Archival Kismet online conference - call for proposals; due October 1st

[Alexandra Rutherford]

Hello members of FHHS, Cheiron, and ESHHS  -

Courtney Thompson at Mississippi State University is hosting the second Archival Kismet conference, on-line, on Dec. 10th and 11th. The first one was a great success. The description of the conference is available here.

Proposals for this year's conference can be submitted here (and are due by October 1st):

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSem94HxPQlQRvEwY91ZMNOIgJPbBdM5mApGKIRgCuGddoPWqw/viewform

CFP: "Silence or Screams? Archives of Race, Gender, & Sexuality," December 10-11, 2021 The Fall 2021 meeting of Archival Kismet will be held virtually December 10-11, 2021. This will be a themed meeting, entitled “Silence or Screams? Archives of Race, Gender, & Sexuality.” We particularly encourage scholars working on aspects of identity and their intersections, including (but not limited to) race, gender, and sexuality in the history of science and medicine, to submit proposals. This non-traditional virtual conference is a forum for history researchers and those in allied disciplines to share early research findings, focusing on the objects, artifacts, and ephemera of the archive. All presentations should be informal and centered around a specific “cool thing” or archival “find” relating to the theme—a poster, a letter, an object, a film clip, a concept, etc., or a small set of related materials. Think of your presentation like history show-and-tell. You do not need to have conclusions or interventions staked out, and you should not present on material you have previously publish docs.google.com

I will be helping Courtney review proposals and participating in the conference, and we especially encourage participation by historians of the human sciences, psychiatry, health, medicine, etc.. I encourage you to submit if you have an interesting archival find you would like to discuss.

Please feel free to distribute the call widely!

Alexandra Rutherford PhD CPsych.  (she/her pronouns)

Professor, Dept. of Psychology, York University

4700 Keele St., Toronto, ON M3J 1P3

Phone: 416-736-2100 x33230

E-mail: al...@yorku.ca

Director, Psychology's Feminist Voi​c​es Oral History and Digital Archive Project

Professor, Historical, Theoretical,& Critical Studies of Psychology Graduate Program

Editor, Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences

Associate Editor, American Psychologist

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