Around the Field February 20, 2019

20 February 2019 – editors

From around the field this week: New legislation was signed that creates an archives for civil rights cold cases; proposals for the 2019 Mount Vernon symposium are due this Friday; applications are due on February 28 for NEH’s latest Sustaining DH Institute

ANNOUNCEMENTS

• Last month, the “Civil Rights Cold Case Records Collection Act” was signed into law, allowing for the creation of an archive for unsolved civil rights cases.

AWARDS and FUNDING

• Diversity Workshop Fellowship and New Professional Workshop Scholarship – American Association for State and Local History – applications due March 1, 2019
• 2019 Buchanan Burnham Summer Scholars in Public History – Newport Historical Society – applications due March 1, 2019

CONFERENCES and CALLS

• “‘Fashionable above two thousand years’: Classical Art and Architecture of the Founding Era, 1760-1810” – The 2019 Mount Vernon Symposium – May 31-June 2, 2019, Mount Vernon, VA, US (proposals due Feb 22, 2019)
• 2019 America’s 11 Most Endangered Historic Places – National Trust for Historic Preservation – nominations due March 4, 2019
• The Museum Innovation Forum – May 18, 2019, New Orleans, LA, US (proposals due March 15)
• Contrary to the Law of Nature: The Missouri Crisis & Politics of Slavery – King Manor Museum – March 22, 2019, New York, NY, US (registration now open)

LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES

• “Web Archiving: What, Why, and How” – American Association for State and Local History – Feb 28, 2019, webinar (registration now open)
• “Sustaining DH” – A National Endowment for the Humanities Institute – April 4-5, 2019, Providence, RI, US (applications due Feb 28, 2019)
• Chicago Summer School – Victorian Society in America – June 13-18, 2019, Chicago, IL, US (applications due March 1, 2019)
• “Slavery in the Colonial North” – NEH Teachers’ Institute 2019 – July 14-20, 2019, Sleepy Hollow, NY, US (applications due March 1, 2019)
• Hoosier Women in the Arts Wikipedia Edit-a-thon – Indiana Historical Bureau – March 1, 2019, Indianapolis, IN, US (registration now open)

PUBLICATIONS

• Recently published by Routledge – Taylor and Francis Group: Museum Activism (Janes and Sandell), The Living History Anthology: Perspectives from ALHFAM (Katz-Hyman, Jones, McCabe, and Seelhorst), Disaster Management for Libraries and Archives (Matthews and Feather)

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