Around the field Oct 18, 2016
18 October 2016 – editors
From around the field this week: International Federation for Public History looks toward its fourth annual conference, to be held in June in Italy; special journal issues focus on World Heritage and tourism, ethnographies of material culture; fellowship funding available for mid-career professionals in preservation and allied fields
CONFERENCES and CALLS
- “BRIDGE: The Heritage of Connecting Places and Cultures” – July 6-10, 2017, Ironbridge Gorge World Heritage Site, U.K. (DEADLINE: Nov 1, 2016)
- 4th Annual Conference of the International Federation for Public History – June 5-9, 2017, Ravenna, Italy (DEADLINE: Nov 30, 2016)
- “Sights and Sounds of the Cold War in the Sinophone World” – March 25-26, 2017, St. Louis, Missouri, U.S. (DEADLINE: Dec 1, 2016)
- “World Heritage and Tourism,” special issue of furnace journal (DEADLINE: Dec 30, 2016)
- 2017 Civil War Institute Summer Conference – June 9-14, 2017, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, U.S.
- Anthropology Now! seeks ethnographies featuring material culture – past or modern – writ large
FUNDING and AWARDS
- James Marston Fitch Charitable Foundation accepting applications for 2017 Fitch Fellowships – open to mid-career professionals in preservation, landscape architecture, urban design, environmental planning, materials conservation, decorative arts, architectural design and history, and allied fields (DEADLINE: Oct 26, 2016)
LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES
- Online course “Basics to Museum Registration” from Preserve This starts Oct 24, 2016 (DEADLINE: Oct 21, 2016)
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