Around the Field August 21, 2019
21 August 2019 – NCPH Office
From around the field this week: NCPH and SHFG to host a joint networking event; applications for 2020 Fitch Fellowship for historic preservation open; Canadian Historical Association accepting proposals for 2020 conference; AASLH releases schedule of Fall education events; The New Press to release new edition of Lies Across America.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
- National Council on Public History and Society for History in the Federal Government to host an after work networking event on September 10, 2019.
AWARDS and FUNDING
- Ohio History Fund Grant applications due September 4, 2019
- Long- and short-term fellowships available at The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens
- Applications for 2020 Fitch Mid-Career Fellowship for historic preservation are now being accepted (submissions due October 16, 2019)
- The Organization of American Historians has updated their 2020 Award and Prize information
- Application for the NEH & PEASES Post-Doctoral fellowship at The Library Company of Philadelphia due November 1, 2019
CONFERENCES and CALLS
- Call for Papers: 99th annual meeting of the Canadian Historical Association – June 1-3, 2020 (proposals due October 15, 2019)
- Call for Papers: Plantations and their Afterlives Symposium – April 1-3, 2020, University of Lisbon (proposals due October 1, 2019)
- “Access and Identity: Leading for the Future” Museum Institute hosted by the Museum Association of New York – September 24-27, 2019
- Mountain-Plains Museum Association Annual Conference – September 22-25, 2019, Albuquerque, New Mexico
- Joint conference of the Association of Midwest Museums and Michigan Museums Association – October 2-5, 2019, Grand Rapids, Michigan
LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES
- Registration for Fall 2019 continuing education programs from the American Association for State and Local History is now open
- Mid-Atlantic Regional Center for the Humanities (MARCH) at Rutgers University-Camden releases schedule of Fall 2019 courses and workshops in historic preservation
PUBLICATIONS
- The New Press is releasing revised edition of Lies Across America: What Our Historic Sites Get Wrong (Loewen)
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