The McNeil Center for Early American Studies extended their CFP (Call for Papers) for their conference titled, Archives of Revolution: A Conference About How We Make the Past. The conference will take place on June 20 – 22, 2024, at the John Carter Brown Library at Brown University. Proposals are due August 31, 2023.
The history of the American Founding has never been more hotly contested than it is today. As we approach the 250thanniversary, some historians regard 2026 with trepidation and determination to educate the public on the importance of evidence to the interpretation of the past. According to the McNeil Center, “creating, exploring, promoting, preserving, and most of all, critically engaging with the nature and process of archives and archiving helps us to understand the past that we’re making.” Archivists, historians, literary scholars, librarians, etc., all interact with and help shape the past through its material and textual remains.
Archives of Revolution is a collaboration between the John Carter Brown Library and the University of Pennsylvania’s McNeil Center for Early American Studies and the Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts.
They invite proposals for papers and roundtables, and panel discussions around the following three themes: Collecting and privilege, interpreting the archive, and access and discovery.
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