Around the field Nov. 20, 2016

20 November 2016 – editors

From around the field this week: Awards for public history projects; oral history conference in Finland; memory studies in Amsterdam; corporate museums in Russia; spring and summer preservation classes in New Jersey, Italy, and online; new book on videogames as historical practice

ANNOUNCEMENTS

• “Blind Dates: compiling and producing the London Rebel History Calendar,” Public History Discussion Group – 11:30 am, Nov 26, 2016, London, UK (Institute of Archaeology Room 209)
• American Women’s History Museum Commission Releases Report to Congress and the President

AWARDS and FUNDING

• National Council on Public History awards deadlines Dec 1, 2016
• American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) 2016-17 ACLS Digital Extension Grant  (DEADLINE: Jan 25, 2017)
• Visiting Humanities Scholar Program at Illinois College, Jacksonville, Illinois, US (DEADLINE: Jan 30, 2017)

CONFERENCES and CALLS

• Finnish Oral History Network symposium, “Fragile Memories, Doing Oral History with Vulnerable Narrators” – Nov 24-25, 2016, Helsinki, Finland
• “Thinking Through the Future of Memory,” Inaugural Conference of the Memory Studies Association – Dec 3-5, 2016, Amsterdam, Netherlands
• “Audience Strengthening of the Corporate Museum as an Incentive to the Industry’s Development”, Third International Conference “Corporate Museums Today” – Dec 15-17, 2016, Kaliningrad, Russia
• “Gateway Arcana: Myths, Mysteries, and Hidden History in the Iowa-Illinois Gateway” – April 29, 2017 (DEADLINE: Dec 31, 2016)
• National Digital Stewardship Residency (NDSR) Symposium – April 27-28, 2017, Washington, DC, US (DEADLINE: through mid-Jan 2017)

LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES

• Registration now open for spring classes from Rutgers University-Camden (architectural history, info for historical commissions, cemetery preservation)
• 2016-17 online course schedule available from MuseumStudy
• San Gemini Preservation Studies Program – May 29-June 23 or July 10-Aug 4, 2017, Italy and Greece

PUBLICATIONS

• “Digital Games as History: How Videogames Represent the Past and Offer Access to Historical Practice” (Chapman) available from Routledge
• Review of “One Nation Divided by Slavery: Remembering the American Revolution While Marching toward the Civil War” (Conlin)

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