Around the Field – November 13, 2024

13 November 2024 – NCPH Office

From Around the Field this week: Cambridge University Press launches the open-access Public Humanities; the National Humanities Conference Making Waves, Navigating Currents of Change is happening in Providence, Rhode Island; The National Trust hosts equity-based preservation planning webinar.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

• Registration has now opened for the National Archives Foundation’s space-themed “History, Heroes, & Treasures: Sleepover at the National Archives” in Washington DC, on February 1, 2025
• The National Archives is putting together a focus group for feedback on the redesign of Archives.gov by November 30. Indicate your interest via https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/ArcRedesign24.

AWARDS AND FUNDING

• The National Park Services is now accepting applications to its Save America’s Treasures grant program through December 12, 2024
• The Society for History in the Federal Government is accepting 2025 award nominations through December 15, 2024
• The Fitch Foundation is now accepting applications for 2025 fellowship and grant funding, with a deadline of December 16, 2024
• The National Endowment for the Humanities invites Chair’s Grant requests of up to $30k to support free Juneteenth events. Apply by January 15, 2025 for consideration
• The William L. Clements Library at the University of Michigan is accepting applications for 2025-2026 research fellowships, which will be undertaken between June 1, 2025 and May 31, 2026. Apply by January 15, 2025
• The National Endowment for Humanities Division of Education Programs is accepting applications for the 2025 Landmarks of American History and Culture program for K-12 educators and for higher education faculty and/or humanities professionals through February 12, 2025. Drafts are accepted for feedback to [email protected] by January 6, 2025
• The Society of American Archivists is accepting nominations for their Mark A. Greene Emerging Leader Award through February 28, 2025

CONFERENCES AND CALLS

• The Federation of State Humanities Councils, Rhode Island Humanities, and the National Humanities Alliance will host the National Humanities Conference 2024, Making Waves, Navigating Currents of Change, in Providence, Rhode Island, US, November 13-17, 2024
• The American Philatelic Society calls for papers for the 2024 Postal History Symposium, The Universal Postal Union: Connecting the World by Mail, to be held in Bellefonte, Pennsylvania, US, November 15-16, 2024
• Columbia University’s History Lab will hold their conference, Archives as Data: New Directions in Historical Research, in New York, New York, US, in January 2025
• The American Historical Association will host their 2025 annual conference in New York City, New York, US, January 3-6, 2025
• The South Carolina African American Heritage Commission will hold their 2025 annual conference in Columbia, South Carolina, US, on February 22, 2025
• Loyola History Graduate Student Association will hold their conference, History in the World: Engaging Communities, Connecting Scholarship, in Chicago, Illinois, US, February 22-23, 2025. Proposals are due November 22, 2024
• Park University and the State Historical Society of Missouri will host the 2025 Missouri Conference on History in Blue Springs, Missouri, US, from March 12-14, 2025
• The Society for Applied Anthropology calls for proposals for their 2025 annual meeting, Revitalizing Applied Anthropology, to be held in Portland, Oregon, US, March 25-29, 2025
• The Organization of American Historians will hold their 2025 annual meeting in Chicago, Illinois, US, April 3-6, 2025
• The Midwestern Archives Conference will hold its 2025 annual meeting, Serving It Up, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, US, from April 10-12, 2025
• Seattle University calls for abstracts for a conference, Race, Racialization, and Resistance: Curriculum, Pedagogy, and Humanities, to be held in Seattle, Washington, US, April 25-27, 2025
• The Center for Cryptologic History and the National Cryptologic Foundation call for papers and posters for their 19th Cryptologic History Symposium in Laurel, Maryland, US, from April 30 – May 2, 2025
• The Society for History in the Federal Government calls for papers for its 2025 annual meeting in Washington, DC, US, May 29-30, 2025
• The European Society for Environmental History is holding their bi-annual Climate Histories Conference in Uppsala, Sweden, in August 2025
• The Mountain-Plains Museums Association calls for proposals for their “Crossroads and Collections” in Omaha, Nebraska, US, October 2-4, 2025

LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES

• The Reiss Graduate Institute for Constitutional History will hold their fall 2024 seminar series, Reconstruction and its Legal Legacy, in New York, New York, US, each Friday in November 2024
• The first annual International Public History seminar will offer presentations and discussions with researchers and practitioners from Kenya, China and Singapore, the United Arab Emirates on November 14, 2024
• The National Trust will host a webinar “Building an Equity-Based Preservation Plan Through Community Engagement” on November 14, 2024 at 2pm Eastern
• Turkiya Lowe from the National Park Service will present “Commemorating Women During the Age of Woodrow Wilson” at the President Woodrow Wilson House in Washington, DC, US, on November 19, 2024

PUBLICATIONS 

• The Cambridge University Press announces the launch of Public Humanities, a cross-disciplinary, open-access journal, and invites submissions for Of the Moment articles and proposals for themed issues.
• The Willingham calls for papers for its 2025 edition, Turning Points in History: People, Ideas, and Events, with submissions due November 22, 2024
• California History calls for papers for a special issue, American Revolutions in California, deadline for proposals is December 15, 2024
• Cogitatio Press seeks submissions for the open-access journal Urban Planning‘s upcoming issue, Aligning Heritage Conservation and Climate Mitigation Through Adaptive Reuse. Abstracts are due by December 15, 2024
• The Public Historian calls for proposals for a special issue, Public History as Resistance: The Evolution of Black Museums, Historically Black Colleges, and Universities (HBCUs), and Cultural Spaces, deadline for submissions is December 31, 2024
• Fwd: Museums seeks submissions for their 2025 issue, Guide: {…}, by January 5, 2025
• The South Carolina African American Heritage Commission calls for proposals for authors interested in contributing to a study on the South Carolina Green Book by January 15, 2025
• Federal History and the Society for History in the Federal Government opens submissions for its 2026 issue, due March 30, 2025