Around the Field September 13, 2017
13 September 2017 – editors
From around the field this week: the 2017 Smithsonian Food History Weekend is coming up next month in Washington, DC; the Obama Foundation Fellowship Program seeks civic engagement innovators and good humans for their inaugural class; three Fitch Foundation fellowship applications for historic preservation and related fields are due October 25; applications for a ten-day Winter School in Oral History in Bangalore, India are due at the end of September; the Mid-Atlantic Regional Center for the Humanities has upcoming workshops on historic wood window restoration and seeking funding for history organizations; Oxford University Press is releasing The Oxford Handbook of Public History.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
- Introducing a new blog, Hindsights, from the Lepage Center for History in the Public Interest at Villanova University
- New exhibit, Be Heard: LGBT Experiences in Indiana, at the Indiana Historical Society, Sept 16-Nov 4, 2017, Indianapolis, IN, US
- 2018 National History Day theme webinar, Conflict & Compromise in History
- 2017 Smithsonian Food History Weekend – Oct 26-28, 2017, Washington, DC, US
AWARDS and FUNDING
- Woodrow Wilson Center Fellowships (DEADLINE: Oct 1, 2017)
- Obama Foundation Fellowship Program seeks civic innovators from all disciplines for two-year, non-residential fellowships (DEADLINE: Oct 6, 2017)
- Three James Marston Fitch Charitable Foundation Fellowships in historic preservation and related fields: Fitch Mid-Career Fellowship; Richard L. Blinder Award; Samuel H. Kress Mid-Career Fellowship (DEADLINE: Oct 25, 2017)
- Royal Historical Society Public History Prize for public history work undertaken in the UK (DEADLINE: Nov 30, 2017)
CONFERENCES and CALLS
- “The Ever Present Past: How public history informs the present” – Oct 17, 2017, University of Essex Colchester, Colchester, UK (PROPOSAL DEADLINE: Sept 18; REGISTRATION DEADLINE: Sept 29, 2017)
- “The Inner Life of Interviews: Oral History and Inter-Subjectivity” ten-day Winter School in Oral History – Nov 1-10, 2017, Bangalore, India (APPLICATION DEADLINE: Sept 30, 2017)
- “Black Thought Matters” – annual conference of the African American Intellectual History Society, March 30-31, 2018, Waltham, MA, US (PROPOSAL DEADLINE: Nov 15, 2017)
- Public Music Discourse In Honor of the Bernstein Centenary – March 2-3, 2018, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, US (PROPOSAL DEADLINE: Dec 1, 2017)
- “Our (Digital) Humanity: Storytelling, Media Organizing, and Social Justice” – April 20-22, 2018, Bethlehem, PA, US (PROPOSAL DEADLINE: Nov 15, 2017)
- “Gathering Diversities” – annual meeting of the Canadian Historical Association, May 28-30, 2018, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada (PROPOSAL DEADLINE: Nov 1, 2017)
LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES
- Historic Wood Window Restoration, Identification, and Maintenance half-day workshop at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Center for the Humanities (MARCH) – Sept 23, 2017, Haddonfield, NJ, US
- “Creating Exhibitions Through the Collective” and “Assessing Risk to Cultural Property” online courses – Oct 2, 2017, MuseumStudy.com
- Reinventing the Historic House Museum workshop from AASLH – Oct 5, 2017, Kansas City, MO, US
- “What Funders Want: A Workshop for History Organizations” – Oct 10, 2017, Morristown, NJ, US
PUBLICATIONS
- New book from Oxford University Press: The Oxford Handbook of Public History (ed. Gardner and Hamilton)
- New book from MuseumsEtc: The Museum Blog Book
- Review of Malinche, Pocahontas, and Sacagawea: Indian Women as Cultural Intermediaries and National Symbols (Kay Jager)
- Review of Remembering 1916: The Easter Rising, the Somme and the Politics of Memory in Ireland (Grayson and McGarry)
- Review of The Papers of the Revolutionary Era Pinckney Statesmen Digital Edition, vol. 1: Revolutionary War & Early Republic (1770-1792) (ed. Schulz)
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