Around the Field June 5, 2024

04 June 2024 – NCPH Office

From Around the Field this week: The Ohio Valley History Conference announces dates in early October,  the AHA challenges participants to a Summer Reading Challenge, AASLH calls for poster proposals, and the Utah Historical Society hosts a webinar on statewide markers and monuments.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

• The National Trust for Historic Preservation announces their “Welcome to America’s Chinatown” project
• The American Historical Association invites participants for their Summer Reading Challenge
• The American Association for State and Local History calls for proposals for an NCPH-sponsored poster session at their 2024 conference, deadline is June 24, 2024

AWARDS AND FUNDING

• The Disability History Association is accepting submissions for their Outstanding Article or Book Chapter Award through June 15, 2024
• The Coordinating Council for Women in History Annual Awards is accepting applications for six awards through June 15, 2024
• The American Association for State and Local History are accepting applications for their Annual Conference Fellowships and Scholarships by June 21, 2024
• The Western History Association is accepting applicants for their Louise Pubols Public History Prize, due on 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
• The National Endowment for the Humanities is accepting applications for their Humanities Collections and Reference Resources grant until July 16, 2024

CONFERENCES AND CALLS

• The Agricultural History Society will host their 2024 meeting, Borderlands, Marginal Spaces, and Agriculture In-Between, in Las Cruces, New Mexico, US, June 6-8, 2024
• The Howell Living History Farm will host the Association for Living History, Farm and Agricultural Museums’ annual meeting, Curating Living History: Preserving Skills and Intangible Culture, in Titusville, New Jersey, US, June 7-10, 2024
• The Committee on LGBT History will host their Queer History Conference 2024, at California State University, Fullerton in Fullerton, California, US, June 10-13, 2024
• The Oral History Association will host their AI in OH Virtual Symposium, featuring ten sessions scheduled for July 15-19, 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, to be held 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
• 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 (submissions due by June 1, 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
• 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 (proposals due by June 17, 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 our 2025 conference, Solidarity | Solidarité, to be held in Montréal, Québec, Canada, March 26-29, 2025 (proposals 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 Utah Historical Society discusses statewide markers and monument database as part of its free virtual Perspectives Speaker Series on June 12, 2024.
• The International Coalition of Sites of Conscience will host a virtual training session, “Dialogue in Difficult Times,” June 4-6, 2024 from 2:00 – 4:00 pm EST each day
• The Roger Williams University Public Humanities and Arts Collaborative will host an one-day conference, “(Re)Telling: Crafting New Stories of Race and Place in Southern New England,” in Providence, Rhode Island, US, June 7, 2024 from 9:00 am – 4:30 pm EST
• 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
• The American Library Association will host their 2024 Library History Round Table Online Research Forum, “Trouble, Trouble, Trouble,” on June 12, 2024 from 3:00 – 4:30 pm EST
• The National Funding Foundation will host their virtual Grant Proposal Writing Workshop on June 17, 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 at 3:00 pm EST
• 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

• Public Humanities invites submissions for an upcoming themed issue, “Historical Public Humanities,” through July 15, 2024
• 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