Around the Field October 2, 2019

02 October 2019 – NCPH Office

From around the field this week: SAA releases Documenting in Times of Crisis resource kit; applications open for The Robert Frederick Smith Applied Public History  Fellowship; 2021 Call for Proposals for the OAH Annual meeting to open; and Museums Etc. to release new title.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

• Society of American Archivists releases Documenting in Times of Crisis: A Resource Kit

AWARDS and FUNDING

• Submissions open for the Society for History in the Federal Government 2019 Awards
• Costume Society of America travel grant for collection research due October 15, 2019
• The Robert Frederick Smith Applied Public History Fellowship for HBCU Graduates, applications due December 15, 2019

CONFERENCES and CALLS

• American Philosophical Society Annual Conference – October 10-12, 2019, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
• Mid-Atlantic Association of Museums Annual Meeting – October 16-18, 2019, Hudson Valley, New York
• The Impact of Social Sciences & Humanities on Society International Conference – October 17-18, 2019, Washington, DC
• Investigation Mid-Atlantic Plantations: Slavery, Economies, and Space Conference – October 17-19, 2019, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
• Call for Papers: 15^th International Conference on Urban History – September 2-5, 2020, Antwerp, Belgium (papers due October 4, 2019)
• Call for Proposals – Deadline Extended: 6th World Conference of the International Federation for Public History– August 18-22, 2020, Berlin, Germany (submissions due October 27, 2019)
• Call for Proposals: 2020 Annual Statewide Museum Conference – April 19-21, 2020, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (proposals due November 6, 2019)
• Call for Late-Breaking Sessions: American Historical Association Annual Meeting – January 3-6, 2020, New York, New York (due November 15, 2019)
• Call for Proposals: 10^th Annual Lemon Project Spring Symposium – March 19-21, 2020, Williamsburg, Virginia (proposals due November 15, 2019)
• Call for Proposals: 2020 Joint Annual Meeting of the Council of State Archivists and the Society of American Archivists – August 2-8, 2020, Chicago, Illinois (proposals due November 15, 2019)
• Call for Proposals: American Association for State and Local History 2020 Meeting – September 23-26, 2020, Las Vegas Nevada (proposals due December 9, 2019)
• Call for Papers: 113^th Annual Meeting of the Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association – August 6-8, 2020, Portland, Oregon (proposals due December 31, 2019)
• Call for Proposals: 2021 Organization of American Historians Annual Meeting – April 15-18, 2021, Chicago, IL (proposals accepted between December 2, 2019 and February 3, 2020)

LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES

• Rutgers University offering various workshops, including “Introduction to Online Historic Sources for Preservation Research” and “Costuming your Historic Site Interpreters on a Budget”
• Society for History in the Federal Government 2019 Hewlett Lecture on October 24, 2019
• “Interpreting African American History & Culture” workshop by the Smithsonian Institution, January 26-February 1, 2020.

PUBLICATIONS

• Museums Etc. to release For Love or Money: Confronting the State of Museum Salaries (Salerno, Gold, and Durocher, editors)
• First Issue of New York History Journal published under new collaboration between New York State Museum and Cornell University Press
• New Podcast discussing Hart Island mass graveyard

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