Around the Field October 7, 2020
07 October 2020 – NCPH Office
From around the field this week: the National Humanities Center offers fellowships; the Afro-AmericanHistorical and Genealogical Society hosts their annual conference virtually; the Council of State Archivists and the National Archives and Records Administration hold their first quarterly webinar.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
- The Council of State Archivists is celebrating Electronic Records Day on October 10, 2020
AWARDS AND FUNDING
- Applications for the National Humanities Center’s “Residential Fellowships” are due October 8, 2020
- The deadline for the University of Pennsylvania’s Katz Center’s “Jews and the Law: Rethinking Postmodern Jewish Legal Cultures” themed fellowship is October 12, 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 Society’s “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
- Applications for the Society for History in the Federal Government’s 2020 awards are due December 4, 2020
- The deadline for the Agricultural History Society’s award nominations is December 31, 2020
- The Digital Preservation Outreach & Education Network offers two funding opportunities: one for “Emergency Hardware Support” and one for “Professional Development Support”
CONFERENCES AND CALLS
- The Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society will hold their 2020 annual conference virtually October 14-17, 2020
- Pennsylvania (PA) Museums calls for session proposals for their “Service in Uncertainty” 2021 annual conference to be held April 18-20, 2021 (location TBA; deadline is October 16, 2020)
- The Pennsylvania Historical Association will host their annual meeting virtually on October 16, 2020
- The Washington State Historical Society will host the “Pacific Northwest History Conference” virtually October 20-23, 2020
- The Public History as the New Citizen Science of the Past project at the University of Luxembourg calls for presentation proposals for their international “Making History Together: Public Participation in Museums” virtual symposium on December 15, 2020 (deadline is October 30)
- 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 Missouri Conference on History calls for paper and panel proposals for their 2021 conference to be held virtually March 10-12, 2021 (deadline is November 1, 2020)
- The Vernacular Architecture Forum calls for papers for their “Vernacular Landscapes of San Antonio and Central Texas” annual conference in San Antonio, Texas, May 19-22, 2021 (deadline is November 10, 2020)
- Colonial Williamsburg will host their “Working Wood in the 18th Century” conference January 14-17, 2021
LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES
- The Council of State Archivists (CoSA) and the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) are hosting their first planned quarterly webinar, “Preserving Audiovisual Materials at NARA and the Pennsylvania Archives” on October 8, 2020
- CoSA will hold their next webinar in the State Electronic Records Initiative series, “Home Is Where the Records Are: Managing Records in a Teleworking World,” on October 13, 2020
- The National History Center is hosting their “Threat of Dissent: A History of Ideological Exclusion and Deportation in the United States” webinar on October 14, 2020
- Villanova University will hold the next webinar in their “Decolonizing Land” series, “Mobilizing Indigenous Histories for Rights and Reparations: A Roundtable Discussion with Professors Doug Kiel, John Maynard, and Tembeka Ngcukaitobi,” on October 14, 2020
- The National History Center will hold their “Engaging the Evil Empire: Washington, Moscow, and the Beginning of the End of the Cold War” webinar on October 19, 2020
- The National Conference on Citizenship (NCoC) is hosting a virtual workshop, “NCoC x Museum Leaders: Scenario Planning for the 2020 Election and its Aftermath,” on October 21, 2020
- The Washington Conservation Guild, Potomac Section American Industrial Hygiene Association, Lunder Conservation Center, Smithsonian National Collections Program, and Smithsonian Institution Office of Safety, Health and Environmental Management will hold a virtual seminar, “2020 Safety and Cultural Heritage Summit: Preserving Our Heritage and Protecting Our Health,” October 29-30, 2020
- The National Museum of American History is hosting their next Tuesday colloquium in the “Pandemic Perspectives: Stories Through Collections” series, “Voting During a Pandemic,” on November 3, 2020
PUBLICATIONS
- Museum & Society calls for papers for a special issue on “Exhibiting Extinction” by October 16, 2020
- The Historical Association calls for proposals for History from early-career historians on the theme “Public History — Beyond Impact and Engagement” by October 19, 2020
- Southern Cultures invites submissions for The Abolitionist South by November 30, 2020
- The Madison Historical Review calls for article submissions by December 15, 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 University of Cincinnati Press published Digital Community Engagement: Partnering Communities with the Academy, edited by Rebecca S. Wingo, Jason A. Heppler, and Paul Schadewald
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