UD African American Public Humanities

Join us Mon, Nov 4th at 5 pm EST for a FREE lecture (virtual) by Wilson Kwamogi Okello, PhD, followed by an information session on the AAPHI Graduate Initiative at the University of Delaware! Registration required: https://forms.gle/MHeXZM3JJ4UF8pab9

Registration is open for the Fall 2023 AAPHI Lecture, October 12th from 4 pm - 5:30 pm EST! Speakers include Elizabeth Murice Alexander, Assistant Clinical Professor of
Digital Humanities and Digital Studies and Andrew W. Smith, Visiting Assistant Research Professor, both from the
University of Maryland, College Park, in the African American Digital & Experimental Humanities (AADHum) research lab. The lab is part of the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH). Following their talk, learn more about the AAPHI program and application procedure! For more info and the registration link, https://events.udel.edu/event/futurenow_3_digital_humanities_projects

A reminder that applications for this year’s DLF Forum Fellowships close this Tuesday.

Those selected as DLF Forum Fellows receive full support, including registration, hotel, and travel stipend, to attend the 2022 DLF Forum in Baltimore, Maryland this October.

https://forum2022.diglib.org/fellowships/

Head to the Forum website for information on this year’s opportunities and directions on how to apply. The deadline to apply is 11:59pm ET on Tuesday, May 31.

All the best,
Gayle and Team DLF

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POSITION OPENING, UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE, LIBRARY, MUSEUMS and PRESS, Newark, DE
Job Opportunity: Digital Humanities and Africana Scholar, Special Collections
Revised and reposted

The University of Delaware Library, Museums and Press, in partnership with the College of Arts and Sciences, invites applications for a Digital Humanities and Africana Scholar, Special Collections. This revised and reposted position foregrounds the strengths of our Black collections together with the commitment of the University and the Library to research and creative activities, teaching, and service. The Library inspires the intellectual, scholarly and creative achievements of University and global communities with expert staff, excellent service, dynamic learning spaces and access to diverse collections and information resources.

We seek a scholar with significant subject knowledge in Black humanities to take a lead role in partnering with Library, Museums and Press staff, University faculty, and community partners, to facilitate interdisciplinary humanities projects across the classroom, museums, archives, special collections and the digital realm. This joint appointment provides unique opportunities to bring archives and special collections into the classroom and the broader world, and to develop innovative exhibitions and research projects in collaboration with students, faculty, staff and community.
This is a joint appointment to the Special Collections in the University of Delaware Library, Museums and Press and the Department of English in the College of Arts and Sciences, where the incumbent will hold a continuing appointment as an affiliated faculty member. The successful candidate will teach the equivalent of one class per semester, engaging students with UD’s special collections materials. Special Collections and the University Museums are one division within the Library, adding to the richness of resources and collaborative opportunities for this position.

The successful candidate will possess an educational background suited to work at the intersection of the classroom, the museum and/or archive, and the digital realm and articulate strategic approaches to foster digital scholarship using UD Library’s Special Collections holdings, particularly African American sources, in the classroom.
To Apply: Please visit: https://bit.ly/DigHumAfricanaSchol Review of applications will begin on May 31, 2022, and will continue until the position is filled.
More information: Two information sessions will be held to provide prospective candidates with a chance to learn more and ask questions. Drop in at the following times:
Wednesday May 25 from 11am-12pm ET - Register
Thursday May 26 from 3:30pm-4:30pm ET - Register

University of Delaware - Details - Digital Humanities and Africana Scholar, Special Collections Apply now Job no: 498909 College / VP Area: Vice Provost for Libraries Work type: Staff Location: Newark Categories: Libraries & Museums, Full Time

Dear Friend of Smithsonian Education,

Teachers, join us this summer and discover how museum objects and art can help learners explore the challenges and opportunities of living in a democracy while inspiring civic action and preparing them to become informed civic participants!

Register for Smithsonian Summer Sessions: Inspiring Civic Engagement, a free, five-day virtual workshop on June 27 – July 1, 2022, and join an online community of educators as we explore civic engagement through the lens of six Smithsonian museums.

Museum educators will explore connections among museum resources and model transferable, inquiry-based strategies to implement with your students. Participants will learn new methods to teach with museum resources, build a new support network of education peers, and create an innovative learning experience for your classroom. You’ll also learn to use the Smithsonian Learning Lab to access and curate digital museum resources for learning.

All educators are welcome. This institute is ideal for classroom teachers of any subject area or grade level. Participants will receive a certificate documenting their participation, including the number of professional development hours, upon completing the course.

The course will be led by educators from these Smithsonian organizations:

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
National Museum of African American History and Culture
National Museum of American History
National Portrait Gallery
National Postal Museum
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Smithsonian Office of Educational Technology
Learn more and register: s.si.edu/summersessions22

We hope to see you this summer,

Smithsonian Education

Smithsonian Summer Sessions: Inspiring Civic Engagement How can educators of all disciplines prepare students to be active and informed participants in a democracy? Join us this summer to explore this question through the lens of six Smithsonian collections! Register for our free five-day virtual Summer Sessions and join an online community of educators....

The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza is looking for a creative and energetic individual to join our Education Team as an Education Program Specialist. Could this be you?

The Education Program Specialist will work with the Director of Education to expand the Museum’s offerings for K-12 audiences exploring the legacy of President Kennedy and the impact of his legacy in today’s global society. The position is responsible for developing, scheduling and implementing school programs, interpretive materials and experiences for students and teachers while growing the Museum’s educational reach in North Texas and beyond.

This is a full-time exempt position in Dallas, TX reporting to the Director of Education. The work schedule is Monday-Friday 8:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. with occasional evening and weekend hours.

Salary range: $45,900-$53,000, commensurate with experience.

Benefits: The Sixth Floor Museum offers a full benefit package including medical, dental, vision, STD/LTD, life insurance 401(k) match, vacation, sick and personal time off.

For a detailed position description and application, visit www.jfk.org/careers/

Application review begins: Wednesday, May 18, 2022.

Questions regarding this position should be sent to [email protected]. No phone calls, please

About the Museum

Mission Statement: The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza chronicles the assassination and legacy of President John F. Kennedy; interprets the Dealey Plaza National Historic Landmark District and the John F. Kennedy Memorial Plaza; and presents contemporary culture within the context of presidential history.

Vision Statement: To be an impartial, multi-generational destination and forum for exploring the memory and effects of the events surrounding the assassination of President Kennedy, through sharing his legacy and its impact on an ever-changing global society.

Careers | The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza Listen to an excerpt from the oral history interview with Jacques Lowe, the Kennedys' personal photographer for many years, by clicking "Find out more."

Type:
Call for Papers
Date:
January 30, 2023
Location:
Germany
Subject Fields:
Art, Art History & Visual Studies, Cultural History / Studies, Urban Design and Planning, Urban History / Studies, Women's & Gender History / Studies
Submission of Abstracts: 30 May 2022

Submission of Full Papers: 30 Jan 2023

Informal placemaking practices are key in contributing to knowledge production and transfer in the urban environment. However, the recent acceleration of social activism in public urban settings joining forces with recent trends in contemporary art and cultural practices has not yet been spotlighted in this context. Through cultural and artistic practices in urban space, the sensual and cognitive experience of the environment generate new ways of identifying with urban settings and contributes to a common understanding of divergent identities and urban livability.

We understand ‘informal placemaking’ as a concept referring to the practices and strategies undertaken by citizen participation as well as by artists, activists, and designers. Informal placemaking is hereby defined as inclusive practices, based on citizen participation in placemaking. Practices of arts and design have the ability to occupy these new developments. Cultural and social activism have severe impact on the sustainable implementation of social justice and mutual cultural understanding in urban environments. Despite the huge popularity of literature on the potential of art and the creative industries to positively transform cities, very little attention is directed towards the role of artistic and cultural practices in spatial planning and community development.

In this Special Issue, we want to develop and facilitate a discussion on the practices of ‘informal placemaking’. Informal placemaking practices contribute to an attitude of sustainability of new urban concepts, as well as to sociable and collective practices of sharing. Here we would like to suggest the significance of the term and the practices related to ‘informal placemaking’ through which social, cultural, or ethnic groups shape their environment and landscape, in direct and subtle ways. The practices of informal placemaking include DIY practices and interventions. However, we would also target the relevance and significance of the practices that are defined as neither DIY practices, nor interventions, and emerge from daily life. We want to maintain a comparative perspective by case studies from various cities, emphasizing the significance of informal practices of placemaking for lively urban environments.

Such practices might include but are not limited to:

Urban narrative production and informal placemaking: Practices that produce place-based narratives, challenging norms, disentangling, and inspiring new cultural narratives
Practices ( social change) through art and design: Practices that contribute to spatial planning, improve community development, interaction, exchange and enhance collective practices channeling work in communities to inspire social change through art and design
Informal placemaking and collectivity: Practices of informal placemaking through collective actions around food, sports, festivals, community projects, material culture, objects, and spaces of memory
Informal placemaking and placetaking: Practices of activism and social movements that reveal new claims on urban space, such as heritage and memorial activism.
Informal placemaking and collective intelligence: Practices on how individuals integrate information provided by others shaping the community; how to integrate conflicting personal and social information; how knowledge transfer between different social communities joins forces with the “wisdom of the crowd”-approach to cultural and artistic practices
Informal placemaking and digital technologies: Emerging benefits and challenges of digital technologies in terms of a sustainable participation of citizens in spatial planning, place narrating, production of knowledge on urban space, dissemination of citizen’s knowledge on urban space.
Authors interested on submitting a paper for this issue are asked to submit an abstract (of max. 250 words) and a title to guest editors before 30th oh May, 2022.





Contact Info:
Dr. Ayse Erek, (University Kadir Has Istanbul) [email protected]

Dr. Katalin Krasznahorkai, (University of Zurich) [email protected]

URL:
https://think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issues/informal-placemaking/?utm_source=TFO&utm_medium=cms&utm_campaign=JPG15...

Journal of Urbanism: Informal Placemaking. Social Activism and Practices of Art and Culture Placemaking with contemporary art and cultural practices, generating new ways of identifying with urban settings and a common understanding of urban livability.

Join us for our upcoming virtual webinar series with Nicole Lim, Director of the California Indian Museum and Nancy Rosoff, Andrew W. Mellon Senior Curator, Arts of the Americas at the Brooklyn Museum who will discuss Environmental Justice.

Registration is free; advance registration is required

CLICK HERE TO REGISTER: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/5416481433366/WN_iTbtgXzBSG-QoquqJUXBMA

ASL interpretation provided by Interpretek.
Nicole Lim | Director
California Indian Museum and Cultural Center

Nicole Lim has earned advanced degrees from the University of California at Berkeley and University of San Francisco School of Law. She is Pomo and has worked for the National Indian Justice Center and the California Indian Museum and Cultural Center (CIMCC) since 1996. As Executive Director of the CIMCC, she works to develop exhibits, educational programs and curricular resources that represent Native American perspectives. She founded the Tribal Youth Ambassadors program in 2010 the program received the National Arts and Humanities Youth Program Award from the President’s Committee on Arts and Humanities in 2016. She co-edited, On Indian Ground: California, the first in a series of books that focus on best practices for K-12 educators of Native students. California Governor Edmund Brown appointed her to the Board of Directors, 4th District Agricultural Association, Sonoma-Marin Fair, where she served from 2013-2017. Nicole served as the Vice President of the California is Association of Museums (CAM) and formerly co-chaired CAM’s Government Relations committee. She also serves as the Secretary for the National Tribal GIS program and is a member of the Native American Advisory Committee to the University of California Office of the President. She also serves on T-Mobile's External Diversity and Inclusion Sub Council for California.

Nancy Rosoff | Andrew W. Mellon Senior Curator, Arts of the Americas
Brooklyn Museum

Prior to joining the Brooklyn Museum in 2001, Nancy Rosoff served as Collections Manager and Assistant Director for Museum Operations at the New York Historical Society, and, before that, as an Associate Curator at New York’s National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution (formerly the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation). Rosoff received a bachelor’s degree from Connecticut College and a master’s degree in anthropology from the University of California, Los Angeles.

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Join MANY and Museum Hue for Museums Support Democracy: Environmental Justice. The webinar is free; advance registration is required. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar. Join MANY and Museum Hue for Museums Support Democracy: Environmental Justice. The webinar is free; advance registration is required. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.

National Park Service
Saint-Gaudens National Historical Park
GS-9/11 Museum Curator (Fine Arts)

CANDIDATE INFORMATION SESSIONS

APRIL 26, 2022, 5:00pm (Eastern): https://doitalent.zoomgov.com/j/1614268804
Meeting ID: 161 426 8804 Passcode: 123456, Join by phone: 1 646-828-7666
APRIL 27, 2022, 12:00pm (Eastern): https://doitalent.zoomgov.com/j/1603177881
Meeting ID: 160 317 7881, Passcode: 123456, Join by phone: 1 646-828-7666


Do you have museum curatorial and/or art history experience and are looking for a permanent placement at the home of one of America’s premier artists in a beautiful part of the country? If so, the team at Saint-Gaudens National Historical Park would like to invite you to join us for an information session on for our vacant museum curator position! This session will cover what you will need to qualify and apply for this opportunity.

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Board Recruitment!

Looking to gain unique leadership experience? The Museum Council of Greater Philadelphia is looking for cultural professionals to fill vacant seats on our Board of Directors for the 2022-2024 term (with opportunities for extension).

Join a diverse group of people dedicated to building connections between and among the diverse museum and cultural community in Philadelphia, develop leadership skills, serve the mission of the Museum Council, and make professional connections.

The following the positions are open:
President:
The Museum Council President is responsible for general oversight of the organization. This includes (but is not limited to) managing the Executive Committee and committee chairs, ensuring financial responsibility, representing Museum Council at professional and networking events, and coordinating regular board meetings.

Vice President:
Assist the President in planning the Annual Meeting and board meetings and stand in and run board meetings when the President is unable to attend. Promote Museum Council within the Philadelphia-area cultural field and help ensure financial responsibility for the organization. Secure sponsorships for events as needed. Attend professional and networking events representing Museum Council.

Secretary:
Take minutes at and schedule board meetings. Keep records of the organization and meetings while maintaining administrative documents and duties of the board.

Treasurer:
Responsible for working with board officers and committee chairs to prepare annual budget. Reconcile monthly accounts against bank activity. Expected to monitor and report on operating statement at each board meeting. Signer on all financial accounts. Receive and disburse payments to and from Museum Council in a timely fashion.

Membership Chair:
Lead and schedule Membership Committee meetings. Support all MC events through membership registration and ensure committee involvement. Plan periodic membership campaigns throughout the year. Support Annual Meeting through Membership Campaign. Maintain Membership databases and process incoming applications.

Emerging Museum Professionals Chair:
Work in tandem with Programming Chair to plan and execute programs that specifically target emerging professionals in the field. Budget, plan, and execute networking and skill-building events and programs. Spearhead the annual Mentorship Program, which connects emerging and established professionals, and any events related to the program. Coordinate with Marketing Chair and Programming Chair to ensure that events are strategically spaced throughout the year and properly marketed.

At-Large Member (2 positions available):
A voting member of the Board and is expected to help fulfill the vision and mission of the Museum Council, attend board meetings, join committees, and represent Museum Council at events, and other networking opportunities.

Board members should have experience working (paid or service) with museums or cultural organizations. Applicants do not need to be currently working in the specific area they apply for but should have baseline knowledge and a willingness to learn. Reach out to Amanda Lampel, Nomination Committee Chair, with any questions at [email protected].

Attend our Meet the Board Happy Hour on Wednesday April 20th from 6 to 8 pm to meet current board members and find out more about board service. Registration is free, but please RSVP here so we know to expect you. We look forward to meeting you! https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScJmSMhyBt4ljUxLClvASE7uUzK6Fn1kavoAd4cAYZm8aBh6A/viewform

The Deputy Director occupies a critical leadership role at Museum Hue, working closely with and reporting to the Executive Director, they will oversee development, communications, operations, and overall administrative management, including implementing strategic objectives and organizational initiatives. The Deputy Director works collaboratively with the staff to promote a highly functional, interactive, and dynamic team. They actively identify and increase efficiencies within workflow on a continual basis. This position motivates all members of the staff and models effective management skills.
https://www.museumhue.com/hiring