Archivists Round Table of Metropolitan New York - Call for Papers: Archiving Activism

Call for Papers: Archiving Activism

Friday, October 12, 2012 5:29 AM | Anonymous member

Ben Alexander, a panel discussion session moderator for the New York Archives Week 2012 Symposium, "Archives and Activism," has put out a call for papers for a special edition of Archival Science: Archiving Activism to be edited by Mr. Alexander and Andrew Flinn. The special edition will explore connections between archival practice and activism. Mr Alexander let ART know, "We are very interested in a attracting a breadth and depth of proposals." Archival Science is an imprint of Springer.

Deadline for proposals of 250 words or less is November 15, 2012. Selected authors will be invited to submit a full length manuscript. See the CFP for more information.

About the Editors:

Ben Alexander is an Assistant Professor in the Graduate School of Library and Information Studies at Queens College, The City University of New York, where he also serves as Director of Archival Studies. In addition to his full time faculty appointment, Alexander also serves as the Head of Special Collections and Archives for the Queens College Libraries.

Andrew Flinn is a Senior Lecturer and the Director of the Archives and Records Management (ARM) (including the recently (2102) merged Records and Archive Management (International) (RAMI) MA) program in the Department of Information Studies at University College London (UCL). In 2011 he was the Allen Smith Visiting Scholar in the Graduate School of Library and Information Studies at Simmons College, Boston, MA.