Around the Field June 18, 2024

18 June 2024 – NCPH Office

From Around the Field this week: Juneteenth is celebrated throughout the United States, the National Endowment for the Humanities hosts an informational webinar for the Climate Smart Humanities Organizations Grant Program, and nominations open for the Disability Public History Award.

AWARDS AND FUNDING

• The American Association for State and Local History is accepting applications for their Annual Conference Fellowships and Scholarships by June 21, 2024
• The National Endowment for the Humanities is hosting a virtual webinar on Tuesday, June 25 for those looking to apply for the Climate Smart Humanities Organizations Grant Program
• The Western History Association is accepting applicants for their Louise Pubols Public History Prize, due by June 30, 2024
• The LGBTQ Religious Archives Network is inviting submissions for the LGBTQ-RAN Educational Resource Prize through June 30, 2024
• The History and Folklore Section of the American Folklore Society invite submissions for their Wayland D. Hand Prize through July 1, 2024
• Nominations for the Disability History Association’s Disability Public History Award are due July 15, 2024
• Applications for the 2024 NHC Equitable Access Grant are due July 15, 2024 for those traveling to the 2024 National Humanities Conference, Making Waves, Navigating Currents of Change
• 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

CONFERENCES AND CALLS

• The American Association for State and Local History calls for proposals for their NCPH-sponsored poster session at their 2024 conference, deadline is June 24, 2024
• Rochester History invites submissions to a forum on Blake McKelvey in honor of the 80th anniversary of the publication Rochester: The Water-Power City, 1812-1854. Proposals due July 15, 2024
• The Oral History Association will host their AI in OH Virtual Symposium, featuring ten sessions scheduled for July 15-19, 2024
• 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 calls for proposals for their 2024 conference, Coming Together and Breaking Apart: Teaching and Scholarship on Contradictions, to be held in Romeoville, Illinois, US, September 27-28, 2024 (call ends June 21, 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 in Lafayette, Louisiana, US, October 5-6, 2024 (proposals due by July 15, 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 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 papers for their 2025 conference, Solidarity | Solidarité, to be held in Montréal, Québec, Canada, March 26-29, 2025 (proposal deadline is July 15, 2024)
• 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 Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy will host a digital humanities workshop, “Archives as Data: An Institute for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities for Archivists and Historians,” at Columbia University in New York, New York, US, June 10-21, 2024
• Old Westbury Gardens will host a one-day conference, “What’s Cooking?: New Directions in Historic House Kitchens Conference,” in Old Westbury, New York, US, June 27, 2024
• The American Association for State and Local History will host a webinar, “Jingle All the Way: Maximizing Your Museum’s Holiday Potential,” on July 23, 2024
• 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