Around the Field May 9, 2018
09 May 2018 – editors
From around the field this week: Topic proposals for NCPH 2019 are due on June 1 for feedback and offers of collaboration; several NEH grant applications are due in the next few weeks; upcoming workshops from AASLH, the Pennsylvania State Archives, Queens University Belfast, and others.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
- Topic proposals for NCPH 2019 in Hartford, CT are due June 1, 2018 (final proposals due July 15, 2018)
- “A Date with History: Imagining Revolutions” two-day program at the University of York – June 9-10, 2018, York, England, UK
AWARDS and FUNDING
- The National Endowment for the Humanities Common Heritage program grants support events organized by community cultural institutions which members of the public are invited to attend (applications due May 31, 2018)
- The National Endowment for the Humanities Digital Projects for the Public grant program is accepting its first round of applications and will be holding a webinar on May 16 to introduce people to the program and talk through the application process (applications due June 6, 2018)
- The National Endowment for the Humanities will offer a second round if its new Infrastructure and Capacity Building Challenge Grants (applications due Aug 1, 2018)
CONFERENCES and CALLS
- “Investigating Mid-Atlantic Plantations: Slavery, Economies, and Space” – Oct 17-19, 2019, Philadelphia, PA, US (Submissions due Sept 15, 2018)
LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES
- “Disorganized/De-organized/Reorganized” Midwest Labor and Working Class History Colloquium 2018 – May 26, 2018, Iowa City, IA, US
- “Creating Conversations: Interpreting Slavery” workshop at the Peter Wentz Farmstead – June 3, 2018, Norristown, PA, US
- “Is Your Museum Grant-Ready” and “Beyond the Mansion: Creating Bottom-Up Interpretation from Top-Down Narratives” AASLH webinars – June 4 and 6, 2018
- “Archives Without Tears” two-day workshop from the Pennsylvania State Archives – June 5-6 and 13-14, 2018, Erie and Chambersburg, PA, US
- “Oral History Interviews in the Arts and Humanities” two-day workshop at Queen’s University Belfast – June 21-22, 2018, Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK
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