Around the field Jan 18, 2017

18 January 2017 – editors

From around the field this week: Awards for archivists and public history in the American West; conference calls for Underground Railroad history, urban heritage studies, maritime heritage; lots of online and f2f workshops for museum managers and curators; journal issue on the public humanities

AWARDS and FUNDING

• 2017 Waldo Gifford Leland Award from the Society of American Archivists for “writing of superior excellence and usefulness in the field of archival history, theory, and practice” (DEADLINE: Feb 28, 2017)
• Multiple awards for research, publication, and public programming from the Charles Redd Center for Western Studies (DEADLINE: March 15, 2017)
• Michael P. Malone Award from the Western History Association for the best article, essay, or commentary on state, provincial, or territorial history in North America appearing in a periodical publication (DEADLINE: April 1, 2017)

CONFERENCES and CALLS

• Critical Heritage Studies in Canada (DEADLINE EXTENDED for journal abstracts: Jan 22, 2017)
• “Museums and the Memory of Nazi-Fascism, the Holocaust and World War II: Toward a Shared European History?” – Jan 24, 2017, New York, New York, US
• “Western Altitude; Western Attitude,” Mountain-Plains Museum Association conference – Oct 15-19, 2017, Denver, Colorado, US (DEADLINE: Jan 25, 2016; email [email protected] for list of session proposals seeking panelists)
• “On the Edge of Freedom: Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad in the Borderlands,” 2017 Underground Railroad Conference – May 18-21, Cambridge, Maryland, US (DEADLINE: Jan 31, 2017)
• “Urban Heritage in Divided Cities,” call for book chapters (DEADLINE: Jan 31, 2017)
• “Oceans and Shores: Heritage, People and Environment,” Centro de História d’Aquém e d’Além-Mar/Portuguese Centre for Global History (CHAM) conference – July 12-15, 2017, Lisbon, Portugal (DEADLINE: Feb 1, 2017)

LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES

• Registration is open for American Association for State and Local History (AASLH) spring workshops on house museums, project and collections management, public and educational programming, and more
• “Care and Conservation of Archaeological Collections” begins Jan. 30
• “Grants for Museums and Historic Sites” course begins Feb 6 on MuseumStudy.com

PUBLICATIONS

• “Publics for the Humanities?” University of Toronto Quarterly Vol 85, No 4 (Fall 2016) Table of Contents now available online
• Review of “Cultures of International Exhibitions 1840-1940: Great Exhibitions in the Margins” (Filipová)

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