Professional opportunities Jan. 28, 2015
28 January 2015 – editors
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AWARD: The Society of American Archivists invites nominations for the 2015 Spotlight Award recognizing “the contributions of individuals who work for the good of the archives profession and of archival collections, and whose work would not typically receive public recognition.”
DEADLINE: Feb. 28, 2015
CFP: Negotiating the Public sphere: Rethinking History From Below – Friday, April 10, 2015, Irvine, California, US
DEADLINE: Feb. 1, 2015
CFP: Engaging with Archives and Records: Histories and Theories (I-CHORA 7) – July 29-31, 2015, Amsterdam, Netherlands
DEADLINE: Feb. 6, 2015
CFP: Gods and Monsters: Historicizing Ritual, Public Memory, and the Religious Imagination – April 25, 2015, San Francisco, California, US
DEADLINE: Feb. 13, 2015
CFP: Collectors and Collecting from the Early Modern Period to the Present – June 5, 2015, Portsmouth, UK
DEADLINE: March 22, 2015
CONF: “Building Museums” conference from the Mid-Atlantic Association of Museums – March 22-24, 2015, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
EDU: Two webinars in February from American Association for State and Local History on “Getting Ready for Grants” (Feb. 4) and “Writing the Grant: What’s the Process Like?” (Feb. 11)
FUNDING: Black Metropolis Research Consortium offers one-month residential fellowships for scholars, artists, writers, and public historians working on formulating new historical narratives of Chicago’s African American past
DEADLINE: March 8, 2015
FUNDING: THEN/HiER Bursaries for the 2015 Historical Thinking Summer Institute – July 6-11, 2015, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
DEADLINE: May 15, 2015
REV: Human Rights and the Uses of History (Moyn)
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