Author Archive
11 February 2015 – Cathy Stanton
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ANNCT: “Voicing the stories of the excluded: Albanian families’ identity and history making in Athens, Greece”/a talk by Eleni Vomvyla for the Public History Discussion Group – Feb. Read More
14 January 2015 – Cathy Stanton
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AWARD: J. Franklin Jameson Archival Advocacy Award Subcommittee of the Society of American Archivists seeks nominations for the 2015 award.
DEADLINE: Feb. 28, 2015
CFP: Personalized Access to Cultural Heritage (PATCH 2015) @ IUI Conference – March 29-April 1, Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. Read More
09 January 2015 – Cathy Stanton 1
The killings at the Charlie Hebdo office in Paris this week have prompted a passionate defense around the world of political cartoons as free speech, a form of journalistic expression that exemplifies (and occasionally pushes the boundaries of) a free press’s role as critic and gadfly. Read More
30 September 2014 – Cathy Stanton 6
Prompted by Suse Cairn’s June musings on whether museum professionals need theory in their working lives, we posed the same question via social media about public historians and gathered a handful of responses:
Read MoreI think theory and reflexive thought is fascinating and, ideally, useful for planning project goals and critiquing ourselves as authors.
18 August 2014 – Cathy Stanton 2
Continued from Part 1.
So how did the small-scale artisans at Fringe fit into the proposals put forward by the master developer candidates at the March meeting? The short answer is: ambiguously. They were clearly seen by the developers as both part of the hipness of the neighborhood and part of the set of problems–what in an earlier era of urban redevelopment was more bluntly termed “blight”–that the proposals aimed to overcome. Read More
11 August 2014 – Cathy Stanton 1
On a cold March evening this past winter, my students and I caught a bus from Davis Square, near Tufts University, to attend a public meeting in Union Square, at the other end of Somerville, Massachusetts. Within the generally-pricey Boston real estate market of the past two or three decades, Union Square has remained relatively affordable and as a result has been something of a haven for artists, artisans, low-income immigrants, and small, often marginal businesses. Read More
15 July 2014 – Cathy Stanton
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AWARD: Society for History in the Federal Government (SHFG) seeks entries for its 2015 Thomas Jefferson Prize for documentary histories published in 2013 or 2014.
DEADLINE: Nov. 30, 2014
CFP: Public History in Latin America – special issue of Historia 2.0 seeks articles in Spanish and Portuguese
DEADLINE: July 21, 2014
Call is available in English, Spanish, and Portuguese
CFP: “There and Back Again: Tolkien in 2015” – Feb. Read More
10 June 2014 – Cathy Stanton
ANNCT: The Society for History in the Federal Government has posted a timeline of dates important to the history of the federal government and for historical work in U.S. federal offices.
CFP: The Society for Applied Anthropology (SfAA) invites abstracts (sessions, papers and posters) for the Program of the 75th Annual Meeting in Pittsburgh, PA, March 24-28, 2015. Read More
01 April 2014 – Cathy Stanton
Regular visitors to the Public History Commons may have noticed that we’ve undergone a slight facelift recently. The History@Work blog, initially the sole occupant of this site, has gradually been joined by other projects: the News Feed, The Public Historian’s digital space, and now our new Library. Read More
26 March 2014 – Cathy Stanton
ANNCT: Estevan Rael-Galvez will give the 2014 Fredric M. Miller Lecture sponsored by the Mid-Atlantic Region Center for the Humanities (MARCH), May 8, 2014, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
CFP:“Rethinking History: The Journal of Theory and Practice” seeks paper proposals for a theme issue devoted to the topic of “Authenticity.” Read More