Around the Field November 15, 2017
15 November 2017 – editors
From around the field this week: New York is holding public hearings about the city’s monuments and markers, and New Yorkers are invited to sign up to testify; Early Americanist group blog The Junto is seeking new contributors; more information on the upcoming cycle for the NEH’s Public Humanities Projects grant is now available online, with a deadline of January 10; the Midwestern History Association is inviting nominations for its Alice Smith Prize in Public History; Proposals for the National Association of African American Studies conference are due November 30; AASLH’s “Basics of Archives” online course starts today.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
- City of New York to hold public hearings on the city’s monuments and markers – Nov 17-28, 2017 New York, US
- Humanities New York panel “Reflections on Liberation: American Civil Rights Past, Present, and Future” – Nov 28, 2017, New York, NY, US
- Digital Blackness in the Archive: A Documenting the Now Symposium – Dec 11-12, 2017, St. Louis, MO, US
- Blog The Junto seeks new contributors – Apply by Jan 15, 2018
AWARDS and FUNDING
- National Endowment for the Humanities’ Public Humanities Projects grants – Applications due Jan 10, 2017
- National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC) Access to Historical Records grant – Preliminary proposals due Jan 18, 2018
- Midwestern History Association’s Alice Smith Prize in Public History and Hamlin Garland Prize in Popular History – Nominations due Feb 1, 2018
- Georgia College Special Collections Library Research Grants – Applications due March 2, 2018
CONFERENCES and CALLS
- ODH2018 – Our (Digital) Humanity: Storytelling, Media Organizing, and Social Justice, April 20-22, 2018, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA, US (PROPOSAL DEADLINE: Nov 15, 2017)
- National Association of African American Studies and Affiliates National Conference – Feb 12-17, 2018, Dallas, TX, US (PROPOSAL DEADLINE: Nov 30, 2017)
- “Latinx Studies Now” – Annual meeting of the Latina/o Studies Association – July 11-15, 2018, Washington, DC, US (PROPOSAL DEADLINE: Dec 1, 2017)
- Two historians seek papers for a panel at the Organization of American Historians 2019 Annual Meeting addressing the history of the interpretation at American museums and public history sites – Submit brief paper description and CV by Dec 1, 2017
- “Measuring Identity, Diversity, and Inclusion in Canada @150 and Beyond” – Forum of the Canadian Institute for Identities and Migration – Nov 3-Dec 1, 2017, Aylmer, Quebec, Canada
- Change Over Time seeks submissions on LGBTQ cultural heritage for upcoming special issue – ABSTRACTS DUE Jan 5, 2018
- Annual meeting of the Italian Association of Public History – June 5-9, 2018, Pisa, Italy (PROPOSAL DEADLINE: Jan 15, 2018)
LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES
- Basics of Archives online course from the American Association for State and Local History – Nov 15- Dec 15, 2017
PUBLICATIONS
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