CALL FOR PAPERS:
Proposals are now being accepted for the Third Workshop on Scientific Archives, which will take place at European XFEL (https://www.xfel.eu/index_eng.html), near Hamburg, Germany on 30 June and 1 July 2020.
Proposed topics include (but are not limited to):
- Collaborating with scientists to capture contemporary scientific material
- Using scientific archives for outreach and education
- Using and re-using archival resources in current science
- Enabling access to scientific records
- Describing technical and scientific archives
- Managing and archiving research data
- Exploring the role of archives and records in open science
- Capturing diversity in institutional archives
- Scientific archives in a "post-truth" world
- Diversity and inclusion in STEM // Diversity and inclusion in archives
The keynote speaker will be science journalist and author Angela Saini (https://www.angelasaini.co.uk/). Saini investigated the history and science of eugenics in her recent BBC series Eugenics: Science's Greatest Scandal, and her latest book Superior: The Return of Race Science was published in 2019.
Papers are to be 20 minutes. Please submit a 400-word abstract using the following form by 14 February 2020: http://tiny.cc/e888cz
Please note that some funds are available to subsidize both presenters and participants (more information to follow).
More information can be found at: https://www.embl.de/aboutus/archive/working-with-scientific-archives/workshop/
Organized by the Committee on the Archives of Science and Technology (https://www.ica.org/en/committees) of the International Council on Archives, Section on University and Research Institution Archives (https://www.ica.org/en/suv)
If you have any questions, please contact Laura Outterside (laura.outterside@xfel.eu) or Anne-Flore Laloë (anne-flore.laloe@embl.de)
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Bethany Anderson
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Urbana IL
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