Around the field Dec 13, 2016
13 December 2016 – editors
From around the field this week: Awards for film and other public history projects; conferences memorial art, justice and memory practices, oral history, dark tourism; summer teacher workshops for US educators; reviews of two recent Canadian environmental/public histories.
AWARDS and FUNDING
- Organization of American Historians invites nominations for the Erik Barnouw Award for outstanding television or documentary film on US history (DEADLINE: Jan 6, 2017) and the Stanton-Horton Award for Excellence in National Park Service History (DEADLINE: Jan 2, 2017)
- Midwestern History Association invites nominations for the Alice Smith Prize in Public History and Hamlin Garland Prize in Popular History (DEADLINE: Feb 1, 2017)
CONFERENCES and CALLS
- The Art of Remembrance: Family, Art and Memory in New England – March 18, 2017, Deerfield, Massachusetts, US (DEADLINE EXTENDED to Dec 19, 2016)
- Critical Heritage Studies in Canada: What Does Heritage Do? special issue of the Journal of Canadian Studies (DEADLINE: Dec 22, 2016)
- Transnational and Global Dimensions of Justice and Memory Processes in Europe and Latin America – June 8-9, 2017, Paris, France (DEADLINE: Jan 10, 2017)
- Engaging Audiences: Oral History and the Public – Oct 4-7, 2017, Minneapolis, Minnesota, US (DEADLINE: Jan 31, 2017)
- 22nd Workshop on the History and Memory of National Socialist Camps and Extermination Sites: Practices of Memory and Knowledge Production – Oct 17-22, 2017, Budapest, Hungary (DEADLINE: Feb 24, 2017)
- Dark Tourism Sites related to the Holocaust, the Nazi Past and World War II: Visitation and Practice – June 28-July 1, 2017, Glasgow, UK (DEADLINE: Feb 28, 2017)
LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES
- “Recognizing an Imperfect Past: History, Memory and the American Public,” National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute for college and university instructors at the Georgia Historical Society in Savannah – June 11-23, 2017, Savannah, Georgia, US (DEADLINE: March 1, 2017)
- “The Political Theory of Hannah Arendt,” National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar for K-12 teachers – June 25-July 21, 2017, Davis, California, US (DEADLINE: March 1, 2017)
- “Slavery in the Colonial North,” Historic Hudson Valley and National Endowment for the Humanities sponsored teachers institute – July 9-14, 2017, Tarrytown, New York, US (DEADLINE: March 1, 2017)
- “Furniture Up Close”: Masterworks at Winterthur Study Days – April 7-8, 2017, Winterthur, Delaware, US
- The Open School of Ethnography and Anthropology 2017 Ethnography Field School, June 11-July 29, 2017, Chichén Itzá, Mexico
PUBLICATIONS
- Review of “Time and a Place: An Environmental History of Prince Edward Island” (MacDonald, Novaczek, and MacFadyen, eds)
- Review of “Mining and Communities in Northern Canada: History, Politics, and Memory” (Keeling and Sandlos, eds.)
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