Around the Field October 12, 2022

11 October 2022 – NCPH Office

From Around the Field this week: The National Park Service is accepting grant applications; the National Endowment for the Humanities is holding a lecture; the Florida Conference of Historians calls for proposals

ANNOUNCEMENTS

• The American Association of Colleges and Universities calls for the higher education community to fill out a survey about updating the Essential Learning Outcomes, due October 15, 2022

AWARDS AND FUNDING

• The Rockefeller Archive Center is accepting applications for the RAC Stipend Program, due October 14, 2022
• The James Marston Fitch Charitable Foundation is accepting applications for the James Marston Fitch Mid-Career Fellowship, the Robert Silman Award, and the Samuel H. Kress Fellowship, due October 27, 2022
• The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History is accepting applications for short-term research fellowships, due October 31, 2022
• The Organization of American Historians is accepting applications for the Mellon Travel Fund, due November 1, 2022
• Harvard Business School is accepting applications for the Thomas K. McCraw Fellowship in US Business History, due November 1, 2022
• The Organization of American Historians is accepting nominations for the Tachau Teacher of the Year Award, due November 1, 2022
• The National Museum of the American Latino is accepting applications for the Latino Museum Studies Program Predoctoral and Postdoctoral Fellowships, due November 1, 2022
• The University of Delaware Library and the Delaware Art Museum are accepting applications for the Amy P. Goldman Fellowship in Pre-Raphaelite Studies, due November 1, 2022
• The NCPH 2023 awards cycle is now open, with nominations for the Book Award due November 1, 2022, and all other nominations due December 1, 2022
• The Newberry Library is accepting applications for both long-term fellowships, due November 1, 2022, and short-term fellowships, due December 15, 2022
• The National Endowment for the Humanities is accepting applications for Spotlight on Humanities in Higher Education grants, due November 2, 2022
• The National Park Service is accepting applications for the African American Civil Rights Grant Program, due November 8, 2022
• The Institute of Museum and Library Services is offering several funding opportunities, with most applications due November 15, 2022

CONFERENCES AND CALLS

• The Colored Conventions Project will hold a hybrid symposium, “The Making of a Social Movement: The Oratorical and Rhetorical Legacies of the Colored Convention Movement,” October 18-19, 2022
• The International Society of Landscape, Place and Material Culture will hold their annual meeting, “Boardwalk Empire: Landscapes of Leisure, Sin, and Redemption,” in Atlantic City, New Jersey, US, October 19-22, 2022
• The Oral History Association will hold their annual meeting, “Walking Through the Fire: Human Perseverance in Times of Turmoil,” in Los Angeles, California, US, October 19-22, 2022
• The Society of Georgia Archivists will hold their annual meeting, “Sustaining Archives: Practical Solutions for the Future,” at the Jekyll Island Club, Georgia, US, October 25-28, 2022
• The New York State History and Education Conference, “History Fights Back!,” will be held in Oneonta, New York, US, October 28-30, 2022
• The Council of American Jewish Museums will hold their conference, “Re/Imagining: The Future of Culturally Specific Museums,” in New York City, New York, US, November 1-3, 2022
• The National Trust for Historic Preservation will hold the PastForward National Preservation Conference virtually, November 1-4, 2022
• The American Association for State and Local History will hold their virtual annual conference, “Right Here, Right Now: The Power of Place,” November 1-4, 2022
• The Society for US Intellectual History will hold their annual conference, “Democracy and Community in Crisis,” in Boston, Massachusetts, US, November 3-5, 2022
• George Washington’s Mount Vernon will hold the 2022 George Washington Symposium, “Mapping the American Revolution,” virtually and in Mount Vernon, Virginia, US, November 4-5, 2022
• The Federation of State Humanities Councils and the National Humanities Alliance will hold the 2022 National Humanities Conference in Los Angeles, California, US, November 10-13, 2022
• The Coalition of Master’s Scholars on Material Culture calls for papers for the virtual symposium, “Tools of the Trade,” November 19, 2022 (deadline is October 14, 2022)
• The Public History as the New Citizen Science of the Past project will hold the virtual 2022 International Symposium, December 7, 2022
• The Florida Conference of Historians call for proposals for their annual meeting in Stuart, Florida, US, January 27-29, 2023 (deadline is October 28, 2022)
• The Loyola University Chicago History Graduate Student Association calls for proposals for their annual conference, “From Local to Global: History at Every Scale,” in Chicago, Illinois, US, mid-February 2023 (deadline is December 1, 2022)
• The call for proposals is open for the virtual conference, “Item not Found: Accounting for Loss in Libraries, Archives and Other Heritage and Memory Institutions,” March 8-9, 2023 (deadline is November 4, 2022)
• The Missouri Conference on History calls for proposals for their 65th Annual Conference in Springfield, Missouri, US, March 15-17, 2023 (deadline is November 1, 2022)
• The Center for History and Culture of Southeast Texas and the Upper Gulf Coast calls for proposals for the Greater Gulf Symposium in Beaumont, Texas, US, April 4, 2023 (deadline is November 1, 2022)
• NCPH will hold their annual meeting, “To Be Determined,” in Atlanta, Georgia, US, April 12-15, 2023
• The Rochester Public Library calls for proposals for “Rochester and the Mid-Sized American City in the 21st Century: A Conference and Conversation” in Rochester, New York, US, April 21-22, 2023 (deadline is October 15, 2022)
• PA Museums call for proposals for their annual conference, “Strong Museums for a Strong Pennsylvania,” in Hershey, Pennsylvania, US, April 23-25, 2023 (deadline is October 17, 2022)
• The Boston University American & New England Studies Program calls for proposals for a symposium, “Archives and Knowledge Keepers: Native American and Indigenous Studies and the Art of History,” in Boston, Massachusetts, US, May 4, 2023 (deadline is November 1, 2022)
• The Costume Society of America calls for proposals for their annual meeting, “Crossroads of Dress & Adornment: Creativity, Culture, & Collaboration,” in Salt Lake City, Utah, US, May 23-27, 2023 (deadline is October 15, 2022)
• The Agricultural History Society calls for proposals for their annual meeting, “Agricultural Pasts of the Climate Crisis,” in Knoxville, Tennessee, US, June 8-10, 2023 (deadline is October 15, 2022)
• The call for papers is open for the Third Annual International Seminar in Historical Refugee Studies, “Historicizing the Refugee Experience 17th-21st Centuries,” in Duisburg, Germany, July 4-7, 2023 (deadline is October 31, 2022)
• The Western History Association calls for proposals for their annual conference, “Restorations and Repairs: Lives and Landscapes Across Many Wests,” in Los Angeles, California, US, October 26-29, 2023 (deadline is December 5, 2022)

LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES

• The National Endowment for the Humanities will hold the 2022 Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities in Washington, DC, US, October 19, 2022
• The Preservation League of NYS is offering a webinar, “Disability Justice in Preservation,” October 19, 2022
• The Humanities and the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, will hold the annual Robert K. Webb Lecture, “The Decade of Returns: Museum Curation after the ‘Universal Museum,'” with Dan Hicks in Baltimore, Maryland, US, October 27, 2022
• The Daughters of the American Revolution will hold a symposium, “Impacts of a Nation,” virtually and in Washington, DC, US, November 4, 2022

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