Around the Field May 24, 2023

24 May 2023 – NCPH Office

From Around the Field this week: The Hagley Museum and Library is accepting grant applications; the American Association for State and Local History and NCPH call for poster proposals; the Coalition of Master’s Scholars on Material Culture calls for papers

ANNOUNCEMENTS

• NCPH and several other organizations have endorsed the American Historical Association’s Statement Opposing Exclusion of LGBTQ+ History in Florida
• Continuing their historic preservation project focused on memorials, the Mt. Zion Memorial Fund will dedicate a memorial to the blues artist, Jim Jackson, in Hernando Memorial Park Cemetery, Hernando, Mississippi, US, June 3, 2023

AWARDS AND FUNDING

• The Hagley Museum and Library is accepting applications for an Oral History Project Grant, due June 1, 2023
• The National Trust for Historic Preservation is accepting applications for the Diversity Scholarship Program, due June 1, 2023
• The National Endowment for the Humanities is accepting applications for the Public Impact Projects at Smaller Organizations grant program, due June 28, 2023
• The Maryland Historical Trust is accepting applications for the African American Heritage Preservation Program, due July 17, 2023

CONFERENCES AND CALLS

• 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 Campaign for Historic Trades will hold the American Historic Trades Summit in Providence, Rhode Island, US, June 12-14, 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,” virtually and in Deerfield, Massachusetts, US, June 23-24, 2023
• The Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, Genders and Sexualities, 2023, “Oceans, Islands, and Continents: Reconceptualizing the Spatialization of Women’s Gender and Sexuality Histories,” will be held in Santa Clara, California, US, June 28-July 2, 2023
• The Third Annual International Seminar in Historical Refugee Studies, “Historicizing the Refugee Experience, 17th-21st Centuries,” will be held in Duisburg, Germany, July 4-7, 2023
• The Association of Midwest Museums and the Association of Indiana Museums will hold a joint conference, “Braking Point,” virtually, July 19, 2023, and in Indianapolis, Indiana, US, July 26-29, 2023
• The Association of African American Museums will hold their annual conference, “Museums, Music, and Movements,” in Nashville, Tennessee, US, July 26-28, 2023
• The American Association for State and Local History, partnering with NCPH, calls for poster proposals for their annual conference, “I, Too, Am America,” in Boise, Idaho, US, September 6-9, 2023 (deadline is June 2, 2023)
• The Maine Maritime Museum calls for proposals for the 2023 Albert Reed & Thelma Walker Maritime Symposium in Bath, Maine, US, October 14, 2023 (deadline is June 12, 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)
• NCPH and the Utah Division of State History/Utah Historical Society call for proposals for their joint conference, “Historical Urgency,” in Salt Lake City, Utah, US, April 10-13, 2023 (deadline is July 15, 2023)

LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES

• The Arts + Business Council for Greater Philadelphia will hold a virtual workshop, “Video Creation, Content, and Strategy,” June 1, 2023
• Northwestern University will hold a symposium, “The Exhibit: From Concept to Opening and Beyond,” in Chicago, Illinois, US, June 2-3, 2023
• The National Humanities Alliance will hold a virtual workshop on documenting impact, June 22 and July 25, 2023

PUBLICATIONS

• The American Council of Learned Societies has published Before the First Day of Graduate School
• The Latin American and Indigenous Peoples of the Americas Funnel has published Best Practices in Authority Work Relating to Indigenous Nations in the U.S.
• The Coalition of Master’s Scholars on Material Culture calls for papers for their “History Should Make You Uncomfortable” issue, due June 1, 2023

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