Around the Field May 23, 2018

23 May 2018 – editors

From around the field this week: Join the International Sites of Conscience to talk about Museums and Guns at tomorrow’s Twitter #MuseumEdChat (May 24); @NCPHInclusion task force member Shakti Castro gives a talk on the history of the opioid crisis in NYC’s Puerto Rican and Latinx communities (May 24); Historic New England is hosting a “Caring for Municipal, Museum, and other Non-Profit Historic Properties” workshop in Massachusetts (May 25); Submit a pop-up proposal for the COSA-NAGARA-SAA 2018 Joint Meeting by May 31; June is Pride Month in the United States, and many cultural organizations are featuring LGBTQ history events and talks. 

ANNOUNCEMENTS

• “Museums and Guns” #MuseumEdChat co-hosted by the International Coalition of Sites of Conscience – 8-9 PM EST, May 24, 2018
• “That Other Opioid Epidemic: Documenting the History of the Opioid Crisis in New York’s Puerto Rican and Latinx Communities” talk by Shakti Castro – May 24, 2018, New York, NY, US
• LGBTQ Refugees: An Untold Story talk at the Tenement Museum – June 6, 2018, New York, NY, US
• The Role of Historians in Public Life symposium – June 8, 2018, Prague, Czech Republic
• The Smithsonian Latino Center is hosting a LGBTQ Latinx Arts Activism event – June 14, 2018, Washington, DC, US
• “Out in Indy” – Indiana Humanities’ 6th annual historic bar crawl – June 20, 2018, Indianapolis, IN, US
• Call for Landslide 2018: Grounds for Democracy nominations of “significant cultural landscapes that are in danger of being carelessly altered or destroyed” – nominations due June 30, 2018

AWARDS and FUNDING

• The American Folklore Society invites nominations for its Wayland D. Hand book prize by June 15, 2018
• Nominations for the American Historical Association’s Beveridge Family Teaching Prize are now due by June 29, 2018
• John Carter Brown Library Postdoctoral Fellowship in the History of the Book in the Americas – applications due June 30, 2018
• Deadline extended! Nominations for the Western Historical Association’s Autry Public History Prize are now due July 1, 2018
• Arline Custer Memorial Award, presented by the Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference, now seeking nominations for the best books and articles written or compiled by individuals and institutions in the MARAC region – Nominations due July 31, 2018

CONFERENCES and CALLS

• Submit a Pop-Up proposal for the COSA-NAGARA-SAA 2018 Joint Meeting – Aug 12-18, 2018, Washington, DC, US (Pop-up proposals due May 31, 2018)
• The Urban History Association seeks student poster submissions for the poster session at its annual conference – October 18-21, 2018, Columbia, South Carolina, US (Submissions due June 1, 2018)
• Chicago Design: Histories and Narratives, Questions and Methods – Nov 8-10, 2018, Chicago, IL, US
• “All Things Considered…material culture and memory” conference at University College Cork – Nov 9-10, 2018, Cork, Ireland (Submissions due June 1, 2018)

LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES

• Caring for Municipal, Museum, and other Non-Profit Historic Properties workshop – May 25, 2018, Sandwich, MA, US
• Church and Family Records Preservation Workshop – June 2, 2018, Carrollton, GA, US
• Creating a Sustainable & Culturally-Sensitive Landscape workshop from the Historic Hawaii Foundation – June 4, 2018, Honolulu, HI, US
• Preservation Management and Collections Care workshop from the NEDCC – June 6, 2018, Barre, VT, US
• Salvaging Damaged Book, Paper, and AV Collections webinar from the NEDCC – June 12, 2018

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