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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="color:black;background:white">The 2019 Society of American Archivists Research Forum invites submission of abstracts (of 250 words or fewer) for either 10-minute platform presentations or poster presentations.
Topics may address research on, or innovations in, any aspect of archives practice or records management in government, corporate, academic, scientific, or other setting. The SAA Research Forum will be held on Friday, August 2nd this year.</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="color:black;background:white">Presentations on research results that may have emerged since the 2019 Joint Annual Meeting Call for Proposals deadline are welcome, as are reports on research completed
within the past three years that you think is relevant and valuable for discussion. Please indicate whether you intend a platform or poster presentation.
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="color:black;background:white">See the full call here: </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white"><a href="https://www2.archivists.org/am2019/research-forum-2019" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1155CC">https://www2.archivists.org/am2019/research-forum-2019</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="color:black;background:white">Abstracts will be evaluated by a review committee co-chaired by Nance McGovern (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) and Heather Soyka (Kent State University).</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><span style="color:black;background:white">Deadline for submission of abstracts: May 15, 2019. </span></b><span style="color:black;background:white">You will be notified of the review committee’s decision by July
2nd (in advance of the Early-Bird registration deadline).</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white"><a href="https://app.smarterselect.com/programs/56822-Society-Of-American-Archivists" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1155CC">Proposals
can be submitted online here</span></b></a></span><b><span style="color:black;background:white"> and must include: Presentation title, your name and affiliation, email address, whether your proposal is for a platform or poster presentation, and an abstract
of no more than 250 words.</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Tricia Patterson and Kate Neptune, on behalf of the 2019 SAA Research Forum Program Committee<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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