Around the field June 21, 2017
21 June 2017 – editors
From around the field this week: Travel support for exhibit design workshop in Beijing, Smithsonian research in Washington DC; industrial heritage conference in Baku; online courses on rights and reproductions, care and ID of photographs; reviews of books on historical memory in Kashmir and Brazil
AWARDS and FUNDING
- Funding for international participants at Designing Engaging Museum Exhibitions workshop from ICOM International Training Centre (ICOM-ITC) – Nov 6-14, 2017, Beijing, China (DEADLINE: July 15, 2017)
- Travel Research in Equity Collections (TREC) Short-term Travel Awards at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History for research on disability; gender, LGBTQ and sexuality; and race and ethnicity (DEADLINE: July 15, 2017)
CONFERENCES and CALLS
- “Working with (Contested) Collections and Narratives,” Annual Conference of COMCOL (The Guardians of Contemporary Collecting and Collections), Dec 5-9, 2017, Umeå, Sweden (EXTENDED DEADLINE: July 1, 2017)
- “Museums, Collections, and Industrial Heritage,” Annual Conference of ICMAH (International Committee for Museums and Collections of Archaeology and History) – Oct 4-6 2017, Baku, Azerbaijan (EXTENDED DEADLINE: July 14, 2017)
LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES
- Four-week online course on Rights and Reproductions: Guidelines and Best Practices begins July 3 on MuseumStudy.com
- Online course on Identification and Care of Photographs on Paper begins July 10 on MuseumStudy.com
PUBLICATIONS
- Environmental History Vol 22, Issue 3 (July 2017) Table of Contents available online
- Review of Kashmir’s Contested Pasts: Narratives, Sacred Geographies, and the Historical Imagination (Zutshi)
- Review of Remaking the Rust Belt: The Postindustrial Transformation of North America (Neumann)
- Review of Revolt of the Saints: Memory and Redemption in the Twilight of Brazilian Racial Democracy (Collins)
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