Around the Field December 12, 2018
12 December 2018 – editors
From around the field this week: registration is now open for the Small Museum Association’s February conference; send in applications by New Year’s Eve to be considered for the Mount Vernon fellowships; tune-in next Wednesday for the Preservation Leadership Forum’s free webinar on finding grant money.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
- The National Humanities Alliance is hosting its Advocacy Day in Washington, DC this March – register here
AWARDS and FUNDING
- 2019 J. Franklin Jameson Archival Advocacy Award – Society of American Archivists – applications due Feb 28, 2019
- Postdoctoral Partnership Initiative – American Council of Learned Societies – applications reviewed on a rolling basis
- 2018-2019 Fellowship Program – The Fred W. Smith National Library for the Study of George Washington at Mount Vernon – applications due Dec 31, 2018
- Accelerating Promising Practices for Small Libraries – Institute of Museum and Library Services – applications due Feb 25, 2019
- African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund – National Trust for Historic Preservation – letters of intent due Jan 15, 2019
- Rubenstein Library Grants & Fellowships – Duke University Libraries – applications due Jan 31, 2019
CONFERENCES and CALLS
- “Changing the Narrative” – California Association of Museums – Feb 7-9, 2019, San Francisco, California, US (pre-registration ends Jan 23, 2019)
- “Telling the Stories of Science” – History of Science Society – July 23-27, 2019, Utrecht, Netherlands (proposals due Jan 7, 2019)
- 2019 Spring Conference – Ohio Academy of History – March 22-23, 2019, Middletown, Ohio, US (proposals due Dec 15, 2018)
- “What’s In It for Me?” – New England Museum Association – Nov 6-8, 2019, Burlington, Vermont, US (proposals due Feb 28, 2019)
- “Catch Me If You Can: Museum Leadership Flying into the 21st Century” – Small Museum Association – Feb 17-19, 2019, College Park, Maryland, US (registration open now)
- “Building Museums” – Mid-Atlantic Association of Museums – Feb 27-March 1, 2019, New York, New York, US (registration opens Dec 14, 2018)
LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES
- “Finding Funding: The National Trust Grants Program” – Preservation Leadership Forum (National Trust for Historic Preservation) – Dec 19, 2018, free webinar (registration now open)
- “Leadership and Administration for History Organizations” – American Association for State and Local History (AASLH) – Feb 4-March 29, 2019, online course (registration ends Jan 28, 2019)
- 2019 Summer Programs – National Endowment for the Humanities – scholarships available (applications due March 1, 2019)
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