Professional opportunities Nov. 12, 2013
13 November 2013 – editors
ANNCT: Mystic Seaport seeks volunteers to participate in an exciting public-history project onboard the 1841 whaleship Charles W. Morgan.
PROPOSALS ACCEPTED: Dec. 1-31, 2013
CFP: Submission Extension for “Local Histories and the Social Imagination” theme issue of the Cadernos, journal of the Memorial Centre of Western Santa Cataraina, Brazil
DEADLINE: Nov. 30, 2013
CFP: “New Directions in the History of Infrastructure,” Interdisciplinary Conference at the Danish Post & Tele Museum, Sept. 26-28, 2014, Copenhagen, Denmark
DEADLINE: Dec. 1, 2013
CFP: “Usable Pasts and Futurities: The Changing Place of Europe in Global Memory Cultures,” May 22-23, 2014, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
DEADLINE: Dec. 18, 2013
CONF: “Memory from Below: The German Past and Civil Society,” Dec. 4, 2013, Birmingham, U.K.
CONF: Registration Now Open for “CurateGear 2014: Enabling the Curation of Digital Collections,” Jan. 8, 2014, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, U.S.
FUNDING: Public History Graduate Fellowships at Temple University include several funding opportunities for MA students including two full tuition waivers.
DEADLINE: Feb. 15, 2014
PUB: New books from Left Coast Press – “Creativity in Museum Practice” (Linda Norris and Rainey Tisdale) and “Objects of Experience: Transforming Visitor-Object Encounters in Museums (Elizabeth [Elee] Wood and Kiersten F Latham)