Around the Field November 29, 2023

28 November 2023 – NCPH Office

From Around the Field this week: NCPH closes applications on six of our awards; The American Association for State and Local History hosts their virtual summit; The American Historical Association holds an online seminar; The Public Historian closes their call for proposals

ANNOUNCEMENTS

• Valdosta State University is seeking respondents for their survey on how to best support the development of history talent by December 1, 2023
• The Society of American Archivists calls for leader self-nominations through December 15, 2023
• The 2024 NCPH Election is now open, check your inbox for a ballot and vote by January 15, 2024

AWARDS AND FUNDING

• The Higher Learning program of the Mellon Foundation calls for grant concepts, exploring Democracy, Environmental Justice, and Social Justice, registration ends on November 30, 2023
• The Institute for Citizens & Scholars is accepting applicants for the Mellon Emerging Faculty Leaders award through December 1, 2023
• NCPH is accepting applications for six of our awards; our Outstanding Public History Project, Grassroots Public History, Excellence in Consulting, New Professional, Student Project, and Graduate Student Travel awards all have application deadlines of December 1, 2023
• Cornerstone: Learning for Living calls for humanities project applications for their grant program, deadline is December 15, 2023
• The American Council of Learned Societies is accepting applications for their two Digital Justice Grants, Digital Justice Seed Grants and Digital Justice Development Grants, through December 15, 2023
• The Newberry is accepting applicants for their short-term fellowships, with applications due December 15, 2023
• The Women’s History Institute of Historic Hudson Valley calls for applications for their Summer Research Fellowships, due December 15, 2023
• The Society for the History in the Federal Government have opened submissions for their 2024 awards, deadline of December 15, 2023
• The National Park Service is accepting applicants for their Save America’s Treasures  grant program until December 19, 2023
• Montana The Magazine of Western History is accepting applications for their Emerging Scholar Contest through January 9, 2024
• The National Endowment for the Humanities is accepting applications for two of their grant programs: Preservation Assistance Grants for Smaller Institutions, with applications due on January 11, 2024, and Sustaining Cultural Heritage Collections, with applications due on January 12, 2024
• The Ohio Academy of History is accepting applicants for its Public History Award through January 15, 2024
• The Virginia Museum of History & Culture is accepting applications for their research fellowships through January 26, 2024
• The Massachusetts Historical Society is accepting applicants for their New England Regional Fellowship Consortium until February 1, 2024
• The National Endowment for Humanities is accepting applications for their Landmarks of American History and Culture for Higher Education grant, deadline is February 14, 2024
• The National Endowment for Humanities is also accepting applications for their Landmarks of American History and Culture for K-12 Educators through February 14, 2024
• The American Historical Association is accepting applications for their research grants through February 15, 2024
• The Society of American Archivists is accepting applications for their Mosaic Scholarship through February 28, 2024
• The National Archives Foundation is accepting applications for the 2024 Cokie Roberts Research Fund for Women’s History until May 15, 2024

CONFERENCES AND CALLS

• The American Association for State and Local History has opened registration for their virtual summit, “Small But Mighty: The Powerful Resilience of Small Museums,” to be held December 5-6, 2023
• The American Historical Association will host their annual meeting in San Francisco, California, US, January 4-7, 2024
• The Florida Conference of Historians will host their 2024 annual meeting at Eastern Florida State College in Cocoa, Florida, US, January 26-28, 2024
• The African, African American, and Diaspora Studies Center at James Madison will host their 2024 annual conference, “Reckoning,” in Harrisonburg, Virginia, US, February 7-10, 2024
• The National Association of African American Studies & Affiliates will host their 2024 annual conference in Austin, Texas, US, February 15-17, 2024
• IU Indianapolis will host an Arab American Public History Conference in the IU Indianapolis University Library Lilly Auditorium in Indianapolis, Indiana, US, February 16, 2024
• The Graduate History Association at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte is seeking presenters for their Annual Graduate History Association Forum to be held in Charlotte, North Carolina, US, February 16-17, 2024 (presenter abstracts due December 1, 2023)
• The Small Museum Association will host their 2024 conference, “Telling Through Stories,” in Richmond, Virginia, US, February 19-21, 2024
• The Southwest Popular/American Culture Association will host their 2024 Annual SWPACA Conference in Albuquerque, New Mexico, US, February 21-24, 2024
• The 2024 Annual Women’s and Gender History Symposium will take place in Champaign, Illinois, US, February 29 – March 2, 2024
• The National Council for History Education will host their 2024 conference, “History at the Crossroads,”  in Cleveland, Ohio, US, March 7-9, 2024
• The African American Intellectual History Society will host their annual conference, “Reparations: Past, Present, and Future,” in Charlottesville, Virginia, US, March 8-9, 2024
• Temple University’s James A. Barnes Club calls for papers for their Barnes Conference (for graduate students) to be held at Temple University’s Center City Campus in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US, March 22-23, 2024 (abstracts due January 5, 2024)
• The South Carolina Historical Association seeks proposals for their 2024 conference, History Teaches, to be held in Florence, South Carolina, US, March 30, 2024 (proposals due December 31, 2023)
• The Virginia Forum seeks proposals for their 2024 annual conference to be held at the Virginia Museum of History and Culture in Richmond, Virginia, US, April 4-6, 2024 (proposal deadline is December 4, 2023)
• The Indiana Association of Historians is accepting proposals for their 2024 conference, “Historical Intelligence,” to be held in Indianapolis, Indiana, US, April 5-6, 2024 (proposals due on December 15, 2023)
• The North Carolina Association of Historians calls for papers for their 2024 conference to be held in Pembroke, North Carolina, US, April 5-6, 2024 (proposals due January 31, 2024)
• The Museum Association of New York will host their 2024 conference, “Giving Voice to Value,” to be held in Albany, New York, US, April 6-9, 2024
• NCPH and the Utah Division of State History/Utah Historical Society will host our joint conference, “Historical Urgency,” in Salt Lake City, Utah, US, April 10-13, 2024
• The Organization of American Historians will host their 2024 conference, “Public Dialogue, Relevance, and Change: Being in Service to Communities and the Nation,” in New Orleans, Louisiana, US, April 11-14, 2024
• The Southern Forum on Agricultural, Rural, and Environmental History call for papers for their 2024 conference to be held at Georgia Southern University in Savannah, Georgia, US, April 12-13, 2024 (submission deadline is December 1, 2023)
• PA Museums will host their 2024 conference, “Chance for Change: Opportunities in a Community,” in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, US, April 14-16, 2024
• The Midwest Archives Conference will host their 2024 Annual Meeting, in Des Moines, Iowa, US, May 2-4, 2024
• The George Washington Cold War Group calls for paper for their 2024 annual Graduate Student Conference on the Cold War to be held in Washington, DC, US, May 2-4, 2024 (papers due by February 9, 2024)
• The Midwestern History Association will host their 2024 annual conference in Grand Rapids, Michigan, US, May 30-31, 2024
• The History of Recent Social Science calls for papers for their 2024 conference to be held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US, May 31 – June 1, 2024 (proposals due February 2, 2024)
• The University of California of San Francisco calls for proposals for Fourth Workshop on Scientific Archives to be held in San Francisco, California, US, June 5-6, 2024 (call ends January 5, 2024)
• The Agricultural History Society will host their 2024 meeting, Borderlands, Marginal Spaces, and Agriculture In-Between, in Las Cruces, New Mexico, US, June 6-8, 2024
• The Committee on LGBT History will host their Queer History Conference 2024, at California State University, Fullerton in Fullerton, California, US, June 10-13, 2024
• The Oral History Association calls for proposals for their AI in OH Virtual Symposium, tentatively scheduled for the week of July 15, 2024 (applications due January 1, 2024)
• The Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association calls for papers for their 2024 annual meeting, “Disaster, Resilience, and Recovery,” to be held in Honolulu, Hawaii, US, July 31 – August 2, 2024 (proposal deadline, January 15, 2024)
• The Association of African American Museums calls proposals for their 2024 conference, Acknowledging Legacy, Fostering Progress: Commemorating the 60th Anniversary of the Civil Rights Act, to be held in Baltimore, Maryland, US, August 13-16, 2023 (proposals due on March 1, 2024)
• The Society of American Archivists calls for program proposals for their Archives*Records 2024 to be held in Chicago, Illinois, US, August 14-17, 2024 (proposals due December 6, 2023)
• The International Federation for Public History is accepting paper proposals for their 2024 World Conference to be held in Belval, Luxembourg, September 3-7, 2024 (proposals due November 29, 2023)
• The American Association for State and Local History calls for proposals for their 2024 conference, Doing History, to be held in Mobile, Alabama, US, September 11-14, 2023 (proposals due on December 21, 2023)
• The American Historical Association calls for session proposals for their 2025 annual conference to be held in New York City, New York, US, January 3-6, 2025 (proposals due by February 15, 2024)

LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES

• The George Washing University Museum will host a webinar discussing the recently published Storytelling in Museums on November 29, 2023 from 6:00 – 7:00 pm Eastern
• The Museum Association of New York will host a webinar titled, “Tell Me What You Want (What You Really, Really Want): An Honest Conversation about Constituent Engagement,” on December 1, 2023 from 12:00 – 1:30 pm Eastern
• The American Historical Association and Wilson Center will host their Washington History Seminar, “Forgotten Warriors: The Long History of Women in Combat,” virtually on December 4, 2023 at 4:00 pm Eastern
• The Society of American Archivists will host a virtual course on Arranging and Describing Photographs from December 5-6, 2023
• The Documentary Heritage & Preservation Services for New York will host a webinar, “A Strong Voice for Collections: Advocacy in Collections Care,” December 6, 2023 at 1:00 pm Eastern
• The Irish Studies Workshop & Library will host a webinar titled, “Oral History for Beginners: A Taster Session,” December 14, 2023 from 5:00 – 7:30 am Eastern
• The Museum Association of New York will host a webinar on, “Conversations About Community Engagement, Audience Diversification, and Relationship Building,” December 15, 2023 from 12:00 – 1:30 pm Eastern
• The American Association for State and Local History is accepting applications for their 2024 History Leadership Seminar (applications due by December 31, 2023)
• The American Association for State and Local History will host their online courses on “Developing Exhibitions: Planning & Design” and “Collections Management 200: Stewardship and Public Access,” January 8 – March 8, 2024
• The American Association for State and Local History will host their 2024 Project Management for History Professionals Workshop in Overland Park, Kansas, US, February 29 – March 1, 2024 (registration closes February 1, 2024)

PUBLICATIONS

• Animal History calls for article submissions for their inaugural volume, to be published in 2025
• The online journal Arcadia: Explorations in Environmental History calls for article drafts, due November 30, 2023
• The Public Historian calls for proposals for a special issue on Cemeteries, Graveyards, and Massacre Sites through December 1, 2023
• Rejoinder calls for submissions for a special issue, “The Archival is Political,” by December 15, 2023
• The Southern Historian is seeking original scholarship from graduate students for their 2024 issue, manuscript submissions due by December 15, 2023
• The American Historical Review calls for proposals for a special issue titled, “The Mistakes I Have Made,” with submissions due on December 15, 2023
• Process calls for proposals and submissions for an upcoming series on protests in U.S. History in late 2023
• Process also is calling for proposals and submissions for an upcoming series on U.S. intervention in Latin America for late 2023
• The Oral History Review calls for papers for a special issue on Oral History and Disability, submissions due March 31, 2024
• The US Latina & Latino Oral History Journal is seeking abstracts for a special volume, “Oral History and Literary Criticism: Approaches to Researching and Teaching about Latinos/as/x in the U.S.,” with a deadline of April 1, 2024
• The UC Santa Barbara Undergraduate Journal of History is seeking paper proposals
• White House History Quarterly calls for abstracts on general thematic issues

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