Around the Field – October 8, 2025

08 October 2025 – NCPH Office

From Around the Field this week: NCPH and AASLH are welcoming preliminary topic proposals for their joint conference; The Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History is accepting applications for three fellowships; Applications for New York Historical’s Fall 2025 seminar series are due; the Oral History Association is hosting its 2025 Annual Conference

ANNOUNCEMENTS

• The American Historical Association welcomes submissions of articles and other resources tracking federal actions affecting history
• NCPH and AASLH are welcoming proposals for their joint conference “The Work of Revolution,” taking place from September 16-19, 2026 in Providence, Rhode Island. Preliminary topic proposals are due October 15, 2025 and final proposals are due December 1, 2025
• The National Humanities Alliance is surveying the field of Humanities/STEM collaborative projects that address ecological challenges, which will culminate in a workshop in Washington, DC, in January 2026. This survey will be used to locate and understand this field of study and to select participants for the January event

AWARDS AND FUNDING

• The Organization of American Historians has extended deadlines for multiple award opportunities recognizing scholarship and work in the field of US history. Submissions are either due by October 15, 2025 or November, 1, 2025
• The Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C²DH) is offering 3 fellowships for visiting researchers of various topics, including public history. Applications are due October 15, 2025
• The American Heritage Center (AHC) at the University of Wyoming offers annual travel grants to provide support for travel, food and lodging to carry out research using AHC collections. The application due date is October 31, 2025
• The Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin is accepting applications for its 2026–2027 research fellowship program. Applications are due November 3, 2025
• The American Council of Learned Societies is accepting applications for its Digital Justice Grants Program. Applications are due November 20, 2025
• The OutHistory Fellowship Program (OFP) is offering four paid fellowships for projects on under-represented topics in North American LGBTQ history. The application deadline is January 1, 2026
• The Association of African American Museums has opened nominations for its five 2026 Awards. Nominations should be submitted by January 16, 2026

CONFERENCES AND CALLS

• “Second Foundings: Universities, Slavery, and Struggles for Justice in Texas and Beyond” will be hosted in collaboration with Universities Studying Slavery and the Texas Consortium of Universities and Colleges Studying Slavery and Race in Houston, Texas, US, October 10-13, 2025
• The Oral History Association will host “Exploring Our American Stories” in Atlanta, Georgia, US, October 15-18, 2025
• The American Folklore Society will host their 2025 annual meeting, “Restoring and ReStorying: Missing Stories and Moving Forward,” in Atlanta, Georgia, US, October 18-21, 2025
• The 91st Annual Meeting of the Southern Historical Association will take place in St. Pete Beach, Florida, US, November 5-8, 2025
• The Association of Registrars and Collection Specialists will host their 2025 conference PRESENT tense in St. Louis, Missouri, US, November 18-21, 2025
• The American Historical Association will host their 139th Annual Meeting in Chicago, Illinois, US, January 8-11, 2026
• The Institute on World War II and the Human Experience and the Society for Black Military Studies are hosting “Africa and the African Diaspora and the World Wars” in Tallahassee, Florida, US, from February 19-21, 2026
• Queer History South will host their 2026 conference virtually from February 20-22, 2026
• The National Humanities Alliance is hosting their annual conference in Arlington, Virginia, from March 8-10, 2026
• The Organization of American Historians will host their 2026 OAH Conference  on “Re-Thinking American History at 250” in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US, April 16-19, 2026
• The University of Rochester Humanities Center will host “Climate Havens: Humanistic Perspectives on Resilience, Migration, and Resources Symposium” in Rochester, New York, US, from April 16-17, 2026
• The Midwest Archives Conference and the Society of Ohio Archivists are jointly hosting a 2026 Annual Meeting in Columbus, Ohio, US, from May 14-16, 2026. The deadline for submitting session proposals is October 17, 2025
• The Alliance for Texas History will hold its annual conference on May 27-29, 2026, in Fort Worth, Texas, US. The deadline for proposals is November 18, 2025
• The Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era is hosting its first conference in Chicago, Illinois, US, from June 4-6, 2026
• The Society of Civil War Historians welcomes proposals for its biennial conference in Richmond, Virginia, US, from June 18-20, 2026
• The Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR) will hold its annual conference from June 25-27, 2026, in Columbus, Ohio. The deadline for proposals is December 1, 2025
• The Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association will hold its 119th Annual Meeting, “We Hold These Truths,” in Las Vegas, Nevada, US, from July 29-31, 2026. The call for proposals is open until February 1, 2026
• The Association of African American Museums is hosting its 2026 Annual Meeting, “This Land Holds Our Stories,” in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US, from August 19-21, 2026. The call for proposals is open until February 10, 2026 
• The International Federation for Public History will host its 8th international conference on public history, “The Public History of Difficult Pasts,” in Lisbon, Portugal from September 7-11, 2026. The call for proposals closes on November 30, 2025
• The Slave Dwelling Project (SDP) is hosting its 9th conference, “250 Years and Counting: Reckoning, Resilience, and Remembrance,” to be held in Charleston, South Carolina, US, from October 1-3, 2026. The call for proposals is open until November 21, 2025
• Qatar National Library’s Heritage Library & the Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies are jointly hosting a conference in Doha, Qatar, from October 19–20, 2026, focusing on the public history field in the Middle East. The call for proposals is open until January 31, 2026

LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES

• The National Preservation Institute offers continuing education and professional training for those involved in the management, preservation, and stewardship of cultural heritage
• Living Landscape Observer has made recordings from their ongoing webinar series available
• The Organization of American Historians is hosting a Lectureship Program series held at venues around the country
• Cultural Heritage Partners is offering “Sacred Sites, Sovereign Tools” on October 21, 2025. This webinar will demonstrate how Tribal Nations can use legal and cultural tools to protect sacred places and assert sovereignty
• The hosts behind the podcasts The Memory Palace and This Day are organizing an in-person Teach-in on the National Mall on October 26, 2025, featuring lectures, readings, performances, and conversations
• The New York Historical will host its hybrid Fall 2025 seminar series: “Native Peoples, American Colonialism, and the US Constitution” on November 7 and 21, December 5 and 12, 2025. Applications are due by October 10, 2025 
• The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale University is offering an in-person symposium, “Public History in Authoritarian Times,” in New Haven, CT, US, on November 8, 2025
• The Utah Historical Society is hosting a virtual Introduction to Oral History training session on December 6, 2025 

PUBLICATIONS

• The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) has released Other Stories To Tell: Recovery Scholarship and the Infrastructure for Digital Humanities, a comprehensive study that provides an essential guide for long term development and inspiration for new possibilities in the near term
• The National Humanities Alliance has released two advocacy resources, “Humanities Pathway to Career Success,” and “Demonstrating the Value of the Liberal Arts,” which respectively demonstrate the value of humanities education for a successful career in a wide range of fields and the value of a liberal arts education
• Collections: A Journal for Museum and Archives Professionals seeks proposals for a special issue on “Ethical AI in GLAM: Challenges and Opportunities for Digital Stewardship,” due October 20, 2025
• The Organization for American Historians’ History, Archives, and Records Preservation Project (HARPP) has launched HARPPing on History, a Substack dedicated to rapid response commentary on current developments affecting federal, state, and local historical and cultural institutions