DOCAM LIVE!^

The 2022 Annual Meeting of the Document Academy is live and in-person.

View the program and meeting schedule.

Registration is now open! Register now for DOCAM '22.

Dates + Location^

August 12-13, 2022
(with gatherings on Aug 11 evening and Aug 14 morning for anyone in town)
Cummings Center for the History of Psychology
The University of Akron (UA)
Akron, Ohio, USA

Format^

The conference is in-person and we are very excited to convene once again as DOCAM was designed in 2003: as a small gathering for sharing big ideas. We are considering possible hybrid options, if remote participation proves necessary, depending on how the pandemic progresses.

Fee^

The conference registration fee is Pay What You Wish, up to $100 USD.

While there are some costs in putting on a conference, we want our annual meetings to be inclusive and accessible to students, artists and others whose conference budgets may be limited.

The fees collected will help cover a stipend for a keynote speaker, the DOI fees for our open-access Proceedings, and some food costs.

Registration is now open! Register now for DOCAM '22.

Travel Information^

Hotels^

We have reserved group-rate rooms at two nearby hotels, Courtyard Akron Downtown and BLU-Tique. Both are affiliated with Marriott.

Our group rate is available Thursday, August 11, through Sunday, August 14. The last day to book with our group rate is Monday, July 11, 2022.

Location^

City: Akron, Ohio, known fondly as the Rubber City, was founded in 1825 on the banks of the Cuyahoga River. Historically, Akron has been a center for manufacturing, serving as the home for companies such as Goodyear, B. F. Goodrich, and Firestone. It is also the birthplace of Alcoholics Anonymous, the site of the oldest airship facility in the world, the site of Sojourner Truth’s “Ain’t I a Woman” speech, and the home of the Cuyahoga Valley National Park. Today, Akron is home to approximately 200,000 people. It is located approximately 40 minutes south of Cleveland, Ohio and is midway between Chicago and New York.

University: Founded in 1870, The University of Akron (UA) is a public research university with 23,100 students from 45 US states and 92 foreign countries. UA offers more than 300 undergraduate and graduate programs. The main campus is located in the city of Akron, with four additional branch campuses. The University is home to the Drs. Nicholas and Dorothy Cummings Center for the History of Psychology, established in 1965. The Center includes the Archives of the History of American Psychology, the National Museum of Psychology, and the Institute for Human Science and Culture.

Nearest Airports^

Akron-Canton Airport (CAK) offers nonstop flights to 17 domestic destinations, plus global access aboard six major carriers. It is a short 20 minute drive to The University of Akron campus. Visit their website for further information on car rentals, shuttles and taxis. There is no easy public transportation from CAK to Akron. See car rentals from Canton-Akron Airport.

The Cleveland Hopkins International Airport is the largest commercial airport in Northeast Ohio, serving almost 12 million passengers annually. It is a 45 minute drive to The University of Akron campus. Visit their website for further information on car rentals, shuttles and taxis. There is no easy public transportation from Hopkins to Akron.

Car Rentals^

See car rentals from Canton-Akron Airport.

See car rentals from Cleveland Hopkins Airport.

Shuttles^

Service available for both CAK and Cleveland Hopkins Airports. Reservations must be received by 5pm EST the day before arrival or sooner. Prices valid 6am to midnight. Ride sharing must be pre-arranged so that all riders are present for the reservation time.

Shared Shuttles: One month before the conference, the CCHP will try to coordinate shared shuttles from both airports for those who are interested. Stay tuned to your email for info!

Call Quality Shuttle Services at 1-888-477-8254.

CAK to UA/Hotel:

CLE to UA/Hotel:

Taxis^

A taxi from Cleveland Hopkins airport to Akron is approximately $90. See the airport website for more details.

A taxi from Akron-Canton airport is approximately $50. See the airport website for more details.

Ride Sharing^

Both Uber and Lyft are available in Cleveland and Akron.

Host^

DOCAM’22 is hosted by the Drs. Nicholas & Dorothy Cummings Center for the History of Psychology at The University of Akron in the Rubber Capital of the World, Akron, Ohio. The Cummings Center is home to the National Museum of Psychology, the Archives of the History of American Psychology, and the Institute for Human Science & Culture—a three-branch organization built on the bedrock vision of exploring what it means to be human.

On exhibition at the Cummings Center are Stanley Milgram’s Simulated Shock Generator, Walter J. Freeman’s lobotomy picks, and several editions of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. Visitors are asked to share What Makes Us Human and responses range from cruelty and tears to contact comfort and helping others in ways that may put us at a disadvantage. The Center also holds scholarly research materials, objects, books, and films of psychologists who changed the ways we think about intelligence, behavior, and identity, and experiments that yet shift our personal information systems into disequilibrium (hat tip to Patrick Wilson).

Agenda^

The agenda includes a keynote by a local scholar, plenary sessions of presentations, and collaborative, real-time creative projects in the gallery.

Our keynote speaker is Dr. Toni Bisconti, from the Department of Psychology at the University of Akron. Her talk is entitled, "Navigating 'topics to avoid at the dinner table': How documents influence high stakes conversations."

Dr. Bisconti received her Ph.D. in Developmental Psychology from The University of Notre Dame in 2001. Her research interests include topics such as ageism, minority stress, experiences of discrimination, and diversity-related education. She has been featured on public radio, as well as several news outlets, discussing hard to navigate topics, including racism, heterosexism, and hate and violence towards historically oppressed populations. Dr. Bisconti teaches courses on Developmental Psychology, Research Methods, Diversity, Hate, and Sexuality. Her work has appeared in leading journals such as the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Psychology and Aging, and the Journals of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences.

Call for Proposals^

Submit your proposal with this form by April 15, 2022. (Extended from the original deadline of April 1, 2022.)

Theme^

Under the weight of the Archives preserving a mountain of documents that make us uneasy, the 2022 DOCAM theme is Document Disease.

Dating back at least to the 14th Century (OED), disease has been used to indicate

When preparing proposals, consider the following prompts drawn from the OED historic uses of the word.

The Document Academy welcomes completed research, research in progress, general conceptual and theoretical work, projects and case studies, experimental and creative explorations, and practical work in areas of document theory, document analysis and document materiality relevant to the conference theme in the following formats: Conference papers and Creative works. Creative works can come in all forms: audiovisual, material, performance, artistic, how-to, short workshop—anything that can be created beyond our traditional forms.

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). The Institute curator is reserving a large gallery space for creative works presented at DOCAM’22 in the Lynn R. Metzger Galleries.

The Document Academy welcomes proposals from cross-disciplinary students, artists, scholars and people seeking discourse on related ideas, from DOCAM regulars to newbies.

Proceedings^

The DOCAM’22 issue of the Proceedings from the Document Academy will be accepting submissions from May 1 through October 1, 2022.

About DOCAM^

DOCAM'22 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.