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I’m sorry to hear of his passing and thank you for sharing this news with the archival community. My condolences are with you and your family.</div>
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<b>Katie Blizzard</b> (she/her/hers)</div>
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Managing Director, eLabs</div>
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<b>From: </b>Valaria McCabe <mccabevalaria@gmail.com><br>
<b>Date: </b>Friday, October 2, 2026 at 3:03 PM<br>
<b>To: </b>Blizzard, Katie (kal3aw) <kal3aw@virginia.edu><br>
<b>Cc: </b>ohioarchivists@lists.oplin.org <ohioarchivists@lists.oplin.org><br>
<b>Subject: </b>Re: [External] [SOA] CFP: Archives and Resistance: A Virtual Symposium on Digital Preservation and Publication in the Context of African, African American, and Diaspora Studies (Proposals Due Nov. 20)<br>
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Katie, my husband, Doug McCabe has been a member of SOA and I need to tell you he has passed away. He was the Manuscript’s Archivist at the Ohio University. He has been retired for 10 years but there may be people that knew him and would like to know of
his passing after a short diagnosis of cancer. He died September 11th. His obituary is on the Frank E. Smith Funeral Home in Lancaster, website . </div>
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<div class="gmail_attr" style="direction: ltr;">On Fri, Oct 2, 2026 at 2:17 PM Blizzard, Katie (kal3aw) via OHIOARCHIVISTS <<a href="mailto:ohioarchivists@lists.oplin.org" data-outlook-id="684a0661-0ca6-4508-afdc-db866dd06250">ohioarchivists@lists.oplin.org</a>>
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<span style="text-transform: none;">Dear colleagues,</span></div>
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">I’m sharing a CFP (appears after this message) that may be of interest to members of this community. I hope you’ll consider joining us for this virtual symposium. Please note that proposals are due by
<b>November 20</b>. </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 120, 212);"><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://survey.unf.edu/jfe/form/SV_9oBbrVjOeL5xhLo__;!!Dq0X2DkFhyF93HkjWTBQKhk!QpEwexz9kDssxEEZtdDH43CJ9BAgB03RoC2aZegy4dJx6s5_fTtjVz2iMhMM5lB91TcvdtjWbFDRMhi6fty1AViIJeqNGhK4-_xlN1g8xIRA$" target="_blank" title="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://survey.unf.edu/jfe/form/SV_9oBbrVjOeL5xhLo__;!!Dq0X2DkFhyF93HkjWTBQKhk!QpEwexz9kDssxEEZtdDH43CJ9BAgB03RoC2aZegy4dJx6s5_fTtjVz2iMhMM5lB91TcvdtjWbFDRMhi6fty1AViIJeqNGhK4-_xlN1g8xIRA$" data-outlook-id="fd3ce2d0-3369-43ed-863a-d01ec71d9d31" style="color: rgb(0, 120, 212);">Submit
your proposal.</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">For more information about this event, please
</span><span style="font-family: Aptos; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 120, 212);"><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://documentaryediting.org/archives-and-resistance-a-virtual-symposium-on-digital-preservation-and-publication-in-the-context-of-african-african-american-and-diaspora-studies/__;!!Dq0X2DkFhyF93HkjWTBQKhk!QpEwexz9kDssxEEZtdDH43CJ9BAgB03RoC2aZegy4dJx6s5_fTtjVz2iMhMM5lB91TcvdtjWbFDRMhi6fty1AViIJeqNGhK4-_xlN10tvDVk$" target="_blank" title="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://documentaryediting.org/archives-and-resistance-a-virtual-symposium-on-digital-preservation-and-publication-in-the-context-of-african-african-american-and-diaspora-studies/__;!!Dq0X2DkFhyF93HkjWTBQKhk!QpEwexz9kDssxEEZtdDH43CJ9BAgB03RoC2aZegy4dJx6s5_fTtjVz2iMhMM5lB91TcvdtjWbFDRMhi6fty1AViIJeqNGhK4-_xlN10tvDVk$" data-outlook-id="0d5cdb02-60e7-4447-ba81-f76446345cbc" style="color: rgb(0, 120, 212);">see
the event posting on the Association for Documentary Editing website</a></span><span style="font-family: Aptos; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">, or contact Clayton McCarl at </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 120, 212); text-transform: none;"><a href="mailto:clayton.mccarl@unf.edu" target="_blank" title="mailto:clayton.mccarl@unf.edu" data-outlook-id="abf9342f-37a5-4137-8ea2-ede82beb24ce" style="color: rgb(0, 120, 212);">clayton.mccarl@unf.edu</a></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-transform: none;">.</span></div>
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<span style="text-transform: none;">Sincerely,</span></div>
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<span style="text-transform: none;">Katie Blizzard</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><b>Archives and Resistance: A Virtual Symposium on Digital Preservation and Publication in the Context of African, African American, and Diaspora Studies</b></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><b>Call for Proposals</b></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">We invite proposals for a virtual symposium on February 19–20, 2027, focused on archival preservation, digital publication, and community collaboration in projects that relate
to African, African American, and Diaspora studies. We seek proposals for individual 15-minute presentations or panels consisting of 3–4 presentations (15 minutes each) that focus on ways that researchers, archivists, students, community members, and others
are using digital tools and methodologies to recover archival materials and make them available and accessible to expand our understanding of the past and reclaim and promote histories that have been overlooked, suppressed, or erased. Through this event, we
hope to highlight innovative work being carried out in the context of African, African American, and Diaspora Studies, and to create opportunities for scholars to connect and build community. This symposium is co-sponsored by the Association for Documentary
Editing, the Society for Textual Scholarship, Mapping the Black Digital and Public Humanities, African American Digital & Experimental Humanities (AADHum), and eLaboratories.<br>
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Submission information:</span></p>
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<span style="text-transform: none;" role="presentation">For individual presentations: please submit a title and abstract (250 words max.) and a short bio (2–3 sentences) for each presenter.</span></li><li style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">
<span style="text-transform: none;" role="presentation">For panel presentations: please submit a panel title and description (150–250 words), a title and abstract for each presentation (250 words max.) and a short bio (2–3 sentences) for each presenter.</span></li></ul>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">All proposals should be submitted by
<b>November 20, 2026,</b> by completing </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 120, 212);"><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://survey.unf.edu/jfe/form/SV_9oBbrVjOeL5xhLo__;!!Dq0X2DkFhyF93HkjWTBQKhk!QpEwexz9kDssxEEZtdDH43CJ9BAgB03RoC2aZegy4dJx6s5_fTtjVz2iMhMM5lB91TcvdtjWbFDRMhi6fty1AViIJeqNGhK4-_xlN1g8xIRA$" target="_blank" title="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://survey.unf.edu/jfe/form/SV_9oBbrVjOeL5xhLo__;!!Dq0X2DkFhyF93HkjWTBQKhk!QpEwexz9kDssxEEZtdDH43CJ9BAgB03RoC2aZegy4dJx6s5_fTtjVz2iMhMM5lB91TcvdtjWbFDRMhi6fty1AViIJeqNGhK4-_xlN1g8xIRA$" data-outlook-id="aa799436-543e-49eb-97d6-583a6c4eb6f6" style="color: rgb(0, 120, 212); margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">this
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">If you have questions, contact Clayton McCarl,
</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 120, 212);"><a href="mailto:clayton.mccarl@unf.edu" target="_blank" title="mailto:clayton.mccarl@unf.edu" data-outlook-id="9215136f-84d2-40f6-b59a-912be1316281" style="color: rgb(0, 120, 212); margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">clayton.mccarl@unf.edu</a>.</span></p>
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