Around the Field August 21, 2024

21 August 2024 – NCPH Office

From Around the Field this week:

Imagining America begins searching for their next home institution, the National Humanities Center opens residential fellowship applications, and the Lepage Center is now accepting applicants for the Labor in Historical Perspective Grant.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

• Imagining America: Artists & Scholars in Public Life has begun a two-year long search for their next campus home, institutions are called to submit a letter of interest by January 15, 2025
• The Council of State Archivists has announced the winners of several awards for the 2024 season, who will be thanked at the CoSA Annual Conference in St. Louis, Missouri, US from September 18-20, 2024

AWARDS AND FUNDING

• Applications for the Massachusetts 250 Grant Program, recently announced by the Massachusetts Office of Travel and Tourism to support state-based interpretation and programming on the American Revolution, are due August 26, 2024
• The American Council of Learned Societies is now accepting nominations for the Open Access Book Prize and the Arcadia Open Access Publishing Award Competition, with submissions due September 10, 2024
• The Organization of American Historians is accepting submissions for the 2025 award cycle, to be honored at their annual meeting in Chicago from April 3-6, 2025, with most submissions due October 1, 2024
• The National Humanities Center opens applications for 2025-26 residential fellowship program, due October 3, 2024
• The Lepage Center is funding over five grants of $5,000 as part of the Labor in Historical Perspective Grant, deadline to apply is October 14, 2024
• The Library of Congress Kluge Center is now accepting nominations for eight chair seats at the Kluge Center, deadline to nominate is October 18, 2024

CONFERENCES AND CALLS

• The International Federation for Public History will host their 2024 World Conference in Belval, Luxembourg, September 3-7, 2024
• The American Association for State and Local History will host their 2024 conference, Doing History, in Mobile, Alabama, US, September 11-14, 2024
• Registration is now open for the Association of Public Historians of New York State’s 2024 Conference in Port Jefferson, New York, US from September 16-18, 2024
• The Midwest World History Association will hold their 2024 conference, Coming Together and Breaking Apart: Teaching and Scholarship on Contradictions, in Romeoville, Illinois, US, September 27-28, 2024
• The Slave Dwelling Project will host their conference, The Illusion of Freedom: Slavery in the Northern States, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US, October 3-5, 2024. Registration now open.
• The American Journalism Historians Association calls for papers and panels for their 2024 conference to be held in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, US, October 3-5, 2024
• The 2024 Ohio Valley History Conference will be held at Austin Peay State University in Clarksville, Tennessee, US, from October 3-5, 2024. Contact Professor Dzavid Dzanic for more information.
• NCPH will hold a mini-con, Condition Report: The State of Public History in the South, in Lafayette, Louisiana, US, from October 5-6, 2024
• NCPH’s CampingCon 2024 will be held in the Gila National Wilderness, Mimbres, New Mexico, US, October 10-12, 2024
• The Southern Historical Association will host their 2024 Conference in Kansas City, Missouri, US, October 24-27, 2024
• The New England Historical Association will hold their 2024 Conference at Suffolk University in Boston, Massachusetts, US, October 26, 2024
• The National Trust for Historic Preservation will hold their Past Forward conference in New Orleans, Louisiana, US from October 28-30, 2024
• The Oral History Association will host their 2024 annual meeting, Oral History: Bridging Past, Present, and Future, in Cincinnati, Ohio, US, October 30 – November 2, 2024. Registration now open
• The Federation of State Humanities Councils, Rhode Island Humanities, and the National Humanities Alliance will host the National Humanities Conference 2024, Making Waves, Navigating Currents of Change, in Providence, Rhode Island, US, November 13-17, 2024. Registration is now open
• The American Philatelic Society calls for papers for the 2024 Postal History Symposium, The Universal Postal Union: Connecting the World by Mail, to be held in Bellefonte, Pennsylvania, US, November 15-16, 2024
• The American Historical Association will host their 2025 annual conference in New York City, New York, US, January 3-6, 2025
• Park University and the State Historical Society of Missouri will host the 2025 Missouri Conference on History from March 12-14 in Blue Springs, Missouri, US. Paper proposals are due November 1, 2024
• The Society for Applied Anthropology calls for proposals for their 2025 annual meeting, Revitalizing Applied Anthropology, to be held in Portland, Oregon, US, March 25-29, 2025 (proposals due by October 15, 2024)
• NCPH calls for posters for their 2025 conference, Solidarity | Solidarité, to be held in Montréal, Québec, Canada, March 26-29, 2025
• The Midwestern Archives Conference will hold its 2025 annual meeting, Serving It Up, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, US, from April 10-12, 2025.
• Seattle University calls for abstracts for a conference, Race, Racialization, and Resistance: Curriculum, Pedagogy, and Humanities, to be held in Seattle, Washington, US, April 25-27, 2025 (call ends on September 22, 2024)

LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES 

• The National Park Service is hosting office hours for those with questions about the “History & Hope for Climate Action: An Interpretive Toolkit” on August 26, 2024 and September 12, 2024.
• The National Trust for Historic Preservation is holding a webinar, “From Endangered Place to Community Asset: Updates on Three ’11 Most Endangered’ Historic Places,” on August 28, 2024
• The American Historical Association will host their Regional Conference on Introductory History Courses at Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan, US, September 20-21, 2024 and at Texas State University in San Marcos, Texas, US, October 4-5, 2024

PUBLICATIONS   

• The American Association for State and Local History has published the fourth edition of Museums in Motion: An Introduction to the Histories, Functions, and Aspirations of Museums by Juilee Decker
• The Public Historian calls for proposals for a special issue on Labor and Public History, deadline for submissions is September 1, 2024
• Public Humanities calls for author submissions for a special How-To Issue due September 1, 2024
• Sarah Marsom calls current students and recent graduates of historic preservation and cultural studies to submit work to the Dismantle Preservation Zine, submissions due September 15, 2024
• Ismael Biyashev and Vyta Pivo are accepting abstracts for the symposium From Glory to…Grave?: ‘Dead Cities’ throughout Time and Space, due September 15, 2024. Email [email protected] to submit a 500 word abstract and a short bio
• American Archivist calls for articles for a special section on archival accessioning, proposals are due by October 1, 2024
• California History calls for papers for a special issue, American Revolutions in California, deadline for proposals is December 15, 2024
• The Association for Gravestone Studies calls for submissions for its 2026 peer-reviewed Markers:  Annual Journal of the Association for Gravestone Studies due November 1, 2024.
• The Public Historian calls for proposals for a special issue, Public History as Resistance: The Evolution of Black Museums, Historically Black Colleges, and Universities (HBCUs), and Cultural Spaces, deadline for submissions is December 31, 2024
• Fwd: Museums seeks submissions for their 2025 issue, Guide: {…}, by January 5, 2025
• Federal History and the Society for History in the Federal Government opens submissions for its 2026 issue, due March 30, 2025