Around the field Oct. 11, 2016

11 October 2016 – editors

From around the field this week: Presentation on the heritage of play; call for essays on ruin porn; feminism and museums; conference on living history in modern times; visitor studies conference; oral history conference on belief and faith

ANNOUNCEMENTS

• “Play: Past, Present, and in Perpetuity,” a talk for the Public History Discussion Group by Jordan James, Play Heritage Worker – 11 a.m. Oct 22, 2016, UCL Institute of Archaeology, London, U.K.
• “Archives, Advocacy and Change: Tales from Four New York City Collections” – Oct. 26, 2016, New York, New York, U.S.
• History Day presents student projects, research clinics and panels on libraries, archives, digital resources and public history – Nov. 15, 2016, London, U.K.

CONFERENCES and CALLS

• “Making, Sustaining, Breaking – The Politics of Heritage and Culture” – Oct. 12-14, 2016, Heidelberg, Germany
• “Sustainability & Transformation,” 24th International Conference of Europeanists – July 12-14, 2017, Glasgow, Scotland (DEADLINE EXTENDED: Oct. 16, 2016)
• “A Century of Funerary Sites of the Great War : from History to the Valorisation of Heritage” – Oct. 21-22, 2016, Paris, France
• Essay proposals sought for “Ruin Porn: Essays on the Obsession with Decay” (DEADLINE: Nov. 1, 2016)
• “Remembering and Being Remembered: Monuments, Memorials, and Legacies,” 60th Missouri Valley History Conference – March 2-3, 2017, Omaha, Nebraska, U.S. (DEADLINE: Nov. 4, 2016)
• “The Art of Remembrance: Family, Art and Memory in New England” – March 18, 2017, Deerfield, Massachusetts, U.S. (DEADLINE: Nov. 20, 2016)
• Call for proposals for inclusion in “Feminism and Museums: Intervention, Disruption and Change” book (DEADLINE: Nov. 21, 2016)
• “Building a Place for History,” 2017 New Jersey History & Historic Preservation Conference – June 7-8, 2016, Edison, New Jersey, U.S. (DEADLINE: Nov. 23, 2016)
• “Breaking Through Barriers: Living History in Modern Times,” 2017 annual meeting of the Association for Living History, Farm and Agricultural Museums (ALHFAM) – June 9-13, 2017, Mumford, New York, U.S. (DEADLINE: Dec. 2, 2016)
• 2017 Visitor Studies Association (VSA) conference – July 18-22, 2017, Columbus, Ohio, U.S. (DEADLINE: Dec. 9, 2016)
• “Remembering Beliefs – The Shifting Worlds of Religion and Faith in Secular Society,” Oral History Society 2017 conference – July 14-15, 2017, Leeds, U.K. (DEADLINE: Dec. 16, 2016)

FUNDING and AWARDS

• Short- and long-term fellowships at the John Carter Brown Library, Providence, Rhode Island, U.S. (DEADLINE: Dec. 1, 2016)
• Black Metropolis Research Consortium offers 1-month summer residential fellowships in Chicago (DEADLINE: Jan. 15, 2017)

LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES

• Listing now open for 2017 online courses in historic preservation, collection care, and conservation from International Preservation Studies Center

PUBLICATIONS and REVIEWS

• Review of “Fascism in Italian Cinema since 1945: The Politics and Aesthetics of Memory” (Lichtner)

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