Professional opportunities May 28, 2014
28 May 2014 – editors
AWARD: Friend of History Award from the Organization of American Historians for an institution or organization, or an individual working primarily outside college or university settings, for outstanding support of historical research, the public presentation of American history, or the work of the OAH.
DEADLINE: Oct. 1, 2014
AWARD: Erik Barnouw Award from the Organization of American Historians for outstanding programming on television, or in documentary film, concerned with American history, the study of American history, and/or the promotion of American history.
DEADLINE: Jan. 7, 2015
CFP: Victorian Cities Revisited: Heritage and History Conference – Oct. 15-16, 2014, Middlesborough, U.K.
DEADLINE: June 30, 2014
CFP: Validating Visual Heritage in Africa: Historical Photographs and the Role of the “Archive” – Jan. 26-31, 2015, Buea, Cameroon
DEADLINE: Aug. 15, 2014
CFP: Museums and Social Issues seeks contributions for a special issue on “Understanding and Engaging Multilingual Audiences”
DEADLINE: Aug. 25, 2014
For details, contact msi[at]iupui.edu
CONF: Data Driven 2014 is a conference on all aspects of digital humanities in the library – June 20-22, 2014, Charleston, South Carolina, U.S.
REGISTRATION DEADLINE: June 13, 2014
EVENT: Raphael Samuel History Centre Postgraduate and Early Career Historians’ Network gathering for junior historians with an interest in politically and socially engaged history – June 10, 2014, Oxford, U.K.
NCH: National Coalition for History Washington Update for May 21, 2014 – Urge Your House Member to Join the Congressional History Caucus; NCH Proposes Changes to National Women’s History Museum Commission Bill
Read the full stories on the NCH website
PUB: New book by Payal Arora from Routledge Studies in Science, Technology & Society – “The Leisure Commons: A Spatial History of Web 2.0”
REV: Memories of Absence: How Muslims Remember Jews in Morocco (Boum)
REV: The Cuban Missile Crisis in American Memory: Myths versus Reality (Stern)