Around the field Jan 10, 2016
10 January 2017 – editors
From around the field this week: A new issue of Public History Review; revival of Public Scholar Program at the US National Endowment for the Humanities; labor history conference in Detroit takes public history as its theme; course on American Architectural History in New Jersey
AWARDS and FUNDING
- Fellowships for exhibits and research at the Linda Hall Library, Kansas City, Missouri, US (DEADLINE: Jan 16, 2017)
- Getty International Program funding for non-US museum professionals to attend American Alliance of Museums Annual Meeting (DEADLINE: Jan 30, 2017)
- Public Scholar Program funding from US National Endowment for the Humanities (DEADLINE: Feb 1, 2017)
- Scholarships for Public Historians and K-12 Teachers, Civil War Institute Summer Conference – June 9-14, 2017, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, US (DEADLINE: Feb 15, 2017)
- Dewey Lee Curtis scholarship for upcoming Spring Symposium, “Savannah: Low Country Sophistication” – April 20-23, 2017 (DEADLINE: March 1, 2017)
CONFERENCES and CALLS
- 2017 Decorative Arts Trust Emerging Scholars Colloquium on current new research in the decorative arts; free for undergraduate and graduate students pursuing degrees relating to decorative arts – Jan 22, 2017, New York, New York, US
- “Milestones, Markers, and Moments: Turning Points in American Experience and Tradition” – March 31- April 1, 2017, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, US (DEADLINE EXTENDED: Jan 23, 2017)
- “Photography and the Histories of Working Peoples and Laboring Lives” – Radical History Review call for proposals (DEADLINE: Feb 1, 2017)
- “Historians Without Borders, History Without Limits” – graduate/undergraduate student conference, May 19-21, 2017, Davis, California, US (DEADLINE EXTENDED: Feb. 10, 2017)
- “Labor History and Public History,” 39th Annual North American Labor History Conference – Oct 19-21, 2017, Detroit, Michigan, US (DEADLINE: May 1, 2017)
- 6th annual Institute for Cultural Entrepreneurship (ICE) from Cooperstown Graduate Program – July 9-13, 2017, Kansas City, Missouri, US
LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES
- 10-week course on American Architectural History from Mid-Atlantic Regional Center for the Humanities (MARCH) – starts Feb 16, 2017, Camden, New Jersey, US
PUBLICATIONS
- Public History Review, Vol 23 (2016) now available online
- Review of “Commemorating Canada: History, Heritage, and Memory, 1850s-1990s” (Morgan)
- Review of “Confronting Memories of World War II: European and Asian Legacies” (Chirot, Shin, and Sneider, Daniel, eds)
- Review of “The Material Atlantic: Clothing, Commerce, and Colonization in the Atlantic World, 1650-1800” (DuPlessis)
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