Around the field Feb 28, 2017
28 February 2017 – editors
From around the field this week: Critical heritage studies in Arkansas; poetics and politics of museology in Havana; conference of humanities council in Boston; half-century retrospective on Nigeria-Biafra War history/memory; registration open for conferences on digital collections and living history; workshop on historic house museums; summer ethnographic fieldschool on a Mexican island
CONFERENCES and CALLS
- “Connecting (to) Heritage Studies in the U.S: A Consortium” – June 15-18, 2017, Jonesboro, Arkansas, US (DEADLINE: March 3, 2017)
- National Council on Public History Annual Meeting, April 19-22, 2017, Indianapolis, Indiana, US (EARLY REGISTRATION ENDS March 8, 2017)
- “The politics and poetics of museology,” ICOFOM Annual Symposium – Sept 25-29, 2017, Havana, Cuba (DEADLINE: March 15, 2017)
- 2017 National Humanities Conference – Nov 2-5, 2017, Boston, Massachusetts, US (DEADLINE: March 15, 2017)
- “Preservation in Practice: A Primer for Historic Preservation Commissions and Planners” – March 18, 2017, Camden, New Jersey, US
- “Conflict, Violence and Preservation” – March 31, 2017, Lexington, Kentucky, US
- Call for posters at CHAT 2017 Amsterdam: “Heritage, Art, Memory, and Agency” – Nov 3-5, 2017, Amsterdam, Netherlands (DEADLINE: March 31, 2017)
- “50 Years After: History, Memory and Legacy of the Nigeria-Biafra War” – Sept 1-2, 2017, River Forest, Illinois, US (DEADLINE: June 20, 2017)
- Association for Living History, Farm and Agricultural Museums (ALHFAM) 2017 Annual Meeting – June 9-13, 2017, Rochester and Mumford, New York, US
- “Digital Directions: Fundamentals of Creating and Managing Digital Collections,” Aug 21-23, 2017, Seattle, Washington, US
FUNDING and AWARDS
- Scholarship from Decorative Arts Trust for Study Trip Abroad to Scotland, June 7-16, 2017 (DEADLINE: March 31, 2017; email [email protected] for details)
- Charlton Oral History Research Grant from Baylor University Institute for Oral History (DEADLINE: April 28, 2017)
LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES
- Historic House Museum Issues and Operations Workshop – April 6-7, 2017, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, US (EARLY REGISTRATION PRICE ends March 2)
- Isla Mujeres Ethnographic Fieldschool – 2, 3, and 8 week summer sessions, Mexico (REGISTRATION NOW OPEN)
PUBLICATIONS
- Review of The Grid and the River: Philadelphia’s Green Places, 1682-1876 (Milroy)
- New book: Memory Unbound: Tracing the Dynamics of Memory Studies (Bond, Craps, Vermeulen)
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