Around the field Dec 30, 2016
30 December 2016 – editors
From around the field this week: Award for public archives work; symposium on heritage and revolution; collection of writing on history in the Gilmore Girls; online workshops on maker spaces in museums, metals conservation, interpretive planning; dreaming of summer with field courses on heritage management in Cambodia and Islamic Persian architecture in Iran
AWARDS and FUNDING
- Nominations sought for Philip M. Hamer and Elizabeth Hamer Kegan Award from the Society of American Archivists for work that has increased public awareness of a specific body of documents (DEADLINE: Feb 28, 2017)
CONFERENCES and CALLS
- “Exhibiting the Issues of our Times” – call for papers for Fall 2017 issue of Exhibition journal (DEADLINE: Jan 4, 2017)
- Critical Heritage Studies in Canada (DEADLINE EXTENDED for journal abstracts: Jan 22, 2017)
- “Heritage and Revolution: First as Tragedy, then as Farce?” – May 6, 2017, Cambridge, UK (DEADLINE: Feb 14, 2017)
- “Facing Post-War Urban Heritage in Central and Eastern Europe” – Oct 6-7, 2017, Budapest, Hungary (DEADLINE: Feb 28, 2017)
- “Linking Past and Future,” ICOM Committee for Conservation (ICOM-CC) Triennial Conference – Sept 4-8, 2017, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Public humanities blog posts and essays on Gilmore Girls sought by Stars Hollow Historical Society
LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES
- “Making Maker Space Programming for Museums” Online Workshop – starts Jan 2, 2017 (enroll through Jan 9, 2017)
- Interpretive Exhibit Planners Toolbox course begins Jan 3 on MuseumStudy.com
- Online courses in January from City of Angels Conservation on metals conservation, intellectual property, more
- “Learning to Look, Looking to Learn: A Workshop on Visual Literacy” – Feb 17, 2017, Colorado Springs, Colorado, US
- Heritage Management Field Program – May 27-July 8, 2017, Cambodia
- Ten-day Program on the Heritage of Islamic Persian Architecture – July 2-11, 2017, Iran
PUBLICATIONS
- Review of “Surviving Wounded Knee: The Lakotas and the Politics of Memory” (Grua)
- Review of “Imagining a Nation: History and Memory in Making Zimbabwe” (Charumbira)
- Review of “The Archaeology of the Cold War” (Hanson)
- Table of Contents for Environmental History, Vol 22, Issue 1 (January 2017)
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