Around the field May 18, 2016
18 May 2016 – editors
From around the field this week: Summer schools focusing on rare books and America’s political fault lines; World War I centennial continues in Nova Scotia; special journal issue asks about echoes of past prejudices in contemporary refugee crisis; grants for creation and preservation of collections and reference resources.
AWARDS and FUNDING
- Humanities Collections and Reference Resources grants available from Division of Preservation and Access of the U.S. National Endowment for the Humanities (DEADLINE: July 19, 2016)
CONFERENCES and CALLS
- “Nova Scotia and the Great War Revisited: Cultural Communities, Memory and the First World War” – June 11, 2016, Windsor, Nova Scotia, Canada
- “Re-Imagining Challenging History” – June 29-30, 2016, Cardiff, Wales
- “Echoes of the Past: The Refugee Crisis and European Collective Memory” – special issue of Patterns of Prejudice journal (DEADLINE: June 30, 2016)
- “Past Made Present: The WYSO Archives Digital Humanities Symposium” – Oct. 20-22, 2016 (DEADLINE: June 30, 2016)
LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES
- “A Polarized Society: Understanding America’s Fault Lines and Their Historical Roots,” American Studies Summer Institute – July 11–22, 2016, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
- Rare Book School courses in manuscripts, book trade, and publishing history – June 2016, Pennsylvania and Virginia, U.S.
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