[Personal_archives] FW: Call for Submissions, ACA 2013, Winnipeg, MB, Canada

[Hobbs, Catherine]

Good afternoon,
Just a quick reminder that the call for submissions to next year's ACA programme is out.  The suggestion came up in the last SISPA meeting that a family fonds related session might be a good fit for the 2013 conference.  If you like that idea or can strike another SISPA-related session, I hope you'll step up for this one.  It has been one of our goals to encourage more sessions on personal archives over the past few years.  Recent sessions have been very well attended.  The past two conferences have included roundtables from SISPA members and this is a great format for encouraging dialogue.
I hope you'll think about it,
Catherine

(SISPA Chair)

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Subject: [Arcan-l] Call for Submissions, ACA 2013, Winnipeg, MB, Canada

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Attention Archives Community


ACA 2013:
Community as Archives, Archives as Community
Winnipeg, Manitoba
13 - 15 June 2013

Communities are the framework of our identities, our history and our lives. Online and offline, connected by geography, ethnicity, language, sexuality, interests, professions, friendship and kin, our lives are a lattice of communities.

Join us in Winnipeg, city of communities and meeting places, for an exploration of how archival consciousness arises in communities and how community consciousness has arisen among archivists. Weinvite proposals related to all areas of archival theory or practice and pertaining to any and all media. These contributions can come from anyone involved with archives: from archival staff and volunteers, from those who share an interest in archives, whether as a community organizer, researcher, creator, a professional or an academic, and from anyone who considers themselves to be a knowledge worker.

Topics might include:
?        Archives as Community: What issues are important to the Canadian archival community right now? How can we act together to achieve our goals?
?        Community Archives: What is a community archive? What is participatory archiving? How do we build collections and staff that are broadly representative of Canadian society?
?        Archives and Indigenous Communities: How can archival practice engage with Indigenous knowledge traditions? How can archives build healthy relationships with Canadian Indigenous communities?
?        Alternative Archives: Do certain communities treat archives in a particular way? How is the concept of "archives" reinterpreted (as a space, or as an idea)?
?        Virtual Communities, Virtual Archives: What are the challenges and opportunities of social media as collaborative tools? How do we create archives for digital natives? How can archives participate in open source and standards communities?

SUBMITTING PROPOSALS:
The 2013 Conference Program Committee invites contributions in a variety of traditional and nontraditional formats including:

1. Traditional session: formal presentation of papers; approximately 20 minutes per speaker, with questions to follow as time allows.

2. Panel discussion: abbreviated presentation of papers; approximately 10-15 minutes per speaker, with discussion to follow.

3. Roundtable: brief 5-7 minute presentations with open discussion

4. Focused Debate on a specific topic: brief presentations with open discussion & debate to follow. Can adhere to formal debating rules or not.

5. Pecha Kucha Session: 8-12 presenters have 20 slides, each shown for 20 seconds on a timer. Thus, each presenter has just 6 minutes and 40 seconds to explain their ideas.
Use the "Call for Submission" button on the ACA website at http://www.archivists.ca/.  Submitting your session proposal in electronic form using this link is strongly encouraged.
The deadline for these proposals is: Friday, September 29th, 2012
Note: Please be advised there will be a Call for Student Papers as well as a Call for Posters later this year, with submission deadlines early in 2013.

WORKSHOP PROPOSALS:
For 2013, ACA will use the "Call for Submission" button for any workshop proposals that will be associated with the Annual Conference; these submissions will go to the Professional Learning Committee, which will make its decisions in mid October 2012.
Workshop is defined as a full 1-day or 2-day event, generally combining presentations, group discussions and hands-on activities for a group of about 25 - 30 participants.  Workshops can cover any topic/subject, and may not be related directly to the conference theme.
Questions:
Please feel free to direct questions to:

Johanna Smith
Chair, ACA 2013 Conference Program
c/o Library and Archives Canada
550 blvd de la Cité
Gatineau, QC K1A 0N4
Telephone:  613-897-4742
Fax: 819-934-6800
johanna.smith at bac-lac.gc.ca<mailto:johanna.smith at bac-lac.gc.ca>
archivists.ca/content/annual-conference<http://archivists.ca/content/annual-conference>
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