Around the field Oct 25, 2016
25 October 2016 – editors
From around the field this week: Conferences in Rotterdam (on tourism), Houston (for Latinos in heritage conservation), Spain (on heritage architecture), and Poland (on heritage and society); online class on paranormal investigations in museums/historic sites starts on Halloween; teaching Wikipedia editing at London library; and new open access book on natural and cultural conservation in Kenya
CONFERENCES and CALLS
- “Locating Imagination: Popular Culture, Tourism, and Belonging” – April 5-7 2017, Rotterdam, Netherlands (DEADLINE: Nov 1, 2016)
- Reunión 2016/Latinos in Heritage Conservation – Nov 18-19, 2016, Houston, Texas, U.S.
- 2016 New Jersey Forum – Nov 18-19, 2016, Morristown, New Jersey, U.S.
- “Transforming Public History from Charleston to the Atlantic Word” – June 14-17, 2017, Charleston, South Carolina, U.S. (CFP DEADLINE EXTENSION: Dec 15, 2016)
- 15th International Conference on Studies, Repairs and Maintenance of Heritage Architecture (STREMAH) – May 9-11, 2017, Alicante, Spain (DEADLINE: as soon as possible)
- 4th Heritage Forum of Central Europe: Heritage and Society – June 1-3, 2017, Krakow, Poland (DEADLINE: Jan 8, 2017)
LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES
- “Paranormal Investigations and Programs in Museums and Historic Sites,” online class starting Oct 31, 2016
- Wikipedia Edit-a-thon: Unsung Heroes at The Wiener Library – Nov 20, 2016, London, U.K.
- Smithsonian Summer Institute in Museum Anthropology for graduate students – June 26-July 21, 2017 (DEADLINE: March 1, 2017, but applicants should start formulating projects early)
PUBLICATIONS
- New Open Access book: “Conservation of Natural and Cultural Heritage in Kenya” (Deisser and Njuguna, eds)
- Review of “The Great War: From Memory to History” (Kurschinski et al., eds)
- Journal of Urban History 42:6 November 2016 Table of Contents
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