Public History

histoCON 2022 is an international history festival organised by the Federal Agency for Civic Education (bpb) and supported by the German Foreign Office. histoCON’s claim is “Look back, think ahead” – because familiarity and critical engagement with history can help us understand the present and learn for the future.

Dear friends and colleagues,

Laurent Dubois, Jalane Schmidt, and Louis Nelson invite applications from UVA faculty and graduate students, faculty from other universities, practitioners of public history, curators, and Charlottesville community members to join “Reimagining the American Landscape” an Andrew Mellon Foundation funded seminar hosted by the University of Virginia through the 2022-23 academic year.

Hi all,

The CFP for Digitorium 2022, the hybrid digital humanities conference at the University of Alabama, has been extended until May 31, 2022. The theme this year is "The Way We Learn." Details about the CFP and conference can be found at the conference website. 

(Press Release, May 4, 2022): The Ohio State University has collaborated with Getty Images, a preeminent global visual content creator and marketplace, to launch Picturing Black History,

Please join BIES, the British, Irish and Empire Studies program at the University of Texas at Austin, on Monday, May 2, at 2 p.m. CDT, for a special hybrid presentation, “Hearts of Stone: Colonising the Commemorative Landscapes of the Great War,” by Professor Bruce Scates of the School of History at the Australian National University.

2022 Annual Meeting of the Agricultural History Society

August 4-6, 2022 in Stavanger, Norway

Registration is now open for the Agricultural History Society's first conference in Europe. The deadline to register is May 31, 2022. Complete registration information and a draft of the conference program are available at the conference web page: https://www.aghistorysociety.org/2022-meeting

Call for Grant Applications: Agricultural History Society 

The Agricultural History Society offers a grant program for members to advance the society’s mission “to encourage and promote scholarship in the history of agriculture and rural life.” This investment in the membership and the field of agricultural and rural history is the fruit of the Centennial Campaign, known as Seed Money, that marked the 100th anniversary of the AHS and concluded at the end of 2019.

The AHS will award one grant of $1,000 USD per year in each of the following career categories:

With Disney’s initial apathetic response to the ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill which recently passed in the state of Florida, it is time to shed light on Disney’s complex relationship with the LGBTQIA2S+ community. Recently, there have been works which briefly discuss the relationship of queerness and Disney, such as Sean Griffin’s Tinker Bells and Evil Queens (2000), Melanie S.