KULA

As of January 23, 2025, this account will no longer be maintained. For information about the journal, see kula.uvic.ca or reach out to us at kulajournal@uvic.ca.

New call for papers for a special issue on citational politics and justice edited by @wyatt_sally: kula.uvic.ca/index.php/kula…. Deadline February 28, 2025. #citationjustice

Very pleased to announce the publication of a new article, "Mapping for Reconnection: Place Name Documentation and the Atlas of Kanyen'kehá:ka Space," by @geolinguistics and Kahente Horn-Miller: doi.org/10.18357/kula.…. #IndigenousPlaceNames #Indigenousmapping

The second commentary in our section "AI and Academic Publishing" is now available! "Large Language Publishing: The Scholarly Publishing Oligopoly’s Bet on AI," written by @jeffersonpooley and edited by @lesliekwchan is available here: doi.org/10.18357/kula.…. @UVicLib

New publication! "Epistemic Injustice or Epistemic Oppression?" by @amandine_catala is the first piece in a new section of the journal, "Conversations on Epistemic Injustice," edited by Veli Mitova. doi.org/10.18357/kula.…. @UVicLib

Delighted to announce the publication of @erasurist's "Generative AI for Academic Publishing? Some Thoughts About Epistemic Diversity and the Pursuit of Truth," the first commentary in the new section "AI and Academic Publishing" edited by @lesliekwchan. doi.org/10.18357/kula.…

Very pleased to announce the publication of "LIS Journals’ Lack of Participation in Wikidata Item Creation" by Eric Willey and Susan Radovsky, exploring LIS journals' practices of creating Wikidata items for their articles + potential benefits of doing so: doi.org/10.18357/kula.…

Congratulations to the 10 outstanding @UVic scholars elected to @RSCTheAcademies! The five new Fellows and five new members of the #CollegeofNewScholars have been recognized for the significance, originality and impact of their research. ow.ly/E6v050PI3bP

Reminder that the deadline for proposals for our #multimodalscholarship issue is August 1! See the call for proposals here: kula.uvic.ca/index.php/kula…. Deadline for full submissions will be January 2024.

Thanks to everyone who has submitted a proposal for the #multimodalscholarship issue so far and a reminder to anyone interested in submitting that the deadline is August 1! See the call for proposals here: kula.uvic.ca/index.php/kula…….

Just published - Trans and Gender Diverse Voices in Libraries edited by Kalani Adolpho, Stephen G. Krueger, and Krista McCracken parlewdistribution.com/store/p225/Tra…

We are interested in proposals for #multimodalscholarship incl. photo and video essays, podcasts, graphic novels/comics, textile creations, games, maps, data scholarship, #datavisualization, #datasonification, #digitalexhibits, and more! Deadline for proposals: August 1, 2023.

Now accepting proposals for an issue dedicated to #multimodalscholarship! See CFP here: kula.uvic.ca/index.php/kula…. We invite proposals for submissions regardless of discipline/topic, as long as it falls within our scope on knowledge creation, dissemination, and preservation.

More abt @gabe_solis and my work :) Fragile Evidence: Bearing witness to stories about the death penalty in Texas in @TexasObserver texasobserver.org/fragile-eviden… Preservation is Political by me in @KulaJournal kula.uvic.ca/index.php/kula… #LossLAM

And "Preservation is Political: Enacting Contributive Justice and Decolonizing Transnational Archival Collaborations" by @tttkay : doi.org/10.5334/kula.36 #LossLAM

Both @ttkay and @gabe_solis have amazing work in our special issue on Endangered Knowledge. See "Documenting State Violence: (Symbolic) Annihilation & Archives of Survival" by Gabriel Solis: doi.org/10.5334/kula.28 #LossLAM

"Item Not Found: Accounting for Loss in Libraries, Archives, and Other Heritage and Memory Organizations" conference continuing today with a rich and engaging keynote conversation between @tttkay and @gabe_solis on postcustodial partnerships. youtube.com/watch?v=J7cesC… #LossLAM

And Tansey's article "Regulation Requires Records: Access to Fracking Information in the Marcellus/Utica Shale Formations," part of our "Endangered Knowledge" special issue, shows how important access to archival records is for environmental regulation: doi.org/10.5334/kula.21

Great talk by Eira Tansey on the impact of climate change on archives and the need for a Green New Deal for archives. #LossLAM