Professional opportunities Jan. 21, 2014
21 January 2014 – Cathy Stanton
ANNCT: Museums Advocacy Day 2014, Feb. 24-25 in Washington, D.C., is the prime opportunity for museums to make their case on Capitol Hill and your participation will provide an invaluable service to both your museum and your museum colleagues nationwide.
REGISTRATION DEADLINE: Jan. 24, 2014
AWARD: 2014 Waldo Gifford Leland Award from Society of American Archivists for writing of superior excellence and usefulness in the field of archival history, theory, and practice.
DEADLINE: Feb. 28, 2014
AWARD: Philip M. Hamer and Elizabeth Hamer Kegan Award from Society of American Archivists for an archivist, editor, group of individuals, or institution that has increased public awareness of a specific body of documents through compilation, transcription, exhibition, or public presentation of archives or manuscript materials for educational, instructional, or other public purpose.
DEADLINE: Feb. 28, 2014
CFP: “Remembering Violence and Violent Memory,” May 30, 2014, Cambridge, U.K.
DEADLINE: Feb. 14, 2014
CFP: “Happy Anniversary? Measuring the Impact, Legacy and Success of Anniversary Events,” May 13, 2014, Hampton Court Palace, London, U.K.
DEADLINE: Feb. 28, 2014
CFP: “Journeys into the past: History as a tourist attraction in the 19th and 20th
centuries,” Nov. 13-15, 2014, Siegen, Germany
DEADLINE: March 15, 2014
EDU: Online course on Legal Issues in Collection Management from Northern States Conservation Center, Feb. 3-28, 2014
EDU: National Endowment for the Humanities Landmarks of American History and Culture Workshop Opportunity, July 2014, Rochester, New York, U.S.
EDU: Historic Deerfield, Inc. announces its 2014 Undergraduate Summer Fellowship Program in Early American History and Material Culture, June 9-Aug. 10, 2014
DEADLINE: Feb. 7, 2014
PUB: First of three special online issues from Past & Present celebrating the work of E. P. Thompson now available – free through the end of March 2014.
PUB: History Australia, vol 11, issue 3, 2013 now available online. Cultural historian of war Christina Twomey writes on trauma and the reinvigoration of war in Australia’s national memory.