Professional opportunities August 6, 2013
06 August 2013 – editors
ANNCT: PreservationDirectory.com lists all not-for-profit organizations dedicated to historic preservation, neighborhood revitalization and cultural resource preservation for free. Check or update your listing now.
ANNCT: Assn. for the Study of African American Life and History, Inc. launches Voter Empowerment Project (VEP), an electronic tool to build on knowledge of past histories of disenfranchisement and encourage civic participation.
AWARD: 2014 Tachau Teacher of the Year Award from Organization of American Historians for precollegiate teaching of history.
DEADLINE: Dec. 2, 2013
CFP: Contributions sought for “Processes of Patrimonialization, Conflicts and Power” issue of Boletín de Antropología
DEADLINE: Aug. 22, 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: “Teaching and Researching Big History: Big Picture, Big Questions,” International Big History Association Conference, August 6-10, 2014, San Rafael (San Francisco Bay Area), California
DEADLINE: February 10, 2014
CONF: Interdisciplinary conference on “17th Century Warfare, Diplomacy, & Society in the American Northeast” at the Mashantucket Pequot Museum & Research Center, Oct. 18-19, 2013, Mashantucket, Connecticut, U.S.
NCH: The National Coalition for History’s August 1, 2013 Washington Update includes a call to express opposition to the 49% ($71 million) cut to the National Endowment for the Humanities’ budget, which the House Appropriations Committee delayed voting on before adjourning for the August recess. Read more on the NCH website.