Conference program
Conference program in DOCAM program 2026 (pdf).
Monday 17 August at 09:00–16:50
09:00-09:45 Registration (DoTank)
09:45-10:00 Welcome address (DoTank)
10:00–11:00 Keynote 1 – Kristin Asdal, University of Oslo, Norway. Chair: Ola Pilerot (DoTank)
11:00–11:20 Break (DoTank)
11:20-11:30 Creative Activity 1 - Jennifer Davis, The University of Akron, USA : Soft Documents: Social Memory and Community Assemblage
11:30–12:30 Paper Session 1. Chair: Ola Pilerot (DoTank)
Vanessa Reyes, East Carolina University, USA : Aging, Digital Dependency, and Personal Document Survival
Camilla Lyckblad, Uppsala University, Sweden : Human Dust: How Documents Allow the Dead to Linger
Andrea Kampen, University of British Columbia, Canada & Saguna Shankar, University at Buffalo, USA : [___________]: Conspicuous Absence
12:30–13:45 Lunch (The Food Company)
13:45–15:05 Paper Session 2 (Parallel). Chair: Helena Francke (DoTank)
Ronald E. Day, Indiana University at Bloomington, USA : Social Varieties of Documentality (remotely)
Rebekah L. Cowell, University of Alabama, USA : Have We Pushed Past the Limit? Digital and Electronic Publishing – The Crisis of Cultural and Historical Displacement and Obsolescence in Fragile Information Ecosystems (remotely)
Iulian Vamanu, University of Iowa, USA : Zines, Documentary Governance, and the Politics of the Secondary (remotely)
13:45–15:05 Paper Session 3 (Parallel). Chair: Anna Lundh (T378 A and B)
Samuel Dodson, University at Buffalo, USA & Briana Buljung, University at Buffalo & Colorado School of Mines, USA : Forces of Documentality: Exploring the Genre–Task Relationship in Undergraduate Physics Education
Ulrika Centerwall, University of Borås, Sweden : What Do School Library Plans Do? Exploring the Role of Policy Documents in Municipal School Library Development
Bhuva Narayan, University of Technology Sydney, Australia, Edward Luca, Charles Sturt University, Australia & Tim Gorichanaz, Drexel University, USA : Mentoring as Ba for Document Transmission and Knowledge Transfer
Sara Ahlryd & Claes Dahlqvist, Linnaeus University, Sweden : Unveiling the Black Box? How Documents Govern Critical Literacies Among Students in the Age of Generative AI
15:05–15:30 Break (DoTank)
15:30–16:50 Paper Session 4, Chair: Charlie Järpvall (DoTank)
Melissa Adler, Western University, Canada, John (Jack) Kausch, Western University, Canada & Joseph T. Tennis, University of Washington, USA : Fēcit Hoc: Instauration and Documentation
Björn Hammarfelt, University of Borås, Sweden : Scientific Abstracting as the Solution to the Information Crisis, 1949–1958: A Tale of Two Conferences
Helena Francke, University of Borås & University of Gothenburg, Sweden : The Social Life of Scholarly Articles
Arwid Lund, Södertörn University, Sweden : The Becoming of a Swedish Documentalist: Hilda S. Lindstedt's View on Clearing-services
Appr. 17:30 Art walk (meeting place to be announced later)
Tuesday 18 August at 09:00–17:00
09:00–10:00 Keynote 2 – Vidmina Stasiulytė, University of Borås, Sweden : Listening as Documentation: Sonic Approaches to Fashion. Chair: Mats Dahlström (DoTank)
10:00–10:30 Break (DoTank)
10:30–11:30 Paper Session 5 (Parallel). Chair: Helena Francke (DoTank)
Suprayitno Suprayitno, Ministry of Manpower, Indonesia, Ken Fitria Indrawardani & Erti Ernawati, National Research and Innovation Agency, Indonesia : Reading Oil Palm as a Natureculture Document: From Four Colonial Seeds in Bogor to Indonesia’s Global Plantation Archive (remotely)
Jodi Kearns, The University of Akron, USA & Joe Stahlman, Balanced Horizons, USA: Proxime Document Narratives
Zulfatun Sofiyani, Mega Putri Mahadewi, Faisal Fahmi & Endang Gunarti, Universitas Airlangga, Indonesia : Documentary Materialities of 'Wali' Tombs: Pilgrimage and Collective
10:30–11:30 Paper Session 6 (Parallel). Chair: Mats Dahlström (T378 A and B)
Fredrik Hanell, Linnaeus University, Sweden : A Note on the Documentality of Library Buildings as Policy Proposals
Anna Lundh & Linnéa Lindsköld, University of Borås, Sweden & Åse Hedemark, Uppsala University, Sweden : One Hundred Years of Instructions for Reading at Home: Recurring Themes in Changing Formats
11:30–13:00 Lunch (The Food Company)
13:00–14:20 Paper Session 7. Chair: Arwid Lund. (DoTank)
Mats Dahlström & Johan Eklund, University of Borås, Sweden : On the Classical Roots of ‘Document’
Kathrine Emelie Haarseth, University of Oslo, Norway : From Sacred Texts to Sacred Objects: Medieval Manuscript Fragments and Their Museum Afterlives
Christa Shusko, University of Gothenburg, Sweden : Documentality and Corporeality: Illustrating Palmistry Manuals 1880-1920
14:20–14:45 Break
14:45–15:15 Authors’ Circle: New Books on Documentality and Knowledge Organisation by Melissa Adler, Western University, Canada, Joacim Hansson, Linnaeus University, Sweden, Ronald E. Day, Indiana University at Bloomington, USA. Moderator: Anna Lundh (DoTank)
15:15–16:15 Paper Session 8. Chair: Bhuva Narayan (DoTank)
Michael K. Buckland, University of California, Berkeley, USA : Leaky Libraries and Undesirable Documents
Elizabeth Sanford Middleton, Furman University, USA : Citational Practices and Construction of Authority: The Revolutionary Pamphlets of the Eighteenth Century British Atlantic
John M. Budd, University of Missouri, USA : Social Epistemology and Documents: Paths to Truth and Knowledge
16:15–17:00 DOCAM Alliance (DoTank)
19:00- Conference dinner (Pumphuset, Viskastrandsgatan 1)
Wednesday 19 August at 09:00–13:45
09:00–10:30 Paper Session 9 (Parallel). Chair: Jodi Kearns (DoTank)
Michelle Kelly, King’s College London, UK : The Reports of PEN International’s Writers in Prison Committee: A Template for Literary Activism
Kate Highman, University of Cape Town, South Africa : Race, the Written Document and the Book as Pass: The Case of PEN South Africa
Marcus Vinícius Pereira-Silva & Asy Pepe Sanches Neto, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Brazil : Documentality and Refuge: The Agency of Documents in the Immigration of Individuals Persecuted by Nazifascism to Brazil
Jane Bartley, University at Buffalo, USA : Documents in Concert: Collective Documentality in Disaster Response
09:00–10:30 Paper Session 10 (Parallel). Chair: Joacim Hansson (T378 A and B)
Isto Huvila, Uppsala University, Sweden : Authoring Practices with Paradata: Shifting Documentary Functions of Sociomaterial Assemblages
Wout Dillen, University of Borås, Sweden : Do You README.md? Towards Best Practices for Documenting Digital Scholarly Output
Olof Falk, University of Borås, Sweden : Documents: Exploring Fiction in Document Theory
Sascha Donner, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany : Governing AI-Generated Outputs: Documentary Practices, Testimonial Accountability, and the Governance of Human–AI Knowledge Work
10:30–11:00 Break (DoTank)
11:00–12:20 Paper Session 11. Chair: Isto Huvila (DoTank)
Bhuva Narayan, University of Technology Sydney, Australia : Textiles as Colonial Knowledge Documents
Jacob Hurtig, University of Borås, Sweden : Document Composition
Robert Aspenskog, Linnaeus University, Sweden : The Documentation and Documentality of Historical Restaurant Menus: Methodological and Theoretical Reflections on Digitised Ephemera
Brian O’Connor, University of North Texas, USA, Carrie Boettcher, Emporia State University, USA & Laurie Bonnici, University of Alabama, USA : The Erasure of Documentary Evidence: AI-Generated Images and the Crisis of Informed Consent
12:20–13.00 Creative Activity 2, Jennifer Davis, The University of Akron, USA : Soft Documents: Social Memory and Community Assemblage (DoTank)
13.00-13.45 Wrap Up Session (including light lunch) (DoTank)