Around the Field October 30, 2019

30 October 2019 – NCPH Office

From around the field this week: National History Day to launch new digital platform; American Historical Association announces research grants; Moving Trans History Forward Conference seeks proposals; and new issue of Visitor Studies published this month.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

• National History Day gearing up for launch of the NHDWebCentral digital platform for students

AWARDS and FUNDING

• Omohundro Institute offering Fort Ticonderoga short-term visiting fellowship (applications due November 1, 2019)
• Institute of Museum and Library Services offering museum grants for African American history and culture (applications due November 15, 2019)
• The Disability History Association offering Public Disability History Award (application deadline December 20, 2019)
• American Historical Association announces research grants (application deadline February 15, 2020)

CONFERENCES and CALLS

• Call for Proposals: 2020 Annual Pennsylvania Statewide Museum Conference – April 19-21, 2020, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (proposals due November 6, 2019)
• Call for Proposals: Moving Trans History Forward Conference – April 2-5, 2020, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada (proposals due November 18, 2019)
• Call for Proposals: American Association for State and Local History 2020 Annual Meeting – September 23-26, 2020, Las Vegas, Nevada (proposals due December 9, 2019)
• Call for Chapters: Exigence in the Anthropocene: Teaching Ecocomposition in the Age of Climate Change (abstracts due December 15, 2019)
• Call for Papers: Urban History Association 10^th Biennial Conference – October 8-11, 2020, Detroit, Michigan (proposals due February 1, 2020)
• Call for Papers: 16^th International Association for the Study of Environment, Space, and Place Conference – April 24-26, 2020, Quinnipiac University (proposals due February 14, 2020)
• The Association of African American Museums 42^nd Annual Conference – August 5-8, 2020, Miami, Florida

LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES

• The National Museum of African America History to offer African American history & culture workshop January 26-February 1, 2020 (applications due November 1, 2019)
• Northeast Document Conservation Center to host a variety of collection and preservation workshops
• Rutgers University to host a variety of historic preservation workshops
• Applications for the 2020 Monticello Teacher Institute now open

PUBLICATIONS

• Taylor and Francis release new issue of Visitor Studies journal

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