Around the Field August 8, 2018
08 August 2018 – editors
From around the field this week: the National Council on Public History’s 2018 Twitter Mini-Con CFP is now open through September; the Museum of the American Revolution is hosting a fellowship in Women’s History; the American Library Association is holding a “Exploring Careers in Archives and Special Collection” webinar on August 16; Call for papers on “Suffrage at 100: Women and American Politics Since 1920” due Sept 15, 2018.
AWARDS and FUNDING
- National Humanities Center residential fellowship applications due Oct 17, 2018
- Scholarships available to the 2018 Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference – applications due Sept 7, 2018
- Museum of the American Revolution paid post-doctoral curatorial fellowship in Women’s History – applications due Oct 15, 2018
- American Council of Learned Societies fellowships – applications due Sept 26, 2018
CONFERENCES and CALLS
- 2018 NCPH Twitter Mini-Con Call for Proposals is now open – October 18-19, online (Proposals due Sept 7, 2018)
- Boston Seminars on African American History series presented by the Massachusetts Historical Society – (Proposals due Oct 1, 2018)
- Michigan State University Press seeks chapter proposals for “The Northern Midwest and US-Canadian Borderlands: Essays on a Forgotten Region” – (Proposals due Nov 19, 2018)
- “Bridging the Gap: The Role of Academic and public History in Shaping the Nation” annual meeting of the Philippine Historical Association – Sept 20-22, 2018, Pasay City, Philippines
- “Agents of Change: Leadership in Small Museum,” the Small Museum Association annual meeting – Feb 17-19, 2019 College Park, MD, US (Proposals due Sept 10, 2018)
- “Investigating Mid-Atlantic Plantations: Slavery, Economics, and Space” conference – Oct 17-19, 2019 (proposals due Sept 15, 2018)
LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES
- Boston Seminars on African American History series presented by the Massachusetts Historical Society – October 18 and November 15, 2018
- “The Impact of Listening and Being Heard: Oral History, Archives, & Advocacy,” a free 8-week workshop is seeking participants – Wednesdays in Fall 2018 (application deadline Aug 15, 2018)
- Registration open for the Historic Preservation Continuing Education Courses by the Mid-Atlantic Regional Center for the Humanities (MARCH) at Rutgers-Camden
- “Introduction to Podcasting for Museums and Historic Sites” webinar by AASLH – Aug 14, 2018
- “Guns and Museums: A Workshop for Museum Educators” by the Fairfield University Art Museum – Sept 29, 2018, Fairfield, CT, US
- Preservation Leadership Training Intensive at PastForward Conference – Nov. 13, San Francisco, CA, US
- “Exploring Careers in Archives and Special Collections” webinar by the American Library Association – Aug 16, 2018
PUBLICATIONS
- Recently published by University of Illinois Press: Black public history in Chicago: civil rights activism from World War II to the cold war (Rocksborough-Smith)
- Call for papers on “Suffrage at 100: Women and American Politics Since 1920” – proposals due Sept 15, 2018
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