Around the field May 31, 2016

31 May 2016 – editors

From around the field this week: Topic Proposal deadline is tomorrow for NCPH conference; edited volumes and special issues focusing on identity, memory, history, heritage conservation, gender in historical film and TV; 5th annual Cotton Kingdom Symposium in Mississippi and 40^th anniversary of “Roots” in Connecticut; cultural heritage summer school in Bulgaria.

CONFERENCES and CALLS

• Submit a Topic Proposal for National Council on Public History conference to get feedback and find collaborators (DEADLINE: June 1, 2016)
• “Giving History its Place in Migration and Refugee Debates and Research” – June 23-24, 2016, Paris, France
• “Identity, Memory and History,” special issue of Anais de História de Além-Mar (AHAM) (DEADLINE: July 1, 2016)
• “Making the Past Less Foreign: Using Evidence Based on the Human Aspects of Heritage Conservation to Change Practice,” edited volume (DEADLINE: July 18, 2016)
• Special Issue of Gender & History Volume 30:3 (November 2018) on “Gender & Historical Film and Television” (DEADLINE for abstracts: Aug. 31, 2016)
• “The Economy of the Cotton Kingdom and the Confederate South,” 5th Annual Sweat Equity Investment in the Cotton Kingdom Symposium – Nov. 10-11, 2016, Itta Bena, Mississippi (DEADLINE: Oct. 21, 2016)
• “Roots at 40: Reflections and Remembrances” – Oct. 6-7, 2016, East Hartford, Connecticut, U.S. (DEADLINE: Nov. 1, 2016)

LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES

• Intangible Cultural Heritage Research & Management International Summer School – June 26-July 3, 2016, Plovdiv and Rhodope Regions, Bulgaria (DEADLINE: June, 5, 2016)

PUBLICATIONS and REVIEWS

• Review of “Surviving Images: Cinema, War, and Cultural Memory in the Middle East” (Rastegar)
• InterpNEWS, The International Heritage Interpretation e-Magazine, July-August 2016 Issue

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