23 July 2014 – editors
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ANNCT: Boundary Objects is an international network for early career researchers working with museums and collections, run by and for its members.
CFP: Nigerian Oral Literature Association conference – Aug. Read More
21 July 2014 – Mary Rizzo 4
Editor’s Note: This is the third piece in a series on the “crisis” in the humanities. A post introducing the series can be found here.
When the American Academy of Arts and Sciences makes the case for federal support for the public humanities in its Heart of the Matter report, it relies on arguments about the potential for civic engagement. Read More
17 July 2014 – Benjamin Filene
Editor’s Note: In “What I’ve Learned Along the Way: A Public Historian’s Intellectual Odyssey,” outgoing NCPH President Bob Weyeneth issued a call to action to public historians to include the public more fully in our work by “pulling back the curtain” on our interpretive process—how we choose the stories we tell. Read More
15 July 2014 – Cathy Stanton
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AWARD: Society for History in the Federal Government (SHFG) seeks entries for its 2015 Thomas Jefferson Prize for documentary histories published in 2013 or 2014.
DEADLINE: Nov. 30, 2014
CFP: Public History in Latin America – special issue of Historia 2.0 seeks articles in Spanish and Portuguese
DEADLINE: July 21, 2014
Call is available in English, Spanish, and Portuguese
CFP: “There and Back Again: Tolkien in 2015” – Feb. Read More
14 July 2014 – Ralph Lewin 1
Editor’s Note: This is the second piece in a series on the “crisis” in the humanities. A post introducing the series can be found here.
Not long ago I was invited to a small university in California to talk about the crisis in the humanities. Read More
08 July 2014 – editors
CFP: One week left to submit a proposal for the 2015 National Council on Public History conference – April 15-18, 2015, Nashville, Tennessee, U.S.
DEADLINE: July 15, 2015
CFP: “Learning Together Conference – Museums and Cities of Culture for All” – Sept. Read More
07 July 2014 – Briann Greenfield 6
Last August, fans of the Colbert Report saw Duke University President Richard Brodhead encourage study in the humanities as essential to a balanced education. The interview segment can be seen here. Brodhead’s appearance was part of a marketing campaign engineered by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS) that was designed to advance support for the humanities in much the same way that the National Academy of Sciences had promoted Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) with its 2007 report Rising above the Gathering Storm. Read More
04 July 2014 – Evan Taparata
Guantanamo Public Memory Project, projects, advocacy, social justice, public engagement, human rights
Editor’s Note: This piece continues a series of posts related to the Guantánamo Public Memory Project, a collaboration of public history programs across the country to raise awareness of the long history of the US naval base at Guantánamo Bay (GTMO) and foster dialogue on its future. Read More
01 July 2014 – Susan Ferentinos 1
museums, The Public Historian, gender/sexuality, pulling back the curtain, LGBT, sexuality, visitors
Editor’s Note: In “What I’ve Learned Along the Way: A Public Historian’s Intellectual Odyssey,” outgoing NCPH President Bob Weyeneth issued a call to action to public historians to include the public more fully in our work by “pulling back the curtain” on our interpretive process—how we choose the stories we tell. Read More
30 June 2014 – editors
As part of a larger project focusing on the history and legacy of cotton-picking and sharecropping in the Mississippi Delta, the non-profit organization Khafre, Inc. is holding weekly sessions throughout the summer of 2014 to gather memories and oral histories from people with roots in the Delta region, especially older African Americans with first-hand knowledge of work in “America’s Cotton Kingdom.” Read More