Professional opportunities Feb. 5, 2014
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.
DEADLINE: March 15, 2014
CFP: Seeking contributors to the upcoming Encyclopedia of American Historic Sites and Landmarks – inquire via email to mitchellnewtonm[at]yahoo.com.
CFP: Federal History and the Public Audience, April 4–5, 2014 – Shepherdstown, West Virginia, U.S.
DEADLINE: Jan. 31, 2014
CFP: Remembering Violence and Violent Memory, graduate symposium, May 30, 2014, Cambridge, U.K.
DEADLINE: Feb. 14, 2014
CFP: Libraries, Archives, and Public Memory, Jan. 8-11, 2015, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
DEADLINE: Feb. 24, 2014
CFP: Alliance for Historical Dialogue Fellowship Program for for NGO practitioners, journalists, lawyers, teachers, social workers, community organizers, and others working in settings where historical dialogue is a central component
DEADLINE: March 7, 2014
CFP: Urban Spaces of Lviv/Lwów/Lemberg: Imagination, Experiences, Practices, May 29-31, 2014, Lviv, Ukraine
DEADLINE: March 17, 2014
CONF: From Civil War to Civil Rights: Race, Region and the Making of Public Memory, Feb. 28-March 1, 2014, Memphis, Tennessee, U.S.
CONF: Crossing the Disciplinary Divide: Conjunctions in German and Holocaust Studies, March 20-22, 2014, St. Louis, Missouri, U.S. (some travel grants available)
CFP: Tenth Southern Association for Women Historians Conference
Re-membering/Gendering: Southern Women, Historical Tourism, and Public History, June 11-14, 2015 – Charleston, South Carolina
DEADLINE: Aug. 1, 2014
CFP: Panel session for above conference addressing current issues related to public history practice in the South. Contact Rebecca Shrum by email at rshrum[at]iupui.edu.
CONF: History on Film: Slavery and the African Diaspora from a Global
Perspective (2nd series), Feb. and March 2014, London, U.K.
CONF: Archaism, Amnesia, and Anarchy in/of Architecture, exploring traditions and appropriation of ideas of sustainability, heritage and energy in the context of critical theory – June 8-20, 2014, various locations, Iceland
CONF: Registration now open for “Digital Directions: Fundamentals of Creating and Managing Digital Collections,” July 21-23, 2014, Portland, Oregon, U.S.
EDU: Two online workshops on volunteer recruitment and management from American Association for State and Local History: “Are You Ready for Volunteers?” (Feb. 11, 2014) and “Developing a Successful Volunteer Recruitment Program” (Feb. 13, 2014)
EDU: Introductory (April 1-2, 2014) and advanced (April 3, 2014) seminars in cultural landscape history, policy, and management from the National Preservation Institute, held in Fredericksburg, Virginia, U.S.
ADVANCE REGISTRATION until Feb. 20, 2014
PUB: Center for the Study of Religion and American Culture announces monthly online forum
PUB: Federal History journal 2014 now available online and articles sought for January 2015 issue (inquires via email editor-shfg-journal[at]shfg.org)
REV: Bringing It All Back Home: An Oral History of New York City’s Vietnam Veterans (Napoli)