Around the Field October 3, 2018
03 October 2018 – editors
From around the field this week: Get ready to celebrate Electronic Records Day and the preservation of government records with the CoSA; the NEH is looking for grant applicants researching humanities sources related to war; AASLH has opened their Call for Proposals for their 2019 conference in Philadelphia.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
- The Council of State Archivists is sponsoring Electronic Records Day – Oct 10, 2018
AWARDS and FUNDING
- The Newberry Library’s Long-Term Fellowship Program – applications due Nov 1, 2018
- James Marston Fitch Charitable Foundation Fellowships – applications due Nov 2, 2018
- Mellon/ACLS Scholars and Society Fellowship Program – applications due Oct 24, 2018
- Dialogues on the Experience of War Grants (National Endowment for the Humanities) – applications due Nov 15, 2018
- Clark Travel-to-Collections Research Fellowship (Henry Ford Museum) – applications due Nov 1, 2018
- Andrew W. Mellon Post-Doctoral Curatorial Fellowship (American Philosophical Society Museum) – applications due Nov 26, 2018
CONFERENCES and CALLS
- “What Are We Waiting For?” – American Association for State and Local History 2019 Meeting – Aug 28-31, 2019, Philadelphia, PA, US (proposals due Dec 7, 2018)
- Missouri Conference on History – March 6-8, 2019, Kansas City, Missouri, US (proposals due Dec 1, 2018)
- “Chesapeake Studies: Casting a Wide Net” Conference – June 5-7, 2019, Salisbury, Maryland, US (proposals due Oct 31, 2018)
- “City, County, Commonwealth, and Country: Local and Regional History as America’s History” – Pennsylvania Historical Association 2018 Conference – Oct 11-13, 2018, Lancaster, PA, US
LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES
- “Mid-Atlantic Skills Workshop & Meeting” – Association for Living History, Farm and Agricultural Museums (ALHFAM), New Jersey, Oct 26-27, 2018 (registration deadline – Oct 5, 2018)
- “Is It Cost Effective? The Economics of Historic Preservation” – Historic Preservation Continuing Education Program, Mid-Atlantic Regional Center for the Humanities (MARCH), Oct 27, 2018
PUBLICATIONS
- Recently published by Rowman and Littlefield: Commemoration: The AASLH Guide (Bruggeman), Learning from Museums, 2nd Edition (Falk, Dierking), Financial Fundamentals for Historic House Museums (Beaulieu), Understanding and Implementing Inclusion in Museums (Coleman)
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