Around the Field October 16, 2024
16 October 2024 – NCPH Office
From Around the Field this week: Two announcements of new fellowship programs seeking applicants; the Society for History in the Federal Government and the American Association for State and Local History are now accepting proposals for their 2025 annual meetings.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
- The National Humanities Alliance is hosting a webinar to launch their new report Attracting Students to the Liberal Arts through Integrative Curricula, October 24, 2024
- The National Endowment for the Humanities is accepting applications for its new Community Deep Mapping Institute through November 22, 2024. Accepted fellows will participate in a hybrid twelve-month virtual and in-person institute funded by the NEH.
- The Storyteller Initiative, a new funded fellowship program from Voice of Witness that supports artists, oral historians, documentarians, and storytellers of all kinds, seeks applicants by December 1, 2024. Applications open October 24.
AWARDS AND FUNDING
- The Library of Congress Kluge Center is now accepting nominations for eight chair seats at the Kluge Center, deadline to nominate is October 18, 2024
- Due to widespread weather disruptions in the US South, the Organization of American Historians has extended its awards submission deadline to October 21, 2024.
- The John A. Adams ’71 Center for Military History and Strategic Analysis is holding a Cold War essay contest. Submissions should be sent to [email protected] by November 1, 2024
CONFERENCES AND CALLS
- The Center for Civil Rights History and Research will host their conference, “Where Do We Go From Here?”: Interpreting and Preserving the African American Civil Rights Movement, in Columbia, South Carolina, US, October 17-19, 2024
- The Southern Historical Association will host their 2024 Conference in Kansas City, Missouri, US, October 24-27, 2024
- The New England Historical Association will hold their 2024 Conference at Suffolk University in Boston, Massachusetts, US, October 26, 2024
- The National Trust for Historic Preservation will hold their Past Forward conference in New Orleans, Louisiana, US, from October 28-30, 2024
- The Daughters of the American Revolution will hold Making – Meaning – Memory: A Sewn in America Symposium in Washington, DC, US, and online November 1-2, 2024
- The Oral History Association will host their 2024 annual meeting, Oral History: Bridging Past, Present, and Future, in Cincinnati, Ohio, US, October 30 – November 2, 2024
- 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. Proposals are due October 22, 2024
- 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. Paper proposals are due November 1, 2024
- 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 (proposals due by October 15, 2024)
- 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, May 29-30, 2025. Submissions are due by February 1, 2025
- The European Society for Environmental History is holding their bi-annual Climate Histories Conference in Uppsala, Sweden, in August 2025. Submissions are due by October 31, 2024
LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES
- The University Press of Florida is hosting their fall publishing panel, “Peer Review and You,” on October 17, 2024
- The American Historical Association is hosting the panel “John Lewis: A Life,” virtually on October 28, 2024
- 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
- 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 United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, alongside Cornell University Press, opens nominations for their scholarly book series: Holocaust Studies in Translation. Nominations are due October 30, 2024
- Drs. Wei Zhao and Joseph Williams seek submissions for their upcoming collection of essays, Documenting Architecture in the Digital Age: Between Human and Machine Learning. Abstracts are due October 31, 2024
- The Association for Gravestone Studies calls for submissions for its 2026 peer-reviewed Markers: Annual Journal of the Association for Gravestone Studies due November 1, 2024
- 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
- Federal History and the Society for History in the Federal Government opens submissions for its 2026 issue, due March 30, 2025