Around the field Feb 14, 2017
14 February 2017 – editors
From around the field this week: A new Chief Historian for the US National Park Service; conferences on oral history (Australia), women’s history (Texas and Indiana), religion and public memory (Canada), museums and human rights (Argentina); summer field schools in Italy/Greece and Ukraine; big new book on museum blogs.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
- US National Park Service names Dr. Turkiya L. Lowe as Chief Historian
CONFERENCES and CALLS
- “Seeking Justice: Holocaust History and the Archives of the International Tracing Service” panel presentation – Feb 22, 2017, Jerusalem, Israel
- “Moving memories: Oral history in a global world,” Oral History Australia Biennial Conference – Sept 13-16, 2017, Sydney, Australia (DEADLINE: Feb 28, 2017)
- “Gender, the State, and the 1977 International Women’s Year Conference” – June 12-18, 2017, Houston, Texas, US (DEADLINE: March 1, 2017)
- “Restorying Canada – Reconsidering Religion and Public Memory” – May 18-20, 2017, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada (DEADLINE: March 3, 2017)
- “Museums, Democracy and Human Rights: Challenges and dilemmas in storytelling,” Federation of International Human Rights Museums – Nov 28-30, 2017, Rosario, Argentina (DEADLINE: March 10, 2017)
- Hoosier Women at Work 2017 Conference: Science, Technology, and Medicine – April 1, 2017, Indianapolis, Indiana, US (REGISTRATION now open)
- Institute for Cultural Entrepreneurship (ICE) – July 9-13, 2017, Kansas City, Missouri, US (REGISTRATION now open)
LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES
- San Gemini Preservation Studies Program 2017 summer field school – May 29-June 23 or July 10-Aug 4 (Italy and Greece)
- “Connecting (to) Histories: Engaging with the Urban Pasts and Displaying Jewish Heritage,” summer field school – July 10-Aug 4, 2017, Lviv, Ukraine
PUBLICATIONS
- The Museum Blog Book – new publication from MuseumsEtc.
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