- Announcements
fulbright scholarships 2017–2018 available
The Fulbright Scholar Program offers teaching, research or combination teaching and research awards in over 125 countries for the 2017–2018 cademic year. Opportunities are available for college and university faculty and administrators as well as for professionals, artists, journalists, independent scholars, and many others. This year, the Fulbright Scholar Program is offering over fifty awards in the History category. Opportunities include:
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China: China Studies Postdoctoral Scholar Award
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Austria: Fulbright-Karl Franzens University Graz Visiting Professor in Cultural Studies
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Jordan: Study of Islam in the Contemporary World
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Canada: Research Chairs in North American Studies
For scholars who specialize in American history or American studies, the Fulbright Scholar Program is offering over 65 awards in the field. Opportunities include:
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Slovak Republic: American Studies
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Philippines: Study of the United States
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Ghana: Arts and Humanities, Business Administration, Computer Science, Education and Social Sciences
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Mexico: US Studies
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Kazakhstan: All disciplines [End Page 439]
For eligibility factors, detailed application guidelines and review criteria, please follow this link: http://cies.org/program/core-fulbright-us-scholar-program. You may also wish to register for one of our webinars or join our online community, My Fulbright (http://www.cies2.org/s/1064/index.aspx), a resource center for applicants interested in the program. Applicants must be US citizens and the current competition will close on August 1, 2016. Please contact Bill McShane at wmcshane@iie.org for additional information.
newberry library offers summer institute
The Newberry Library’s Hermon Dunlap Smith Center for the History of Cartography is pleased to announce its 2016 NEH summer institute, “Mapping, Text, and Travel.” The five-week NEH seminar, led by James Akerman and Jordana Dym, will examine the complex relationship between text, mapping, and travel from the emergence of the modern world to the dawn of the digital age, focusing on the genre of travel mapping within the wider context of the history of cartography and travel publication. The program of lectures, workshops, and discussions encourages sixteen participants to cross disciplinary boundaries and move beyond regional and chronological specialties to reflect on the ways in which mapping has shaped travelers’ imagination and the experience of place and landscape, of identity and history, and of time and space. The seminar will embrace a broad geographical and chronological focus on the Atlantic World richly supported by the Newberry’s rich holdings of cartography, geography, art, history, literature, and the history of printing from the fifteenth to the twenty-first century.
Applications are encouraged from college and university faculty in all disciplines. A limited number of spaces are also available for full-time graduate students in the humanities. Successful applicants will receive a stipend of $3,900 to help defray travel and housing expenses.
For more information, please contact: Andrew Epps, Program Assistant; Hermon Dunlap Smith Center for the History of Cartography; The Newberry Library; 60 W Walton; Chicago, IL 60610; (312) 255–3541
opening day for the smithsonian’s african american history museum
Featuring some 34,000 artifacts in its eleven inaugural exhibits, the new African American History Museum is scheduled to open on the Mall in [End Page 440] Washington DC, September 24, 2016, offering exhibitions and programs in which everyone can explore the story of America through the lens of the African American experience. More information can be found at http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/opening-day-new-national-museum-african-american-history-and-culture-announced-180958014/?no-ist.
the 63rd annual pennsylvania council for the social studies conference
Creating Global Citizens Through Issues Focused Instruction
We are tasked with educating students who now live in a “global village”. In that regard we have an obligation to develop global citizens who are capable of assessing and responding to complex global issues. The Pennsylvania Council for the Social Studies will be exploring how social studies represents the vehicle for issues focused instruction in a complex and ever-changing world when we gather for our 63rd annual conference in Harrisburg October 20–October 22, 2016; Red Lion Hotel Harrisburg East 4751 Lindle Road, Harrisburg, PA 17111. For more information, visit: http://pcssonline.org/63rd-annual-pcss-conference.