Around the field Feb. 16, 2016
16 February 2016 – editors
From around the field this week:
Summer workshops in Berlin and Lviv on Eastern European Jewish histories and German Holocaust archives; automotive heritage in Pennsylvania; colliding stories at Missouri Conference on History; workshop in Kansas for religious communities interested in creating archives.
CONFERENCES and CALLS
- Pre-registration for National Council on Public History/Society for History in the Federal Government conference (March 16-19, 2016, Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.) ends March 2
- Missouri Conference on History – March 9-11, 2016, Columbia, Missouri, U.S.
- 5th Annual Wright State University Public History Symposium, “The Politics of Public History: When Stories Collide,” with keynote speaker Ari Kelman – March 25, 2016, Dayton, Ohio, U.S.
- “Putting Preservation on the Road: Protecting Our Overlooked Automotive Heritage in the Twenty-first Century” – Oct. 20-22, 2016, Allentown, Pennsylvania, U.S. (DEADLINE: May 15, 2016)
FUNDING and AWARDS
- American Association for State and Local History (AASLH) invites nominations for the 2016 Leadership in History Awards. (DEADLINE: March 1, 2016)
- The American Historical Association seeks nominations for the Herbert Feis Award for distinguished contributions to public history. (DEADLINE: May 15, 2016)
LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES
- “Jewish History, Common Past and Heritage: Culture, Cities, Milieus” summer workshop for practitioners, students, and researchers from Ukraine, Belarus, Poland, and Russia – July 11-Aug. 5, 2016, Lviv, Ukraine (DEADLINE: April 8, 2016)
- “Modern Diplomatics of the Holocaust” seminar for archivists and researchers – Aug. 21-31, 2016, Berlin, Germany (DEADLINE: April 15, 2016)
- 7th Introductory Archive Workshop for Religious Communities – July 24-29, 2016, Leavenworth, Kansas, U.S. (DEADLINE: June 17, 2016)
PUBLICATIONS and REVIEWS
- Dec 2015/Jan 2016 issue of ExpoTime!, the International Museum Magazine for Professionals, now available online
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