Around the field Feb. 9, 2016
09 February 2016 – editors
From around the field this week: Born-digital and made-digital “frenemies”; summer study, travel, and preservation in Italy and filmmaking for historians (with free tuition) in Georgia, U.S.; funding and awards for archeologists, archivists, studies of U.S. Congress, and more.
CONFERENCES and CALLS
- “Digital Frenemies—Closing the Gap between Born-Digital and Made-Digital Curation,” free symposium from the National Digital Stewardship Residency program – May 5, 2016, Washington, D.C., U.S.
- Association of Midwest Museums/Minnesota Association of Museums seeks Session Proposals – July 27-30, 2016, Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S. (DEADLINE: Feb. 29, 2016)
- “Memory, Trauma and Recovery,” 5th International Interdisciplinary Memory Conference – June 16-17 2016, Gdańsk, Poland (DEADLINE: April 15, 2016)
EVENTS and ANNOUNCEMENTS
- British National Archives seeks input on developing services for academics and researchers (DEADLINE: Feb. 12, 2016)
FUNDING and AWARDS
- Archaeological Institute of America Site Preservation Grants (DEADLINE: Feb. 15, 2016)
- Society of American Archivists seeks nominations for the 2016 Philip M. Hamer and Elizabeth Hamer Kegan Award award recognizing individuals and groups who have increased public awareness of a specific body of documents (DEADLINE: Feb. 28, 2016)
- Michigan Technological University Archives and Copper Country Historical Collections accepting proposals to its annual travel grant program (DEADLINE: Feb. 29, 2016)
- Association of the Centers for the Study of Congress (ACSC) offers two awards for attendance at its annual conference (DEADLINE: March 1, 2016) and for graduate student research at member repositories (DEADLINE: April 1, 2016)
LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES
- “Rethinking the Gilded Age and Progressive Era: Race, Capitalism, and Democracy, 1877-1920” National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute – June 26-July 22, 2016, Chicago, Illinois, U.S. (DEADLINE: March 1, 2016)
- Visual History Summer Institute at Georgia Southern University, free tuition and discounted housing – May 16-27, 2016, Statesboro, Georgia, U.S (DEADLINE: March 15, 2016)
- San Gemini Preservation Studies Program for study and travel in Italy in two summer sessions plus intersession programs (DEADLINE: March 15, 2016)
- Online certificate in Reminiscence and Life Story Work from University of Wisconsin-Superior
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