Around the Field April 25, 2018
25 April 2018 – editors
From around the field this week: Virginia Tech is hosting a V.E. Day Transcribe-a-Thon; Fort Negley is premiering their Fort Negley Descendents Project oral histories in Nashville this Saturday the 28th; nominations will be due soon for the AHA’s awards; several summer workshops and institutes are now accepting applications.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
- Premiere of Fort Negley Descendents Project oral histories – April 28, 2018, Nashville, TN, US
- Virginia Tech is hosting a V. E. Day Transcribe-a-Thon with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities – May 8, 2018, Blacksburg, VA, US (or participate remotely)
AWARDS and FUNDING
- The Landmark Society of New York seeks nominees for 2018 Preservation Awards from nine New York counties – nominations due by May 1, 2018
- The American Historical Association seeks nominations for their awards, including the Roy Rosenzweig Prize for Innovation in Digital History, the Hubert Feis Award for contributions to public history, awards for university and K-12 teaching, and equity awards – nominations due May 15, 2018
CONFERENCES and CALLS
- Encuentro 2018 – 2018 Latinos in Heritage Conservation & Rhode Island Statewide Historic Preservation Conference – April 26-28, 2018, Providence, RI, US
- “Telling (Untold) Histories” unconference – May 17, 2018, Newark, NJ, US
- NCPH Call for Poster Proposals for AASLH’s upcoming annual meeting open through June 10
LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES
- Britain at Work Oral Labour History Day symposium – June 2, 2018, London, England, UK
- AASLH Reinventing the Historic House Museum workshop – June 8, 2018, Delafield, WI, US
- The Center for Oral History at the Science History Institute is hosting week-long summer sessions of the Oral History Training Institute – June 4-8 and 11-15, 2018, Philadelphia, PA, US
- “Documenting the Past through Veterans’ Oral Histories” summer Teaching with Primary Sources institute from Maryland Humanities – July 9-13, 2018, Salisbury, MD, US
- 2019 Humanities Without Walls Predoctoral Career Diversity Summer Workshop – Applications due by September 30, 2018
PUBLICATIONS
- The Public Historian, along with all UC Press journals, is free to access in the month of April
- Published this month and next from Rowman and LIttlefield: Is Your Museum Grant-Ready? (Second Edition) (Sutton); The Historic District Action Guide (Schmickle); Leading Museums Today: Theory and Practice (Morris); Interpreting Immigration at Museums and Historic Sites (ed. Bailey)
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