Tag Archive
03 May 2016 – editors
From around the field this week: Housing politics and the archive in London; oral history with vulnerable narrators; Massachusetts conference on advocacy for history; UX for public historians; summer courses on restoration and digital technologies for cultural heritage. Read More
19 April 2016 – editors
From around the field this week: New Routledge textbook on public history practice; reflecting on a massacre in Memphis, Coventry/Dresden reconciliation project in London, and maritime memory in Massachusetts; in search of “the middle” for 2017 National Council on Public History conference. Read More
12 April 2016 – editors
From around the field this week: Registration ends tomorrow for public history boot camp on collections assessment in Camden, New Jersey, U.S.; Visitor Studies Association takes on the Data Revolution; international symposium on Cultural Heritage Conservation and Digitization in Beijing; learning from LGBTQ lives in Oral History Review. Read More
29 March 2016 – editors
From around the field this week: 20 years after Raphael Samuel’s death, a commemorative conference in London on radical histories; interdisciplinary symposium in Beijing explores the intertwined terms “vernacular” and “heritage”; Texas material culture symposium focuses on transition and change. Read More
22 March 2016 – editors
From around the field this week: Public history boot camps in Camden, New Jersey; Iraq conference on heritage in conflict zones; oral history research grants; almost-all-expenses-paid opportunity to attend summer Yale Public History Institute Read More
08 March 2016 – editors
From around the field this week: Truth and lies in Ontario; gravestones and cemetery monuments in Illinois; and a slew of new books and journals. Read More
01 March 2016 – editors
From around the field this week: Public history posters in Bogotà, conference on slave dwellings in South Carolina, reflecting on collections in Manchester, U.K. and preserving/promoting them with National Endowment for the Humanities grants Read More
16 February 2016 – editors
From around the field this week:
Summer workshops in Berlin and Lviv on Eastern European Jewish histories and German Holocaust archives; automotive heritage in Pennsylvania; colliding stories at Missouri Conference on History; workshop in Kansas for religious communities interested in creating archives. Read More
09 February 2016 – editors
From around the field this week: Born-digital and made-digital “frenemies”; summer study, travel, and preservation in Italy and filmmaking for historians (with free tuition) in Georgia, U.S.; funding and awards for archeologists, archivists, studies of U.S. Congress, and more. Read More