Around the field Jan 31, 2017
31 January 2017 – editors
From around the field this week: US oral historians ruled exempt from IRB oversight; conference on museums in Arabia; labor history meets public history at Detroit conference; all you ever wanted to know about the US National Park Service (in one conference workshop); summer archaeology and preservation field school at historic miners’ village in Pennsylvania
ANNOUNCEMENTS
- New US federal rule exempts oral history from Institutional Review Board review
AWARDS and FUNDING
- National Arts and Humanities Youth Program Awards for after-school and out-of-school programs (DEADLINE: Feb 8, 2017)
CONFERENCES and CALLS
- Museums in Arabia 2017 – Oct 11-13, 2017, Manama, Bahrain (DEADLINE: March 31, 2017)
- Labor History and Public History – Oct 19-21, 2017, Detroit, Michigan, US (DEADLINE: May 1, 2017)
- Vernon Press seeks reviewers for social science/humanities titles
LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES
- Last change to register for American Architectural History historic preservation class at Rutgers University-Camden – 10-wk course starting Feb 16
- NPS 101 Workshop: National Parks as Historical Field Schools – April 8, 2017 at Organization of American Historians conference, New Orleans, Louisiana, US
- Archaeology and Preservation Field School – May 30-July 7, 2017, Eckley Miner’s Village, Pennsylvania
PUBLICATIONS
- March/April 2017 issue of InterpNEWS now available online
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