Professional opportunities May 6, 2014

06 May 2014 – editors

CFP: “Why Does it Happen? Complicity and Resistance to Genocide in World History” – Oct. 10-11, 2014, Grand Rapids, Michigan, U.S.
DEADLINE: June 16, 2014

CFP: “Roots/Heritage Tourism in Africa and the African Diaspora: Case Studies for a Comparative Approach” – Feb. 12-14, 2015, Miami, Florida, U.S.
DEADLINE: Sept. 30, 2014

CONF: “Archives and History: Making Historical Knowledge in Europe during the Long Nineteenth Century” – June 26, 2014, Göttingen, Germany

CONF: “New Museums, New Partners and New Incentives in Exhibition Making and Exchange” – Sept. 23-27, 2014, Helsinki, Espoo, Tampere and Mänttä, Finland

CONF: Roy Rosenzweig Center for History & New Media 20th Anniversary Conference on the History and Future of Digital History – Nov. 14-15, 2014, Fairfax, Virginia, U.S.

EDU: Care of Furniture and Wood Artifacts On-line Course from Northern States Conservation Center – May 12-June 6, 2014

EDU: 2014 Seminar for Historical Administration from American Association for State and Local History now accepting applications – Nov. 1-22, 2014, Indianapolis, Indiana, U.S.
DEADLINE: May 19, 2014

FUNDING: Charlton Oral History Research Grant – Baylor University Institute for Oral History
DEADLINE: June 20, 2014.

NCH: Washington Update for May 2, 2014 – National Archives budget; potential funding increase for Library of Congress; nominee for NEH Chair; tickets available for Jefferson lecture by Walter Isaacson; reopening of Washington Monument; $18.2 million in grants from NEH; new fee structure at US Copyright Office
Read full stories on the National Coalition for History website

REV: “Couchsurfing Cosmopolitanisms: Can Tourism Make a Better World?” (Picard and Buchberger, eds.)