Around the field Sept. 13, 2016
13 September 2016 – editors
From around the field this week: Nature, race, and diversity in US National Park Service; storytelling in archives and museums; the color of money in the Cotton Kingdom; approaches to perpetrator studies in the Netherlands; new journal issues and book on postindustrial casino capitalism
CONFERENCES and CALLS
- “The Color of Our Parks: Nature, Race and Diversity in the National Park Service” – Sept. 29, 2016, Fort Collins, Colorado, U.S.
- “Embroidery: The Language of Art” – Oct. 14-15, 2016, Winterthur, Delaware, U.S.
- “Storytelling: Oral Histories, Archives, and Museums” – Special issue of Collections: A Journal for Museum and Archives Professionals (DEADLINE: Nov. 1, 2016)
- 5th Annual Sweat Equity Investment in the Cotton Kingdom Symposium – “The Economy of the Cotton Kingdom and the Confederate South” – Nov. 10-11, 2016, Itta Bena, Mississippi, U.S.
- “Quindaro: The Intersection of Abolitionist Politics, Freed Blacks, and a Flourishing Community” symposium at Freedom’s Frontier National Heritage Area – Fall 2017, Lawrence, Kansas, U.S. (DEADLINE: Nov. 14, 2016)
FUNDING and AWARDS
- Scholarships available for fall symposium, “Winchester: Exploring Virginia’s Northern Valleys” from Decorative Arts Trust – Oct. 20-23, 2016, Winchester, Virginia, U.S. (DEADLINE: Sept. 15, 2016)
- Society for History in the Federal Government (SHFG) seeks entries for its 2017 Thomas Jefferson Prize for documentary histories published in 2015 or 2016. (DEADLINE: Nov. 30, 2016)
LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES
- “Better Museums, Happier Museum-Goers,” a talk by Andrew Pekarik, Sept. 15, 2016, Kent, Ohio, U.S. (and live-streamed by Smithsonian Institution)
- “Teaching about Perpetrators: Ethics, Aesthetics, Politics” – Nov. 10-12, 2016, Utrecht, Netherlands (DEADLINE: Oct. 1, 2016)
PUBLICATIONS and REVIEWS
- “From Steel to Slots: Casino Capitalism in the Postindustrial City” (Taft)
- Oral History Review, Vol. 43 Issue 2 Summer/Fall 2016 Table of Contents now available online
- Environmental History Vol. 21, No. 4 October 2016 Table of Contents now available online
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