Around the field March 1, 2016
01 March 2016 – editors
From around the field this week: Public history posters in Bogotà, conference on slave dwellings in South Carolina, reflecting on collections in Manchester, U.K. and preserving/promoting them with National Endowment for the Humanities grants
CONFERENCES and CALLS
- “Museums, Landscapes, and Horizons,” International Committee for Regional Museums (ICR) conference – July 3-9, 2016, Milan, Italy (DEADLINE: March 15, 2016)
- “Using Extant Slave Dwellings to Change the Narrative” call for presenters – Sept. 19-21, 2016, Columbia, South Carolina, U.S. (DEADLINE: April 11, 2016)
- Call for Posters, Third International Public History Conference – July 7-9 2016, Bogotá, Colombia (DEADLINE EXTENDED: April 20, 2016)
- Discovering Collections, Discovering Communities 2016, “Collections, Connections, Collaborations: From Potential to Impact” – Oct. 10-12, 2016, Manchester, U.K. (DEADLINE: May 9, 2016)
- “African Americans in the Nineteenth-Century West,” research symposium with local teacher participation – May 20-21, 2016, St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.
FUNDING and AWARDS
- National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Humanities Collections and Reference Resources Grants (HCRR) to extend the life of collections materials and make their intellectual content widely accessible (DEADLINE: July 19, 2016)
LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES
- March 2016 online LYRASIS classes‘ on local history, project management for digitization, and more
- “Getting Started with Oral History” online workshop from Baylor University – April 6 and 13, 2016
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