Job Posting -- Art Handler, 21C Museum Hotels

The Art Handler is responsible for all aspects of museum exhibition preparation, installation, and transportation, and helps oversee the safe handling of all artworks in the 21c collection, including incoming and outgoing loans. The position requires a broad variety of experience, flexibility, and demonstrable hands-on abilities with a range of tasks. Exhibition-related tasks include proper art handling, installation and de-installation. It also includes the construction of exhibition furniture, gallery painting, and lighting. In collaboration with the entire museum team, the Art Handler acts as a custodian for collection and loaned objects. Under the directive of the Registrar and Collections Manager, the Art Handler may also assist with collection work including art packing and unpacking, assembly and disassembly of artworks, preparing works for exhibition, shipping and receiving, and other collection-related projects. Must be willing to travel to install and deinstall exhibitions for duration ranging from 1-2 days to 2 weeks. Position also requires driving heavy-duty trucks over long distances and may require occasional work on weekends and evenings as necessary.

More information here.

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Call for Papers -- Kentucky History Education Conference (Fast-approaching deadline!)

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Do you have an engaging history topic to share with educators? Does your museum have a topic or activity (especially involving primary sources) that would benefit social studies teachers?

Consider submitting a session proposal for this year’s Kentucky History Education Conference (KHEC). Each summer, KHEC gathers K-12 educators from across the state for a daylong conference to explore content, obtain resources, hear from leading scholars and learn about other educators’ proven classroom strategies. Sessions should relate to this year's theme “Triumph and Tragedy in History.” Deadline for proposals: April 2, 2018. Accepted presenters will have their conference fee waived and lunch provided.

More information here.

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CFP -- 34th Ohio Valley History Conference

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The University of Tennessee at Martin will host the 2018 Ohio Valley History Conference at the Boling University Center in Martin, TN on October 18-20, 2018. 

The OVHC is a general conference open to all historians and advanced graduate students.  We welcome proposals on all periods and specializations including public history, digital history, and teaching history.  We especially invite proposals related to the centennial of U.S. participation in the Great War and the semicentennial of 1968.  Proposals can be submitted as individual papers or full panels.  We also welcome volunteers to chair panels or provide comment. The deadline for submissions is Friday, June 29, 2018.

More information here.

Podcast: Tim Smith, "Civil War Battlefield Preservation in History, Memory, and Policy," WKU Libraries’ Kentucky Live! series

Dr. Timothy B. Smith from the University of Tennessee at Martin was the featured speaker on Thursday, March 8, in Bowling Green, Kentucky. He spoke about his latest book, Altogether Fitting and Proper: Civil War Battlefield Preservation in History, Memory, and Policy, 1861–2015 (University of Tennessee Press, 2017), and this lecture was captured in a podcast archived in the WKU Libraries' repository, TopSCHOLAR.

Call for Papers -- Slavery, Resistance and Community

Call for Papers for the fifth annual Slave Dwelling Project Conference, to be held at Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, from October 24-27, 2018. Proposal submissions encouraged from historians, preservationists, students, academics, public historians, historic site staff, re-enactors, storytellers, artists, musicians, and members of the general public. Deadline for submission: Tuesday, May 1, 2018.

More information here

UK offers online Graduate Certificate in Historic Preservation

The University of Kentucky College of Design's online graduate certificate in historic preservation is designed for working professionals and others who are unable to take in-person courses. Like the on-campus certificate, it is designed to introduce core principles and concepts for the purpose of expanding the knowledge and abilities of persons working in related fields. Practicing architects, city planners, archaeologists, historians, design consultants, city managers, architectural review board members, and realtors have found it effective in building knowledge that compliments their existing training and experience.

Kentucky Jewish History Symposium

April 12, 2018 to April 13, 2018

Location: 

Kentucky, United States

Subject Fields: 

Digital Humanities, Ethnic History / Studies, Oral History, World History / Studies, Jewish History / Studies

To celebrate the establishment of the Jewish Kentucky Oral History Project, we are hosting a the Kentucky Jewish History Symposium at the University of Kentucky April 12-13, 2018. Thanks to a unique partnership between University of Kentucky’s Interdisciplinary Program in Jewish Studies, the Jewish Heritage Fund for Excellence (JHFE), and the Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky students contribute to an innovative initiative that documents and preserves Kentucky’s Jewish heritage: The JHFE Jewish Kentucky Oral History Project.The project’s goal is to establish the largest, sustainable collection of Kentucky Jewish oral histories in the state. Originally conceived to collect a minimum of 55 oral histories from Jewish Kentuckians across the Commonwealth, the collection currently includes 75 interviews and continues to grow. Many of the digital oral histories are already publicly accessible online through the Louie B. Nunn Center’s digital repository, the JHFE Jewish Kentucky Oral History Collection. 

Symposium Details

The symposium begins Thurs.  April 12, 7:30 pm with a keynote lecture by Prof. Rabbi Gary Zola, Executive Director of the Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives, " Profiles in Kentucky Jewish Courage," which promises to place Kentucky Jewish history in its national and transnational contexts. This event takes place at the Hilary J. Boone Center (with free parking in the lot off of Columbia Avenue and a dessert reception immediately following).

We have a full day of sessions scheduled for Fri. April 13, 2018 from 8:30-4:00 in both the Niles Gallery and the King Library. Sessions feature invited scholars, UK faculty, and UK students as presenters. The keynote lunch is free and will feature a lecture from Jerry Abramson, former mayor of Louisville; Lt Governor of Kentucky; and Deputy Assistant to the President and Director of the Office of Intergovernmental Affairs.  For the full program, click here. https://jewishstudies.as.uky.edu/kjhs-schedule

Registration is free and open to the public.

https://jewishstudies.as.uky.edu/kjhs-registration

We hope you will register, attend, and encourage your students to do so as well. Please help us spread the word by sharing this announcement widely. 

Dr. Jan Fernheimer (Zantker Professor and Director of Jewish Studies)
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Dr. Beth Goldstein (Associate Professor, Educational Policy Studies & Evaluation)
University of Kentucky
Lexington, Kentucky

Contact Info: 

Dr. Janice W. Fernheimer
Zantker Professor and Director of Jewish Studies
Associate Professor of Writing, Rhetoric, and Digital Studies
University of Kentucky
1303 Patterson Office Tower
Lexington, KY 40506-0027
Office phone: (859) 257-6973

Contact Email: 

jfernheimer@uky.edu

URL: 

https://jewishstudies.as.uky.edu/kjhs

Annual Meeting of the Southern Historical Association

The Annual Meeting of the Southern Historical Association is coming to Louisville November 7-10, 2019. Open proposal submissions will begin on June 15, 2018 and they will be in touch with scholars who have proposed papers or sessions in early 2019.
http://thesha.org/annual-meeting