Around the Field August 5, 2020

05 August 2020 – NCPH Office

From around the field this week: the Association of Midwest Museums accepts submissions for their awards program; the Southern Historical Association calls for proposals for their 87th Annual Meeting; The White House Historical Association continues their Facebook Live webinar series.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

• The Society for History in the Federal Government’s survey for the Public Education Project is open until August 15, 2020
• The Smithsonian, Library of Congress, and National Archives count down to the 100th anniversary of women’s suffrage with stories told through social media

AWARDS and FUNDING

• The deadline for nominations for the Association of Midwest Museums’ awards program is August 31, 2020
• Applications for the Ohio History Fund’s 2020-2021 grants are due October 1, 2020
• The submission deadline for the Organization of American Historians’ Stanton-Horton Award for Excellence in National Park Service History is December 1, 2020

CONFERENCES AND CALLS

• The International Research Conference calls for papers for their International Conference on Museum Studies and Public History in Rome, Italy, on October 18-19, 2021 (deadline is August 13, 2020)
• NCPH has extended our deadline for topic proposals for the 2021 Annual Meeting to August 15, 2020
• The DC History Center calls for paper proposals for their virtual DC History Conference, “Echoes,” on November 12-13, 2020 (deadline is August 31, 2020)
• The Southern Historical Association calls for proposals for their 87th Annual Meeting in New Orleans, Louisiana, on November 3-6, 2021 (deadline is September 15, 2020)
• Submissions for the Society for American Archaeology’s 86th Annual Meeting in San Francisco, California, on April 14-18, 2021 is now open

LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES

• The White House Historical Association hosts “The Turning Point: Parades, Protests, and the Women’s Suffrage Movement” as part of their Facebook Live series on August 11, 2020
• The Society of California Archivists holds their “Tell Us How UC It: Thinking Critically through a Living Archive for Student Activism” webinar on August 18, 2020
• The New-York Historical Society hosts virtual seminars on “Constitutional Norms, Constitutional Conflict, and Informal Constitutional Change” on select Fridays starting October 9, 2020
• The African American Heritage House offers a range of online learning opportunities, including their “2020 Chautauqua Speaker Series”

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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