Around the Field November 1, 2017
31 October 2017 – editors
From around the field this week: “Recasting the Confederacy: Monuments and Civil War Memory” panel discussion November 6 in Connecticut; podcast production company Wondery is looking for contributors to a new podcast series on American history; the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) is accepting grant applications for two programs in the month of November; upcoming workshop on diversity and inclusion next week in Texas.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
- “Recasting the Confederacy: Monuments and Civil War Memory” panel discussion – Nov 6, 2017, Mansfield, CT, US
- Library of Congress celebrates Veterans Day with Veterans History Project book talks, exhibit tours, and more – Nov 7-11, 2017, Washington, DC, US
- “Public History in Northern Ireland and the Management of Contested Pasts” talk by Olwen Purdue and Dominic Bryan of Queens University Belfast at Rutgers University – Nov 15, 2017, New Brunswick, NJ, US
- Podcast production company Wondery is looking for historians to contribute to a new ongoing audio series, American History Tellers
- The Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian has opened a call for entries for a National Native American Veterans Memorial on museum grounds. Entries accepted between Nov 11, 2017 and Jan 9, 2018.
AWARDS and FUNDING
- Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) accepting grant applications for the Museums for America and the National Leadership Grants for Museums programs through Dec 1, 2017
- Getty Leadership Institute NextGen and GLI 2018 fellowship applications due Jan 3 and Jan 8, 2018, respectively
CONFERENCES and CALLS
- Call for contributions to Global Debates in the Digital Humanities, published by the University of Minnesota Press (DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACTS: Nov 7, 2017)
- “Telling Her Story: Women’s History, Heritage and the Built Environment” – March 19, 2018, Bedfordshire, England (PROPOSAL DEADLINE: Dec 4, 2017)
- “Federal History in Times of Transition” – Annual meeting of the Society for History in the Federal Government – March 23-24, 2018, Shepherdstown, WV, US (PROPOSAL DEADLINE: Dec 8, 2017)
- Fourth annual Midwestern History Conference – June 6, 2018, Grand Rapids, MI, US (PROPOSAL DEADLINE: Jan 12, 2018)
LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES
- “Bias and Meaningful Equal Employment Opportunities in Arts & Culture” workshop – Nov 8, 2017, Dallas, TX, US
- “Creative Exhibit Development” workshop hosted by the Virginia Association of Museums – Dec 4, 2017, Manassas, VA, US (REGISTER BY Nov 30, 2017)
- Oral History Training Institute, hosted by the Center for Oral History at the Chemical Heritage Foundation – Jan 2-5, 2018, Philadelphia, PA, US
PUBLICATIONS
- Oxford Handbook of Public History published in October by Oxford University Press (ed. Gardner and Hamilton)
- Free, open-access digital publication An Anthropocene Primer, Version 1.0 (eds. Kelly and McDonald) available for open peer review through Feb 1, 2018
- Coming this month from UNC Press: History Comes Alive: Public History and Popular Culture in the 1970s (Rymsza-Pawlowska)
- Coming this month from UBC Press: Going Public: The Art of Participatory Practice (Miller, Little, and High)
- Coming this month from Rowman & Littlefield: Managing Copyright in Higher Education: A Guidebook (Ferullo) and Asian American Librarians and Library Services: Activism, Collaborations, and Strategies (Clarke, Pun, and Tong)
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