Around the Field June 10, 2020

10 June 2020 – NCPH Office

From around the field this week: the next webinar from the Preservation Leadership Forum on “Lessons from the Field” begins; The Society of Ohio Archivists’ annual conference kicks off; the International Coalitions of Sites of Conscience hosts a webinar on “Activism and Advocacy during the COVID pandemic.”

ANNOUNCEMENTS

• Connecticut Landmarks is hosting a Virtual Juneteenth Celebration on June 13, 2020
• Villanova University’s Lepage Center is hosting virtual lunches on June 24, July 8, July 22, August 5, and August 19, 2020
• The 2020 National Visitation Survey from AASLH is now open

AWARDS and FUNDING

• Applications for National Trust Preservation Funds June 2020 grant are due June 15, 2020
• Submission for the Arline Custer Memorial Award are due July 31, 2020

CONFERENCES AND CALLS

• The Society of Ohio Archivists is hosting their annual conference virtually June 16-17, 2020 (registration deadline June 14, 2020)
• The Emily Dickinson International Society calls for paper submissions for their 2020 Annual Meeting “Dickinson at a Distance” on July 31-August 1, 2020
• The Louisiana Folklife Center and Northwestern State University calls for paper submissions for the 12th Annual Louisiana Studies Conference on September 18-19, 2020 (deadline extended to July 1, 2020)

LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES

• Three-webinar series from the Preservation Leadership Forum include “Lessons from the Field” on June 11, 2020, “What Is Our ‘New Normal’ Like?” on June 17, 2020, and “Creating a Successful Case Statement” on June 24, 2020
• “Activism and advocacy during the COVID pandemic” webinar from the International Coalitions of Sites of Conscience on June 17, 2020
• Three-webinar series from the Ohio Local History Alliance: Digitization 101 on June 17, July 14, and August 18, 2020
• “Between Two Bookshelves: Humanities Organizations and the Covid-19 Pandemic” webinar from the National Humanities Alliance on June 24, 2020
• Workshop from Villanova University on “Teaching Nationalism in High School” on June 26-27, 2020
• “Gendered by Design” webinar from Ingenium on June 25, 2020

PUBLICATIONS

• New book by Clemson University professor Rhondda Robinson Thomas, Call My Name, Clemson: Documenting the Black Experiences in an American University Community, is set to be published this November
• Southern Cultures is calling for papers for a special issue, “Human/Nature,” by June 15, 2020

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