[Commlist] AI and the Archives cfp

AI and Archives: Explorations, Possibilities and Challenges
Sussex Humanities Lab, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK
April 27th – 28th 2023
 This hybrid symposium is a collaboration between Women in Focus, Full 
Stack Feminism, and the Sussex Humanities Lab. It explores the 
possibilities and challenges afforded by AI in archives, and does so 
specifically from an intersectional, eco, feminist perspective. The 
purpose of this symposium is to share interest in, knowledge of and 
concerns with AI systems in archives and archival practices. We see this 
event as an opportunity to engage in conversation and to support further 
formal and informal networking and collaboration. The symposium welcomes 
the perspectives and experiences of scholars, technologists, archivists, 
and practitioners.
We are particularly concerned with questions of if and how AI might be 
deployed within archive contexts and what the implications and 
consequences of this might be. We start from the position that AI 
systems inherit the biases of their creators and require a feminist 
praxis in order to ensure that AI tools are ethical and equitable and 
reduce rather than perpetuate existing problematic hierarchies and power 
structures.
Invited speakers include: Dr Lise Jaillant, Senior Lecturer in Digital 
Humanities, Loughborough University.
Subject areas can include but are not limited to: Computer vision and 
archival cataloguing; feminisation of archival labour and automation; AI 
and machine learning in archival workflows; are AI curated archives 
possible/desirable; creativity and AI in archives; AI and audio-visual 
classification and search; AI and searchability; AI solutions to 
archival silence/gaps; radical possibilities afforded by AI tools; case 
studies of experiments and tests using AI in archives.
Submission: Proposals should include the title of your 
paper/presentation, a 250-word abstract and a 50-word bio. Please send 
in either Word or PDF format to (sarah.arnold /at/ mu.ie) and 
(sharon.webb /at/ sussex.ac.uk). We are open to different presentation styles 
and formats. Please indicate your preference in your submission. This is 
a hybrid event, please indicate whether you plan to present online or in 
person.
A number of small travel bursaries will be made available. If you are 
interested, please send along a short paragraph with your proposal 
demonstrating your eligibility for the bursary, which may include your 
status as ERC, precariously employed or having caring obligations, for 
example.

Deadline for submission is Monday 9th January 2023 3.00 GMT
Notification of acceptance by Monday 23rd January 2023 GMT

This event is funded jointly by the AHRC-IRC projects; Women in Focus 
and Full Stack Feminism, alongside the Sussex Humanities Lab. Full Stack 
Feminism and Women in Focus are funded by UKRI-AHRC and the Irish 
Research Council under the ‘UK-Ireland Collaboration in the Digital 
Humanities Research Grants Call’ (Full Stack Feminism: grant numbers 
AH/W001667/1 and IRC/W001667/1, Women in Focus: grant numbers grant 
IRC/W001756/1 and AH/W001756/1).

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