Around the Field, December 18, 2019

18 December 2019 – NCPH Office

From around the field this week: The Climate Heritage Network announces action plan; the Society of Architectural Historians and the Historic American Buildings Survey are accepting fellowship applications; AASLH offering live webinars in January; and Theory and Practice is accepting papers for Summer volume.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

• The National Endowment for the Humanities and the Whiting Foundation support Clio, a free mobile app to share knowledge about local historic and cultural sites
• The Climate Heritage Network announces action plan to help mobilize arts, culture, and heritage for climate action

AWARDS and FUNDING

• The Society of Architectural Historians and the Historic American Buildings Survey are accepting applications for the Sally Kress Tompkins Fellowship (applications due December 31, 2019)

CONFERENCES and CALLS

• 36^th Annual Small Museum Association Conference – February 16-18, 2020, College park, Maryland, US
• Call for Papers: 4^th National Conference of the Italian Association of Public History – May 29-June 2, 2020, Venice, Italy (proposals due December 20, 2019)
• Call for Proposals: Sixth Annual Midwestern History Conference – May 12-13, 2020, Grand Rapids, Michigan, US (proposals due January 3, 2020)
• Call for Papers: The Richard Macksey National Undergraduate Humanities Research Symposium, April 3-4, 2020, Baltimore, Maryland, US (abstracts due January 24, 2020)
• Call for Proposals: West Virginia Historic Preservation Conference – April 30-May 2, 2020, Mercer County, West Virginia, US (proposals due January 24, 2020)
• Call for Proposals: Humanities Education and Research Association Conference – March 4-7, 2020, Chicago, Illinois, US (proposals due January 25, 2020)

LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES

• The American Association for State and Local History is offering a variety of live webinars in January and February
• The Texas Historical Commission is hosting a webinar, “Neurodiversity in Museums: Crafting Community for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder,” on January 15, 2020
• The UC Berkeley Oral History Center is offering an Introduction to Oral History Workshop on February 29, 2020
• The Virginia Association of Museums is offering a workshop, “Prepare for the Unexpected & Keep Operating During a Disaster,” on April 6, 2020
• MuseumDev offering 4-week courses for museum professionals

PUBLICATIONS

• Exhibition, a journal of exhibition theory and practice for museum professionals, is accepting papers for its Fall 2020 issue (submissions due January 8, 2020)
• Theory and Practice: The Emerging Museum Professionals Journal is accepting papers for its Summer volume (submissions due January 20, 2020)

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