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The 2022 Winton M. Blount Postal History Symposium
We picked this up from the American Philatelic Society website:
Back on December 8-9, the Smithsonian’s National Postal Museum (NPM) in Washington, D.C. played host to the Twelfth Winton M. Blount Postal History Symposium (PHS). Co-sponsored by the NPM, the American Philatelic Society and the American Philatelic Research Library, the PHS is a biennial event alternatively hosted at the NPM and the American Philatelic Center since 2006. The symposium provides a unique forum for philatelists, academic scholars, postal historians, and the interested public to discuss and present research that integrates philately into the broader context of world history.
Now the biographies of the presenters, the abstracts of their papers as well as their presentations and session videos are all available on the library’s Postal History Symposium page. Just click on the plus sign + to the right of the title for the 2022 symposium to expand that section of the page and see the links for the bios, abstracts, presentations and videos.
The 2022 symposium marked a first for the research event in that it was both an in-person and virtual symposium with some attendees and presenters participating in-person at the NPM while others attended the sessions and presented their papers online. Following each session speakers answered questions from attendees both onsite and online.
Looking ahead to 2024 when the research symposium will be hosted by the APS and the APRL, the theme will concern the Universal Postal Union whose 150th anniversary will be commemorated that year. For further information when details arise regarding the 2024 PHS, be sure to check the symposium page of the APS website.
Philatelic lectures from Israel 75 Philatelic Academy
The Israel Philatelic Federation and the Society of Israel Philatelists have joined together to create the Israel 75 Philatelic Academy. The Academy is intended to promote all aspects of Holy Land Philately and to enhance the knowledge of collectors worldwide. This will be done with virtual philatelic lectures during April 2023 and the display of philatelic exhibits.
A designated website (www.israel75.org.il) will be operative as of March 27th. The website will contain 20 philatelic exhibits, encompassing 100 exhibition frames. The exhibits will not be judged – they will simply be on display for collectors to view and learn.
The Academy will run a series of 10 virtual lectures on the Zoom platform, presented by speakers from North America and Israel. Each presentation should last about 75 minutes + 15 minutes for Q&A. The lectures will be given on the 5 Sundays of April (2nd, 9th, 16th, 23rd and 30th April), starting at Noon Eastern. On each date there will be 2 lectures.
Sunday, 2nd April
Ed Kroft – EEF First Interim Period: Civilian Stampless and Prepaid Mail: November 1917- November 1918 (7:00 PM Israel, 12:00 PM Eastern)
Joel Slutzki – Palestine – Rates & Routes 1927 – 1948 (8:30 PM Israel, 1:30 PM Eastern)
Sunday, 9th April
Prof. Shalom Sabar – The story of the early Jewish postcards (7:00 PM Israel, 12:00 PM Eastern)
Lawrence Fisher – Postcards tell us a story: The Jewish stereotype (8:30 PM Israel, 1:30 PM Eastern)
Sunday, 16th April
Michael Bass – Folded Letters from the Holy Land 1350-1852 (7:00 PM Israel, 12:00 PM Eastern)
Moshe Rimer – Turkish delight: The events on the Turkish front of WWI, as reflected in philately. (8:30 PM Israel, 1:30 PM Eastern)
Sunday, 23rd April
Dr. Joel Weiner – Postmarks of Jerusalem During the British Mandate (7:00 PM Israel, 12:00 PM Eastern)
Zvi Itelson – The overprints of the British civil administration in Palestine 1920-1922 (8:30 PM Israel, 1:30 PM Eastern)
Sunday, 30th April
Yaacov Tsachor – Doar Ivri (7:00 PM Israel, 12:00 PM Eastern)
Dr. Eddie Leibu – Haifa Postal History (8:30 PM Israel, 1:30 PM Eastern)
All presentations will be recorded and subsequently uploaded to the Academy website.
Thema: presented by the Swiss Society for Thematic Philately
Thema is the magazine of the Société suisse de philatélie thématique (Swiss Society for Thematic Philately), member of the FSPhS (Swiss Philatelic Federation). It is published quarterly and is distributed free of charge to all SSPT members. The articles are published in German, French or Italian, sometimes in two languages, and in special occasions in all three.
The front covers and tables-of-contents from last year numbers are available on the magazine’s web page. Also available are selected articles in pdf format.
For details contact the Editor, Ms. Erna Streit-Känzig, at thema-redaktion@thema-briefmarken.ch