Around the Field September 23, 2020
23 September 2020 – NCPH Office
From around the field this week: the Ohio History Fund’s grant applications are due; the University of Southern California will host the Los Angeles Archives Bazaar virtually; The Journal of a Plague Year: A Covid-19 Archive will hold virtual workshops.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
- The Council of State Archivists is celebrating Electronic Records Day on October 10, 2020
AWARDS AND FUNDING
- Applications for the Ohio History Fund’s grants are due October 1, 2020
- The deadline for Regional Heritage Stewardship Program’s “Intermountain West Preservation Needs Assessment Program” application is October 16, 2020
- The deadline for the Lemelson Foundation’s “Arthur Molella Distinguished Fellowship” application is November 1, 2020
- The Council of State Archivists’ “Ancestry Leadership Award” applications are due November 2, 2020
- The Organization of American Historians offers a variety of awards and prizes
CONFERENCES AND CALLS
- The blooloop V-Expo 2020 will be held virtually October 13-15, 2020
- The University of Southern California’s virtual 15th annual Los Angeles Archives Bazaar is on October 17, 2020
- The European Society for Environmental History (ESEH) calls for proposals for their “ESEH 2021” conference in Bristol, United Kingdom, July 5-9, 2021
- The Federation of State Humanities Councils and the National Humanities Alliance calls for session proposals for their “2020 Virtual National Humanities Conference” which starts on November 6, 2020
LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES
- The Harriet Beecher Stowe Center is hosting a virtual event, “Stowe Prize in Place 2020,” starting today September 23, 2020
- The Association of Moving Image Archivists will hold a webinar on “Unionizing & Organizing with Your Professional Community” on September 24, 2020
- The National Humanities Alliance is hosting the next webinar in their “Between Two Bookshelves” series, “How to Advocate for Humanities Departments to Senior Administrations,” on October 1, 2020
- The Northeast Document Conservation Center is hosting a webinar, “Better Together: How to Conduct a General Preservation Assessment with a Peer Institution,” on October 6, 2020
- Villanova University will begin their three-part webinar series “Decolonizing Land” on October 7, 2020
- The Journal of a Plague Year: A Covid-19 Archive is hosting a virtual workshop series, starting with “Toning Down and Tuning In: Addressing Archival Silences of Covid-19 Community Curation” on October 8, 2020
- The next webinar in the Council of State Archive’s “2020 State Electronic Records Initiative” series, “Web Archiving in Times of Rapid Change,” will be held on November 17, 2020
PUBLICATIONS
- The Madison Historical Review seeks submissions for their Spring 2021 issue
- The American Alliance of Museums is accepting submissions for upcoming issues of their Museum magazine
- The Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History invites proposals for their book series Public History from European Perspectives
- The University of Iowa Press will publish Call My Name, Clemson: Documenting the Black Experience in an American University Community by Rhondda Robinson Thomas in November 2020
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