Around the Field July 24, 2024

24 July 2024 – NCPH Office

From Around the Field this week:

The American Association for State and Local History opens registration for their virtual summit on models of history and museum interpretation, the Organization of American Historians accepts submissions for the 2025 award cycle, and the American Council of Learned Societies launches award competition honoring open access publishing.

AWARDS AND FUNDING

• The National Endowment for the Humanities is accepting applications for their Humanities Collections and Reference Resources grant until July 16, 2024
• Nominations are open for the Arline Custer Memorial Award, sponsored by the Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference, with submissions due July 31, 2024
• The American Council of Learned Societies is now accepting nominations for the Open Access Book Prize and the Arcadia Open Access Publishing Award Competition, with submissions due September 10, 2024
• The Organization of American Historians is accepting submissions for the 2025 award cycle, to be honored at their annual meeting in Chicago from April 3-6, 2025, with most submissions due October 1, 2024

CONFERENCES AND CALLS

• Latinos in Heritage Conservation will hold their annual conference, Congreso 2024, in San Diego, California, US, from August 8-10, 2024
• The Association of African American Museums will hold their 2024 conference, Acknowledging Legacy, Fostering Progress: Commemorating the 60th Anniversary of the Civil Rights Act, to be held in Baltimore, Maryland, US, August 13-16, 2023
• The Society of American Archivists will host Archives*Records 2024 in Chicago, Illinois, US, August 14-17, 2024
• The International Federation for Public History will host their 2024 World Conference in Belval, Luxembourg, September 3-7, 2024
• The American Association for State and Local History will host their 2024 conference, Doing History, in Mobile, Alabama, US, September 11-14, 2024
• The Midwest World History Association will hold their 2024 conference, Coming Together and Breaking Apart: Teaching and Scholarship on Contradictions, in Romeoville, Illinois, US, September 27-28, 2024
• The Slave Dwelling Project will host their conference, The Illusion of Freedom: Slavery in the Northern States, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US, October 3-5, 2024. Registration now open.
• The American Journalism Historians Association calls for papers and panels for their 2024 conference to be held in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, US, October 3-5, 2024
• The 2024 Ohio Valley History Conference will be held at Austin Peay State University in Clarksville, Tennessee, US, from October 3-5, 2024. Contact Professor Dzavid Dzanic for more information.
• NCPH calls for proposals for a mini-con, Condition Report: The State of Public History in the South, to be held October 5-6, 2024
• NCPH’s CampingCon 2024 will be held in the Gila National Wilderness, Mimbres, New Mexico, US, October 10-12, 2024
• The Southern Historical Association will host their 2024 Conference in Kansas City, Missouri, US, October 24-27, 2024
• The New England Historical Association will hold their 2024 NEHA Conference at Suffolk University in Boston, Massachusetts, US, October 26, 2024
• The National Trust for Historic Preservation will hold their Past Forward conference in New Orleans, Louisiana, US from October 28-30, 2024
• The Oral History Association will host their 2024 annual meeting, Oral History: Bridging Past, Present, and Future, in Cincinnati, Ohio, US, October 30 – November 2, 2024. Registration now open
• The Federation of State Humanities Councils and the National Humanities Alliance will host the National Humanities Conference 2024, Making Waves, Navigating Currents of Change, in Providence, Rhode Island, US, November 13-17, 2024
• The American Philatelic Society calls for papers for the 2024 Postal History Symposium, The Universal Postal Union: Connecting the World by Mail, to be held in Bellefonte, Pennsylvania, US, November 15-16, 2024
• The American Historical Association will host their 2025 annual conference in New York City, New York, US, January 3-6, 2025
• The Society for Applied Anthropology calls for proposals for their 2025 annual meeting, Revitalizing Applied Anthropology, to be held in Portland, Oregon, US, March 25-29, 2025 (proposals due by October 15, 2024)
• NCPH calls for posters for their 2025 conference, Solidarity | Solidarité, to be held in Montréal, Québec, Canada, March 26-29, 2025
• Seattle University calls for abstracts for a conference, Race, Racialization, and Resistance: Curriculum, Pedagogy, and Humanities, to be held in Seattle, Washington, US, April 25-27, 2025 (call ends on September 22, 2024)

LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES

• The National Park Service is hosting a webinar, “History & Hope for Climate Action: An Interpretive Toolkit,” on July 24, 2024
• The American Association for State and Local History’s Educators and Interpreters Committee is holding a virtual summit, Next Practices: Discussions on the Future of Interpretation, from August 6-7, 2024 
• Youth250 will be holding Imagine + Incubate Workshops in Atlanta, Indianapolis, Salt Lake City, and Philadelphia in August and September 2024, with various application deadlines between July 10 and July 26.
• The American Historical Association will host their Regional Conference on Introductory History Courses at Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan, US, September 20-21, 2024 and at Texas State University in San Marcos, Texas, US, October 4-5, 2024

PUBLICATIONS

• react/review calls for papers for a special issue, “From Ephemeral to Obsolete: The Vanishing Historical Object,” deadline for proposals is August 9, 2024
• The Public Historian calls for proposals for a special issue on Labor and Public History, deadline for submissions is September 1, 2024
• American Archivist calls for articles for a special section on archival accessioning, proposals are due by October 1, 2024
• Fwd: Museums seeks submissions for their 2025 issue, Guide: {…}, by January 5, 2025