Author Archive
25 February 2014 – editors
CFP: Collecting and Collections in Times of War or Political and Social Change, COMCOL Annual Conference 2014, Dec. 3-6, 2014, Celje, Slovenia
DEADLINE: March 15, 2014 (website information coming soon)
CFP: Telling stories with maps: the geoweb, qualitative GIS and narrative mapping, April 30, 2014, Birmingham, U.K. Read More
19 February 2014 – editors
CFP: The American Historical Association invites proposals for posters for the 2015 annual meeting, Jan. 2-5, 2015, New York, New York, U.S.
EXTENDED DEADLINE: March 17, 2014
Information on proposals and submissions.
CFP: The International Federation for Public History (IFPH), an affiliate of both the National Council on Public History (NCPH) and the Comite International des Sciences Historiques/International Committee of Historical Sciences (CISH) invites your participation in the upcoming 22nd Congress of CISH that will take place in Jinan, China, in August 23-29, 2015. Read More
11 February 2014 – editors
AWARD: American Association for State and Local History awards program for projects, individual achievement, organizational excellence, and publications.
DEADLINE: March 1, 2014
CFP: Emerging Innovators Forum for grad students and emerging professionals to present new projects at the American Alliance of Museums Annual Meeting, May 20, 2014, Seattle, Washington, U.S. Read More
05 February 2014 – editors
ANNCT: 2014 Conservation Assessment Program offers assessments of U.S. collections and historic structures by conservation and preservation professionals from Heritage Preservation.
DEADLINE: Feb. 14, 2014
AWARD: Charles Redd Center for Western Studies announces multiple awards for 2014 for scholars conducting research related to Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, or/and Wyoming. Read More
29 January 2014 – editors
ANNCT: LYRASIS announces CollectionSpace, an open source, web-based collections management system (CMS) for museums and other collecting organizations
CFP: “How do we choose? The stories we collect, the ones we don’t” – Oral History in the Mid-Atlantic Region conference, April 24-25, 2014, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. Read More
16 January 2014 – editors
ANNCT: U.S. National Parks Conservation Association invites 18-34-year-old participants to apply to join its Future Leaders Council
DEADLINE: Jan. 31, 2014
ANNCT: Margo Anderson on “The Historian and Our Crisis of Data Collection vs. Privacy Rights” – Society for History in the Federal Government’s Annual Richard G.Hewlett Read More
07 January 2014 – editors
AWARD: Richard H. Driehaus National Preservation Awards from the National Trust for Historic Preservation, honoring excellence in historic preservation in the U.S. by individuals and organizations.
DEADLINE: March 3, 2014
CFP: 2015 Organization of American Historians meeting, April 16-19, 2015, St. Read More
03 January 2014 – editors
ANNCT: Ruskin student archives: newruskinarchives launched in response to destruction of many of the trade-union college’s archives last year
ANNCT: U.S. Public Interest Declassification Board invites second round of commentary from historians and the public on priorities for declassifying records.
DEADLINE: Mid-January 2014
CFP: History in the Making: Pivotal Moments in Public Understanding – Graduate student conference, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Massachusetts, U.S. Read More
03 January 2014 – editors
The newruskinarchives database website has recently been launched in response to the destruction last year of most of the archive of student records at Ruskin College, the historic trade union and labour movement college in Oxford.
There was much press coverage of the scandal and widespread criticism of the actions of the (now former) Principal, Audrey Mullender. Read More
23 December 2013 – editors
ANNCT: Gettysburg, the Holocaust, and Iron: Using GIS to Understand the Past – Lecture at Hagley Library by Anne Kelly Knowles, Middlebury College – Feb. 27, 2014, Delaware, U.S.
CFP: The Enlightened Image: History and Uses of Projection – May 22-23, 2014, Montréal, Québec, Canada
DEADLINE: Jan. Read More