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Monday - Wednesday, November 12 – 14, 2012:
First International Symposium on Analytical Methods in Philately
In addition to two days of technical presentations, there will be a half-day workshop, including hands-on experience with the NPM forensic equipment.
• Call for Papers »
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Friday - Sunday, November 2 – 4, 2012:
The Seventh Annual Postal History Symposium:
“Blue & Gray: Mail and the Civil War”
The 2012 Symposium will be held in conjunction with a philatelic exhibition hosted by the U.S. Philatelic Classics Society.
• Call for Papers »
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Friday - Sunday, September 16 – 18, 2011:
The Sixth Annual Postal History Symposium:
“How Commerce and Industry Shaped the Mails”
The Symposium was held in conjunction with a philatelic exhibition hosted by the United States Stamp Society (USSS) at the American Philatelic Center near State College, Pennsylvania.
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Thursday and Friday, September 30 - October 1, 2010:
Winton M. Blount Symposium on Postal History: “Stamps and the Mail: Imagery, Icons, & Identity”
Stamps, as official government documents, can be treated as primary resources designed to convey specific political and esthetic messages. Other topics and themes for the symposium are: Stamp design’s influence on advertising envelopes and bulk mailings, censorship of stamps as propaganda as used on letters, and the role of the citizens' stamp committee or organizations that generate the designs.
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October 30 – November 1, 2009:
The Fourth Annual Postal History Symposium
The introduction of postage stamps in 1840 represented a complete overhaul in the organization and operating principles of the British Post Office. The subsequent rapid introduction of stamps to nearly every country in the world before the end of the 19th century is tangible evidence of the worldwide adoption of similar post office reforms. The 2009 Postal History Symposium will bring together collectors of classic stamps with scholars and public historians of postal reform and post office operations to examine these highly collectable cultural objects through the lens of the post office reforms that gave rise to them.
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September 26 and 27, 2008:
Winton M. Blount Symposium on Postal History
The 2008 Winton M. Blount Postal History Symposium jointly sponsored by the Smithsonian National Postal Museum and the American Philatelic Society will be held on September 26 and 27, 2008. This will be the third annual national conference for academic scholars, philatelists, and industry experts to discuss their research into the
history of postal organizations and systems.
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October 21-22, 2007:
Further, Farther, Faster: Transportation Technology and the Mail
This Postal History Symposium, the
second national conference sponsored by the American Philatelic Society and the Smithsonian National Postal Museum,
provided a forum in which philatelists, academic scholars of postal organizations and systems, public historians, and the
interested public discussed and presented research integrating philately and the history of postal operations within the broader
context of American history.
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October 17, 2007:
Technologies, Technologists & Networks: A Symposium on the History of Communication Technologies
From 17 – 22 October 2007, the Society for the History of Technology (SHOT) met in Washington, DC, and celebrated its fiftieth anniversary. As part of that celebration, the Smithsonian’s National Postal Museum hosted a one-day symposium on the history of communication technologies on October 17, 2007.
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November 3-4, 2006:
What is Postal History?: The Blount Symposium on Postal History
Rarely do scholars of postal organizations and systems meet and discuss their ideas and research with scholars of philately. In an attempt to bridge this gap, the National Postal Museum and the American Philatelic Society hosted a national conference on November 3 and 4, 2006, to bring together these two research groups.
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