Around the field March 14, 2017
14 March 2017 – editors
From around the field this week: Prize for Canadian public historians; conference on banking museums in Jakarta; rethinking gentrification and preservation (Rhode Island) and contested urban histories (Mexico City); workshops on oral history, cemetery preservation, ceramics, more; new books on public history, diasporic communities, archives.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
- “Producing Public Geographies: Creating a Field Guide to the American West” lecture by historical geographer William Wyckoff, April 3, 2017, Cambridge, Massachusetts, US
AWARDS and FUNDING
- Canadian Historical Association Public History Prize for 2016 public history work, broadly defined (DEADLINE: March 31, 2017)
- US Congressional Research Grants (DEADLINE: April 1, 2017)
CONFERENCES and CALLS
- “Money and Banking Museums: from display to engagement,” XXIV ICOMON conference – Sept 3-6, 2017, Jakarta, Indonesia (DEADLINE: March 30, 2017)
- “Gentrification & Preservation: A Reappraisal” – Oct 12-14, 2017, Newport, Rhode Island, US (DEADLINE: May 1, 2017)
- “Museums of Cities and Contested Urban Histories,” CAMOC Annual Conference – Oct 30-31, 2017, Mexico City, Mexico (DEADLINE: May 31, 2017)
- “Heritage, Decolonisation and the Field” – Jan 26-27, 2018, London, UK (DEADLINE: May 31, 2017)
LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES
- Cemeteries and Historic Preservation: Workshop and Tour – April 8, 2017, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US
- Public History Boot Camp – “Find Your Perfect Match: Grantmakers and History Organizations, Perfect Together” – April 10, 2017, Cherry Hill, New Jersey, US
- “Ceramics Up Close,” Hands-on Study Days at Winterthur – April 20-21, 2017
- Oral History Training Institute at the Chemical Heritage Foundation – June 12-16, 2017, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US
- Southern Foodways Alliance 2017 Oral History Workshop – July 16-22, 2017 (DEADLINE: March 24, 2017)
PUBLICATIONS
- New from Rowman and Littlefield/AASLH: Introduction to Public History: Interpreting the Past, Engaging Audiences (Lyon, Nix, and Shrum)
- New from Channel View: Tourism and Memories of Home: Migrants, Displaced People, Exiles and Diasporic Communities (Marschall, ed)
- Review of Paper Cadavers: The Archives of Dictatorship in Guatemala (Weld)
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