Around the field March 8, 2016
08 March 2016 – editors
From around the field this week: Truth and lies in Ontario; gravestones and cemetery monuments in Illinois; and a slew of new books and journals.
CONFERENCES and CALLS
- “Oral Narratives and the Politics of History Making” – Dec. 6-8, 2016, Jerusalem, Israel (DEADLINE EXTENDED: April 16, 2016)
- “Screening New England: 100 Years of Regional Moving Image History,” 17th Annual Northeast Historic Film Summer Symposium – July 21-23, 2016, Bucksport, Maine, U.S. (DEADLINE: April 19, 2016)
- “Truth, Lies, and Manufacturing Memory” – Oct. 28-29, 2016, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (DEADLINE: April 30, 2016)
FUNDING and AWARDS
- Alice Smith Prize in Public History from the Midwestern History Association (DEADLINE: April 1, 2016)
LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES
- Safeguarding Islamic Books and Manuscripts: An Introduction to Cultural Heritage and Property Law – April 3-5, 2016, Doha, Qatar
- Preservation of Gravestones and Cemetery Monuments (Basic, May 31-June 1 and Advanced, June 3-4), Mount Carroll, Illinois, U.S.
PUBLICATIONS and REVIEWS
- Southern Cultures (Winter 2015) Table of Contents now available online
- Journal of the History of Collections, Vol. 28, No. 1 (March 2016) Table of Contents now available online
- “Autobiography of an Archive: A Scholar’s Passage to India” (Dirks) reviewed on H-Empire
- “A Short History of the Modern Media” (Cullen) reviewed on JHistory
- “War on the Silver Screen: Shaping America’s Perception of History” (Jeansonne and Luhrssen) reviewed on H-War
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