Around the Field July 22, 2020

22 July 2020 – NCPH Office

From around the field this week: NCPH extends our proposal deadline for the 2021 Annual Meeting; the International Federation for Public History moves their annual conference, which includes more than 350 public historian presenters from 50 different countries, to next year due to the covid-19 pandemic; artEquity continues a webinar series for BIPOC.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

• The Association of African American Museums (AAAM) launches a series of hashtags and a social media frame for Facebook profile pictures to raise awareness about their upcoming annual conference
• The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded $1 million in CARES Act grants to university presses

AWARDS and FUNDING

• The deadline for applications to the American Council of Learned Societies’ (ACLS’s) “ACLS Leading Edge Fellowship” is July 31, 2020
• Draft deadline for the National Historical Publications & Records Commission’s “Access to Historical Records: Archival Projects” grant is August 10, 2020

CONFERENCES AND CALLS

• The Texas Association of Museums calls for proposals for their 2021 Annual Meeting in San Antonio, Texas, on April 10-13, 2021 (deadline is July 24, 2020)
• The Association of African American Museums hosts their 2020 Annual Conference virtually on August 5-7, 2020
• Cynthia E. Chin (The Washington Library) and Philippe Halbert (Yale University) co-convene “Materializing Race: An ‘Unconference’ on Objects and Identity in #VastEarlyAmerica” virtually on August 24-25, 2020 (proposals due August 1, 2020)
• NCPH has extended our deadline for topic proposals for the 2021 Annual Meeting to August 15, 2020
• The American Association for State and Local History will hold their 2020 Annual Meeting virtually on September 24-30, 2020
• The Rural Women’s Study Association extended the deadline for proposals for their 2021 virtual conference on May 11-15, 2021 (deadline is September 30, 2020)
• The New England Museum Association (NEMA) will hold their 2020 NEMA Virtual Conference on November 16-20, 2020
• The International Federation for Public History moves their 6th Annual World Conference for Public History date to August 17-21, 2021 in Berlin, Germany

LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES

• The Northeast Document Conservation Center continues their webinar series with “Disaster Planning for Extended Closures” on July 23, 2020
• artEquity hosts “Black, Indigenous, People of Color Surviving Predominantly White Institutions” virtual sessions for BIPOC every Friday from July 17 to August 9, 2020
• Summer workshop series on “Anti-Oppression and Oral History” from the Oral History Association on July 25, August 7, August 13, August 22, and August 27, 2020
• The National Humanities Alliance holds a webinar on “Making the Case for Studying the Humanities in a Time of Crisis: The View from the Dean’s Office” on July 28, 2020
• The International Coalition of Sites of Conscience hosts “Real Fake News: On Democracy and Media in Crises” webinar on July 30, 2020
• The American Alliance of Museums holds a webinar on “How You Can Support Sustainability at Your Museum” on August 13, 2020
• Registration is open for Teaching American History’s “Fall 2020: Enduring Questions about America” Saturday webinar series starting August 22, 2020
• LYRASIS and CollectionSpace continue their Community Collections Spotlight webinar series with “Using CollectionSpace and Mukurtu to support and share NAGPRA-eligible collections” on September 30, 2020
• The Smithsonian recorded a workshop on “Adding Women in Science to Wikipedia” and calls for edits to Wikipedia articles on important women in the history of science (webinar took place on June 25, 2020)

PUBLICATIONS

• The American Alliance of Museums extended their deadline for the “Museum Publications Design Competition” to July 30, 2020
• Jacob A. C. Remes calls for paper proposals on “History Approaches to Covid-19” to be published in November and December, 2020 (deadline is August 10, 2020)
• Change Over Time: An International Journal of Conservation and the Built Environment calls for abstracts for their next issue “Legacies of Detention, Isolation, and Quarantine” by September 15, 2020
• Cambridge Scholars Publishing calls for proposal submissions on topics associated with Library and Information Sciences in particular

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