Around the field March 22, 2016
22 March 2016 – editors
From around the field this week: Public history boot camps in Camden, New Jersey; Iraq conference on heritage in conflict zones; oral history research grants; almost-all-expenses-paid opportunity to attend summer Yale Public History Institute
CONFERENCES and CALLS
- “Conflict and Living Heritage in the Middle East: Researching the Politics of Cultural Heritage and Identities in Times of War and Displacement” – May 10-11, 2016, Sulaimani, Kurdistan, Iraq (DEADLINE: March 31, 2016)
- “Mapping the Past: GIS Approaches to Ancient History” – April 7-9, 2016, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, U.S.
- “Intermuseum 2016” – May 13-16, 2016, Moscow, Russia (DEADLINE: April 8, 2016)
- ICMAH (International Committee for Museums and Collections of Archaeology and History) conference, “Museums, Territories and Societies” – July 3-8, 2016, Milan Italy
- “Urban Belonging: History and the Power of Place” – Jan. 13-14, 2017, London, U.K. (DEADLINE: Sept. 30, 2016)
EVENTS
- “Stories and Heritage of Nursing in New York City” – April 14, 2016, New York, New York, U.S. (Advance registration required)
FUNDING and AWARDS
- Charlton Oral History Research Grant from Baylor University Institute for Oral History (DEADLINE: April 29, 2016)
LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES
- Public History Boot Camps at Rutgers-Camden – April 20, 2016 (“Assessing Your Collection”) and May 12 (“User Experience for Public Historians), Camden, New Jersey, U.S.
- Annual CIDOC (Comité International pour la Documentation) Summer School on Museum Documentation, Principles and Practice – June 1-8, 2016, Lubbock, Texas, U.S.
- Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition (GLC) 2016 Yale Public History Institute for graduate students and academic or public historians – July 10-15, 2016, New Haven, Connecticut (DEADLINE: April 4, 2016)
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