Around the Field May 1, 2019
01 May 2019 – editors
From around the field this week: Registration for inaugural Chesapeake Studies Conference closes at the end of the month; check out CAM’s free webinar on succession planning tomorrow; make sure to look through the latest offerings from Michigan State University Press
AWARDS and FUNDING
- Secretary’s Award for Excellence in Sustainability – California Association of Museums and California National Resources Agency – applications due May 17, 2019
CONFERENCES and CALLS
- “Landscapes of Succession” – 40th Annual Conference of the Vernacular Architecture Forum – May 29-June 1, 2019, Philadelphia, PA, US (registration closes May 10, 2019)
- “Casting a Wide Net” – Chesapeake Studies Conference – June 5-7, 2019, Salisbury, MD, US (registration closes May 28, 2019)
- “Community: Public, Private, Patron, and Spectator” – Art School Graduate Organization at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill – Sept 7, 2019, Chapel Hill, NC, US (proposals due May 31, 2019)
- “Public History: Institutions, Actors, and Practices” – AUC Studia Territorialia – Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic (abstracts due May 31, 2019)
- “Museums Different” – Council for Museum Anthropology’s 2nd Biennial Conference – Sept 19-21, 2019, Santa Fe, NM, US (proposals due June 1, 2019)
- “New Jersey Women Make History” – 2019 New Jersey History Conference – Nov 1, 2019, New Brunswick, NJ, US (proposals due June 17, 2019)
LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES
- The Essentials of Succession Planning – California Association of Museums – May 2, 2019, free webinar (registration now open)
- Cleaning Historic Interiors on a Budget for Beginners – Mid-Atlantic Regional Center for the Humanities – May 10 and 17, 2019, Flemington, NJ, US (registration now open)
- Historical Archaeology Field Institute – George Washington University – May 20-24 and May 28-June 1, 2019, Alexandria, VA, US (registration open now)
- Program in New England Studies – Historic New England – June 17-21, 2019, various sites in the New England region, US (registration now open)
- Finding Your Way through Interpretive Planning – New England Museum Association – May 10, 2019, Salem, MA, US (registration closes May 3, 2019)
PUBLICATIONS
- Soon to be published by Michigan State University Press: Mémoires of Michilimackinac and the Pays d’en Haut: Indians and French in the Upper Great Lakes at the Turn of the Eighteenth Century (Brandão), National Rhetorics in the Syrian Immigration Crisis: Victims, Frauds, and Floods (Rountree and Tilli), Settler City Limits: Indigenous Resurgence and Colonial Violence in the Urban Prairie West (Dorries, Henry, Hugill, McCreary, and Tomiak)
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