Professional opportunities July 15, 2014
15 July 2014 – Cathy Stanton
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AWARD: Society for History in the Federal Government (SHFG) seeks entries for its 2015 Thomas Jefferson Prize for documentary histories published in 2013 or 2014.
DEADLINE: Nov. 30, 2014
CFP: Public History in Latin America – special issue of Historia 2.0 seeks articles in Spanish and Portuguese
DEADLINE: July 21, 2014
Call is available in English, Spanish, and Portuguese
CFP: “There and Back Again: Tolkien in 2015” – Feb. 20-21, 2-15, Columbus, Ohio, U.S.
DEADLINE: Oct. 1, 2014
CONF: “Memory and Learning in a Changing World” – Sept. 15-17, 2014, Falstad, Norway
CONF: “Co-Creating Narratives in Public Spaces,” free symposium on expanding the diversity of stories told at U.S. National Park Service sites – Sept. 17-18, 2014, Washington, DC, U.S.
CONF: “ITIE2014: Local Culture and Oral History,” 6th Annual International Conference on Information Technology in Education – Oct. 27-28, 2014, Changsha, China
CONF: “Discovering Collections, Discovering Communities: Forging collection-based collaboration between archives, museums and academia” – Oct. 29-30, 2014, Birmingham, U.K.
NCH: National Coalition for History Washington Update for July 9, 2014
US Senate Confirms William “Bro” Adams as NEH Chairman; Proposed cuts to NEH would bring funding to its lowest level since 1972; House Funding Bill Would Cut NEH and National Park Service History Programs in FY 15
Full stories on NCH website
PUB: Collecting the Contemporary (Rhys and Baveystock, eds.)
PUB: History, Memory, and Trans-European Identity: Unifying Divisions (Sierp)
REV: Preserving South Street Seaport: The Dream and Reality of a New York
Urban Renewal District (Lindgren)
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