Around the Field July 11, 2018

11 July 2018 – editors

From around the field this week: Session and workshop proposals for the 2019 NCPH Annual Meeting are due Sunday, July 15; applications for the Smithsonian’s Travel Research in Equity Collections (TREC) fellowships also due July 15; registration is now open for the Slave Dwelling Project conference; upcoming workshops on Charleston monuments aimed at a local teenage audience (July 12, 17, and 19); De Gruyter seeks online peer review on the text Public History and Schools by next week.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

• Two exciting humanities resources launched this week: an updated and final version of the American Historical Association’s Where Historians Work database and the National Humanities Alliance’s website Humanities for All.

AWARDS and FUNDING

• Travel Research in Equity Collections (TREC) short-term travel fellowships from the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History – Applications due July 15, 2018
• Organization of American Historians residential fellowships in Germany – Applications due Oct. 1, 2018
• 2019 Pauli Murray Book Prize from the African American Intellectual History Society – Applications due Oct. 1, 2018
• 2019/2020 Berlin Prizes for residential fellowships at the American Academy in Berlin – Applications due Oct. 5, 2018

CONFERENCES and CALLS

• “Repair Work” – NCPH 2019 Annual Meeting – March 27-30, 2019, Hartford, CT, US (Proposals due July 15, 2018)
• Oral History Association Call for Posters – Oct. 10-14, 2018, Montreal, Canada, US (Poster proposals due July 13, 2018)
• 5th Annual Slave Dwelling Project Conference – Oct. 24-27, 2018, Murfreesboro, TN, US (Registration now open)
• NASA in the South Symposium – March 28-29, 2019, Huntsville, AL, US

LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES

• “New MCEAS Undergraduate Summer Internships in Public History” summer seminar from the McNeil Center for Early American Studies – July 12, 2018, Philadelphia, PA, US
• Public workshops on Charleston monuments aimed at teens – July 12, 17, or 19, 2018, Charleston, SC, US
• Applying for NEH Media Projects Awards webinar from the National Endowment for the Humanities – July 16, 2018
• Preservation Planning and Environmental Management workshop – July 19, 2018, Pikeville, KY, US
• Speaking Through Objects workshop presented by the Shingwauk Residential Schools Centre – Aug. 4, 2018, Sault St Marie, Ontario, Canada
• Beginner webinar Podcasting for Museums and Historic Sites – Aug. 14, 2018

PUBLICATIONS

• De Gruyter’s text Public History and School is available online for open peer review through this week.

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