Around the field March 29, 2016

29 March 2016 – editors

From around the field this week: 20 years after Raphael Samuel’s death, a commemorative conference in London on radical histories; interdisciplinary symposium in Beijing explores the intertwined terms “vernacular” and “heritage”; Texas material culture symposium focuses on transition and change.CONFERENCES and CALLS

• Vernacular+Heritage International Symposium – April 5-6, 2016, Beijing, China
• “Oral History and Technology,” Oral History in the Mid-Atlantic Region 2016 Annual Conference – April 14-15, 2016, Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.
• “Radical Histories/Histories of Radicalism” Raphael Samuel History Centre Conference and Festival – June 30-July 3, 2016, London, U.K.
• “Testimony: Memory, Trauma, Truth, Engagement” – Sept. 19-21, 2016, Oxford, U.K. (DEADLINE: May 6, 2016)
• “Traditions in Transition: Change and Material Culture in 19th-Century Texas, the Lower South, and the Southwest” – Feb. 24-26, 2017, Houston, Texas, U.S. (DEADLINE: June 1, 2016)

FUNDING and AWARDS

• Scholarships for undergraduate and graduate students to attend Association of Academic Museums and Galleries conference – May 24-25, 2016, Washington, DC, U.S. (DEADLINE: April 6, 2016)

LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES

• Spring online classes from LYRASIS on “Creating Online Exhibits: New Ways to Reach Out, Advocate, and Publicize Your Collections and Services,” “Promotion and Outreach for Preservation,” and more.

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