the margins – dominant discourses of gender and class at the same as reinforcing them.
The British Society for the History of Science (BSHS) > CFP Science and Technology in Contemporary British History, 10-13 July 2013
CFP Science and Technology in Contemporary British History, 10-13 July 2013
Science and Technology in Contemporary British History
CALL FOR PAPERS: ICBH Summer Conference
10-13 July 2013, King’s College London
Deadline: 28 March 2013
Throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, rapid developments in science and technology have affected all aspects of contemporary Britain. This conference seeks to examine this change historically, from the macro to the micro dimensions.
The conference will consider various perspectives, including those of defence, business, government and society. We are keen to explore the political, economic, military, social, legal and cultural effects of scientific and technological change, as well as the processes of innovation and development. We will consider these in an international as well as a domestic context – for example, have British companies, governments and state agencies predominantly followed external trends in science and technology? Or have they tended to pioneer novel solutions? To what extent can questions of science and technology inform our understanding of traditional themes in contemporary British history such as “relative decline” or the “two cultures”? How has defence spending on science and technology been part of Cold War and post-Cold War politics?
Many UK institutions and ways of life have undergone radical changes due to scientific and technical advances. New industries have been created, old ones have disappeared; new perceptions of science have shaped popular culture; the digital revolution has changed how organisations operate and how individuals communicate. British life – from education, to leisure, to religion, to how we conduct politics – has had to contend with the increasing prominence of the scientific worldview and the technological society. New case studies and perspectives are invited in order to reconsider the diversity and complexity of these changes.
We hope this conference will generate fresh discussion and a new appreciation of the significance of scientific and technical transformation as it has taken place in modern Britain. We wish to attract historians working in a wide range of fields.
Conference organisers:Dr Michael Kandiah (michael.andiah@kcl.ac.uk), Dr Virginia Preston (virginia.preston@kcl.ac.uk) and Peter Sutton (peter.sutton@kcl.ac.uk), all of ICBH.
To propose a paper, please send a short synopsis (up to 300 words) of your paper with your contact details to icbhconference@gmail.com by 28 March 2013.
Possible areas for papers include (but are not limited to) the following:• Invention and innovation
• The politics of production
• Policy formation
• The natural sciences
• Medicine & health
• The material environment
• Computing and communications
• Modernisation and rationalisation
• Work and working practices
• Banking and the Stock Exchange
• Politics in the age of the Internet
• Gender and ethnicity
• Cultural change
• Governing and governance
• Climate change and biodiversity
• Institutions, industries and businesses
• Defence procurement
• The conduct of diplomacy
• Copyright, patents and intellectual property
• Scientific and technological education and training
• Schools and universities – from the BBC Micro to the world-wide web
• Defence industries, eg aerospace, shipbuilding, satellites & space
• Surveillance – military and non-military
• Travel
Crime and policing
DEMONS AND ILLNESS: THEORY AND PRACTICE FROM ANTIQUITY TO THE EARLY MODERN PERIOD22nd-24th April 2013
Supported by the College of Humanities, University of Exeter, The British Society for the History of Science and the Royal Historical Society
We invite you to submit a paper /abstract /poster /workshop to the 5th Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Libraries International Conference (QQML2013), 4 - 7 June 2013, “La Sapienza” University, Rome Italy. http://www.qqml.net/
The conference will consider, but not be limited to, the following indicative themes: 1. Bibliographic Control
2. Bibliometric Research
3. Change of Libraries and Managerial techniques
4. Changes in Learning, Research and Information needs and Behaviour of Users
5. Climate Change Data
6. Communication Strategies
7. Data Analysis and Data Mining
8. Development and Assessment of Digital Repositories
9. Development of Information and Knowledge Services on the Public Library
10. Digital Libraries
11. Economic Co-operation and Development
12. Energy Data and Information
13. Environmental Assessment
14. Financial strength and sustainability
15. Health information services
16. Historical and Comparative case studies related to Librarianship
17. Information and Data on various aspects of Food and Agriculture
18. Information and Knowledge Services
19. Information Literacy: Information sharing, Democracy and Lifelong Learning
20. Library Cooperation: Problems and Challenges at the beginning of the 21st century
21. Library change and Technology
22. Management
23. Marketing
24. Museums, Libraries and Cultural Organizations
25. Music Librarianship
26. Performance Measurement and Competitiveness
27. Publications
28. Quality evaluation and promotion of info
29. Technology & Innovations in Libraries and their Impact on Learning, Research and Users
30. Technology transfer and Innovation in Library management
Unofficial Histories - Manchester- June 2013 A public conference to discuss how society produces, presents, and consumes history beyond official and elite versions of the past.
Following a successful first conference in London in 2012, we’re delighted to announce details and the Call for Participation for the second Unofficial Histories conference. The conference aims to explore how society produces, presents, and consumes history beyond official and elite versions of the past. The 2013 conference will take place in Manchester and this time we’re making a weekend of it over Saturday 15th June 2013 and Sunday 16th June 2013.
We now invite presentation proposals for the meeting on Saturday 15th June 2013 to be held at Manchester Metropolitan University. You can find the full Call for Participation at http://unofficialhistories.wordpress.com/uh13/cfp/ . The deadline for abstracts is Wednesday 20th February 2013. Conference registration will open in late January 2013 onwards.
http://unofficialhistories.wordpress.com/
The Oxford Travel Cultures Seminar Series would like to invite
proposals for its upcoming interdisciplinary conference to be held in
October 2013. The theme this year will be "Navigating Networks: Women, Travel, and Female Communities." We invite papers that address the topic of women’s travel networks in any historical period. We welcome discussion on any of the following: nonfictional or literary accounts; diaries; letters; articles; films; documentaries; photographs and paintings. Please send abstracts of no more than 250 words (for papers of 20 minutes) to Hannah Sikstrom and Kimberly Marsh at travelculturesseminar@gmail.comJob Opportunity
AHRC-Funded History PhD Studentship
AHRC Block Grant Partnership Scheme
University of HertfordshireThe University of Hertfordshire and Oxford Brookes University invite applications for a three-year fully funded Doctoral studentship (full-time) through the AHRC Block Grant Partnership Scheme. The successful applicant will be supervised by a supervisory team consisting of Historians from both the University of Hertfordshire and Oxford Brookes. For UK students (or students who fulfill UK residency criteria), the studentship covers the costs of University tuition fees, along with a full annual stipend (£13,726 for academic year 2013-2014). EU students who do not fulfill UK residency criteria will be eligible for fees-only awards. Due to funding restrictions the studentship is not available to Non-UK/EU applicants. Full details concerning eligibility are available from the AHRC website: http://www.ahrc.ac.uk/SiteCollectionDocuments/Student-Funding-Guide.pdf
We welcome applications from suitably qualified applicants who propose working in any of the following History research areas: Modern Italian History, Social Movements and Popular Politics in Britain (1600-1900),Public History, Digital History, Witchcraft and Magic, Consumption, Finance, Film, Social History, Crime, Modern Government, the Family and Medicine.
We also welcome applications from suitably qualified applicants who propose working in any of the research areas in which our staff specialise.
Staff research interests and further information about research in History at the University of Hertfordshire can be seen here: http://www.herts.ac.uk/research/ssahri/research-areas/history.html Staff research interests and further information about research in History at Oxford Brookes can be seen here: http://www.history.brookes.ac.uk/research/degrees/step2/
Application forms can be obtained from Janice Turner, the UH Research Degrees Administrator, SSAHRI (Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities Research Institute): j.m.turner@herts.ac.uk
The deadline for applications for these awards is Friday 19 April 2013.
Please send all completed applications to Janice Turner j.m.turner@herts.ac.ukInterviews for short-listed candidates will be held on Tuesday 30 April 2013.
If you have any queries about this application process, please contact Janice Turner or Charmian Hearne, Research Student Administrator, Oxford Brookes University. Email: chearne@brookes.ac.uk
Postdoctoral Position Opening XVIIIth Century Modern History
Sciences Po -Department of History
The Department of History at Sciences Po invites applications for a non-renewable three-year postdoctoral position, specializing in XVIIIth Century History.
Research and Teaching Profile
The research and teaching profile of the candidate should have points of common interest with those aspects of Modern and Contemporary History, which colleagues at the Department of History and the Center for History at Sciences Po have defined as their primary areas of concentration during the next five years.
Candidates should have completed a PhD, and they are requested to submit a list of scientific publications. Some international teaching and/or research experience is required, as well as fluency in French and English.
Teaching and Research Conditions
The teaching load will be two 24-hour courses per year at the undergraduate (Liberal Arts) and graduate (Master in History) levels. Courses will be taught either on the Paris Campus or in one of Sciences Po’s regional campuses across France.
The Fellow will collaborate with colleagues of the Department and the Center for History and work on his own research programme. He will submit his detailed project together with his application, and he will also produce a final report at the end of the three-year period.
Application
Interested candidates should send their application prior to April 26, 2013 (12:00), via e-mail to Mrs Isabelle de Vienne (isabelle.devienne@sciences-po.fr), the General Secretary of the History Department at Sciences Po.
Please attach in one file (PDF):
• a curriculum vitae
• a proposal of courses
a three-year detailed research project.
Call for proposals for the 2013 Elsevier Fellowship at the Scaliger Institute Call for proposals for the 2013 Elsevier Fellowship at the Scaliger Institute
The Scaliger Institute and Elsevier invite scholars and researchers to submit proposals for the 2013 Elsevier fellowship at the Scaliger Institute of Leiden University Library.
Elsevier is a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services. The company works in partnership with the global science and health communities to publish more than 2,000 journals, including The Lancet and Cell, and close to 20,000 book titles, including major reference works from Mosby and Saunders. Elsevier’s online solutions include SciVerse ScienceDirect, SciVerse Scopus, Reaxys, MD Consult and Nursing Consult, which enhance the productivity of science and health professionals, and the SciVal suite and MEDai’s Pinpoint Review, which help research and health care institutions deliver better outcomes more cost-effectively.
The Elsevier fellowship enables scholars to study 16th -18th century scientific scholarship and publishing.
Since the object of the Fellowship is primarily to promote research in the Special Collections of Leiden University Library and the Elsevier Heritage Collection, the Fellow(s) will not be required to undertake any undergraduate teaching, but will be required to deliver at least one paper or lecture, and might run graduate masterclasses, attend seminars and symposia or deliver other papers.
The Elsevier fellowship provides € 1.000 a month for a minimum of 1 month and a maximum of 3 months.
Applicants must submit the following information:
* A 1-3 page research proposal. Applicants should address specifically the relationship between their proposed project and the primary sources to be consulted in the Special Collections of Leiden University
* A list of books and/or manuscripts that are going to be consulted in Leiden University Library (http://www.library.leiden.edu/) and/or the Elsevier Heritage Collection (see: Elsevier Heritage Collection), including shelfmarks
* The projected beginning and ending dates of on-site research
* A list of publications
* A curriculum vitae
* 2 letters of support from academic or other scholars
The closing date for applications of the Elsevier fellowship 2013 is 1 April 2013
Fellowship applications will be reviewed by a special board consisting of: Professor dr. H. Beukers (President scholarly board), Professor Paul Hoftijzer (History of the Book, ULL), K. van Ommen MA (Co-ordinator Scaliger Institute), David Ruth (SVP Elsevier Global Communications) and Ylann Schemm (Corporate Relations Manager Elsevier).
Additional information and the application form are available on the Scaliger Institute websitehttp://www.library.leiden.edu/special-collections/scaliger-institute/.
Applications can be send to:
Drs. K. van Ommen
Coordinator Scaliger Instituut
Postbus 9500
2300 RA Leiden
Or by e-mail: scaliger@library.leidenuniv.nl
Conference on Narrative Medicine (April 5-6). The panels will span from Classical Greece to the modern graphic novel (David Small will give a presentation April 4 on his New York TIme's bestseller, Stitches). Keynotes include three of the leaders in the field of Narrative Medicine: Rita Charon, Arthur Frank, and Elizabeth Leake, with several other key scholars participating (Helen King, Catherine Belling, the filmmaker Gregg Bordowitz--http://www.fnewsmagazine.com/2002-april/aprilregulars5.html, and others). Registration is FREE of charge.
Conference Website and Program: http://frit.osu.edu/narrative-medicine
Conference Registration: https://frit.osu.edu/narrative-medicine/conf-registration
The program for the Film and Comix series: http://www.wexarts.org/fv/index.php?seriesid=349
Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/events/136866446470007/
On 13-14 April we're holding a two-day symposium at Canterbury cathedral and the University of Kent to commemorate the 600th anniversary of the death of Henry IV. Speakers include Anne Curry, Chris Given-Wilson, Michael Hicks and Ian Mortimer and we'll be considering the legacy of Henry IV and the idea of Lancastrianism from a political, cultural and artistic point of view. I've attached a programme and you can find a link to the conference website and booking form below. Accomodation is available at the university for delegates.
http://www.kent.ac.uk/mems/research/conferences/henry-iv.html
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WorkshopsYou may send proposals for Special Sessions (4-6 papers) or Workshops (more than 2 sessions) including the title and a brief description at: secretariat@isast.org
You may also send Abstracts/Papers to be included in the following sessions, to new sessions or as contributed papers at the web page: http://www.isast.org/abstractregistration.html
Contributions may be realized through one of the following ways
a. structured abstracts (not exceeding 500 words) and presentation;
b. full papers (not exceeding 7,000 words);
c. posters (not exceeding 2,500 words);
d. visual presentations (Pecha kucha).
All abstracts will be published in the Conference Book of Abstracts and in the website of the Conference.
The papers of the conference will be published in the e-journal QQML after the permission of the author(s).
Student submissions. Professors and Supervisors are encouraged to organize conference sessions of Postgraduate theses and dissertations.
Please direct any questions regarding the QQML 2013 Conference and Student Research Presentations to the secretariat of the conference at: secretariat@isast.org
On behalf of the Conference Committee
Dr. Anthi Katsirikou, Conference Co-Chair
University of Piraeus Library Director
Head, European Documentation Center
Board Member of the Greek Association of Librarians and Information Professionals
anthi@asmda.com
Professor Carla Basili, Local Co-Chair
EnIL - The European network on Information Literacy, co-ordinator
Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche
Istituto di Ricerca sull'Impresa e lo Sviluppo sede di Roma
via dei Taurini, 19 - 00185 Roma, Italy
Tuesday 9 April 2013
Friday 1 March 2013
Next in History Lab
Thursday, 21
March
17:30
Seminar -
Ben Roberts (Teesside) - Processional Culture and Ritual in the Provincial
Town, c. 1875-1953
When
Thu, 21 March,
17:30 – 19:30
Where
Room STB5,
Basement, Stewart House, 32 Russell Square, London, WC1B 5DN
Description
The use of
parades and processions in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century was
a fundamental method of ritualised communication, utilised by groups,
organisations and civic Corporations to visually express authority, hierarchy
and leadership. They were also vehicles through which celebration, grief and
respect could be conveyed. Their composition and delivery was central to the
urban experience of the provincial town and, as such they are a valuable source
through which the historian can interpret the power structures and
socio-cultural development of a particular community.
The urban
landscape was intrinsic to parade culture; utilising important civic landmarks
to denote specific meaning. This paper will examine processional culture in
Darlington; a town with an extensive linear heritage and Middlesbrough; which
had to forge a civic identity directly out of industrialisation. The evolution
of civic parades will be charted; as will their varied use, from the
celebration of national events, their role in municipal politics and even the
expression of sorrow following the death of a local elite. The intention is to
highlight the manner in which parades in this period were a fundamental aspect
of civic life; representing a significant factor in the evolution of urban
space, and its symbolic meaning to both the local authority and the general
public.
This topic will
be placed in context with the speaker’s wider research, emphasising the need for
a broader consideration and definition of civic ritual, in order to account for
its enduring popularity in the twentieth century; despite most historians
suggesting that civic ritual began to decline in both popularity and visibility
from the late 1870s.
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Call for
papers/Conferences
CALL FOR
PAPERS: A PICTURE OF HEALTH, 4-5 APRIL 2013, ROYAL COLLEGE OF ART
MEDICAL
HUMANITIES POSTGRADUATE CONFERENCE
While
postgraduate medical historians have often had the opportunity to converse with
each other through various forums, the wider field of medical humanities has
been neglected. This student-led conference seeks papers from a wide variety of
disciplines to show the divergent as well as similar themes running through the
work of postgraduate medical humanities students. Sue Crossley from the
Wellcome Trust will speak about funding opportunities for early-career
researchers in the medical humanities.
Organised by an
historian, a curator and a creative practitioner, this two-day conference will
include workshops on methodological issues and give students the opportunity to
present their research findings in a supportive and dynamic environment.
We welcome papers from history, history of art, philosophy, anthropology,
literature, film, or indeed any form of research into the relationship between
medicine and wider culture.
Abstracts of
250-words or fewer should be sent to gareth.millward@lshtm.ac.uk
by 11 March 2013. Subject to funding approval from the Wellcome Trust, small
travel bursaries will be available to successful applicants.
Bookings are now open for the Histories of
Home SSN fifth annual conference, Home
Intimacies, to be held on Friday 22 March 2013 at the Geffrye Museum of
the Home.
This
conference seeks to examine the many intimacies of home – familial, social,
sexual – and the role of emotions, material objects, home spaces and household
structures in fostering, limiting and mediating intimacy. Papers will explore
intimacy in both the past and present, across a range of places and from a
range of disciplines. Themes will include notions of privacy for people living
in institutions in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, issues relating to
intimacy in lesbian, gay and bisexual homes and changing attitudes to the
privacy of beds. Some papers will examine how intimacy is presented in historic
house museum settings.
Keynote
Speaker: Dr Jane Hamlett,
Royal Holloway, University of London “Public, Private or Intimate? Rethinking
the Victorian and Edwardian Middle-Class Home
Tickets for the
conference are £40 (£25 for students).
Papers are
invited for the DAS 37th Journal, which will be a regular issue without a
special theme. Articles should cover some aspect of the decorative arts from
1850 to the present day. They should present new or recent unpublished research
and reflect fresh discoveries, additions to existing knowledge or reappraisals
of previous studies.
DAS Journal
articles are generally in the range of 3000 to 7000 words (excluding notes)
accompanied by illustrations in colour and black and white. Full guidelines on
content, length and style will be sent to selected contributors. In common with
most non-profit-making academic publications, we do not offer a fee although
production expenses up to an agreed maximum will be given.
Short synopses
to be sent to the editor by 1 March 2013
Selected
contributors will be notified by late March 2013
Final copy with
images must arrive with the editor by 1 June 2013
Journal 37 will
be published in early 2014
Please send
synopses or any inquiries to:
Judy Spours,
134 Nevill Road, London N16 OSX
Tel: 020 7254
6920
Email: judyspours@hotmail.com
We
invite you to submit a paper /abstract /poster /workshop to the 5th Qualitative
and Quantitative Methods in Libraries International Conference (QQML2013), 4 -
7 June 2013, “La Sapienza” University, Rome Italy. http://www.qqml.net/
The conference will consider, but not be
limited to, the following indicative themes: 1. Bibliographic Control
2. Bibliometric Research
3. Change of Libraries and Managerial techniques
4.
Changes in Learning, Research and Information needs and Behaviour of Users
5.
Climate Change Data
6. Communication Strategies
7. Data Analysis and Data
Mining
8. Development and Assessment of Digital Repositories
9. Development of
Information and Knowledge Services on the Public Library
10. Digital Libraries
11. Economic Co-operation and Development
12. Energy Data and Information
13.
Environmental Assessment
14. Financial strength and sustainability
15. Health
information services
16. Historical and Comparative case studies related to
Librarianship
17. Information and Data on various aspects of Food and
Agriculture
18. Information and Knowledge Services
19. Information Literacy:
Information sharing, Democracy and Lifelong Learning
20. Library Cooperation:
Problems and Challenges at the beginning of the 21st century
21. Library change
and Technology
22. Management
23. Marketing
24. Museums, Libraries and
Cultural Organizations
25. Music Librarianship
26. Performance Measurement and
Competitiveness
27. Publications
28. Quality evaluation and promotion of info
29. Technology & Innovations in Libraries and their Impact on Learning,
Research and Users
30. Technology transfer and Innovation in Library management
Unofficial
Histories - Manchester- June 2013 A public conference to discuss how society produces,
presents, and consumes history beyond official and elite versions of the past.
Following
a successful first conference in London in 2012, we’re delighted
to announce details and the Call for Participation for the
second Unofficial Histories conference. The conference
aims to explore how society produces, presents, and consumes history beyond
official and elite versions of the past. The 2013 conference will take
place in Manchester and this time we’re making a weekend of it over
Saturday 15th June 2013 and Sunday 16th June 2013.
We now
invite presentation proposals for the meeting on Saturday 15th June
2013 to be held at Manchester Metropolitan University. You can find
the full Call for Participation at http://unofficialhistories.wordpress.com/uh13/cfp/
. The deadline for abstracts is Wednesday 20th February 2013.
Conference registration will open in late January 2013 onwards.
The Oxford Travel Cultures Seminar Series would like to invite proposals for
its upcoming interdisciplinary conference to be held in October 2013.
The theme this year will be "Navigating Networks: Women, Travel,
and Female Communities." We invite papers that address the topic of
women’s travel networks in any historical period. We welcome discussion on any of the
following: nonfictional or literary accounts; diaries; letters; articles;
films; documentaries; photographs and paintings. Please send abstracts of no more than 250 words (for papers of 20
minutes) to Hannah Sikstrom and Kimberly Marsh at travelculturesseminar@gmail.com
The National Gallery and The Getty
Research Institute, London and the Emergence of a European Art Market (c.
1780-1820) Conference
The National Gallery, London (21-22 June
2013). Call for Papers: abstract
deadline & word-limit: 15 February 2013 (250 words). Topics for consideration include, but are not
limited to:
-
ARTWORKS Cross-border traffic of objects (cultural transfers, customs
regulations, arbitrage, etc.) and its effect on the formation of private and
public collections.
-
AGENTS Market integration throughout Europe (national/transnational
dealer networks, centre and periphery, impact of revolution and war, etc.)
-
INFORMATION Auction catalogues as economic tool and literary genre
(classification systems, lot sequence, transparency, connoisseurship, etc.)
- VALUES Idea of art as an
investment (different national canons and currencies, growth of
investment-minded collectors, ascendancy of the banker as a key player, price
manipulation, etc.)
INSTITUTIONS: History Lab Annual
Conference 2013
Institute
of Historical Research, London, 12-13 June 2013
Institutions
have always been an integral part of human society and were traditionally
understood as instruments of bureaucratic and social control and
administration. However, recent events such as the Eurozone crisis have seen a
collapse of trust in politics and the rise of activist movements such as Avaaz.
These global changes have called into question the traditional definitions of
institutions. ‘Institution’ also has a metaphorical meaning, from the
‘institution’ of marriage to a set of behaviours with very specific rules.
What is an
‘institution’? Who makes ‘institutions’? How do they operate? What does the
process of ‘institutionalisation’ entail? With these questions in mind, the
History Lab Conference 2013 aims to investigate the relationships between
institutions, societies and individuals through the analysis of historical example.
Postgraduate
students and early-career researchers are invited to submit proposals for
papers (twenty minutes), or panels of three speakers, on specific topics
exploring institutions or on wider relevant methodological and philosophical
issues.
Papers may
cover any historical region or period, exploring institutions in topics
including, but not limited to, the following areas:
• Religion
and morality
• Social
and community activism, protest and resistance.
•
Governmental, non-governmental and charitable
•
Medicine, medical institutions and treatment.
•
Administration, bureaucracy and accountability.
•
Industry, trade and commerce..
• The
family, education and welfare.
• Cultural
production and practices.
• Labour,
business and industrial relations.
•
Policing, law and order, and incarceration.
Some
travel bursaries will be available for research students travelling from the
United States. Please email historylab2013@gmail.com for further
details.
To submit
a proposal for the conference, please send your title along with a 250-word
abstract, your institutional affiliation, and full contact details to: historylab2013@gmail.com
by the deadline of Thursday 28th February, 2013.
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Job
Opportunity
Please see
below opportunity for three PhD research funded studentships at
Loughborough
University with an October 2013 start.
- Textiles
- Drawing
- Visual
Culture
Samuel H. Kress
Graduate Art History Fellowships at the Medici Archive Project
Summer &
Fall 2013
Purpose:
Although
actively engaged in the digitalization of the Medici Granducal Archive at the
Archivio di Stato di Firenze, MAP remains a strong advocate of
giving scholars direct access to original documents.Thanks to the generous
support of Samuel H. Kress Foundation, MAP is offering
fellowships for
graduate students to join MAP in Florence, Italy, to undertake
specialized archival research on-site at the Archivio di Stato,
utilizing the collection of the Medici Granducal Archive. The Samuel H. Kress
Graduate Art History Fellowships
will provide graduate students from diverse disciplines with the
opportunity to examine and study original source materials, while receiving
scholarly guidance from MAP Staff.
Grant
Descriptions:
There are two
Samuel H. Kress Graduate Art History Fellowships available. A
Summer 2013 Fellowship,covering a period of two-and-a-half months, is for
$5,000 (plus $500 for travel expenses). The Summer 2013 Fellowship must
take place within the period extending from May 1 to July 15 2013.
A Fall Semester
2013 Fellowship, covering a period of three-and-a-half months, is for
$8,500 (plus $500 for travel expenses). The Fall Semester 2013
Fellowship must take place within the period from September 1 to
December 15, 2013.
Qualifications:
Candidates must
be enrolled in graduate programs at United States universities,
and working on dissertation topics that treat any aspect of Italian
Renaissance or Baroque art history; Tuscan art history topics will be
given preference.
Details:
If the timing
is feasible, Fellows will take part free of charge in our online
paleography course before arriving in Florence. Further training in reading
documents and using archival sources will be available through our
archival studies seminar at Santa Maria Novella in June of 2013, as well
as through the daily contact with MAP Staff during the course of the
Fellows’ tenure. Fellows will be also encouraged to participate in
a variety of MAP initiatives, including its upcoming conferences.
To Apply:
Send via email
a complete application in English, with all materials collected in a
single pdf file, to Elena Brizio (ebrizio@medici.org).
The deadline
for application is 30 March 2013. A complete application consists of:
1) A cover
letter stating which Fellowship, either the “Spring” OR “Semester,” is
sought and what period the candidate is available to fulfill the
relevant Fellowship in Florence.
2) A copy of
the candidate’s dissertation proposal (or a final draft of it), and the
proposal defense date.
3) A short
essay (2 pages max.) on how the candidate’s topic will benefit from
archival research.
4) A complete
and up-to-date curriculum vitae.
5) The name and
email contact details of a scholar in the field, preferably the
candidate’s supervisor, who can comment on the applicant’s
qualifications and the merits of the research proposal (please do not
include letters of recommendation with the application).
Please do not
include supplementary material(publications, papers, syllabi, etc.).
For further
information, contact Elena Brizio: ebrizio@medici.org
Call
for proposals for the 2013
Elsevier Fellowship at the Scaliger Institute Call for proposals for the 2013
Elsevier Fellowship at the Scaliger Institute
The
Scaliger Institute and Elsevier invite scholars and researchers to submit
proposals for the 2013 Elsevier fellowship at the Scaliger Institute of Leiden
University Library.
Elsevier
is a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information
products and services. The company works in partnership with the global science
and health communities to publish more than 2,000 journals, including The Lancet and Cell, and close to 20,000 book titles,
including major reference works from Mosby and Saunders. Elsevier’s online
solutions include SciVerse
ScienceDirect, SciVerse
Scopus, Reaxys, MD Consult and Nursing Consult, which enhance the
productivity of science and health professionals, and the SciVal suite and MEDai’s Pinpoint Review, which help
research and health care institutions deliver better outcomes more
cost-effectively.
The
Elsevier fellowship enables scholars to study 16th -18th
century scientific scholarship and publishing.
Since the object of the
Fellowship is primarily to promote research in the Special Collections of
Leiden University Library and the Elsevier Heritage Collection, the Fellow(s)
will not be required to undertake any undergraduate teaching, but will be required
to deliver at least one paper or lecture, and might run graduate masterclasses,
attend seminars and symposia or deliver other papers.
The
Elsevier fellowship provides € 1.000 a month for a minimum of 1 month and a
maximum of 3 months.
Applicants
must submit the following information:
* A 1-3 page research proposal. Applicants should
address specifically the relationship between their proposed project and the
primary sources to be consulted in the Special Collections of Leiden University
* A list
of books and/or manuscripts that are going to be consulted in Leiden University
Library (http://www.library.leiden.edu/)
and/or the Elsevier Heritage Collection (see: Elsevier
Heritage Collection), including shelfmarks
* The projected beginning
and ending dates of on-site research
* A list of publications
* A curriculum
vitae
* 2 letters of support from academic or other scholars
The closing
date for applications of the Elsevier fellowship 2013 is 1 April 2013
Fellowship applications will be reviewed by a special board consisting of:
Professor dr. H. Beukers (President scholarly board), Professor Paul Hoftijzer
(History of the Book, ULL), K. van Ommen MA (Co-ordinator Scaliger Institute),
David Ruth (SVP Elsevier Global Communications) and Ylann Schemm (Corporate
Relations Manager Elsevier).
Additional
information and the application form are available on the Scaliger Institute
websitehttp://www.library.leiden.edu/special-collections/scaliger-institute/.
Applications
can be send to:
Drs. K. van Ommen
Coordinator Scaliger Instituut
Postbus
9500
2300 RA Leiden
Or by e-mail: scaliger@library.leidenuniv.n
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Seminar
Series
Centre for the Study of the Body and
Material Culture Seminar Series 2012-13
Imbibing Bodies: Histories of Drinking and
Culture
13 March, Stella
Moss (RHUL), '"An Abnormal Habit": Methylated Spirit Drinking in
Intewar Britain'
V&A/RCA MA in Design History and
Material Culture.
All seminars are held at 5.00 pm in Seminar Room A of the Research
Department at the Victoria and Albert Museum. Access to Seminar Room A is via
the entrance to the Research Department. To get there, go the top of the
staircase decorated with ceramic tiles that leads from the Asian Sculpture
Galleries (Rooms 17-20) on the ground floor, up past the Silver Gallery (Room
70a). Please allow at least five minutes to get to the seminar room from the
Museum entrances. All those with a research interest in the field are welcome.
Admission to the Museum is free and the event itself is free of charge. Please
contact Katrina Royall on 020 7942 2574 (k.royall@vam.ac.uk) or Helen Woodfield on
0207 942 2576 (H.Woddfield@vam.ac.uk)
with any questions.
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Workshop
New
Abstract submission deadline: 28 February 2013, http://www.isast.org
It is our
honour to announce the Plenary Speakers of the 5th Qualitative and Quantitative
Methods in Libraries International Conference (QQML2013), 4 - 7 June 2013, “La
Sapienza” University, Rome Italy.
Workshops
NEW LibQUAL+™ in Europe: A Five
Year Review of Results and Trends: Identifying Our Customers’ Needs and
Expectations: A Data Driven Approach and Analysis Through the Use of LibQUAL+™
/ Organized by Michael Maciel, Texas A&M University Libraries,
USA
The purpose of this workshop will be to demonstrate how effectively and
efficiently libraries can identify their user’s needs and expectations. Results
from the past five years of European libraries that participated in LibQUAL+™
will be used throughout the program as examples. LibQUAL+™, a user-centered
survey and program, enables library users to speak directly about the quality
of service they want to receive, access to information they require and the learning
spaces they need your library facilities to provide. These insights in turn can
be used by libraries to help craft their mission statements, development and
market the services they provide and ultimately make very strong cases for
funding.
There will be four parts to the presentation.
First, the current
economic and technological challenges that libraries face will be discussed.
The question of learning how to keep up with technology, as well as the
constant struggle to balance services and information resources will be
addressed. An overview of the LiQUAL+® program, its resources will be
presented. Further, it will be shown how from the very beginning, through the
LibQUAL+ registration process, the program helps libraries understand the
depths and facets of its customers. The workshop will emphasize how effectively
LibQUAL+™ can be used to identify and address economic and technological
challenges.
Second, the presentation will, using an actual example,
demonstrate how to prepare for the implementation and administration of the
LibQUAL+™ survey while it is live. Topics such as marketing the survey to
ensure successful participation, the review and response to data while the
survey is live and understanding the wide inventory of methods available to
review your final results will be covered.
Third, methods, analyses and
presentation of LibQUAL+ survey results will be discussed. This QQML
presentation will demonstrate these methods using aggregated data from European
libraries that participated in the LibQUAL+ between the five years of 2008
through 2012. The review will include comparisons of results by user groups,
results by category, usage analysis, and a trends analysis over the past 5
years.
Fourth, this presentation will discuss the distribution and marketing of
the survey results to the libraries’ internal customers (e.g. service
departments, acquisitions and cataloging departments, and information
technology departments), its external customers (e.g. colleges, schools,
departments and student groups), and to the institution’s administration.
The
presentation will conclude by once again addressing the myriad of challenges a
library faces, the solutions that LibQUAL+™ can provide and, finally, the need
for an ongoing commitment to assessing user needs and expectations.
Impact
evaluation workshop / Organized
by Mr. Markku A. Laitinen, Planning Officer, The National Library of
Finland and Ms. Anna Niemelä, Service Coordinator, The National Library
of Finland
The libraries have a long tradition in collecting statistical data
and other evidence - user survey data etc. - about their operations. In
practice, the utilization of data collected may not be as versatile as
possible. However, the evidence of effectiveness and impact of library services
may be of crucial importance for libraries to survive in the current economic
atmosphere.
Hence, we invite library experts around the world to unite their
forces to find new good practices to show impact and value of libraries!
In the
workshop, we seek together answers to following questions:
- To which quarter
do you prove impact and value of your library?
- How do you show that services
provided by your library give additional value to your customers/target group?
- What kind of information or data is necessary to collect in order to show
the impact and benefits of your library?
The workshop is carried out in 3
sessions with same content during the conference
Information
Grounds: A field method and design workshop for supporting how people
experience everyday information in informal social settings / Organized
Dr. Karen E. Fisher, Professor, University of Washington Information
School, USA
Information Grounds are informal social settings where people
create, remix, and share everyday information all while attending to another
activity—cafes and pubs, hair and tattoo salons, grocery stores, football
games, waiting rooms, parks, libraries and book stores, public transport, the
beach… online settings too, including Warcraft, Etsy, Pinterest and more.
Fisher (writing as Pettigrew, 1999, p. 811), defined information grounds as
synergistic “environment(s) temporarily created when people come together for a
singular purpose but from whose behavior emerges a social atmosphere that
fosters the spontaneous and serendipitous sharing of information,” and later
developed propositions and a typology (Fisher, Landry & Naumer, 2007;
Counts & Fisher, 2010; pie.uw.edu). In this all-day, two part-workshop,
participants will (a) learn the information ground “people-place-information”
conceptual framework and basic field methods for studying information grounds,
(b) conduct fieldwork in Rome, and (c) analyze their observations using a
design thinking approach that considers how their information ground might be
served and utilized by tweaking people, place, information factors via
applications, services and policy. Implications for how libraries can be
promoted as information grounds are a key highlight. Note: this workshop is
a blast—very conceptual, but practical and hands-on: bring your walking shoes,
sun block, note pad/sketch book, digital camera and Euros for espresso and
biscotti.
Counts, S., & Fisher, K. E. (2010). Mobile Social Networking
as Information Ground: A Case Study. Library & Information Science
Research, 32.2, 98-115.
Fisher, K. E., Landry, C. F., & Naumer,, C. M.
(2007). Social spaces, casual interactions, meaningful exchanges: An
information ground typology based on the college student experience.
Information Research, 12.2.
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Plenary
Speeches
NEW Libraries and public perceptions: A
comparative analysis of the European press. Methodological insights
Prof. Anna
Galluzzi
Senate
Library in Rome.
Over the
last years there has been much research and discussion about the future of
libraries, particularly public libraries, in relation with the state of society
and welfare. The economic crisis has exacerbated the situation of libraries in
terms of budget cuts and their usefulness in the digital age has been put in
doubt.
In these
difficult times, many methods have been applied to prove the social and
economic impact of libraries. An alternative method to measure the relevance
and the public perception of libraries could come from the analysis of
newspapers, considering that they still are an important means in building
public opinion.
In this
speech the methodology and the first findings of an ongoing research on this
topic will be presented. The research is based upon a comparative textual
analysis of 8 newspapers of national interest coming from 4 different European
countries (UK, Italy, France and Spain) and concerns the quantity and quality
of articles on libraries published since 2008 on.
Brief cv. In
1997 Anna Galluzzi graduated at University of Tuscia in Viterbo in the
Conservation of Cultural Heritage, Specialization for Archivists and
Librarians; then she gained a Degree in Library and Information Science at the
University of Rome “La Sapienza and a PhD in Library Science at the University
of Udine in 2008. Since 2003 she has been working as Parliamentary
Administrator and Librarian at the Senate Library in Rome. She was contract
professor in Library and Information Science and Library Management at the
University of Rome “La Sapienza”, as well as teacher in professional classes
and speaker at many national and international conferences. In addition to
numerous articles and papers, she is the author of the following books: 1. La
valutazione delle biblioteche pubbliche. Dati e metodologie delle indagini in
Italia. Firenze, Olschki, 1999; 2. Biblioteche e cooperazione. Modelli,
strumenti, esperienze in Italia. Milano: Editrice Bibliografica, 2004 3. Biblioteche
per la città. Nuove prospettive di un servizio pubblico. Roma: Carocci,
2009. In English she has published: 1. (2009) New public libraries in Italy:
trends and issues. International Information and Library Review, 41,
52-59 2. (2010) Parliamentary libraries: an uncertain future? Library Trends,
58 (4), 549-560, available on:https://www.ideals.illinois.edu/bitstream/handle/2142/16680/58.4.galluzzi.pdf?sequence=2.
3. (2011) Cities as long tails of the physical world: a challenge for public
libraries, Library management, 32 (4/5), 319-335 (Highly Commended Award
Winner at the Literati Network Awards for Excellence 2012.
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Looking Out
and Looking In - The Universe of Information
Lynne Marie
Rudasill
Associate
Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Member of the
IFLA Governing Board
We are all
aware of the fact that the forces of globalization are not just felt in the spheres
of economics, politics, and sociology. Library and information science is also
facing the challenges brought on by vast technological changes that are having
an increasingly foundational impact upon the field. The concepts of
interdisciplinarity, problem-solving, and big data are explored here in an
effort to understand the intricacies of measurement in a rapidly changing
field, the tools that can be provided to our institutions and, most
importantly, to our users. Beginning with a look at a galaxy of clickstream
data that provides a striking example of interdisciplinarity, we can explore
the information universe where competing methodologies, both quantitative and
qualitative, demand our attention and resources. We will also try to see the
expanding edges of our universe to understand where we might be going next.
Lynne
Marie Rudasill is
Associate Professor and Global Studies Librarian at the University Library of
the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is fully embedded in the
Center for Global Studies, a Title VI National Resource Center supported by the
U.S. Department of Education, and holds the unique distinction of being the
first professional full-time digital librarian in the emerging field of global
studies. Lynne provides library instruction, reference services, and collection
management support in the fields of global studies, European Union studies,
political science and United Nations documents. Like most professional
university librarians, Lynne regularly offers subject-area training and
instruction for students, faculty, K-12 teachers, and specialized audiences,
such as the military. In her capacity as Associate Professor of Library and
Information Science, Lynne has taught graduate courses at the University of
Illinois Graduate School of Library and Information Science including,
“Information, Libraries, and Society” and “Social Science Research Methods and
Resources”. GSLIS is the top-ranked library school in the nation, and the
University Library is the largest public university research library in the
United States. With her colleague, Barbara Ford, Director of the Mortenson
Center for International Librarianship, Lynne currently teaches an
undergraduate global studies course “The Power of Information in Development,”
which provides a multidisciplinary and information-intensive approach to the
study of the Millennium Development Goals of the United Nations.
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Collaboration—the
most wicked enabler to fabulously successful research
Dr. Karen E.
Fisher
University of
Washington Information School
Collaboration
signals bringing together people whose assets—professional skills and
expertise, social capital, work styles, personalities, and more work in harmony
towards achieving a common goal. A complex notion, collaboration ranges in
degree of formality, whether required or voluntary, and extent and type of
participation. Most research, like other human endeavors, comprises some
element of collaboration. Yet stories approach urban myth of collaborations
that were hard to create, wasted time, damaged relations, and left unfinished
business leading to nowhere. However, collaboration can go remarkably well,
showing the power of many, the creation of gold from dust. Two such examples
are shared—macro and micro—that have several commonalities and yet vary widely
in team size, budget, resources, and genesis. The U.S. Impact Study (2010-12)
of how people use computers and the Internet in public libraries led by Fisher,
Crandall and Becker was funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and
the Institute of Museum & Library Services. In addition to the PIs,
assistants and consultants, the study comprised an expert committee and
partnered with about 500 libraries. Mixed-methods—an unprecedented web survey
(continuing today), telephone survey and case studies—were used to study 50,000
people. The second study, InfoMe, is an ethnographic-design study that brings
together public libraries, community-based organizations, corporate agencies
and university researchers to understand how ethnic minority youth seek
information and use technology on behalf of other people, especially older
family members, and how this information mediary phenomenon can be supported
through information technology, services and policy. This study—being
exploratory, qualitative and design-focused but also involving survey
techniques and community training workshops is vastly smaller in nature and
entirely dependent on collaboration for success with its myriad partners.
Funded by Microsoft and the Institute of Museum and Library Services, InfoMe
led from the U.S. Impact Study that showed 63% of people used library
technology on behalf of another person in the past 12 months, which has strong
implications for how we design information systems, support information
literacy, and determine impact. Together these two studies illustrate how
collaboration can elevate the doing of research, turning every moment into a
state of flow and igniting research programs with long-reaching effects.
New
Abstract submission deadline: 28 February 2013.
Indicative
themes are in http://www.isast.org
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Special
Sessions – Workshops
You may
send proposals for Special Sessions (4-6 papers) or Workshops
(more than 2 sessions) including the title and a brief description at: secretariat@isast.org
You may
also send Abstracts/Papers to be included in the following sessions, to
new sessions or as contributed papers at the web page: http://www.isast.org/abstractregistration.html
Contributions
may be realized through one of the following ways
a. structured
abstracts (not exceeding 500 words) and presentation;
b. full papers
(not exceeding 7,000 words);
c. posters (not
exceeding 2,500 words);
d. visual
presentations (Pecha kucha).
All
abstracts will be published in the Conference Book of Abstracts and in the
website of the Conference.
The papers
of the conference will be published in the e-journal
QQML after the permission of the author(s).
Student
submissions. Professors
and Supervisors are encouraged to organize conference sessions of Postgraduate
theses and dissertations.
Please
direct any questions regarding the QQML 2013 Conference and Student Research
Presentations to the secretariat of the conference at: secretariat@isast.org
On behalf of
the Conference Committee
Dr. Anthi
Katsirikou, Conference Co-Chair
University of Piraeus Library Director
Head,
European Documentation Center
Board Member of the Greek Association of
Librarians and Information Professionals
Professor
Carla Basili, Local Co-Chair
EnIL - The European network on Information
Literacy, co-ordinator
Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche
Istituto di Ricerca
sull'Impresa e lo Sviluppo sede di Roma
via dei Taurini, 19 - 00185 Roma, Italy
A rare opportunity to hear and discuss
with silver designers their work which has been inspired by the V&A's
Archive and which is part of a display at the V&A.
Meet on
Thursday 7th March at 13.00 at the 'Meeting Point' in V&A's Main entrance
on Cromwell Road. This is a free event led by curator Ann Eatwell of the
Sculpture, Metalwork, Ceramics and Glass Department in conversation with
Silversmiths Kate Earlham and Fiona McAlear on the process of creating a
contemporary response to historic patterns and forms from the V&A Archive.
The
Higher Education Academy (HEA) invites new and early career lecturers to an
intensive, one-dayNew to Teaching workshop on learning and teaching in
history and related disciplines. The primary aim is to offer GTA, new or
recently appointed academic staff an opportunity to reflect on and share their
experiences of being a university teacher in their main discipline; and help
them to address the main issues involved in providing high-quality learning and
teaching experiences for students. These include: curriculum design and
quality assurance; the history lecture; small group teaching; assessment and
feedback; career development and job applications.
There are two events:
HEA New to Teaching
Workshop, University of Manchester, 22nd March 2013. To register, go to:http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/events/detail/2013/22_March_NTTHistory
HEA New to Teaching
Workshop, University of Glasgow, 25th April 2013. To register, go to:http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/events/detail/2013/26_April_NTTHistory
These events are free to
attend, but applicants need to register before the event. Delegates may
also be eligible for a travel grant, but must apply at least one month
before the event:www.heacademy.ac.uk/travel-grant
For
further information about these or any other HEA events, please contact Peter
D’Sena, Discipline Lead for History at the HEA: peter.dsena@heacademy.ac.uk
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