SHERA-SAH Liaison: Our Selections from SAH February Newsletter

February 2015 Society of Architectural Historians Newsletter


 

 

 


 

 

SAH Launches New Student Outreach Program            
The Society of Architectural Historians is pleased to announce its new
American Architecture and Landscape Field Trip program for students. The
goal of the program is for SAH, its members, its chapters and affiliated
organizations to host student field trips focusing on architecture,
landscapes, urbanism and historic preservation. Led by architectural
historians, architects, preservationists, and local experts, the tours are
intended to reach students in high schools and community colleges and
provide opportunities to engage in experiential learning.


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SAH Announces 2014 H. Allen Brooks Travelling Fellowship Recipient
The Society of Architectural Historians has awarded Patricia Blessing the
2014 H. Allen Brooks Travelling Fellowship. The prestigious $50,000
fellowship allows a recent graduate or emerging scholar to travel for one
year to see and experience architecture and landscapes firsthand.


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Call for Volunteers: 2015 SAH Annual Conference
SAH is seeking volunteers to help with the 2015 SAH Annual International
Conference. Opportunities are available to prepare and distribute
registration materials; monitor the 36 paper sessions, six midday programs,
and SAH Chicago Seminar; and check-in tour participants. 


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ACLS Public Fellows Competition for Recent PhDs
ACLS invites applications for the fifth competition of the Public Fellows
program. This year, the program will place up to 22 recent PhDs from the
humanities and humanistic social sciences in two-year positions at
partnering organizations in government and the nonprofit sector. The
deadline to apply is March 17, 2015, 6 pm EDT.

	

Humanities Open Book: Unlocking Great Books
A new joint grant program by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)
and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation seeks to give a second life to
outstanding out-of-print books in the humanities by turning them into freely
accessible e-books. ... Working together, NEH and Mellon will give grants to
publishers to identify great humanities books, secure all appropriate
rights, and make them available for free, forever, under a Creative Commons
license. Read More


Association of Architecture School Librarians Conference
The Association of Architecture School Librarians will hold its conference
March 17-19, at the Sheraton Centre in Toronto, Canada. The AASL welcomes
members of SAH to attend all or part of the conference, which includes
presentations, lightning rounds, tours and a panel discussion addressing the
topic of women in architecture. Learn more at
woodbury.libguides.com/aaslconference2015.

	

Chapter and Partner News
The Society of Historians of East European, Eurasian, and Russian Art and
Architecture (SHERA) runs a website, electronic listserv and Facebook page,
reflecting on research, publications, exhibitions, conferences and news feed
from individual and institutional members. SHERA organizes sponsored
sessions at affiliated societies' scholarly conferences and offers
memberships at no charge for students and unaffiliated scholars from Eastern
Europe, Eurasia and Russia. In January, Natasha Kurchanova was elected SHERA
president, with Eva Forgacs as vice-president/president-elect.

	

SAH February Booklist 
Read the February Booklist of recently published architecture books and
related works. Booklists and exhibition catalog lists are selected by
Barbara Opar, architecture librarian, Syracuse University Library.

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