Around the Field August 26, 2020

26 August 2020 – NCPH Office

From around the field this week: the National Endowment for the Humanities offers a “Humanities Connections” grant; the National Trust for Historic Preservation’s “PastForward 2020” conference comes soon; the Indiana Historical Society hosts a virtual talk on “Rethinking Redlining & Segregation.”

ANNOUNCEMENTS

• The National Endowment for the Humanities and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting posted the episodes of their UNLADYLIKE2020 short film series documenting the stories of little-known and extraordinary women at the turn of the 20th century
• Historian Brian J Griffith and his students created a digital anthology of the Interwar Crisis (1918-1939) which explores political, economic, social, and cultural upheavals Europe faced during the period
• The National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health request information and public comment for their strategic plan, “A Platform for Biomedical Discovery and Data-Powered Health”
• The Museum Studies Network and New York City Museum Educators Roundtable are gathering information on remote internship opportunities for Fall 2020

AWARDS AND FUNDING

• The deadline for the American Association for State and Local History’s 2020 annual meeting scholarships is today, August 26, 2020
• Applications for the National Endowment for the Humanities’ “Humanities Connections” grant are due September 30, 2020
• The deadline for the National Humanities Center’s “Residential Fellowship” applications is October 8, 2020
• The National Trust for Historic Preservation is accepting applications for their “Diversity Scholarship Program”

CONFERENCES AND CALLS

• The Medical Heritage Library calls for abstracts for their virtual “Medical Heritage Library Conference 2020” on November 13, 2020 (deadline is September 18, 2020)
• The National Trust for Historic Preservation’s virtual “PastForward 2020: National Preservation Conference” is on October 27-30, 2020
• The Myseum of Toronto calls for submissions for their “Myseum Intersections 2022″ festival in April 2022 (deadline is November 2, 2020)

LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES

• The Indiana Historical Society is hosting an online talk on “Rethinking Redlining & Segregation: Prologue to the COVID-19 Crisis” on August 27, 2020
• The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens is holding an online event, “Curatorial Dialogues: Black Ship Scrolls and Mary Queen of Scots’ Prayer Book,” on September 1, 2020
• The Costume Society of America is holding a live virtual oral history event, “Oral History: CSA Fellow Howard Kurtz,” on September 2, 2020
• The Society of California Archivists is hosting their “First Friday September” webinar on September 4, 2020

PUBLICATIONS

• The Journal of the Association of Historians of American Art calls for essays for their Spring 2021 issue, “Asian American Art: Past and Future” (abstract submission deadline is September 15, 2020)
• The Museum Scholar is now accepting submissions for manuscripts and multi-media works of interest to the museum community

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