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This just in from Genie Potter about the segment featuring Marsha Weinstein in a National Votes for Women Trail podcast: Her March to Democracy: Stories Along the National Votes for Women Trail.
https://hermarchtodemocracy.buzzsprout.com/2283722/14613938
This is Marsha Weinstein discussing Ky’s Suffrage Movement and women who have Markers on the Votes for Women Trail. Enjoy listening to our suffrage story and we all thank Marsha for her longtime efforts on our behalf.
Dr. Amelia Glaser (University of California, San Diego) will speak on "'Mine from '33, Yours from '41': Poetic Reinventions in Post-Maidan Ukraine." In this talk, Dr. Glaser will explore how contemporary Ukrainian poets seek out analogies from the Holocaust in their writings on the present war. Wednesday, March 6, at 6 pm (EST) on Zoom.
The Southern Jewish Historical Society will hold its 48th annual conference on November 1-3, 2024, in Louisville, Kentucky, hosted by the Filson Historical Society with sponsorship from the Jewish Heritage Fund. The deadline for panel and paper proposals is April 1, 2024. They are especially interested in roundtables and workshops in addition to traditional panels, and they encourage submissions from graduate students.
The Kentucky Historical Society (KHS) is seeking applications for the KHS research fellowship program for the spring 2024 cycle. The program provides funding for academic researchers whose projects focus on Kentucky or larger regional-related topics. Time periods are open - researchers have used the KHS's archival holdings to shed light on a vast array of topics, including resistance and slavery, politics, medical history and addiction, religion, activism, early frontier, and environmentalism and economic development.
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2024 Call for Proposals
"Oral History: Bridging Past, Present, and Future"
October 30-November 2, 2024
Cincinnati Netherland Plaza – Cincinnati, Ohio
Submission Portal for OHA 2024 available (for members) at https://oha.memberclicks.net/submitoha2024. Deadline to submit is February 23, 2024.
Apologies! Just now realizing I reposted the request from a restricted network - here’s the full message:
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H-Net's Home Office and H-Net Council are soliciting dialogue, statements, and comments related to issues of copyright concerning the emergence of Artificial Intelligence and machine learning.
Evangeline Thurston Wilder and Gabriel Fiandero seek applicants for a collaborative session at the 2024 Watson Conference in Rhetoric and Composition in Louisville, KY in March. Applications are due January 21st.
The Kentucky Historical Society's project, the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition looks to hire three graduate students (at least in the second year of their M.A. in a humanities discipline and with a familiarity of 19th century U.S. history) to serve as remote Graduate Research Associates (GRAs) for the project between February 2024 and January 2025. GRAs work remotely from their home institution, transcribing 500 documents and completing XML markup on 300 documents.