Professional opportunities Oct. 8, 2013
09 October 2013 – editors
ANNCT: Chicago-area teacher and genealogist announces Kickstarter campaign being launched to fund a television documentary based on submitted family history stories.
AWARD: Blue and Gray Education Society Excellence in Public History Award for an outstanding public history project completed and made available to the public in 2012 or 2013 that enhances public awareness and understanding of the Civil War era, including the events leading to the war and its direct consequences.
DEADLINE: Jan. 31, 2014
CFP: The interdisciplinary journal Hagar is currently accepting manuscripts for a special issue on “Memory and Periphery.”
CFP: “New Directions in the History of Infrastructure” at the Danish Post & Tele Museum, Sept. 26-28, 2014, Copenhagen, Denmark.
DEADLINE: Dec. 1, 2013
CFP: Special issue of the Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography on Energy in Pennsylvania History
DEADLINE: Jan. 6, 2014
CONF: 15th Annual Interdisciplinary Forum on the Vietnam Era, on the topic “We Were There Too: The Evolution of Women’s Roles in Conflict,” October 11, 2013, Holmdel, New Jersey, U.S.
CONF: “Beyond History”: a postgraduate History Lab North West Interdisciplinary Workshop, Nov. 1, 2013, Manchester, U.K.
DEADLINE: Oct. 20, 2013
EDU: The National Preservation Institute announces 2013-14 seminar schedule. Topics include “Cultural and Natural Resources: An Integrated Management Strategy” and “RenewableEnergy Development: Impacts on Cultural Resources.”
ADVANCE REGISTRATION DATE: October 11, 2013
EDU: Registration deadline extended for Basics of Archives Online Course from American Association for State and Local History.
REGISTRATION DEADLINE: October 17, 2013
PUB: Launch of “Historical Life Course Studies” open-access journal from the European Historical Population Samples Network (EHPS-Net), funded by the European Science Foundation (ESF).
REV: “History’s Babel: Scholarship, Professionalization, and the Historical Enterprise in the United States, 1880-1940” (Townsend)