Professional opportunities March 5, 2014
05 March 2014 – editors
ANNCT: The International Committee of the Blue Shield expresses its its deep concern regarding the safeguarding and protection of the invaluable cultural and historical heritage of Ukraine, as well as the institutions that house them and the people that care for them.
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AWARD: Hans Manneby Memorial Fund to celebrate efforts in innovative organizational and structural areas, forms of collaboration, methods of communication and non-conventional thinking. Anyone who has inspired or been inspired by international and national collaboration can be nominated.
DEADLINE: April 30, 2014
CFP: “Western Lands, Western Voices: The American West Center at Fifty,” A Symposium on Public Engagement in the Humanities and Social Sciences, Sept. 19-21, 2014, Salt Lake City, Utah, U.S.
DEADLINE EXTENDED: April 15, 2014
CONF: Pre-registration closes today for National Council on Public History conference in Monterey, California, U.S.
CONF: The Art of Science in New England, 1700-1920, March 15, 2014, Wellesley, Massachusetts, U.S.
CONF: “What we have saved; what we have lost: John Muir’s Legacy, 1914-2014,” March 22, 2014, Stockton, California, U.S.
CONF: “From STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) to STEAM (STEM + Art and Design)” – New York Museums in Action Annual Conference, March 30-April 1, 2014, Albany, New York, U.S.
CONF: “After Slavery: from Memory to Reparations in the Atlantic World,” lecture by Myriam Cottias, April 16, 2014, Columbia University, New York, New York, U.S.
EDU: “Museum Documentation, Principles and Practice,” Summer School of CIDOC (Comité International pour la Documentation) at Museum of Texas Tech University, July 21-25, 2014
NCH: National Coalition for History Washington Update, March 4, 2014 – Budget projections for federal history-related agencies; new grant-making guidelines for National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC); report shows strong economic benefits from national parks
PUB: Table of Contents for the Journal of the History of Collections, Vol. 26, No. 1 (March 2014)