Around the Field May 10, 2023

09 May 2023 – NCPH Office

From Around the Field this week: The Association of African American Museums extends early-bird pricing; the DAR Museum calls for proposals; the American Swedish Historical Museum calls for proposals

ANNOUNCEMENTS

• Association of African American Museums extends early-bird pricing for “Museums, Music, and Movements” 2023 AAAM Conference, Nashville, Tennessee, US, July 26-28, 2023 through May 10

AWARDS AND FUNDING

• The Association of African American Museums is accepting applications for 2023 AAAM Conference Travel Scholarships, due May 11, 2023
• The National Endowment for the Humanities is accepting applications for the Public Impact Projects at Smaller Organizations grant program, due June 28, 2023

CONFERENCES AND CALLS

• The Midwestern History Conference, “Many Histories, One Midwest?,” will be held in Grand Rapids, Michigan, US, May 18-19, 2023
• Fort Ticonderoga will hold the Twenty-Seventh Annual War College of the Seven Years’ War in Ticonderoga, New York, US, May 19-21, 2023
• The Costume Society of America will hold their annual meeting, “Crossroads of Dress & Adornment: Creativity, Culture, & Collaboration,” in Salt Lake City, Utah, US, May 23-27, 2023
• The Society for History in the Federal Government will hold their annual meeting, “Federal History 2.0: Rethinking Methods and Approaches in the Wake of a Pandemic,” in Washington, DC, US, June 1-2, 2023
• The Massachusetts History Alliance will hold the 18th Annual Massachusetts History Conference in Devens, Massachusetts, US, June 5, 2023
• The Agricultural History Society will hold their annual meeting, “Agricultural Pasts of the Climate Crisis,” in Knoxville, Tennessee, US, June 8-10, 2023
• The Friends of New Jersey Heritage will hold their annual conference, “Fun and Fury,” in Atlantic City, New Jersey, US, June 12-13, 2023
• The Social Science Education Consortium will hold their annual conference, “Dismantling Spaces of Silence,” in Bellingham, Washington, US, June 21-25, 2023
• The Association for Documentary Editing will hold their annual meeting, “Modalities of Text and Editing,” in Washington, DC, US, June 22-25, 2023
• Historic Deerfield will hold the Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife, “Indigenous Histories in New England: Pastkeepers and Pastkeeping,” in Deerfield, Massachusetts, US, June 23-24, 2023
• The DAR Museum in Washington, DC calls for proposals for “Pleasing Truths: Framing Identity, A Symposium,” in Washington, DC, US, November 3, 2023 (deadline is May 19, 2023)
• The American Swedish Historical Museum calls for proposals for the Twenty-Second Biennial New Sweden History Conference, “Contested Spaces: Colonial and Indigenous Concepts of Landscape Along the Delaware River Valley,” in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US, November 4, 2023 (deadline is June 2, 2023)
• The Society for Applied Anthropology calls for proposals for the Program of the 84th Annual Meeting, “Enchantment and Transformation,” in Santa Fe, New Mexico, US, March 26-30, 2024 (deadline is October 15, 2023)

LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES

• The American Historical Association will hold weekly virtual events in their Washington History Seminar series through May 22, 2023
• The Historical Society of PA and the Genealogical Society of PA will hold a virtual event, “Family History Sampler: Different Strategies for Diverse Ancestors,” May 20, 2023

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