Around the Field February 7, 2018
07 February 2018 – editors
From around the field this week: The online journal and database Women and Social Movements in the United States is seeking volunteers to write biographical sketches of women suffrage activists for their Online Biographical Dictionary of the Woman Suffrage Movement in the United States; the ACLS has opened a new fellowship and grant program for community college faculty; the Association of African American Museums’ conference proposal deadline is this Friday; an upcoming webinar on collections storage projects.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
- “Exploring Your African-American Family History” Genealogy program at the Indiana Historical Society – Feb 24, 2018, Indianapolis, IN, US
- Call for Volunteers to research and write biographical sketches of women suffrage activists
- Humanities Advocacy Day coming up on March 13, 2018
- NCPH Mini-Con alert! History Relevance Workshop from the Kentucky Museum and Heritage Alliance at Shaker Village of Pleasant Hill – March 17, 2018, Harrodsburg, KY, US
AWARDS and FUNDING
- Society of American Archivists Hamer Kegen Award and Spotlight Award—Applications due Feb 28, 2018
- Digitizing Hidden Special Collections and Archives: Enabling New Scholarship through Increasing Access to Unique Materials grant competition – Applications due April 3, 2018
- American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Fellowships for Community College Faculty – Applications due Sept 26, 2018
CONFERENCES and CALLS
- DUE THIS WEEK: “Till Earth and Heaven Ring: Celebrating the Progress and Sustaining the Promise of African American Museums” Association of African American Museums Annual Conference – Aug 8-11, Hampton, VA, US (PROPOSAL DEADLINE: Feb 9, 2018)
- “Art and Public Culture in Chicago” Summer 2018 National Endowment for the Humanities institute – June 11-29, 2018, Chicago, IL, US (APPLICATIONS DUE March 1, 2018)
- Gilder Lehrman Center Summer Institute for K-12 Teachers – June 17-30, 2018, New Haven, CT, US (APPLICATIONS DUE March 1, 2018)
- “Designing the Future of Museums” MuseumNext conference – Nov 1-2, 2018, New York City, NY, US (PROPOSALS DUE March 1, 2018)
- “Defining the Museum of the 21st Century: Evolving Multiculturalism in Museums in the United States” online symposium (ABSTRACTS DUE March 9, 2018)
LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES
- Managing Resources for Collections Storage Projects webinar – Feb 15, 2018
- The Care and Documentation of Ivory webinar – Feb 28, 2018
- Preservation in Practice: A Primer for Historic Preservation Commissions and Planners – March 10, 2018, Bordentown, NJ, US
- Focusing on Visitors: Public Programming and Exhibits at History Institutions workshop – March 15-16, 2018, Louisville, KY, US (Save $40 on registration by booking by Feb 15)
PUBLICATIONS
- Coming in March from Rutgers University Press: Historians on Hamilton: How a Blockbuster Musical is Restaging America’s Past (Romano and Potter)
- Upcoming from Rowman & Littlefield: Performing History: How to Research, Write, Act, and Coach Historical Performances (Birney and Thierer)
- The George Wright Forum Vol 34, #3 (Dec 2017) featuring special section Civic Engagement, Shared Authority, and Intellectual Courage—Table of Contents and sample articles available online
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