2021 Annual Meeting^
Emergence: Documents in Crisis^
Hosted by:
Department of Cultural Sciences, Linnaeus University
Växjö, Sweden
August 17–18, 2021
To be held online using Zoom.
Submission deadline for proposals: Sunday, April 18, 2021.
Program and Abstracts^
Published Proceedings^
Should you wish to participate, we will be publishing the presentations in the Proceedings from the Document Academy. Submitted papers will be peer-reviewed, and the proceedings will be published in December 2021.
The deadline to submit your manuscript for publication in the proceedings is October 15, 2021.
Conference Admission and Fees^
Presenters will be sent a Zoom Room Address and an access code one week before the conference. Anyone other than presenters who wish to participate in the conference must mail docam21@lnu.se no later than 1 August in order to get a Zoom Room Access Code.
Conference attendence is free of charge, but the organizers wish that participants make a voluntary $10 contribution towards the continuous production of Proceedings of the Document Academy. This will help cover the Document Academy’s annual membership fee for Crossref (which allows us to assign DOIs and have our journal indexed in Scopus et al.). If you wish, please send $10 to Tim Gorichanaz (tim.gorichanaz@gmail.com) via PayPal. You can do so at the following link: https://paypal.me/timgorichanaz. If you wish to contribute funds in a different way, please contact Tim. We are committed to no-fee open-access publishing and continuing to raise the profile of our journal, and we thank you for your ongoing commitments in turn to the Document Academy.
Call for Proposals^
Welcome to the 2021 Annual Meeting of the Document Academy. This year the conference will be an online event, organized by the Department of Cultural Sciences at Linnaeus University in Växjö, Sweden.
In a world filled with political turmoil and a global health crisis, spawning needs for new knowledge, documents, and documentation practices have a special and important role to fill. In maintaining the legitimacy of scientific knowledge, presenting health scenarios, channeling creative output in social distancing, and establishing protocol, documents and documentary practices are essential. Documents and documentary practices contribute to the wellbeing of people—both on individual and collective levels—as they form the basis for the organization of everything from social control to creativity to securing basic human rights. The Document Academy welcomes completed research, research in progress, general conceptual and theoretical work, projects and case studies, creative and practical work in areas of document theory, document analysis and document materiality relevant to the conference theme in the following formats:
- Conference papers
- Creative works on display
Such explorations may involve, but are not confined to, the following sub-themes:
- Documents and the issue of “truth”,
- Documents and social control,
- Documents as creative relief,
- Documents as means to connect,
- Documents and human rights.
As in the past, papers and creative works may address:
- Document theory (general, conceptual, and theoretical research)
- Document analysis (case studies, methodological issues, projects, history)
- Document structure, creation, and design (creative and practical work)
Schedule and Practical Issues^
The conference will take place on August 17-18, using Zoom.
Abstracts will be available online prior to the conference. There will be two online plenary sessions (one each day at two different time slots) focusing on discussion rather than presentation. We will accommodate different time zones as best we can, but some of you may have to treat this discussion as an after-dinner (or pre-breakfast) entertainment.
Each discussion will have a Chair, just as an in-person session would, to moderate the discussion. Papers will be presented in 5 minute flash presentations, followed by a series of questions for discussions, questions that pertain to the theme and the abstracts related to that theme.
Each submission will be allocated to a specific discussion based on relevance to a discussion theme. You will not be limited to attending only one theme. However, we do ask that you read the abstracts related to the discussions you plan to attend.
Submission Instructions^
Submission deadline for proposals: Sunday, April 18, 2021.
Receipt will be confirmed within one week; decisions will be announced no later than May 14, 2021. Please submit proposals to the organizing committee at the Department of Cultural Sciences at Linnaeus University, Sweden: docam21@lnu.se.
For papers include:
- Names and contact information for all contributors (on a separate page);
- Title of paper;
- 3 to 5 keywords;
- Extended abstract of up to 1000 words for your proposed 5 minute flash presentation;
For creative works include:
- Names and contact information for all contributors;
- Title of presentation;
- An abstract or brief description of up to 250 words;
- 3 to 5 keywords.
All proposals should also include a brief statement providing:
- category of submission format (full paper, creative work);
- an explanation of how they will be presented (verbal, with presentation software, video, performance, or other forms of demonstration);
All abstracts should be submitted as Word document (.doc, .docx). As all extended abstracts will be blind peer-reviewed, please ensure that author names and affiliations appear on a separate page in the Word document.
Published Proceedings^
Should you wish to participate, we will be publishing submissions in the Proceedings from the Document Academy, which publishes 1-2 issues a year as a record of the activities of the Document Academy, including peer-reviewed conference proceedings and peer-reviewed special issues. The journal is indexed in the Directory of Open Access Journals and Scopus.
The proceedings will be published in December 2021. Details on submission instructions to come.
Contact Information^
For more information and correspondence concerning the conference and the published proceedings, please contact the Chair of DOCAM’21:
Joacim Hansson
Professor of Library and Information Science
Department of Cultural Sciences
Linnaeus University
35195 Växjö
Sweden
Email: joacim.hansson@lnu.se
Please include "DOCAM 2021" in the subject line of all correspondence.
About DOCAM^
DOCAM'21 is the annual meeting of the Document Academy, an international network of scholars, artists and professionals in various fields, who are interested in the exploration of the concept of the document as a resource for scholarly, artistic, and professional work.
The aim of The Document Academy is to foster a multi-disciplinary space for experimental and critical research on the document in the widest sense, drawing on scholarship, traditions and experiences from the arts and humanities, social sciences, education, and from such diverse fields as information, media, museum, archival, cultural, and science studies.
The Document Academy originated as a co-sponsored effort by the Program of Documentation Studies, University of Tromsø, Norway, and the School of Information, University of California, Berkeley. Since then, it has convened in various locations across the globe, from Australia to France. The 2020 conference is hosted by the Faculty of Information & Media Studies at the University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario, Canada.