Around the Field June 28, 2023

28 June 2023 – NCPH Office

From Around the Field this week: OAH Graduate Student Committee seeks participants for panel at OAH 2024; international guidelines for public history MA programs; ACLS grant application now open; the National Humanities Alliance is hosting two moderated deep-dive conversations on public humanities training (one is today!)

ANNOUNCEMENTS

• Group of international public historians prepare guidelines for creating public history MA programs
• Organization of American Historians’ Graduate Student Committee seeks participants for panel on diverse career opportunities at OAH 2024 in New Orleans. Email committee chair Andrew Gerstenberger at [email protected] by July 10 at 5 pm Eastern

AWARDS AND FUNDING

• Michigan Historical Review seeks essay submissions for its 2023 Graduate Student Essay Prize by July 1, 2023
• The Federation of State Humanities Councils and National Humanities Alliance are accepting applications for NHC Equitable Access Grants to the 2023 National Humanities Conference, due July 8, 2023
• The Maryland Historical Trust is accepting applications for the African American Heritage Preservation Program, due July 17, 2023
• The Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference is accepting submissions for the Arline Custer Memorial Award, due July 31, 2023
• The Lepage Center at Villanova University is accepting proposals for its “Cities in Historical Perspective” grants, due September 3, 2023
• American Counsel of Learned Societies announces 2023-2024 fellowships and grants, with applications due in September and October 2023
• Dan David Prize accepting nominations through October 11, 2023

CONFERENCES AND CALLS

• The Third Annual International Seminar in Historical Refugee Studies, “Historicizing the Refugee Experience, 17th-21st Centuries,” will be held in Duisburg, Germany, July 4-7, 2023
• The American Association for State and Local History will hold a virtual summit, “Sustainability, Relevance, and the Future of Historic House Museums,” July 11-12, 2023
• The Association of Midwest Museums and the Association of Indiana Museums will hold a joint conference, “Braking Point,” virtually, July 19, 2023, and in Indianapolis, Indiana, US, July 26-29, 2023
• The Association of African American Museums will hold their annual conference, “Museums, Music, and Movements,” in Nashville, Tennessee, US, July 26-28, 2023 (online registration available through July 16, 2023)
• The Society of American Archivists and Council of State Archivists will host their joint conference, “Archives*Records 2023,” hybrid and in Washington, DC, US, July 26-29, 2023
• The American Association for State and Local History opens registration for their annual conference, “I, Too, Am America,” in Boise, Idaho, US, September 6-9, 2023 (early bird registration  available through July 28, 2023)
• The Public History as the New Citizen Science of the past will hold an online, international conference on the long history of public historical practices in Europe, September 14-15, 2023
• The Oral History Association opens registration for their annual conference, “Oral History As/And Education: Teaching and Learning in the Classroom and Beyond,” in Baltimore, Maryland, US, October 18-21, 2023
• The American Alliance of Museums announces its inaugural fall virtual convening, Future of Museums Summit, November 1-2, 2023
• NCPH and the Utah Division of State History/Utah Historical Society call for proposals for their joint conference, “Historical Urgency,” in Salt Lake City, Utah, US, April 10-13, 2024 (deadline is July 15, 2023)

LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES

• National Humanities Alliance is hosting two moderated deep-dive conversations into public humanities training: Training for Insurgent Academics: Historicizing Current Trends in the Higher Ed Public Humanities with Roopika Risam on June 28, 2023 from 3:00 – 4:00 pm Eastern, and Approaches to Undergraduate Training in the Public Humanities with the Department of Public & Applied Humanities at the University of Arizona on July 18, 2023 from 1:00 – 2:00 pm Eastern
• The American Historical Association is accepting applications for an online Teacher Institute in World History to be held July 31-August 4, 2023 (application review begins June 15, deadline is June 29)

PUBLICATIONS

• Process calls for proposals and short papers for their upcoming series on the Korean War, submissions open late June through early July 2023
• Middle West Review has extended the deadline on proposals for a special issue dedicated to The Midwest Since 1965, due July 1, 2023
• White House History Quarterly seeks submissions on specific topics for upcoming issues
• Seeking chapter proposals for upcoming edited interdisciplinary volume Beyond Aesthetics and Exclusion: New Directions in Historic Preservation and Public History by August 1, 2023

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