Around the field Nov 8, 2016
08 November 2016 – editors
From around the field this week: Fellowships and grants for studies of race and ethnicity, invention and innovation, George Washington’s life and legacy, Holocaust studies; symposia on disability rights in history and memory, personal digital archiving, black women and activism; oral history workshops in Ankara, Washington DC, California
AWARDS and FUNDING
- Humanities and the Legacy of Race and Ethnicity in the United States – grants from Maryland Humanities (DEADLINE: Nov 21, 2016)
- Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation/Smithsonian Institution, travel grants and fellowships (DEADLINE: Dec 1, 2016)
- Award for Best Electronic Reference Site from Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association (DEADLINE: Dec 14, 2016)
- Mount Vernon 2017-2018 Fellowship Program for research relating to George Washington’s life and legacy (DEADLINE: Dec 31, 2016)
- 2017 Fellowships at the Center for Holocaust Studies at the Institute for Contemporary History, Munich, Germany (DEADLINE: Jan 1, 2017)
CONFERENCES and CALLS
- Registration now open for National Council on Public History Annual Meeting – April 19-22, 2017, Indianapolis, Indiana, U.S.
- “History, Memory, and Disability Rights” – November 19, 2016, Camden, New Jersey, U.S. (REGISTRATION DEADLINE: Nov 11, 2016)
- Personal Digital Archiving (PDA) 2017 – March 29-31, 2017, Palo Alto, California, U.S. (DEADLINE EXTENDED: NOV 25, 2016)
- The Great Irish Famine and Social Class: Conflicts, Responsibilities, Representations – April 20-21, 2017, Belfast, Ireland (DEADLINE: Dec. 12, 2016)
- Amplify! Black Women of the Movement symposium – March 25, 2017, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. (DEADLINE: Jan 9, 2017)
LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES
- Koç University VEKAM Oral History Workshop – Nov 11-12 ,2016, Ankara, Turkey
- 4-week online course on “Copyright and Intellectual Property 101 for Museums” starting Nov 14, 2016
- Professional development meeting on Oral History Projects – Nov 16, 2016, Washington, DC, U.S.
- 2017 Advanced Oral History Summer Institute at University of California Berkeley – Aug 7-11, 2017 (DEADLINE: Dec 15, 2016-April 15, 2017)
PUBLICATIONS
- Special issue of Museums International on “Museums, Heritage and Capacity Building” (Volume 68, Issue 1-2, 2016) – Table of Contents available online
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