I’m not sure if I’ll be able to contribute to this book, since I am researching a later era at the moment. (My latest heroine wasn’t even born by 1837, and she has just had a whole article written about her for another journal, so I haven’t much more to contribute at the moment.) Nonetheless, I share this for anyone who might be interested:-
Women’s Studies Group 1558 – 1837: Women’s and gender studies in the early modern period and long eighteenth century
Another call for papers, spotted on social media this morning …
Conference announcement: Finding the Women in
Library & Information History
CILIP LIHG Conference 2019
Saturday 22nd June
The John Rylands Library, Manchester pic.twitter.com/8EvNqVoFab
If you’re rushing to submit a proposal, then the following whispered (well, tweeted) insider comment might make you feel a bit less stressed:- “Officially the deadline is today, but I won’t actually be looking at them until Monday morning. Anyone who sends me an abstract before 9 am on 6 February will still be considered!”
This is turning into a busy week! Here’s another interesting call for essays, this time from the Women’s Study Group. Picture me, if you will, twirling like a top as I decide which of all these opportunities to turn my attention to first!
Quoting, with permission, from the email that was kindly forwarded to me:-
“The Art and Science of Collecting in Eighteenth-Century Europe
Edited by Dr. Arlene Leis and Dr. Kacie Wills
“We are inviting chapter abstracts for a collection of essays designed for academics, specialists and enthusiasts interested in the interrelations between art, science and collecting in Europe during the long 18th century. Our volume will discuss the topic of art, science and collecting in its broadest sense and in diverse theoretical contexts, such as art historical, feminist, social, gendered, colonial, archival, literary and cultural ones. To accompany our existing contributions, we welcome essays that take a global and material approach, and are particularly keen on research that makes use of new archival resources. We encourage interdisciplinary perspectives and are especially interested in essays that reveal the way in which women participated in art, science, and collecting in some capacity.
“The compendium will consist of around 15 essays, 6000 words each (including footnotes), with up to four illustrations. In addition to these more traditional essays, we are looking for shorter (circa 1,000 words) case studies on material objects pertaining to collections/collectors from that period. The subject of art, science and collecting will also be central to these contributions. These smaller pieces will each include one illustration. The following topics/case studies are particularly desired:
Women’s Collecting Interests
Histories and methodologies of collecting, taxonomies, cataloging, arrangement, and modes of display
Cabinets of curiosities
Catalogues
Collections housed in art and/or science institutions
The boundaries between the natural and the artificial
Scientific and artistic tools and instruments
Seriality vs. Rare objects
Transitional Objects
Conservation
Collecting networks
The artist collector
The scientist collector
The overlapping of art, science and collecting in domestic spaces.
“Essay abstracts of 500 words and 300 word abstracts for smaller case studies are due January 30, 2019 and should be sent along with a short bio to: artsciencecollecting@gmail.com
“Finished case studies will be due July 30, 2019, and due date for long essays will be September 30, 2019.
We are delighted to announce that the Icepops 2019 call for contributions is now open. The conference is taking place on 26th June 2019 at the University of Edinburgh and you have from now until the 4th February to come up with an idea for your presentation.
We are looking for speakers on all aspects of copyright education from a variety of different perspectives. Last year we attracted expert speakers from educational & cultural institutions, publishing houses and government departments as well as an impressive number of international delegates. Our first keynote this year is composer, publisher and scholar Simon Anderson, who will be opening the conference with a musical theme. We particularly welcome sessions that might compliment this. However, we also retain the playful learning theme from last year and our afternoon keynote, the award-winning Charlie Farley from the University of Edinburgh will be leading an interactive workshop.
We would like to encourage presenters to address one of the themes of this year’s conference:
– Universal Copyright Literacy: bridging the gaps between lawyers, IP teachers, specialists and copyright muggles
– Engaging and creative approaches to copyright education including using games, music and performance
– Copyright education as part of digital and information literacy initiatives
– Copyright education in the cultural heritage sector
– Teaching copyright as part of scholarly and open practices
However, we wouldn’t want you to feel constrained if you have a great idea relating to copyright literacy that doesn’t fit 100% into any of the above. Please just let us know and we’ll see if it fits in the programme.
I’m pleased to be sharing this call for essays, which I saw on a mailing-list to which I subscribe. I’m just quoting the entire call, by permission of the editors:-
Call for Essays
Impressions, Vol. 2: Essays on the Art of Printing, The Legacy Press
The Impressions series encompasses all the printing arts: relief, intaglio, lithographic, serigraphic, and digital, as well as related arts, such as stamping, stenciling, and pochoir.
Vol. 1 has filled, and we are taking essays for Vol. 2, which is open to any Impressions topic. Impressions welcomes published scholars, new authors, established areas of inquiry, and topics not previously addressed in other publications. Impressions is particularly interested in studies that use images both as evidence and examples for visual learning.
printing and printmaking
book arts
practical printing
bibliography
history and criticism (book, printing, literary, art, cultural)
interviews
digitization and the printing arts
conservation
archives, collections, libraries, information
collecting
If you have an essay in preparation or if you would like more information about Impressions, please email series editor Rebecca Chung: chung.rm@gmail.com
We are delighted to announce that the Icepops 2019 
Karen McAulay, Musicologist 