Professional opportunities Nov. 26, 2013
27 November 2013 – editors
ANNCT: Public Interest Declassification Board seeks input about what the U.S. government should prioritize for declassification. Current topic is records 25 years or younger with more topics to follow over the next month.
ANNCT: Conservation Center for Art & Historic Artifacts and University of Pennsylvania Libraries launch series of infographic posters on preservation terms and guidelines
Visit website for first poster, focusing on temperature and relative humidity
ANNCT: Recent and upcoming from BackStory Radio: American Oratory, Conspiracy Thinking, A History of Scandal
ANNCT: “Museums, Politics and Power” blog and conversation about those issues as a lead-up to tri-national conference in St. Petersburg, Russia in fall 2014.
AWARD: Last call for National Council on Public History award nominations. Help recognize those making a difference in our field!
DEADLINE: Dec. 1, 2014
CFP: Poster Session, 2014 Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, May 22-25, 2014, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
DEADLINE: November 29, 2013
CFP: “History and Edutainment,” Annual Conference of the International Society for
History Didactics, Sept. 8-10, 2014, Wrocław, Poland
DEADLINE: Jan. 31, 2014
CFP: The Association for Gravestone Studies, National Conference, June 17-22, 2014, Franklin College, Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.
DEADLINE: Feb. 2, 2014
FUNDING: Scholarship opportunities for graduate students and young professionals to attend the 2014 Winterthur Furniture Forum “Philadelphia Furniture: New Inquiries and Insights,” March 5-8, 2014, Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.
FUNDING: American Battlefield Protection Program Planning Grants
APPLICATION DATES: Oct. 1, 2013 through Jan. 16, 2014
REV: Monumental Matters: The Power, Subjectivity, and Space of India’s Mughal Architecture (Kavuri-Bauer)
REV: A Misplaced Massacre: Struggling over the Memory of Sand Creek (Kelman)
REV: Constructions of Conflict: Transmitting Memories of the Past in European Historiography, Culture, and Media (Hall and Jones, eds.)
REV: A Delicate Balance: Constructing a Conservation Culture in the South Carolina
Lowcountry (Halfacre)