Around the Field September 8, 2021

08 September 2021 – NCPH Office

From Around the Field this week: The Washington State Historical Society accepts grant applications; the Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History calls for proposals; the International Coalition of Sites of Conscience offers virtual programs. 

ANNOUNCEMENTS

• The Oral History Association’s contract with Middle Tennessee State University will be over at the end of 2022, and they are searching for a new institution or organization to house its executive office.

AWARDS AND FUNDING

• The Washington State Historical Society is accepting applications for their Diversity in Local History grant program, due October 5, 2021
• The State Historical Society of Missouri is accepting proposals for the 2022 Center for Missouri Studies Fellowships, due October 15, 2021
• The New England Museum Association is offering scholarship opportunities for their annual conference, due October 22, 2021
• The American Institute of Physics is offering grants for projects related to the history of physical science, due November 15, 2021
• The Institute of Museum and Library Services is offering six separate grants, all due November 15, 2021

CONFERENCES AND CALLS

• The Utah Division of State History will virtually host their conference, “Public Health & the Common Good,” September 20-24, 2021
• The Slave Dwelling Project will virtually host their conference, “Changing Narratives in Changing Times,” September 30 – October 2, 2021
• MuseumNext will virtually host their “Digital Collections Summit” October 4-6, 2021
• The Legacy Council of the Woodland Cemetery Project at Clemson University is hosting their virtual symposium, “Historic Cemeteries and the University: The Power of Place and Community,” October 7, 2021 
• AASLH will host their virtual conference, “Doing History/Doing Justice,” October 12-15, 2021
• The International Society of Landscape, Place, and Material Culture calls for proposals for their annual conference, “Livin’ on Tulsa Time,” in Tulsa, Oklahoma, US, October 20-23, 2021 (deadline is September 15, 2021)
• The National Trust for Historic Preservation will virtually host their annual conference, “PastForward,” November 2-5, 2021
• The New England Museum Association will virtually host their annual conference, “Re/Create, Re/Charge, Re/Imagine,” November 15, 17, and 19, 2021
• The Center for Atlantic Mediterranean Relations Studies calls for proposals for their virtual conference, “The School Tells: Stories from the School Communities of Yesterday and Today,” November 29-30, 2021 (deadline is September 20, 2021)
• The Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History calls for proposals for their virtual symposium, “Participation and public interpretations: How to navigate multiple historical narratives in museums?,” December 7, 2021 (deadline is September 30, 2021)
• The Smithsonian Afrofuturism Series calls for proposals for their virtual symposium, “Claiming Space: A Symposium on Black Futures – Past, Present, and Potential,” January 27-29, 2022 (deadline is September 10, 2021)
• The Small Museum Association calls for proposals for their annual conference, “Seizing the Moment: Opportunities for Radical Change,” in College Park, Maryland, US, February 20-22, 2022 (deadline is September 20, 2021)
• NCPH calls for poster proposals for our annual conference, “Crossroads,” in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, March 23-26, 2022 (deadline is October 4, 2021)
• The University of Nebraska-Lincoln Center for Great Plains Studies calls for proposals for their symposium, “Reckoning & Reconciliation on the Great Plains,” in Lincoln, Nebraska, US, April 6-8, 2022 (deadline is October 25, 2021)
• The Business History Conference calls for proposals for their annual meeting, “Business History in Times of Disruption: Embracing Complexity and Diversity,” in Mexico City, Mexico, April 7-9, 2022 (deadline is October 1, 2021)
• Organized by multiple international institutions, “Pandemics & the Changing Built Environment” calls for proposals for the conference in Istanbul, Turkey, April 28-30, 2022 (deadline is October 21, 2021)
• The Costume Society of America calls for submissions for their symposium, “Land of 10,000 Ideas: Innovation Through Dress,” in Minneapolis, Minnesota, US, May 24-29, 2022 (deadline is October 15, 2021)
• The Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History calls for papers for their “Queer History Conference 2022” in San Francisco, California, US, June 12-15, 2022 (deadline is November 1, 2021)
• The Ad Hoc Group for Transformative Oral History Practice, in collaboration with the Oral History Association and the Oral History Center at UC Berkeley, calls for proposals for their virtual symposium, “Assessing the Role of Race and Power in Oral History Theory and Practice,” June 2022 (deadline is October 1, 2021)
• The Berkshire Conference of Women, Genders, and Sexualities will host “Oceans, Islands, and Continents: Reconceptualizing the Spatialization of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Histories” in Santa Clara, California, US, June 28 – July 2, 2023 (deadline is December 31, 2021)

LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES

• The #SlaveryArchive Book Club is virtually discussing The Colored Conventions Movement: Black Organizing in the Nineteenth Century, edited by Gabrielle Foreman, Jim Casey, and Sarah Lynn Patterson, today, September 8, 2021
• The Albert Lepage Center for History in the Public is hosting a virtual event, “Turning Points in History with Dipesh Chakrabarty,” today, September 8, 2021
• The American Council of Learned Societies is offering a virtual program, “The Value of a Degree in the Humanities & Social Sciences,” September 14, 2021
• The National Trust for Historic Preservation is offering a virtual workshop, “Just Do It! Grassroots Advocacy for Preservation,” September 14, 2021
• Rutgers University Department of American Studies is offering a virtual event, “Islam in/and America, 20 Years After 9/11: Muslims, Blackness, & Anti-Blackness,” September 15, 2021
• The New-York Historical Society and the Bonnie and Richard Reiss Graduate Institute for Constitutional History announced its fall seminar, “Constitutions in Conflict: Proslavery versus Antislavery,” held in New York, New York on multiple dates (deadline is September 15, 2021)
• The Museum Learning Hub is offering a virtual workshop, “Introduction to Podcasting for Museums,” September 16, 2021
• The National Trust for Historic Preservation is offering a virtual workshop, “Understanding Climate Change,” September 21, 2021
• The Southeastern Museums Conference is offering a virtual program, “Getting Started with Environmental Monitoring in Your Collection,” September 21, 2021
• The International Coalition of Sites of Conscience is offering the virtual program, “Transitional Justice and Religious Leaders,” September 23, 2021
• The Texas Historical Commission is offering a virtual program, “Preparation is Key: Getting Started with Media Relations and Crisis Management,” September 29, 2021
• OCLC is offering a virtual webinar, “International Pandemic Perspectives: Problem-Solving in Times of Crisis,” September 28, 2021
• Museum Mindshare is offering a virtual program, “Audio Production Crash Course,” September 28, 2021
• Documentary Heritage and Preservation Services for New York is offering a virtual program, “Get a Move On: How to Relocate Collections,” September 29, 2021
• The International Coalition of Sites of Conscience is offering a virtual program, “When to Engage and Disengage from Harmful Behaviour,” October 6, 2021

PUBLICATIONS

• New York History calls for paper submissions
• 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 Museum Scholar calls for paper submissions from museum students and emerging professionals

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