Around the field March 28, 2017
28 March 2017 – editors
From around the field this week: Industrial heritage conference in Azerbaijan; collaborative curatorial training in Namibia; conference on the implications of doing historical research with citizen scholars; invitation to humanities scholars to help document history in the present moment; award for exhibits on history of science and technology; book reviews on German-American heritage, gravemarkers, aboriginal rights and the remaking of history.
AWARDS and FUNDING
- Decorative Arts Trust Summer Research Grants for graduate students (DEADLINE: April 30, 2017)
- Society for the History of Technology (SHOT) seeks nominations for 2017 Dibner Award for excellence in museums and museum exhibits that interpret the history of technology, industry, and engineering to the general public (DEADLINE: May 1, 2017)
CONFERENCES and CALLS
- The History on the Run Project invites humanities scholars from all disciplines to help document the current critical moment in American history in a collaborative anthology video series
- “From the Pleasure of Preserving to the Pleasure of Displaying – The Politics of Fashion in the Museum” – May 15, 2017 (DEADLINE: March 29, 2017)
- “The 9/11 Legacy: ‘History is Not Was, History Is’” – June 15-16, 2017, New York, New York, US (DEADLINE: April 1, 2017)
- “Creating Historical Knowledge Socially: New Approaches, Opportunities and Epistemological Implications of Undertaking Research with Citizen Scholars” – Oct 26-28, 2017, Washington DC, US (DEADLINE: April 7, 2017)
- “Placeless Memories: Digital Constructions of Memory and Identity” – July 14, 2017, York, UK (DEADLINE: May 31, 2017)
- “Knowledge Organization within the Museum Domain,” Special issue of Knowledge Organization (DEADLINE for 500-wd abstracts: April 15, 2017 to [email protected])
- “Curators and Communities: Training for Collaboration” 2017 Annual ICOM-ICTOP Conference – Oct 11-13, 2017, Windhoek, Namibia (DEADLINE: June 15, 2017)
- “Museums, Collections and Industrial Heritage,” International Committee for Museums and Collections of Archaeology and History conference – Oct 4-6, 2017, Baku, Azerbaijan (DEADLINE: Sept 4, 2017)
LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES
- Preservation 101: Preservation Basics for Paper and Media Collections – online course from Northeast Document Conservation Center (DEADLINE: May 12, 2017)
PUBLICATIONS
- New from Rowman and Littlefield/AASLH: Art and Public History: Approaches, Opportunities, and Challenges (Bush and Paul)
- Table of Contents for Environmental History Vol 22, Issue 2 (April 2017) now available online
- Table of Contents for Journal of the History of Collections Vol 20, Issue 1 (March 2017) now available online
- Review of Serious Nonsense: Groundhog Lodges, Versammlinge, and Pennsylvania German Heritage (Donner)
- Review of The Archaeology of Cemeteries and Gravemarkers (Baugher and Veit)
- Review of Aboriginal Rights Claims and the Making and Remaking of History (Ray)
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