Around the Field October 21, 2020
21 October 2020 – NCPH Office
From around the field this week: the National Trust for Historic Preservation hosts their 2020 conference; the Foundation for Advancement in Conservation holds a webinar; the International Federation for Public History calls for paper submissions.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
- The National Humanities Alliance has created COVID-19 Humanities Community Survey to document the impact of COVID-19 on humanities institutions throughout the United States
AWARDS AND FUNDING
- The Society for History in the Federal Government is hosting its awards ceremony virtually on October 23, 2020
- Applications for the Delaware Art Museum’s “Amy P. Goldman Fellowship in Pre-Raphaelite Studies” are due November 1, 2020
- The deadline for The Newberry’s “Long-Term Fellowships” is November 1, 2020
- Applications for the American Council of Learned Societies’ “Leading Edge Fellowships” are due November 2, 2020
- The deadline for The Fitch Foundation’s “James Marston Fitch Mid-Career Fellowship” is November 6, 2020
- The New-York Historical Society offers a variety of 2021-2022 fellowships, the deadline for most of which is January 15, 2021
CONFERENCES AND CALLS
- The National Trust for Historic Preservation will hold their “PastForward Online 2020” conference October 27-30, 2020
- Vermont History’s “66th Annual Meeting of the League of Local Societies & Museums” virtual conference is October 30-31, 2020
- The National Humanities Alliance will host their 2020 virtual conference starting on November 6, 2020
- The Museum Computer Network will host a virtual conference, “Sustainability: Preserve/Progress,” November 10-19, 2020
- The New Jersey Historical Commission will hold their “Battles for the Ballot: New Jersey Voting Rights, Then and Now” conference online on November 13, 2020
- The Daughters of the American Revolution Museum will host “Designing the Gilded Age: A Virtual Symposium” on November 13, 2020
- The Coalition of Master’s Scholars on Material Culture calls for papers for their virtual “History Should Make You Uncomfortable” symposium on November 21, 2020 (deadline is November 1, 2020)
- The West Virginia Association of Museums calls for proposals for their 2021 conference, “Stayin’ Alive: Sustainability, Relevance, and Culture,” in Bridgeport, West Virginia, March 25-27, 2021 (deadline is December 31, 2020)
- The Canadian Historical Association has updated information regarding their 2021 annual meeting and calls for papers
LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES
- The next webinar in the Foundation for Advancement in Conservation’s “C2C Care Course: Physical Media to Digital Storage” series is “Examining Media Carriers” on October 22, 2020
- The Museum of Fine Arts at Florida State University will host a webinar, “Lessons in Equity from Culturally Specific Museums,” on October 22, 2020
- The Museum Association of New York will hold a virtual workshop on “Making Meaningful Connections” on October 23, 2020, as well as five webinars on “Essential Work in the Cultural Field” starting on October 30, 2020
- Sinclair Community College will host their “A Storied Centennial: Race and Racism in the Women’s Suffrage Movement” webinar on October 27, 2020
- The Conservation Center for Art & Historic Artifacts will host their “Digitization 201: Caring for Originals During Digitization” webinar on November 10, 2020
- Part II of the “Pandemic, Protest, and Pedagogy: The Challenges and Opportunities for Public History and the Humanities at HBCUs” series, organized by Keisha Brown, Andrew Patrick, and Andrea Ringer of Tennessee State University, will be on November 13, 2020
- A recording of the National Humanities Alliance’s “Between Two Bookshelves: How to Advocate for Humanities Departments to Senior Administrators” webinar is available via their YouTube channel
PUBLICATIONS
- The International Federation for Public History calls for papers on the topic “How do we play this thing?: Videogames and History” for a special section in International Public History by November 1, 2020
- The Madison Historical Review calls for article submissions by December 15, 2020
- The University Press of Kansas will publish Rodeo as Refuge, Rodeo as Rebellion: Gender, Race, and Identity in the American Rodeo by Elyssa Ford in November 2020
- The White House History Quarterly calls for abstracts on a variety of topics
- The Coalition of Master’s Scholars on Material Culture calls for papers relating to the study of Material Culture
- The Museum Scholar calls for paper submissions from museum students and emerging professionals
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