Around the Field November 29, 2017
29 November 2017 – editors
From around the field this week: the deadline to apply for NCPH’s 2018 awards is December 1; the Smithsonian Institution is kicking off their Smithsonian 2022 plan with programming this Friday, December 1; the proposal deadline for the American Association for State and Local History’s 2018 conference is December 8; Register for the Virginia Association of Museums’ workshop on creative exhibit development ASAP if you’re interested.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
- The Smithsonian Institution’s kicking off its Smithsonian 2022 plan with a Short Conversation and a Long Conversation – Dec 1, 2017, Washington, DC, US
- New educational website from the Steamship Historical Society of America, STEAMing Into the Future, up in beta
AWARDS and FUNDING
- Applications for NCPH’s 2018 awards cycle (including Outstanding Public History Project Award, New Professional Award, Student Project Award, and more) due Dec 1, 2017
- Multicultural Fellowship in Collections Management from the Museum of Science & History – Applications due Dec 1, 2017
- Newberry Library Short-Term Fellowships – Applications due Dec 15, 2017
- Pauli Murray Book Prize for the best book in black intellectual history – Applications due Jan 15, 2018
- James Weldon Johnson Institute of Emory University Visiting Fellows program – Applications due Feb 7, 2018
- American Historical Association Research Grants – Applications due Feb 15, 2018
CONFERENCES and CALLS
- Why Public History? Conference at the Centre for Public History, Queen’s University Belfast, Dec 7-8, 2017, Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK
- “Truth or Consequences” American Association for State and Local History annual meeting, Sept 26-29, Kansas City, MO, US (PROPOSAL DEADLINE: Dec 8, 2017)
- “Reformatting the World: An Interdisciplinary Conference on Technology and the Humanities” – Feb 23-24, 2018, York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (PROPOSAL DEADLINE: Dec 8, 2017)
- National Association for Museum Education seeks proposals for the Fall 2018 issue of Exhibition (SUBMISSION DEADLINE: Jan 4, 2018)
- Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association 11th Annual Meeting – Aug 2-4, 2018, Santa Clara, CA, US (PROPOSAL DEADLINE: Jan 8, 2018)
LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES
- Creative Exhibit Development workshop from the Virginia Association of Museums – Dec 4, 2017 (REGISTER BY Nov 30, 2017)
- Storage Environments: The Big Picture webinar – Dec 5, 2017
- Digital Humanities for State and Local History webinar presented by the American Association for State and Local History – Dec 7, 2017
PUBLICATIONS
- Free ebook from Routledge brings together a selection of chapters from their Museum Meanings series
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