[Commlist] CFP for edited collection Shaking the Archive

*Call for Chapter Proposals – /Shaking the Archives: Reconsidering the 
Role of Archives in Contemporary Society/*

Edited by Victoria Bianchi, Vlad Butucea and Andy Henry

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    Deadline for proposals: Friday 22^nd  December, 2023

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    Notification of Acceptance: Friday 2^nd  February, 2024

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    Deadline for chapters: Friday 30^th  August, 2024

Following on from the success of our /Shaking the Archive /conference in 
June 2023, we are very pleased to announce that we are now in the 
process of developing an edited collection drawing upon some of the key 
themes arising from the event.

Our conference earlier this year raised questions around the past, 
present and future roles that archives inhabit. Approaches towards 
curation*,* conservation and creativity were explored alongside 
discussions of how scholars consume and contest archives. As with the 
conference, this will be an interdisciplinary volume and we would 
encourage delegates from a range of fields to contribute, including but 
not limited to culture, the arts, healthcare, 
sociology, museums, history and historiography. This edited collection 
will move towards new understandings of the role of the archive, with a 
specific focus on the alternative and creative manner in which 
authors/practitioners are ‘shaking’ archival practice.

We are open to chapters that respond to diverging questions around the 
role(s) of cultural memory and archives in the present.  The questions 
we want to ask are:

• Where is ‘history’ located if we’re constantly looking to the future?

• How can contemporary communities engage with ‘old’ ephemera? What is 
the ‘correct’ form of an archive?

• What is the role archives play in remembering?

• How do institutions make visible /and /accessible their archival 
materials?

• How can personal, national, and global archives better act as a 
collective memory?

• What /is /collective memory?

• What are the gaps in knowledge and how do we deal with unknown histories?

• What practices and methodologies are in place to engage with the 
vulnerable materialities of and in archives?

• How do we ethically deal with ownership and how do we effectively 
decolonize archives?

• How do we deal with the embodied memory of the past in the form of 
living and vulnerable archives?

• How can embodied memory shape archive? What tools would allow us to 
engage and interact with the polyphonic documentation of archives?

• How can archives better serve the specific communities of which they 
are the cultural product?

Please send your 350-word abstract and a 100-word bio to the editorial 
team at *(archivescfp /at/ qmu.ac.uk) <mailto:(archivescfp /at/ qmu.ac.uk)>*by no 
later than *4pm on 22**^nd ** December 2023*. Acceptances will be sent 
out in February 2024. Final chapters will be expected to be around 6,000 
words, in English, and referenced in Chicago endnote style. We are 
expecting final chapters on 30 August 2024. Our volume will be proposed 
to an academic publisher once the initial abstracts have been selected, 
with publication planned for Spring 2025.

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