Around the Field October 18, 2023

18 October 2023 – NCPH Office

From Around the Field this week: NCPH accepts letters of interest; the Oral History Association hosts their annual conference; the Southeast Museums Conference hosts a webinar

ANNOUNCEMENTS

• October is American Archives Month. The Society of American Archivists has compiled a list of activities and resources to celebrate
• The American Association for State and Local History will host this month’s AASLH History Hour on October 24, 2023
• In coordination with our cooperative agreement with the National Park Service, NCPH is accepting letters of interest for a Historic Resource Study of Petersburg National Battlefield, Eastern Front Unit, with applications due October 30, 2023

AWARDS AND FUNDING

• The Western History Association is accepting applicants for their NEH grant opportunity, “Spotlight on Humanities in Higher Education,” until October 18, 2023
• The Phillips Library calls for applicants for the Frances E. Malamy Research Fellowship of the Peabody Essex Museum by October 29, 2023
• The Organization of American Historians is accepting applications for multiple awards for graduate students through October 1 and November 1, 2023
• The Newberry is accepting applicants for their fellowships, with long-term fellowship applications  due November 1, 2023 and short-term fellowship applications due December 15, 2023
• The National Historical Publications & Records Commission is accepting applications for three of their grant opportunities: Archival Projects, Public Engagement with Historical Records, and Publishing Historical Records in Collaborative Digital Editions. All three have deadlines of November 2, 2023
• The Rockefeller Archive Center is accepting applications for their 2024 Research Stipend through November 3, 2023
• NCPH invites nominations for our 2024 Book Award and 2024 Robert Kelley Memorial Award by November 1, 2023 and our other awards by December 1, 2023
• The Institute of Museum and Library Services is accepting applications for six of their grant programs: Museums for America, Inspire! Grants for Small Museums, Museums Empowered, National Leadership Grants for Museums, Museum Grants for African American History and Culture, and Native American/Native Hawaiian Museum Services. Applications for all six are due November 15, 2023
• The Texas Historical Association has opened the application cycle for their 2023 – 2024 Awards and Research Fellowships, applications are due on or before November 15, 2023
• The Institute for Citizens & Scholars is accepting applicants for the Mellon Emerging Faculty Leaders award through 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 National Park Service is accepting applicants for their Save America’s Treasures  grant program until December 19, 2023
• The Ohio Academy of History is accepting applicants for its Public History Award through January 15, 2024

CONFERENCES AND CALLS

• The Wisconsin Historical Society will host the 17th Annual Local History & Historic Preservation Conference in La Crosse, Wisconsin, US, October 18-20, 2023
• The Oral History Association will host their annual conference, “Oral History As/And Education: Teaching and Learning in the Classroom and Beyond,” in Baltimore, Maryland, US, October 18-21, 2023
• The Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference will host their Fall 2023 conference in Saratoga Springs, New York, US, October 19-21, 2023
• The New England Historical Association will host their Fall 2023 meeting in New Haven, Connecticut, US, October 21, 2023
• The Federation of State Humanities Councils and the National Humanities Alliance will host the 2023 National Humanities Conference, “Crossroads,” in Indianapolis, Indiana, US, October 24-29, 2023
• The Urban History Association will host their 2023 conference, “Reparations & the Right to the City,” in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, US, October 26-29, 2023
• The Society for the History of Technology will host their 2023 annual meeting in Long Beach, California, US, October 26-29, 2023
• The Washington Conservation Guild will host their hybrid 2023 Safety and Cultural Heritage Summit, Preserving Our Heritage and Protecting Our Health, in Washington, DC, US, October 27, 2023
• The Foundation for Advancement in Conservation will host their symposium, “Photomechanical Prints: History, Technology, Aesthetics, and Use,” in Washington, DC, US, October 31 – November 2, 2023
• The American Alliance of Museums will host their “Future of Museums Summit” virtually, November 1-2, 2023
• The American Folklore Society will hold their annual meeting, “Roots, Rootlessness, and Uprooting,” in Portland, Oregon, US, November 1-4, 2023
• The Daughters of the American Revolution Museum will host “Pleasing Truths, Framing Identity: A Symposium,”  virtually and in Washington, DC, US, November 3, 2023
• The Virginia Museum of History & Culture will host their inaugural History Matters Symposium in Richmond, Virginia, US, November 4, 2023
• The National Trust for Historic Preservation will host their national preservation conference, PastForward 2023, in Washington, DC, US, November 8-10, 2023
• The Florida Conference of Historians is inviting proposals for their 2024 annual meeting to be held at Eastern Florida State College in Cocoa, Florida, US, January 26-28, 2024 (submissions due October 20, 2023)
• The Columbia University History Department calls for proposals for their conference, Labor Past & Present: Bringing History and Activism Together, to be held in New York, New York, US, February 2, 2024 (proposal abstracts due by October 27, 2023)
• The African, African American, and Diaspora Studies Center at James Madison has extended the proposal deadline for their 14th annual conference, “Reckoning,” in Harrisonburg, Virginia, US, February 7-10, 2024 (proposals due November 1, 2023)
• The History Graduate Student Organization at Texas A&M University is seeking paper abstracts from undergraduate and graduate students for their 2024 annual conference, “Navigating Crises and Resolutions,” to be held in College Station, Texas, US, February 9-10, 2024 (abstracts due on November 17, 2023)
• The Graduate History Association at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte is seeking presenters for their 36th 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 is accepting proposals for papers and panels for their 2024 conference to be held in Albuquerque, New Mexico, US, February 21-24, 2024 (paper and panel proposals deadline is October 20, 2023)
• The 22nd 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 ninth annual conference, “Reparations: Past, Present, and Future,” in Charlottesville, Virginia, US, March 8-9, 2024
• The Missouri Conference on History calls for paper, panel, and poster proposals for their 2024 conference to be held in Columbia, Missouri, US, March 13-15, 2024 (proposals due November 3, 2023)
• 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 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 Museum Association of New York is accepting session proposals for their 2024 conference, “Giving Voice to Value,” to be held in Albany, New York, US, April 6-9, 2024 (deadline for proposals is November 17, 2023)
• NCPH and the Utah Division of State History/Utah Historical Society call for posters for our joint conference, “Historical Urgency,” in Salt Lake City, Utah, US, April 10-13, 2024 (deadline is October 18, 2023)
• PA Museums is accepting session proposals for their 2024 conference, “Chance for Change: Opportunities in a Community,” to be held in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, US, April 14-16, 2024 (proposals due October 20, 2023)
• The Midwest Archives Conference will host their 2024 Annual Meeting, in Des Moines, Iowa, US, May 2-4, 2024
• The Midwestern History Association will host their 10th annual conference in Grand Rapids, Michigan, US, May 30-31, 2024
• The Agricultural History Society calls for papers for their 2024 meeting, Borderlands, Marginal Spaces, and Agriculture In-Between, to be held in Las Cruces, New Mexico, US, June 6-8, 2024 (proposals due November 1, 2023)
• The Committee on LGBT History calls for papers for their Queer History Conference 2024, to be held at California State University, Fullerton in Fullerton, California, US, June 10-13, 2024 (proposal deadline, November 1, 2023)
• 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 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 15, 2023)

LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES

• The Association of Art Museums will host a webinar titled, “Uneven/Unlevel Playing Fields,” October 18, 2023 at 12:00 pm Eastern
• The Southeast Museums Conference will host their webinar on, “How to Acquire Funding for Your Collections Storage,” October 19, 2023 at 12:00 pm Eastern
• The National Council for the Social Studies will present a webinar on, “Inclusion of Students with Disabilities in the Social Studies,” October 19, 2023 from 7:00 – 8:00 pm Eastern
• The Indiana State Library and Purdue University LGBTQ Center will host their virtual event, “Out of the Archives: LGBTQ History Mini Con,” October 20, 2023 from 12:00 – 1:30 pm Eastern
• The Northeast Document Conservation Center will host an online information session titled, “Getting Your Library Ready for Disaster, ‘Ready – Or Not’,” October 23, 2023 at 9:30 am Pacific
• The National Trust for Historic Preservation will host their webinar, “Advocacy Day for Historic Preservation in the 119th Congress,” October 24, 2023 from 3:00 – 4:00 pm Eastern
• The New York Museum Association will host a webinar titled, “Social Media Savvy: Thinking Big, Working Smart,” October 27, 2023 at 12:00 pm Eastern
• Museum Hue will host a panel discussion titled, “Preserving Our Historical Sites,” at the Albany Institute of History & Art in Albany, New York, US, October 28, 2023 from 9:00 am – 12:00 pm Eastern
• The Society of American Archivists will host two webinars in October, “Advocacy and Activism (for Institutions),” on October 18, 2023 from 3:00 – 4:00 pm Central, and  Navigating Barriers to Ethical Labor Practices, on October 30, 2023 from 2:00 – 3:30 pm Central
• As part of their Young Learners Program, the National Archives Foundation will present “11th Archivist of the United States: Dr. Colleen Shogan”  online, October 19, 2023 at 11:00 am Eastern
• Backlog will host their webinar titled, “Revolutions in Nineteenth-Century Handwriting,” October 30, 2023 at 5:00 pm Central
• The Public Library Association will host a webinar, “Beyond Super Searchers: Public Libraries in the Age of Misinformation,” on November 3, 2023 at 2:00 pm Eastern
• Connecting to Collections Care will host their webinar, “Decolonizing in Collections Care,” November 16, 2023 from 1:00 – 2:00 pm Eastern
• The Ohio Museums Association will host their webinar, “Telling Your Story With Evaluation,” November 20, 2023 from 10:00 – 11:00 pm Eastern (registration deadline is November 17, 2023)
• The New York Historical Society and Bonnie and Richard Reiss Graduate Institute for Constitutional History are accepting applicants for their fall 2023 seminar, “The Contested Meaning of the Second Amendment,” to be held virtually and in New York, New York, US, on November 17, December 1, 8, and 15, 2023 from 2:00 – 5:00 pm Eastern (applications due October 11, 2023)
• The American Association for State and Local History is accepting applications for their 2024 History Leadership Seminar (applications due by December 31, 2023)

PUBLICATIONS

• Seeking chapter proposals for an edited collection titled, Record, Document, Archive: Constructing the South Out of Region, by November 1, 2023
• 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
• 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 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

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