Around the Field September 9, 2020

09 September 2020 – NCPH Office

From around the field this week: the Phillips Library announces the Frances E. Malamy Research Fellowship of the Peabody Essex Museum; the Mid-Atlantic Association of Museums will host a virtual meeting on “Do Museums Still Need Objects?”; Villanova University is holding a webinar series on “Decolonizing History.”

ANNOUNCEMENTS

• The National Endowment for the Humanities and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting posted the episodes of their UNLADYLIKE2020 short film series documenting the stories of little-known and extraordinary women at the turn of the 20th century
• Historian Brian J Griffith and his students created a digital anthology of the Interwar Crisis (1918-1939) which explores political, economic, social, and cultural upheavals Europe faced during the period
• The National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health request information and public comment for their strategic plan, “A Platform for Biomedical Discovery and Data-Powered Health”
• The Museum Studies Network and New York City Museum Educators Roundtable are gathering information on remote internship opportunities for Fall 2020

AWARDS AND FUNDING

• Applications for the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University’s “Humanities, Social Sciences, and Creative Arts Fellowship Program” are due September 10, 2020
• The deadline for The American Academy in Berlin’s “Berlin Prize Application” is September 25, 2020
• The deadline for the Liberty Hall Museum’s “May Kean Reynolds Graduate Fellowship in Museum Studies” is October 1, 2020
• The National Endowment for the Humanities’ “Dialogues on the Experience of War” grant applications are due October 14, 2020
• The deadline for the Phillips Library’s “Frances E. Malamy Research Fellowship of the Peabody Essex Museum” is November 1, 2020
• The National Trust for Historic Preservation is accepting applications for their “Diversity Scholarship Program”

CONFERENCES AND CALLS

• The Association for the Study of African American Life and History’s 105th Annual Meeting will be virtual every Thursday and Saturday in September and on September 30, 2020
• The American Association for State and Local History’s virtual 2020 Annual Meeting is September 24-30, 2020
• The Mid-Atlantic Association of Museums will host their virtual annual meeting, “Do Museums Still Need Objects?” on October 5-9, 2020
• The Pennsylvania Historical Association’s virtual annual meeting is October 16, 2020
• The National Trust for Historic Preservation will hold their first virtual “Historic Preservation Conference: PastForward”  October 27-30, 2020
• Colonial Williamsburg’s “Working Wood in the 18th Century” conference will be virtual and in person in Williamsburg, Virginia, January 14-17, 2021

LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES

• Villanova University is offering a webinar series, “Decolonizing History: A Six-Month Event Series,” starting today, September 9, 2020
• LYRASIS is offering online classes and events starting today, September 9, 2020
• The American Historical Association is hosting a webinar on “What Is Grad School Really Like?” on September 10, 2020
• The American Historical Association will hold webinars and course discussions as part of their “2020 Virtual Texas Conference on Introductory History Courses” September 14-25, 2020
• The Winterthur Museum, Garden, & Library will host a Fall lecture series September 15-October 27, 2020
• The American Historical Association is holding a webinar on “Careers for Historians in the Tech Industry” on September 29, 2020

PUBLICATIONS

• Museum’s & Social Issues is seeking a new Editor
• Change Over Time: An International Journal of Conservation and the Built Environment is calling for abstracts for their “Legacies of Detention, Isolation, and Quarantine” issue by September 15, 2020
• York University’s Left History is calling for paper submissions on a range of topics
• Rowman & Littlefield published a catalog of new professional books on Museums & Archives and Library & Information Services for 2020
• Johns Hopkins University Press will publish a new book by Mary Rizzo, Come and Be Shocked: Baltimore beyond John Waters and the Wire on September 15, 2020

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