Around the Field August 7, 2024

07 August 2024 – NCPH Office

From Around the Field this week:

Multiple publications, including Public Humanities’ “How-To Issue” and the Annual Journal of the Association for Gravestone Studies, call for paper submissions and registration opens for the 2024 National Humanities Conference in Rhode Island, US.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

• Opportunity for Comment: The National Archives requests feedback for their updated bulletin on security classification metadata and transference, originally published in 2015. Feedback, questions, and comments should be sent by August 16, 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

CONFERENCES AND CALLS

• Latinos in Heritage Conservation will hold their annual conference, Congreso 2024, in San Diego, California, US, from August 8-10, 2024
• The Association of African American Museums will hold their 2024 conference, Acknowledging Legacy, Fostering Progress: Commemorating the 60th Anniversary of the Civil Rights Act, to be held in Baltimore, Maryland, US, August 13-16, 2023
• The Society of American Archivists will host Archives*Records 2024 in Chicago, Illinois, US, August 14-17, 2024
• 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, from October 5-6, 2024 in Lafayette, Louisiana, US 
• 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 NEHA 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. 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. Session proposals are due August 20, 2024 
• 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 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   

• Commonplace journal published k. kennedy Whiters’s review of the American Folk Art Museum’s exhibit, Unnamed Figures: Black Presence and Absence in the Early American North   
• Alison Rose Jefferson and Catherine Gudis published an opinion piece on the renaming of Pershing Square in Los Angeles to better recognize Black Angelenos for the Los Angeles Times
• react/review calls for papers for a special issue, “From Ephemeral to Obsolete: The Vanishing Historical Object,” deadline for proposals is August 9, 2024
• 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
• 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.
• Fwd: Museums seeks submissions for their 2025 issue, Guide: {…}, by January 5, 2025