Professional opportunities March 3, 2015
04 March 2015 – editors
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ANNCT: “Memory and Commemoration: The Azrieli Holocaust Collection at Thirty” – March 10, 2015, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
CFP: Wunderkino 5: “Moving Images of War and Peace,” 16th Annual Northeast Historic Film Summer Symposium – July 23-25, 2015, Bucksport, Maine, U.S.
DEADLINE: April 20, 2015
CFP: 6th International Digital Storytelling Conference – Sept. 25-27, 2015, Northampton and Amherst, Massachusetts, U.S.
DEADLINE: March 31, 2015
CONF: “Knowing Things: Circulations and Transitions of Objects in Natural History” – March 23-24, 2015, Berlin, Germany
REGISTRATION DEADLINE: March 15, 2015
EDU: Google Hangout: “Open Licensing: What It Is, Why Do It” – March 5, 2015
EDU: Gilder Lehrman Center announces fourth annual Yale Public History Institute for graduate students, historians, and the staff of public history institutions interpreting African American history – July 19-23, 2015, New Haven, Connecticut, U.S.
DEADLINE: April 3, 2015
EDU: Field school for students featuring restoration of historic adobe trading post and fort at Bent’s Old Fort National Historic Site – March 16-20 or May 4-8, 2015, La Junta, Colorado, U.S.
EDU: 2015 Oral History Institute at Kenyon College – June 2-4, 2015, Gambier, Ohio, U.S.
EDU: Summer 2015 Buildings-Landscapes-Cultures Field School – June and July 2015 dates, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S.
DEADLINE: March 27, 2015
FUNDING: Digitizing Hidden Special Collections and Archives grants from Andrew W. Mellon Foundation/ Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR)
Information session March 4, 2015
PROPOSAL DEADLINE: April 30, 2015
PUB: Journal of the History of Collections, Vol. 27, No. 1 (March 2015) – Table of Contents available online
PUB: Three-volume “Academic Museums” collection from MuseumsEtc. – new color editions, on sale with free shipping
REV: “Lovewell’s Fight: War, Death, and Memory in Borderland New England” (Cray)
REV: “St Petersburg: Shadows of the Past” (Kelly)
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