Around the field May 3, 2016
03 May 2016 – editors
From around the field this week: Housing politics and the archive in London; oral history with vulnerable narrators; Massachusetts conference on advocacy for history; UX for public historians; summer courses on restoration and digital technologies for cultural heritage.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
- Public History Discussion Group meeting and talk, “’Setting the record straight’: housing politics and the archive” with Elena Carter, Tavistock Institute & Wellcome Library – May 7, 2016, London, U.K.
CONFERENCES and CALLS
- “American Material and Visual Culture of the ‘Long’ Nineteenth Century” – May 6, 2016, New York, New York, U.S. (REGISTRATION REQUIRED)
- “Creating Spatial Historical Knowledge: New Approaches, Opportunities and Epistemological Implications of Mapping History Digitally” – Oct. 20-22, 2016, Washington DC, U.S. (DEADLINE: May 15, 2016)
- “Fragile Memories: Doing Oral History with Vulnerable Narrators” – Nov. 24-25, 2016, Helsinki, Finland (DEADLINE: May 16, 2016)
- “Finding the Lost Region II: Second Midwestern History Conference” – June 1, 2016, Grand Rapids, Michigan, U.S.
- “Putting History on the Map Together,” 2016 Massachusetts History Conference – June 13, 2016, Worcester, Massachusetts, U.S.
- “Oral History in the Age of Change: Social Contexts, Political Importance, Public Challenges” – Dec. 1-2, 2016, Kharkiv, Ukraine (DEADLINE: Sept. 1, 2016)
- “The Constructed Environment” – May 25-26, 2017, Krakow, Poland (Rolling deadline for submissions)
LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES
- “User Experience for Public Historians” Workshop – May 12, 2016, Camden, New Jersey, U.S. (REGISTRATION DEADLINE: May 6)
- “Basics of Archives” course from American Association for State and Local History begins May 11 on MuseumStudy.com
- “Open Source Digital Technologies applied to Cultural Heritage” – two courses on July 4-8 and 11-15, 2016, Évora, Portugal
- Paper and Painting Restoration in Italy – June 26-July 5 and July 11-Aug. 5, 2016
PUBLICATIONS
- April 2016 issue of ExpoTime!, the International Museum Magazine for Professionals, now available online
- “Palestinians in Syria: Nakba Memories of Shattered Communities” by Anaheed Al-Hardan now available from Columbia University Press
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