Professional opportunities Aug. 13, 2013

13 August 2013 – editors

ANNCT: Preservation Field Mourns the Loss of Jane S. Long
The cultural community mourns the loss of Jane S. Long, long-time champion of emergency preparedness and response at Heritage Preservation and, most recently, the National Archives and Records Administration. Jane passed away in Arlington, VA, on July 25, 2013. Full tribute here.

ANNCT: History Council of New South Wales/2013 Annual History Lecture by Chris Masters, who will reflect on the upcoming centenary of the Gallipoli landing and how effectively and insufficiently journalists operate as historians. Sept. 10, 2013, Sydney, Australia

CFP: “War, Memory, and Gender: An Interdisciplinary Conference,” March 27-29, 2014, Mobile, Alabama, U.S.
DEADLINE: October 15, 2013

CFP: “The Future of the Past: Representing the Holocaust, Genocide, and Mass Trauma in the 21st Century,” July 6-8, 2014, Melbourne, Australia
DEADLINE: Oct. 31, 2013

CFP: Popular Culture and Libraries, Archives, & Museums area of Popular/American Culture Associations’ annual conference, April 16-19, 2014, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
DEADLINE: Nov. 1, 2013

CFP: “Museums, Migration, and Immigration” reader
DEADLINE: Nov. 8, 2013

CONF: “The Congress for Curious People: A Festival of Spectacular Cultures,” Aug. 29-Sept. 8, 2013, New York, New York, U.S.

CONF: American Assn. for State and Local Museums Annual Meeting, Sept. 18-21, 2013, Birmingham, Alabama, U.S.
ADVANCE REGISTRATION DEADLINE: Aug. 16, 2013

EDU: Fall 2013 “Brown Bag Session” webinars on a variety of preservation topics from Northeast Document Conservation Center (NEDCC) – Metadata, disaster planning, photograph preservation, more.

REV: “Collect and Record! Jewish Holocaust Documentation in Early Postwar Europe” (Jockusch)