[Air-L] CFP 4S Open Panel: Reverberations in the Archive: Epistemic Justice and the Im/possibility of Being

[Zack Lischer-Katz]

Dear Colleagues:


We are soliciting abstracts for our panel at the upcoming 4S Annual Meeting
in Seattle, Sept. 3-7. Full CFP below. Please consider submitting!



*Reverberations in the Archive: Epistemic Justice and the Im/possibility of
Being*




4S Annual Meeting :: September 3-7, 2025 :: Seattle, Washington, USA

*Organizers*: Elliott Hauser1, Sarah Bratt2, Zack Lischer-Katz2

1University of Texas Austin, iSchool, 2University of Arizona College of
Information Science



*Call for Proposals: *We invite scholars to *submit a 250 word abstract* of
current, recent, or works in progress relating to the material practices of
knowing and being in the archives and their implications for epistemic
justice to the *4S platform
<https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.4sonline.org%2Faccepted_open_panels_seattle.php&data=05%7C02%7Czlkatz%40arizona.edu%7C90283c3ce0f14024bf2a08dd3746b7f6%7C5ee35505eb8e4929937d645df5013288%7C1%7C0%7C638727499205649494%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=7iV7C0vfjlWHIfIm0S61H8hPF7U5%2B8rVxvOgUlHEDQU%3D&reserved=0>.*


We welcome reflections upon how archives, archival silences, archival
practices, and/or archivally-mediated identities reveal the interconnection
between ways of knowing and ways of being in sites and communities of
interest. *Due: *Jan 31, 2025.



*Summary: *Archives, as institutions, provide the symbolic and
sociotechnical infrastructure for the selection, storage, description, and
retrieval of records. But archival ingest has traditionally only supported
particular Western forms of knowledge (records, texts, audio recordings,
moving images, etc.) to the detriment of other knowledge systems and ways
of being. We invite scholars to present completed or in-progress work on
any of the following or related topics:

   - Racial equity and justice
   - Queer & gender archives
   - Indigenous data sovereignty
   - Scientific data
   - Religious/spiritual
   - Anomalous phenomena
   - Government & official
   - Restorative interventions

Accepted panelists will be invited to contribute materials to a 4S
workshop. Workshop participants will conduct comparative analyses of their
selected artifacts and will be invited to contribute to a collaboratively
authored whitepaper after the conference.


Submit HERE: https://www.4sonline.org/call_for_submissions_seattle.php




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Zack Lischer-Katz, PhD

Assistant Professor, Digital Curation & Preservation

Director of Graduate Studies

Co-Director, co/lab: Critical Archives & Curation Collaborative

College of Information Science, University of Arizona