Around the Field September 27, 2017
27 September 2017 – editors
From around the field this week: Apply for an AASLH mini-grant for hurricane assistance by October 10; sign up for Wikipedia Edit-a-Thons in Indiana and across Canada; deadlines are imminent or approaching for conferences in Illinois, Virginia, California, and Granada, Spain; Register for next month’s Design for Diversity opening forum at Northeastern University; Rowman & Littlefield’s Interpreting History series is releasing a new title this week, Interpreting the Civil War at Museums and Historic Sites.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
- “Radical Roots of Public History: Social Justice Activism Within the Historical Landscape” talk at Rutgers University Newark – Oct 5, 2017, Newark, NJ, US
- Design for Diversity Opening Forum at Northeastern University – Oct 16-17, 2017, Boston, MA, US
- Canada-wide History Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon – Oct 18, 2017, various locations, Canada
- Hoosier Women in STEM Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon with Indiana Humanities – Oct 21, 2017, Indianapolis, IN, USA
- Becoming American public program seeks participating institutions (Deadline to apply: Dec 1, 2017)
- New book series from AASLH: Exploring the Stories of America’s Historic Treasures
- “Radical Transparency: A Museums & Digital Salary Study” survey
AWARDS and FUNDING
- AASLH Hurricane Cultural Relief Fund mini-grants available (DEADLINE: Oct 10, 2017)
- American Latino Experience Pre-Doctoral Fellowships at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History (DEADLINE: Oct 15, 2017)
CONFERENCES and CALLS
- Loyola History Graduate Student Association conference – Nov 18, 2017, Chicago, IL, US (POSTER PROPOSAL DEADLINE: Oct 27, 2017)
- ‘Pure Michigan’: Environmental Histories of the Great Lakes State – Call for Papers for special issue of Michigan Historical Review (PROPOSAL DEADLINE: Dec 1, 2017)
- Current Research in Digital History meeting hosted by the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media – March 17, 2018, Arlington, VA, US (SUBMISSION DEADLINE: Sept 29, 2017)
- Western Association of Women Historians 50th annual meeting – April 26-28, 2018, Davis, CA, US (PROPOSAL DEADLINE: Oct 15, 2017)
- World History Association/Midwest World History Association joint conference – June 21-23, 2018, Milwaukee, WI, US (PROPOSAL DEADLINE: Nov 30, 2017)
- 11th International Conference on the Inclusive Museum – Sept 6-8, 2018, Granada, Spain (PROPOSAL DEADLINE: Oct 6, 2017)
LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES
- Storage for Museum Collections and Copyright and Intellectual Property 101 for Museums online classes beginning in October
- “Understanding Photographic & Graphic Arts Materials” online course – Oct 2, 2017, MuseumStudy.com
- New England Heritage Education Summit hosted by the Archaeological Institute of America – Oct 13, 2017, Boston, MA, US
- Oral History Jukebox Workshop at the American Historical Association annual meeting – Jan 6, 2018, Washington, DC, US (APPLY TO PRESENT by Nov 1, 2017; REGISTER by Dec 15, 2017 for discounted rate)
PUBLICATIONS
- New book from Rowman & Littlefield: Interpreting the Civil War at Museums and Historic Sites (Levin)
- New virtual issue of The Oral History Review
- Review of The Power of Objects in Eighteenth-Century British America (Van Horn)
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