Around the field June 14, 2016
14 June 2016 – editors
From around the field this week: Diversifying Wikimedia, preventing looting, celebrating 50 years of the Oral History Association, and announcing a new continuing ed program in historic preservation at Rutgers University-Camden, New Jersey.
CONFERENCES and CALLS
- Wikimedia Diversity Conference – June 17-18, 2016, Washington, D.C., U.S. (preceded by LGBTQ Editathon on June 16)
- “Amending America: LGBTQ Human and Civil Rights” – July 15-16, 2016, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
- “Preventing Looting: What Curators and All Museum Staff Can Do” – June 29, 2016, New York, New York, U.S.
- Registration open for “OHA@50: Traditions, Transitions and Technologies from the Field” – Oct. 12-16, 2016, Long Beach, California, U.S.
- “Preserving Transcultural Heritage: Your Way or My Way?” – July 5-8, 2017, Lisbon, Portugal (DEADLINE: Aug. 31, 2016)
FUNDING and AWARDS
- Scholarships and fellowships available for American Association for State and Local History annual meeting – Sept. 14-17, 2016, Detroit, Michigan, U.S. (DEADLINE: July 1, 2016)
- Best of the South: Preserving Southern Architecture Award (DEADLINE: July 1, 2016)
- 2016-2017 National Digital Stewardship Residency for recent masters and doctoral graduates interested in digital stewardship (DEADLINE: July 20, 2016)
LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES
- Summer online courses from MuseumStudy.com on cleaning, ethics, introduction to heritage interpretation, more
- Mid-Atlantic Regional Center for the Humanities (Rutgers University-Camden) launching new continuing education program in historic preservation in fall 2016
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