Around the Field October 2, 2024

02 October 2024 – NCPH Office

From Around the Field this week:

Columbia University’s History Lab announces a conference on archival data and historical research funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the South Carolina African American Heritage Commission opens proposals for their annual conference, and Latino public history is given a spotlight in John Lequizamo’s PBS documentary series.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

• National Trust for Historic Preservation opens nominations for its 2025 list of America’s 11 Most Endangered Historic Places, with applications due October 8, 2024
• Public historian Romeo Guzman will be featured in John Leguizamo’s documentary series Voces American Historia with episodes about SoCal public history work and the South El Monte Arts Posse. Episodes will be aired on PBS SoCal as well as uploaded to the PBS SoCal website and YouTube channel

AWARDS AND FUNDING

• The National Humanities Center applications for 2025-26 residential fellowship program are due October 3, 2024
• The Lepage Center is funding over five grants of $5,000 as part of the Labor in Historical Perspective Grant, deadline to apply is October 14, 2024
• 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
• 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

• NCPH will hold a mini-con, Condition Report: The State of Public History in the South, in Lafayette, Louisiana, US, from October 5-6, 2024
• 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)
• NCPH calls for posters for their 2025 conference, Solidarity | Solidarité, to be held in Montréal, Québec, Canada, March 26-29, 2025
• 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 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 National Trust for Historic Preservation will host a webinar, Activating the Power of Place: A Conversation with the Leadership of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, on October 7, 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, on 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 American Association for State and Local History has released a second edition of Recruiting and Managing Volunteers in Museums and Other Nonprofit Organizations
• 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