Professional Opportunities Jan. 13, 2016

13 January 2016 – editors

From around the field this week: extended deadline for international award for technology exhibits, a chance to weigh in on women’s history scholarship at the U.S. National Women’s History Museum, and more.

NOTE: This weekly listing of items of possible interest to practicing public historians will now appear as a regular blog post on History@Work rather than in the “News” sidebar as previously. Watch for the whole publichistorycommons.org site to make a move into the National Council on Public History website in the next couple of weeks!

CONFERENCES and CALLS

• Museum and Exhibition (MUSE) Studies program at University of Illinois at Chicago seeks submissions for an upcoming publication analyzing, critiquing, and space making for new thinking about museums and exhibitions (DEADLINE: Feb. 1, 2016 – learn more on Facebook event page)
• Summer Seminar in History and Statecraft at the Clements Center for National Security – July 24-29, 2016, Beaver Creek, Colorado, U.S. (DEADLINE: Feb. 15, 2016)
• The Archaeology Channel Conference on Cultural Heritage Media – May 11-15, 2016, Eugene, Oregon, U.S. (DEADLINE EXTENDED: Feb. 29, 2016)
• Screening New England: 100 Years of Regional Moving Image History, 17th Annual Northeast Historic Film Summer Symposium – July 21-23, 2016, Bucksport, Maine, U.S. (DEADLINE: April 19, 2016)
• Call for Peer Reviewers for Museological Review issue “The Global Microphone” – contact [email protected]

EVENTS

• CurateGear 2016: Enabling the Curation of Digital Collections – Jan. 14, 2016, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, U.S.
• Public History Discussion group presents “Archiving the unlawful: collecting, but concealing, suppressed material in a University library” with Dr. Richard Espley – Jan. 16, 2016, London, U.K.
• Congressional Commission to Study the Potential for a National Women’s History Museum seeks input at its Scholar Summit on Women’s History and Public History – Jan. 26, 2016, Washington, D.C., U.S.

FUNDING and AWARDS

• Dibner Award for Excellence in Museum Exhibits from Society for the History of Technology (DEADLINE EXTENDED to Jan. 15, 2016)
• Scholarships available for public historians to attend Civil War Institute 2016: Reconstruction & the Legacy of the War CWI Summer Conference – June 17-22, 2016, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, U.S. (DEADLINE: Feb. 15, 2016)

LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES

• Advanced Online Workshop from Baylor University on Managing an Oral History Project – Feb. 17, 2016

PUBLICATIONS and REVIEWS

• H-Romania review of “Secrets and Truths: Ethnography in the Archive of Romania’s Secret Police” (Verdery)

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