Professional opportunities May 16, 2013

Posted on May 16, 2013 by editors

ANNCT: Museum Assessment Program (MAP) application now available from IMLS
DEADLINE: July 1, 2013

CFP: PopMatters seeks 1200+ wd articles on “Is anachronism good or bad for consumers of historical fictions?”
DEADLINE: May 31, 2013

CFP: “Talking about protest – Oral history methodology in social and political movements research,” Sept. 20, 2013, Warwick, U.K.
EXTENDED DEADLINE: June 2, 2013

CFP: Panel on “Co-Creation, the Public and the Archaeological Record” for Society for American Archaeology Meetings, April 24 – 27 Austin, Texas, U.S.
DEADLINE: June 15, 2013

CFP: REHAB 2014 International Conference on Preservation, Maintenance and Rehabilitation of Historic Buildings and Structures, March 19-21, 2014, Tomar, Portugal
DEADLINE: June 30, 2013

CFP: IMAGES (3)/Images of the City Conference, Oct. 30-Nov. 1, 2013, Istanbul, Turkey
DEADLINE: June 30, 2013

CONF: Food in History: Anglo-American Conference 2013, July 11-13, 2013, London, U.K.

CONF: Digital Directions: Fundamentals of Creating and Managing Digital Collections, July 21-23, 2013, Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S.

EDU: Special Summer Course on Teaching History with Museums, July 8-18, 2013, Dobbs Ferry, New York, U.S.

FUNDING: Charlton Oral History Research Grant available from Baylor University Institute for Oral History
DEADLINE: June 21, 2013

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Professional opportunities May 7, 2013

Posted on May 7, 2013 by editors

ANNCT: BackStory seeks input for upcoming broadcast on history of intellectual property

CFP: “Second-Class Scholars?: Outside the Ivory Tower, Off the Tenure Track” roundtable participants sought, Nov. 8-10, 2013, Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.
DEADLINE: May 17, 2013

CFP: One Archipelago, Many Stories: Integrating Our Narratives, August 30-31, 2013, Mangilao, Guam
DEADLINE: June 1, 2013

CFP: World Congress of Environmental History, July 7-14, 2014, Guimarães, Portugal
DEADLINE: June 15, 2014

CFP: Special Issue of Collection Management - “We’re Moving, Please Pardon Our Dust: A New Collection Management Paradigm”
DEADLINE: June 24, 2013

CFP: Oral History Forum d’Histoire Orale 2014 Special Issue: “Human Rights and oral history: stories of survival, healing, redemption, and accountability”
DEADLINE: Sept. 15, 2013

CFP: Perspectives on Historical and Contemporary Ransoming Practices, Oct. 25-26, 2013, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

CONF: Centre on Human Rights in Conflict workshop on Law, Faith and Historical Memory, June 12, 2013, Stratford, U.K.

EDU: “Assessing the U.S. Constitution: 21st Century Resposes to 18th Century Assumptions” seminar with Sanford Levinson, Sept.-Nov. 2013, Washington, D.C., U.S.
APPLICATION DEADLINE: May 15, 2013

EXH: “There is no There There,” An Interactive Pop-Up Oral History Exhibit, May 17, 2013, Brooklyn, New York, U.S.

PUB: Three years of “The Historic Environment: Policy & Practice” journal content available free until June 15, 2013

Professional opportunities April 25, 2013

Posted on April 25, 2013 by cathy

CFP: “Contact and Connections”: Travel and Mobility Studies Symposium, June 27, 2013, University of Warwick, U.K.
EXTENDED DEADLINE: May 1, 2013

CFP: “The Politics and Practices of Urban Renewal”
DEADLINE: May 15, 2013

CFP: “The Office as an Interior (1880-1960),” Oct. 17-18, 2013, Bern, Switzerland
DEADLINE: May 31, 2013

CFP: “Sweat Equity Investment in the Cotton Kingdom” Symposium and Cotton Pickers Ball, Oct. 16-17, 2013, Itta Bena, Mississippi, U.S.
DEADLINE: Sept. 6, 2013

CONF: 3rd Annual Public History Community Forum (PubComm), April 26, 2013, Camden, New Jersey, U.S.
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CONF: Materiality: objects and idioms in historical studies of science and technology, May 3-4, 2013, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

CONF: Pennsylvania Statewide Conference on Heritage, July 16-19, 2013, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.

EDU: Digital Directions: Fundamentals of Creating and Managing Digital Collections, July 21-23, 2013, Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S.
EARLY BIRD DEADLINE: April 30, 2013

EDU: Establishing a Museum – online course from Northern States Conservation Center begins May 6

FUNDING: Charlton Oral History Research Grant
DEADLINE: June 21, 2013.

FUNDING: Grant for sustainability initiative at a California museum
DEADLINE: June 28, 2013

REV: Seeing Culture Everywhere, from Genocide to Consumer Habits (Breidenbach and Nyíri)

REV: The Battle of the Greasy Grass/Little Bighorn: Custer’s Last Stand in Memory, History, and Popular Culture (Buchholtz)

Professional opportunities April 15, 2013

Posted on April 16, 2013 by editors

CONF: “Corporate Voices: Institutional and Organisational Oral Histories” – Oral History Society UK, July 5-6, 2013, University of Sussex, U.K. Registration now open

FUNDING: Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History short-term fellowships for researchers using New York City archives
DEADLINE: May 1, 2013

NCH: Recent stories from the National Coalition for History
Advisory board report offers strategies to strengthen 21st century National Park Service

Obama Administration submits FY14 budget to Congress

PUB: New MuseumsEtc book catalog available

NCPH 2013 Student Project Award: Learning from community

Posted on April 10, 2013 by editors

The congregation of Cedar Grove Baptist, one of the two churches in Terra Cotta, in the 1930s
Photo courtesy Dennis Waddell.

Editors’ Note: This series showcases the winners of the National Council on Public History’s annual awards for the best new work in the field. Today’s post is by Ellen Kuhn, Shawna Prather, and Ashley Wyatt, students at the University of North Carolina Greensboro and co-creators of the exhibit “Past the Pipes: Stories of the Terra Cotta Community,” which won the 2013 Student Project Award.

What creates a community?

In the face of significant social and economic constraints, a tightly-knit, self-reliant community developed in Terra Cotta, a segregated company town located a few miles west of downtown Greensboro, North Carolina. From the 1900s to the 1970s, members of this community worked at the nearby Pomona Terra Cotta Company, manufacturing clay pipes used to build sewer systems. Terra Cotta was the kind of place where family meant more than just blood kin; it meant giving food to the homeless man who lived in the woods nearby–even though residents had to feed their own large families on less than eleven dollars a week. It meant sharing one church building between Baptist and Methodist congregations, alternating services each week. It meant welcoming white children to play in their homes when a reciprocal invitation to play at white homes was never extended. Today, community in Terra Cotta means keeping bonds initially formed in the neighborhood alive through shared memories.

Now, these previously unheard voices are featured at the Terra Cotta Heritage Museum in a permanent exhibition that was created through a collaboration known as the Terra Cotta Community History Project. Continue reading →

Professional opportunities April 9, 2013

Posted on April 9, 2013 by editors

CFP: American Historical Assn. panel on “Current Events in Historical Perspective”
DEADLINE: May 1, 2013

CFP: “China: Curating, Exhibitions and Display Culture” issue of Journal of Curatorial Studies
DEADLINE: May 1, 2013

CFP: “The Countermonument – 30 Years Later” session at College Art Association, Feb. 12-15, 2013, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
DEADLINE: May 6, 2013

CFP: Museum Metamorphosis Conference, Nov. 15-16, 2013, School of Museum Studies, Leicester, UK
DEADLINE: May 31, 2013

CFP: “A Survey of Emerging Research” issue, Museums & Social Issues
DEADLINE: no later than June 15, 2013

CONF: “Embodied Objects: Material Culture Studies in Three Dimensions,” 11th Annual Material Culture Symposium for Emerging Scholars, April 20, 2013, Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library, Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.

CONF: 3rd Annual Public History Community Forum (PubComm), April 26, 2013, Rutgers-Camden, New Jersey, U.S.
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CONF: Association for Living History, Farm, and Agricultural Museums annual conference, June 14-18, 2013, Hale Farm & Village, Akron, Ohio, U.S.

EDU: “PreservationPlanning and Policy Development for Historic Roads” seminar from National Preservation Institute, May 2, 2013, Richmond, Virginia, U.S.
REGISTRATION DEADLINE: April 19, 2013
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NCPH 2013 Group Consulting Award (Part 2): Synergies and cross-purposes

Posted on April 4, 2013 by Anne Mitchell Whisnant

Editors’ Note: This series showcases the winners of the National Council on Public History’s annual awards for the best new work in the field. Today’s post is the second in a two-part series by Marla Miller and Anne Whisnant, two of the four authors of Imperiled Promise: The State of History in the National Park Service, winner of the 2013 NCPH Excellence in Consulting Award in the group category.

In Part 1 of this post, we reviewed some of the progress that has been made in the year since we finished Imperiled Promise. Today, we raise some concerns about how two more recent high-profile NPS reports could work at cross-purposes with ours, and suggest how our colleagues can help keep the conversations about improving historical practice in the agency moving ahead.

Two NPS reports that could work against the recommendations in Imperiled Promise were issued last summer, a few months after our report debuted. Revisiting Leopold, written by a committee of prominent scientists, focused on the future of “resource management” (both natural and cultural) in the NPS. And Identifying Best Practices for Live Interpretive Programs in the United States National Park Service, completed by a team of researchers from Clemson University and Virginia Tech with backgrounds in environmental education and conservation, offered a study of immediate visitor responses to NPS interpretive programs. Both reports, commissioned (as ours was) by offices of the NPS, are receiving high-level circulation among Service leadership, and, in the case of Revisiting Leopold, the endorsement of the Director himself. Continue reading →

NCPH 2013 Group Consulting Award (Part 1): What next for Imperiled Promise?

Posted on April 3, 2013 by Marla Miller

Editors’ Note: This series showcases the winners of the National Council on Public History’s annual awards for the best new work in the field. Today’s post is part of a two-part series by Marla Miller and Anne Whisnant, two of the four authors of Imperiled Promise: The State of History in the National Park Service, winner of the 2013 NCPH Excellence in Consulting Award in the group category.

We are pleased to have the opportunity to reflect on the consulting work that led to the publication of Imperiled Promise: The State of History in the National Park Service. A year after the study appeared, what is perhaps most striking (and gratifying) to us is the ongoing nature of the conversation about NPS history, of which the study was a part. Our greatest hope now is to nurture and propel that conversation forward.

We knew when finishing the study that a central challenge would be getting our hard-won insights (based as they were on the voices of hundreds of NPS employees as well as members of the academic community) noticed amid the stream of other reports and initiatives addressing related issues in the agency. We have spent the months since the report’s release working to ensure that it finds purchase among its target audiences, and have been deeply gratified to see colleagues both within and beyond the NPS embrace the study and the issues it raises. Continue reading →

Professional opportunities April 2, 2013

Posted on April 2, 2013 by editors

CFP: Mid-Atlantic Association of Museums conference, October 20-22, 2013, Washington, D.C., U.S.
PROPOSAL DEADLINE: April 12, 2013

CFP: Heritage and Change in the Arctic, Oct. 11-14, 2013, University of Greenland
DEADLINE: May 1, 2013

EDU: Project Management for History Professionals course from American Assn. for State and Local History, April 8-May3, 2013

EDU: Summer program on “Preserving the Past for the Future,” Rutgers Program in Cultural Heritage and Preservation Studies and Dartmore Institute, Prague and Kraków, June and July 2013
REGISTRATION DEADLINE: April 13, 2013

EDU: Online course from Northern States Conservation Center on “The Problem with Plastics,” April 15-19, 2013

EDU: “Furniture: Making and Meaning,” May 17, 2013 at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, U.K.

EDU: Environmental Management Program for Staff in Cultural Institutions, June 18, 2013, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, U.S.

EDU: George Washington University Distance Education Graduate Certificate Program in Museum Collections Management and Care accepting applications for fall
APPLICATION DEADLINE: August 1, 2013

Professional opportunities March 26, 2013

Posted on March 26, 2013 by editors

ANNCT: Latest report on Senate archives and records available from Advisory Committee on the Records of U.S. Congress

ANNCT: History Workshop Online seeks two new editors. Click here for details. DEADLINE FOR PROPOSALS: May 15, 2013

CFP: Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia seeks volunteer contributors with experience/expertise in writing about Philadelphia area history.

CFP: Fall 2013 Exhibitionist, the journal of the National Association for Museum Exhibition – Issue theme: Museums and New Media: What’s Disappearing? What’s Evolving? What’s to Come? – PROPOSAL DEADLINE: April 12, 2013

CONF: The New Faces Of War: A Conference for Historians and Activists. April 5-7, 2013, Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.

CONF: History Lives! A Conference Celebrating 30 Years of the University at Albany’s Public History Program, April 27, 2013, Albany, New York, U.S.

CONF: DigCCurr Professional Institute: Curation Practices for the Digital Object Lifecycle, May 2013 with follow-up January 2014 session, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, U.S.

CONF: 2013 Hagley Museum and Library Fellows Conference, “Ways of Knowing the World: History and the Senses,” April 20, 2013, Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.

EDU: Exhibit Makeovers workshop from American Assn. for State and Local History, June 20-21, 2013, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S.

EDU: Oral History Summer School offers a range of workshops in June 2013, Hudson, New York, U.S.

PUB: Primary Research Group has published The Survey of Library & Museum Digitization Projects, 2013 Edition, ISBN 978-157440-230-8

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