Around the Field May 13, 2020

13 May 2020 – NCPH Office

From around the field this week: AAM and Museum Hue announce partnership; Applications for the Charlton Oral History Research Grant are open; AAM to host virtual conference; and IFPH to host/collaborate on upcoming events.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

• The American Alliance of Museums and Museum Hue announce partnership
• Cooking the Past announces a “Call to Cook” which invites oral and public historians to share food memories which reflect on the pandemic

AWARDS and FUNDING

• Baylor University is accepting applications for the Charlton Oral History Research Grant (applications due May 15, 2020)
• The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation is accepting grant applications for community-based archives (applications due July 1, 2020)

CONFERENCES AND CALLS

• AAM Virtual Annual Meeting & Museum Expo – May 18 and June 1-4, 2020, Online
• Call for Proposals: New Sweden History Conference – November 2, 2020, Essington, Pennsylvania, USA (proposals due June 19, 2020)
• Call for Proposals: 2020 New Jersey History Conference – November 13, 2020, Union, New Jersey, USA (proposals due June 19, 2020)
• Call for Proposals: 7^th International Congress on Construction History – July 12-16, 2020, Lisbon, Portugal (proposals due June 28, 2020)
• Call for Proposals: 2021 Teaching History Conference – May 7-8, 2021, Davis, California, USA (proposal deadline extended to Fall 2020)

LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES

• The Project on Race & Gender in Science & Medicine is sponsoring a series of conversations, including “Infections and Inequalities” on May 14, 2020
• The National Trust for Historic Preservation is hosting the webinar “Virtual Public Meetings Part 1: Legal Issues” on May 19, 2020.
• The International Federation for Public History is collaborating on upcoming events discussing Public History and COVID-19 on May 18, May 20, and May 25
• Zócolo book prize winner William Sturkey delivering lecture on Hattiesburg and the Civil Rights Movement on May 20, 2020
• HistoryHub invites those interested in crowdsourcing history to check out NARA’s recent HistoryHub Webinar
• Lyrasis is offering a variety of online classes and workshops

PUBLICATIONS

• The NCPH-AASLH co-sponsored resource The Inclusive Historian’s Handbook has published a new entry on the “Lost Cause Myth”
• Journal for the History of Environment and Society seeks papers for COVID-19 issue (deadline June 30, 2020)
• Clio and the Contemporary recently published an article on Public History and Dark Tourism

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