Hello NYCDH community!
NewYorkScapes is excited to invite proposals for the 2022 Culture Mapping symposium, our annual conference exploring the intersection of culture, place, and digital methods. This year’s conference — guided by the theme “Archives & Afterlives” — will take place mostly virtually with in-person components (public health guidance permitting) at NYU’s Washington Square campus.
Culture Mapping 2022 seeks to assemble scholars, students, archivists and information managers, artists, activists, and other practitioners to reflect on the use of archival materials in understanding the information practices that encode and normalize injustice.
What roles can archives play in not only the study of historical events, but in learning and teaching the legacies of information and recordkeeping? We ask: How can historical “archives,” loosely construed, illuminate the entanglement of rhetorical and material violence and information storage, processing, and retrieval? What role do archival materials play in information pedagogy in the humanities and social sciences? How does the transformation of archival materials into digital information present or foreclose opportunities for justice-oriented praxis?
Proposals may engage critical, practical, and historical takes on these questions, regardless of discipline. Faculty, librarians, graduate and undergraduate students, staff and administrators, and community members are all encouraged to participate. Feel free to distribute widely!
Deadline for submissions is February 15, 2022.
Read the full CFP and submit a proposal at newyorkscapes.org/event/culture-mapping-2022/
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