Around the Field October 25, 2017
25 October 2017 – editors
From around the field this week: Susan Ferentinos delivers a talk on “Presenting the Queer Past” at Rutgers University – Newark tomorrow; applications for the Library of Congress’s Librarians-in-Residence fellowship program open on November 1; proposal deadlines approach for conferences in New York, Delaware, and Massachusetts; AASLH and the OHA are offering webinars next week; a round-up of Rowman and Littlefield’s October publications; and more.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
- “Presenting the Queer Past: Many Perspectives, Many Options, Many Questions” – talk from Susan Ferentinos at Rutgers University – Newark – Oct 26, 2017, Newark, NJ, US
- “City and Capital: Building Washington, DC” – biennial symposium of the Latrobe Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians – Oct 28, 2017, Washington, DC, US
- International Federation for Public History seeks nominations for President of its Steering Committee (NOMINATIONS DUE Oct 31, 2017)
AWARDS and FUNDING
- Dianne Woest Fellowship in the Arts and Humanities from the Historic New Orleans Collection (APPLY by Nov 15, 2017)
- Library of Congress Librarians-in-Residence pilot fellowship program beginning June 2018 (APPLY Nov 1-30, 2017)
- Congressional Data Challenge from the Library of Congress to award a visualization or digital project of congressional data (ENTRIES DUE April 2, 2018)
CONFERENCES and CALLS
- “Visioning Change” – Annual conference of the Museum Association of New York – April 8-10, 2018, Rochester, NY, US (PROPOSAL DEADLINE: Oct 31, 2017)
- Viral Networks workshop seeking proposals at the intersection of medical history and digital humanities (PROPOSAL DEADLINE: Nov 8, 2017)
- “Hazardous Objects: Function, Materiality, and Context” – Center for Material Culture Studies 2018 Emerging Scholars Symposium – April 27-28, 2018, Wilmington, DE, US (PROPOSAL DEADLINE: Nov 10, 2017)
- “Monumental Narratives: Revisiting New England’s Public Memorials” – March 10, 2018, Wellesley, MA, US (PROPOSAL DEADLINE: Nov 10, 2017)
LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES
- Webinars from the American Association from State and Local History, including “Historic House Call: Interpreting Historic Landscapes” and “Active Collections: How to Create a Leaner Collection for Greater Impact” (Nov 2 and 7, 2017)
- “Documenting Your Community: Planning Skills for Oral History Projects” webinar from the Oral History Association – Nov 3, 2017
- American Alliance of Museums session “LGBTQ Welcoming Guidelines: Overview, Issues, and Actions” – many local convenings Nov 6-9, 2017
- “Imaging in Context: Introduction to Still Image Digitization for Smaller Institutions” webinar – Nov 9, 2017
- “Architecture in Color: Historic Paints and Finishes, Their Investigation and Reproduction” workshop hosted by Rugters University – Camden – Nov 11, 2017, Camden, NJ, US
PUBLICATIONS
- October publications from Rowman & Littlefield: Commemoration: The American Association for State and Local History Guide (ed. Bruggeman); Defining Memory: Local Museums and the Construction of History in America’s Changing Communities, 2nd edition (eds. Levin and Adair); An American Association for State and Local History Guide to Making Public History (ed. Beatty); Systems Thinking in Museums (eds. Jung and Love)
- Review of Monuments to Absence: Cherokee Removal and the Contest over Southern Memory (Denson)
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