Submit your proposals for LSA 2018 is “Latinx Studies Now.” The deadline has been extended to February 8, 2018. “Latinx Studies Now: DC 2018” will be an energetic space for encountering the many forms and directions Latinx Studies takes today.

Click here to read more about the upcoming gathering. 

Distinguished scholars in History or Political Science are invited to apply for the Wayne N. Aspinall Chair at Colorado Mesa University.  For a $10,000 stipend, the visiting professor will spend three weeks on the Colorado Mesa University campus in late March-early April 2019, teach a one credit course, give a major public lecture, and make any other invited appearances. Applications must include a vitae, a brief outline of a course proposal and a topic for the major public lecture.  Submit application by February 9, 2018 to: Professor Steven C. Schulte, Department of History, Colorado Mesa University, 1100 North Ave., Grand Junction, CO 81501.  Feel free to direct any inquiries to Schulte@coloradomesa.edu or 970 248-1418. 

Over the past several decades, Vicki Ruiz has made tremendous contributions to the field of Western History. This year, the Western History Association would like to create an article award for the best article on race in the american west to honor her work. The article will be given annually to authors in the WHA who have written an article in any peer reviewed journal and it will be called the Vicki Ruiz Award for Best Article on Race in the American West. Please donate to this fund to get this endowment off the ground either through the award's GoFundMe site or through the WHA Donor page (all of the money will go to the same fund). 

The 2018 Call for Posters is now open at http://bit.ly/ncph2018posters! 

What is the NCPH Poster Session? The poster session is an opportunity to share project-based work with attendees in a creative, visual format that invites lively discussion. 

NCPH’s poster session at the annual meeting is a great way to showcase research-in-progress and get feedback. Submissions are due Wednesday, October 25, 2017 at 11:59 pm. 

Please use the form http://ncph.org/conference/poster-proposal-form/ to submit your proposal. 

For more information, see our website at http://bit.ly/ncph2018cfps.  

Please email NCPH Program Assistant Meghan Hillman at meghillm@iupui.edu with any questions.

To submit a proposal or for more information, please visit http://www.wawh.org/conferences/.  WAWH welcomes historians and scholars at all career stages and in all career choices.       

INTRODUCTION

Considered one of the most important photo historians of the 20th century, Peter E. Palmquist (1936-2003) had a keen interest in the photography of the American West, California, and Humboldt County before 1950, and the history of women in photography worldwide. He published over 60 books and 340 articles and was a strong proponent of the concept of the independent researcher-writer in the field of photohistory. With co-author Thomas Kailbourn, he won the Caroline Bancroft Western History Prize for their book, Pioneer Photographers of the Far West. Professor Martha Sandweiss, Princeton University, wrote, “He (Peter) established new ways of pursuing the history of photography, and with his collections and research notes soon to be accessible at Yale, he will be speaking to and inspiring new generations of students and researchers forever.” Established by Peter’s lifetime companion, Pam Mendelsohn, this fund supports the study of under-researched women photographers internationally, past and present, and under-researched Western American photographers before 1900.

A small panel of outside consultants with professional expertise in the field of photohistory and/or grant reviewing will review the applications in order to determine the awards. Applications will be judged on the quality of the proposal, the ability of the applicant to carry out the project within the proposed budget and timeline, and the significance of the project to the field of photographic history. Each recipient of the award will agree to donate upon completion of the project a copy of the resulting work (i.e., published book, unpublished report, thesis, etc.) to the Humboldt Area Foundation to submit to the Peter Palmquist Archive at Yale University’s Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library and a report to Humboldt Area Foundation at the end of the grant period. We ask that award recipients acknowledge the financial assistance provided by the Palmquist Memorial Fund in publications or other work products supported by that fund.

RANGE OF AWARDS: $500 - $1,500

ELIGIBILITY

Individuals researching Western American photography before 1900 or women in photography as well as nonprofit institutions conducting research in these fields are eligible to apply.

Completed applications must be postmarked by: November 1, 2017 by 5:00 pm, and submitted to:

 Humboldt Area Foundation • 363 Indianola Road, Bayside, CA 95524 Award Recipients will be notified by January 15, 2018

For more information contact:

Humboldt Area Foundation at (707) 442-2993

University of Hawai’i – Mānoa, June 29 – 30, 2018

Emerging historical scholarship is upending older work on whaling and showcasing it as an ideal medium with which to investigate human relationships with the oceans and with each other.  Whales offer investigative bridgeheads into the cultural histories of non-human species, the hidden histories of energy economies, and the complicated histories of cross-cultural contact. Whale histories are demonstrating to environmental historians the various scales, including oceanic scales, with which they can work and are challenging them to consider new forms of evidence and new tools of interpretation. This international symposium aims to bring together the excellent scholarship integrating the history of Pacific whaling with environmental and cross-cultural history.  We seek participants from around the world to convene next year at Honolulu, the Center of the Pacific Whaling Industry. We especially welcome scholarship that engages Pacific and environmental history and examines the crucial linkages between whaling, animal histories, indigenous histories, capitalism, diplomacy, environmental change, and globalization.

Participants will be expected to pre-circulate drafts of works in progress in advance of the symposium. Selected papers will be published as a special issue of Rachel Carson Center’s Perspectives.  Travel and lodging costs will be covered by the seminar sponsors.

For those interested, please email 250-word paper proposals along with a short cv to the symposium conveners by October 1, 2017.

Ryan Tucker Jones, University of Oregon, rtj@uoregon.edu

Angela Wanhalla, University of Otago, angela.wanhalla@otago.ac.nz  

Northwestern Oklahoma State University’s Department of Social Sciences and the Northwestern Institute for Citizenship Studies announce the upcoming Chisholm Trail Symposium that will be held on Friday, Sept. 15, at the Northwestern-Enid campus, Enid, Oklahoma.

Scholars, students and members of the general public are invited to participate. Professional development certificates will also be issued to teachers who attend the symposium.  The deadline for participant registration is Friday, Sept. 1.  A free lunch is provided for registered participants. Conference planners are still seeking submissions of scholarly papers and/or research posters from professional or student historians on the subject of the Chisholm Trail.

For more information about the symposium, registration, or paper/poster submissions, contact Jana Brown (580) 327-8521 or jdbrown@nwosu.edu or Ken Kelsey (580) 327-8523 or kdkelsey@nwosu.edu.

The Montana Historical Society will be holding its 44^th annual history conference on September 21-23, 2017 in Helena, Montana. Registration closed September 15. 

To learn more, visit http://mhs.mt.gov/education/ConferencesWorkshops. To receive a copy of the full conference program contact Joy Lewis at 406-444-1799 or email jlewis@mt.gov. 

 The conference features workshops for educators and genealogists, sessions on a wide range of topics, and keynote presentations. Sessions will look at both those who supported WWI and those who opposed it. Presentations will cover themes ranging from the contributions of African-American Montanans and U.S. Forest Service fighting overseas to the involvement of women on the home front and in Europe to the Montana Sedition Act and gun registry created by the Montana Council of Defense. Other speakers will discuss issues that helped define life during this time period but weren’t directly tied to the war, including gambling laws and Prohibition.