Professional opportunities Jan. 19, 2016
20 January 2016 – editors
From around the field this week: Conference calls for nursing/healthcare history, African-American museums and genealogy, the future of urban preservationism, plus awards for archivists and their advocates.
NOTE: This weekly listing of items of possible interest to practicing public historians will now appear as a regular blog post on History@Work rather than in the “News” sidebar as previously. Watch for the whole publichistorycommons.org site to make a move into the National Council on Public History website soon!
CONFERENCES and CALLS
- 33rd Annual Nursing and Healthcare History Conference – Sept. 22-25, 2016, Chicago, Illinois, U.S. (DEADLINE: Jan 31, 2016)
- National Council on Public History/Society for History in the Federal Government conference – March 16-19, 2016, Baltimore, Maryland, U.S. (EARLY REGISTRATION DEADLINE: Feb. 3, 2016)
- “Looking West: New Audiences and New Practices,” 2015 Association of African-American Museums conference – Aug. 3-6, 2016, Riverside, California, U.S. (DEADLINE EXTENDED: Feb. 5, 2016; scholarships available)
- “The Ancestors on Our Minds: Discovering our Ancestors, Our History, and Ourselves, TOGETHER,” Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society conference – Oct. 13-16, 2016, Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. (DEADLINE EXTENDED: Feb. 29, 2016 – email [email protected])
- Directions in 21st Century Preservation, “The Dynamic City: Futures for the Past” conference – April 1-2, 2016, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
FUNDING and AWARDS
- Awards from the Society of American Archivists: J. Franklin Jameson Archival Advocacy Award for efforts in support of archives and Waldo Gifford Leland Award for writing about archival history, theory, and practice (DEADLINE: Feb. 28, 2016)
LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES
- 2016 Alliance for Historical Dialogue and Accountability (AHDA) Fellowship Program at Columbia University, New York, is now accepting applications (DEADLINE: Feb. 29, 2016)
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