Around the Field June 6, 2018

06 June 2018 – editors

From around the field this week: Topic proposals for the 2019 NCPH Annual Meeting are now available for comment; Funding is available the 2018 International Conference of Indigenous Archives, Libraries, and Museums; The Oral History Center is offering an Advanced Oral History Summer Institute (Aug 6-10); Twenty-four articles from The Public Historian are available free for the rest of the year; Berghahn is releasing several new books in the “Making Sense of History Series”

ANNOUNCEMENTS

• NCPH invites your comments by July 1 on the topic proposals submitted for the 2019 NCPH Annual Meeting
• The Black Midwest Initiative launched a new website
• The National Park Service (NPS) has made available over 32,000 NPS records on a new website

AWARDS and FUNDING

• Applications for The Bush Foundation Scholarship to the 2018 International Conference of Indigenous Archives, Libraries, and Museums are due by June 21, 2018
• The UCLA Luskin Center for History and Policy seeks proposals for grant money to support research at the intersection of history and policy – proposals are due June 15, 2018
• Funding available for the 2018 American Association for State and Local History Annual Meeting – Small Museum Scholarship (Deadline June 20), The Douglas Evelyn Scholarship for Diversity (Deadline July 1), and Diversity Scholarships (Deadline July 1)
• Fulbright US Scholar Program invites applications for postdoctoral and early career awards – applications are due Aug 1, 2018
• Deadline Extended! Submissions for the National Endowment for the Humanities Public Humanities Project grants are now due Aug 15, 2018

CONFERENCES and CALLS

• 2018 International Conference of Indigenous Archives, Libraries, and Museums – Oct 8-11, Prior Lake, MN, US
• The Southern Historian seeks manuscripts by graduate students focusing on the history and culture of the American South – submissions due August 15, 2018
• Design History Society 2018: Design and Displacement – September 6-8, 2018, New York, NY, US
• Investigation Mid-Atlantic Plantations: Slavery, Economies, and Space – Oct 17-19, 2019, Philadelphia, PA, US (Submissions due Sept 15, 2018)

LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES

• Young Historians Institute course from the National Museum of African American History and Culture – June 25-29, Washington, DC, US
• Advanced Oral History Summer Institute from the Oral History Center – Aug 6-10, 2018, Berkeley, CA, US
• Collections Care Training series of workshops from the Conservation Center for Art & Historic Artifacts – various days June through November and various locations in Pennsylvania
• Collections management online course from AASLH – July 9-Sept 3 (Registration deadline June 25)
• Breaking Down Borders Through International Collaboration: Cuban Repositories and US Institutions webinar – June 14, 2018
• Teaching with Primary Sources Unconference and Workshops – August 14, 2018, Washington, DC, US

PUBLICATIONS

• In celebration of The Public Historian’s 40th anniversary, twenty-four of the most significant, enduring, and widely read essays are available for free online through the end of 2018
• Published this month and next as part of the Berghahn “Making Sense of History Series”: Empathy and History: Historical Understanding in Re-enactment, Hermeneutics and Education (Retz); The Ethos of History: Time and Responsibility (ed. Helgesson and Svenungsson); History and Belonging: Representations of the Past in Contemporary European Politics (ed. Berger and Tekin)

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