Around the Field August 25, 2021

25 August 2021 – NCPH Office

From Around the Field this week: The Institute of Museum and Library Sciences offers multiple grants; The Ad Hoc Group for Transformative Oral History Practice, in collaboration with the Oral History Association and the Oral History Center at UC Berkeley, calls for proposals for their symposium; Museum Mindshare offers virtual programs.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

• The National Park Service awarded $569,086 in grants to preservation projects working with American Indian Tribes and native Alaskan and Hawaiian communities.
• The Council of State Archives released their biennial survey of state archives and records management programs in the United States.
• The Oral History Association’s contract with Middle Tennessee State University will be over at the end of 2022, and they are searching for a new institution or organization to house its executive office.

AWARDS AND FUNDING

• The Albert Lepage Center for History in the Public Interest at Villanova University is accepting proposals for their Turning Points in History Grant, due August 31, 2021
• The State Historical Society of Missouri is accepting proposals for the 2022 Center for Missouri Studies Fellowships, due October 15, 2021
• The New England Museum Association is offering scholarship opportunities for their annual conference, due October 22, 2021
• The Institute of Museum and Library Services is offering six separate grants, all due November 15, 2021

CONFERENCES AND CALLS

• MuseumNext will virtually host their “Digital Collections Summit” October 4-6, 2021
• The International Society of Landscape, Place, and Material Culture calls for proposals for their annual conference, “Livin’ on Tulsa Time,” in Tulsa, Oklahoma, US, October 20-23, 2021 (deadline is September 15, 2021)
• The National Trust for Historic Preservation will virtually host their annual conference, “PastForward,” November 2-5, 2021
• The New England Museum Association will virtually host their annual conference, “Re/Create, Re/Charge, Re/Imagine,” November 15, 17, and 19, 2021
• The Smithsonian Afrofuturism Series calls for proposals for their virtual symposium, “Claiming Space: A Symposium on Black Futures – Past, Present, and Potential,” January 27-29, 2022 (deadline is September 10, 2021)
• The Small Museum Association calls for proposals for their annual conference, “Seizing the Moment: Opportunities for Radical Change,” in College Park, Maryland, US, February 20-22, 2022 (deadline is September 20, 2021)
• NCPH calls for poster proposals for our annual conference, “Crossroads,” in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, March 23-26, 2022 (deadline is October 4, 2021)
• The University of Nebraska-Lincoln Center for Great Plains Studies calls for proposals for their symposium, “Reckoning & Reconciliation on the Great Plains,” in Lincoln, Nebraska, US, April 6-8, 2022 (deadline is October 25, 2021)
• The Business History Conference calls for proposals for their annual meeting, “Business History in Times of Disruption: Embracing Complexity and Diversity,” in Mexico City, Mexico, April 7-9, 2022 (deadline is October 1, 2021)
• Organized by multiple international institutions, “Pandemics & the Changing Built Environment” calls for proposals for the conference in Istanbul, Turkey, April 28-30, 2022 (deadline is October 21, 2021)
• The Center for Cryptologic History and the National Cryptologic Foundation call for paper proposals for their “18th Cryptologic History Symposium” in Laurel, Maryland, US, May 11-13, 2022 (deadline is September 7, 2021)
• The Costume Society of America calls for submissions for their symposium, “Land of 10,000 Ideas: Innovation Through Dress,” in Minneapolis, Minnesota, US, May 24-29, 2022 (deadline is October 15, 2021)
• The Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History calls for papers for their “Queer History Conference 2022” in San Francisco, California, US, June 12-15, 2022 (deadline is November 1, 2021)
• The Ad Hoc Group for Transformative Oral History Practice, in collaboration with the Oral History Association and the Oral History Center at UC Berkeley, calls for proposals for their virtual symposium, “Assessing the Role of Race and Power in Oral History Theory and Practice,” June 2022 (deadline is October 1, 2021) 

LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES

• The National Preservation Institute is offering two on demand training courses, “Finding New Sources of Funding in Challenging Times: An Introduction” and “Section 106: The Meaning of Effects”
• The Texas Historical Commission is offering a virtual program, “Does Your Board Reflect Your Story and Your Audience?,” today, August 25, 2021
• Foundant for Grantseeks is offering an educational webinar, “The Impact of Evidence-Based Programming,” August 26, 2021
• The Museum Learning Hub is offering a virtual workshop, “Exhibition Design in Virtual Environments,” August 26, 2021
• The Organization of American Historians is hosting a virtual program, “Writing for the Public: How to get Started,” August 30, 2021
• Museum Mindshare is offering a virtual program, “Evaluation Share Out,” August 31, 2021
• The New England Museum Association is hosting a virtual lunch program, “Career Change and Considerations,” September 1, 2021
• The #SlaveryArchive Book Club is virtually discussing The Colored Conventions Movement: Black Organizing in the Nineteenth Century, edited by Gabrielle Foreman, Jim Casey, and Sarah Lynn Patterson, September 8, 2021
• The Albert Lepage Center for History in the Public is hosting a virtual event, “Turning Points in History with Dipesh Chakrabarty,” September 8, 2021
• The Texas Historical Commission is offering a virtual program, “Preparation is Key: Getting Started with Media Relations and Crisis Management,” September 29, 2021
• The Mid-America Arts Alliance is offering six Cultural Organization Strength Training meetings beginning in October 2021 (deadline is September 2, 2021)
• The New-York Historical Society and the Bonnie and Richard Reiss Graduate Institute for Constitutional History announced its fall seminar, “Constitutions in Conflict: Proslavery versus Antislavery,” held in New York, New York on multiple dates (deadline is September 15, 2021)
• The Museum Learning Hub is offering a virtual workshop, “Introduction to Podcasting for Museums,” September 16, 2021
• Museum Mindshare is offering a virtual program, “Audio Production Crash Course,” September 28, 2021
• Documentary Heritage and Preservation Services for New York is offering a virtual program, “Get a Move On: How to Relocate Collections,” September 29, 2021

PUBLICATIONS

• The National Historic Landmarks Program has released a new theme study, Civil Rights in America: Racial Discrimination in Housing by Matthew D. Lassiter and Susan Cianci Salvatore
• Routledge published three new books this summer, Experimental Museology: Institutions, Representations, Users edited by Marianne Achiam, Michael Haldrup, and Kirsten Drotner, Autoethnography for Librarians and Information Scientists edited by Ina Fourie, and Museum Innovation: Building More Equitable, Relevant and Impactful Museums edited by Haitham Eid and Melissa Forstrom
• New York History calls for paper submissions
• The White House History Quarterly calls for abstracts on a variety of topics
• The Coalition of Master’s Scholars on Material Culture calls for papers relating to the study of Material Culture
• The Museum Scholar calls for paper submissions from museum students and emerging professionals

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