Around the Field January 24, 2018
24 January 2018 – editors
From around the field this week: the National Park Service requests comments from the public on draft significance statements for the Stonewall National Monument; the Society of American Archivists announces awards with a nomination deadline of Feb. 28; Active History is looking for authors for a new monthly series on history pedagogy; the Italian Association of Public History seeks proposals for their second annual conference by early February.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
- LULAC Council 60 Clubhouse Special Announcement hosted by the National Trust for Historic Preservation – Jan 30, 2018
- National Park Service requests comments on draft significance statements for the Stonewall National Monument by Feb 18, 2018
AWARDS and FUNDING
- National Endowment for the Humanities’s Infrastructure and Capacity-Building Challenge Grants – Applications due March 15, 2018
- Society of American Archivists Distinguished Service Award and Donald Peterson Student Travel Award– Nominations due Feb 28, 2018
- Tsakopoulos Hellenic Collection Library Research Fellowship Program, 2018-2019 – Applications due Feb 28, 2018
CONFERENCES and CALLS
- Beyond the Lecture: Innovations in Teaching Canadian History – Call for Submissions for a new monthly series from Active History beginning March 2018
- NYU Press editors open Call for Submissions for books in a new series about Black Power and Black radicalism
- National Conference of State Historic Preservation Officers and the National Park Service seeks proposals for brief essays on the woman suffrage movement for a new NPS travel itinerary and website on women’s history and the 19th Amendment (PROPOSAL DEADLINE: Feb 9, 2018)
- Justice After Atrocity? 4th Master Seminar on Post-Genocide – April 19-20, 2018, Union, NJ, US (PAPER PROPOSAL DEADLINE: March 1, 2018)
- 6th Annual Teaching Social Activism Conference: Intersections – May 20, 2018, New York City, NY, US (PROPOSAL DEADLINE: Feb 1, 2018)
- 2nd Annual Conference of the AIPH – Italian Association of Public History – June 5-9, 2018, Pisa, Italy (PROPOSAL DEADLINE: Feb 5, 2018)
LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES
- Introduction to Heritage Interpretation online course
- Writing/Designing National Science Foundation Proposals one-day workshop at the Grant Training Center – Jan 25, 2018
- Nightmare at the Museum Week upcoming series of webinars and Twitter Chat by the American Association for State and Local History – February 21-23, 2018
PUBLICATIONS
- Article in the International Journal of Heritage Studies – “Performing a different narrative: museum theater and the memory-work of producing and managing slavery heritage at southern plantation museums” (Benjamin & Alderman)
- Demand the Impossible: Essays in History as Activism (Wuertenberg, ed. Horne)
- Recently published from Rowman & Littlefield: Art and Public History: Approaches, Opportunities, and Challenges (eds. Bush & Paul); Commemoration: The American Association for State and Local History Guide (ed. Bruggeman); An American Association for State and Local History Guide to Making Public History (ed. Beatty); The Care and Display of Historic Clothing (DePauw)
- Upcoming publication: Creating Exhibits that Engage (Summers)
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