April 12, 2018
The Care of Industrial Artifacts
Webinar
Presented by the Connecting to Collections Care
April 13, 2018
Re-Imagining Your Membership Program
Bristol, RI
Presented by the NEMA Membership / Development / PR / Marketing Professional Affinity Group and the Bristol Art Museum
April 13 – 15, 2018
Sharing Partnerships in Preservation and Presentation of New England History
Hallowell, ME
Association for Living History, Farm and Agricultural Museums New England Regional Conference
April 16, 2018
Creating New Spaces: Artists and Historic Sites Converge
Mark Twain House and Museum, Hartford, CT
Presented by the Historic Sites PAG
April 16 – June 15, 2018
Caring for Museum Collections
Online course presented by AASLH
April 17, 2018
Twitter 101 Workshop
Avon, CT
CLHO Workshop
April 18, 2018
Meet up of museum colleagues in Worcester
Worcester, MA
April 18 - 21, 2018
Power Lines NCPH Conference
Las Vegas, NV
National Council on Public History
April 22-28, 2018
Preservation Week
Association for Library Collections & Technology Services (ALCTS), a division of the American Library Association (ALA), encourages libraries and other institutions to use Preservation Week to connect communities through events, activities, and resources that highlight what we can do, individually and together, to preserve our personal and shared collections.
April 23 - 24, 2018
Connecting your collections to teachers and students
New Hampshire Historical Society, Concord, NH
American Association for State and Local History workshop
April 23 - 27, 2018
Compensation for Loss in the Conservation of Photographic Materials
George Eastman Museum, Rochester, NY
American Institute for Conservation workshop with instructors: James Bernstein, Debra Evans, and Victoria Binder.
April 24, 2018
The Technology, Data and People Behind Forecasting in the National Weather Service
Clark University, Worcester, MA
MITS Professional Development Seminar
April 24, 2018
Preserving Family Recipes
Webinar
April 25, 2018
Wish I'd Taken a Class in that in Grad School with Cinnamon Catlin Legutko, President/CEO, Abbe Museum
Lunch with NEMA Webinar
April 26, 2018
Learning, Creating, and Having Fun: Museums as Social Hubs with CT Museum Educators Roundtable
CLHO Workshop
Mattatuck Museum, Waterbury, CT
April 26 - 27, 2018
Spring 2018 Director/Board Chair Workshop & Trustee/Director Forum
San Diego, CA
Museum Trustee Association
April 26 - 28, 2018
American Council of Learned Societies Annual Meeting
Philadelphia, PA
April 26 - 28, 2018
Encuentro 2018
Providence, RI
Presented by Latinos in Heritage Conservation, Rhode Island Latino Arts, and the Rhode Island Historical Preservation & Heritage Commission
April 26 - 29, 2018
The 26th Annual Newport Symposium
Presented by the Preservation Society of Newport County
April 27 - 30, 2018
MSA Forward 2018: Mastering Non-Profit Retail
Washington, DC
The Museum Store Association Annual Retail Conference & Expo
May 2 - 6, 2018
The Upper Hudson: Four Centuries of Craft and Commerce
Albany and Troy, NY
The Decorative Arts Trust's Spring 2018 Symposium
May 3, 2018
Memories, Mentors, and Milestones
The Paul Revere House, Boston, MA
May 4, 2018
Cultural Conversation
Providence, RI
Presented by the Rhode Island Council for the Humanities and the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts. This conversation will include the entire Rhode Island Congressional delegation, and our special guests, Jane Chu, National Endowment for the Arts Chairman and Karen Kenton, Acting Director of the Federal/State Partnership at the National Endowment for the Humanities.
May 5, 2018
Demystifying Democracy: Understanding Rhode Island's State Budget Process
RISD Museum, Providence, RI
Presented by Common Cause Rhode Island
May 6 - 9, 2018
Educate, Engage, Elevate! Museums on the Rise
Phoenix, AZ
American Alliance of Museums (AAM) Annual Meeting & MuseumExpo
May 8- 12, 2018
44th CAC Annual Conference and Workshops
Kingston, Ontario, Canada
Canadian Association for Conservation of Cultural Property
May 9, 2018
2018 Connecticut Governor’s Conference on Tourism
Hartford, CT
May 15 - 18, 2018
InterActivity 2018: Open Source Play, Sharing the Creative Code
Raleigh, NC
Association of Children's Museums
May 17, 2018
Part 1: Out in All Weather! Conservation and preservation of outdoor sculpture, hardscape and architectural fabric made of stone, metal and wood.
Old Sturbridge Village, Sturbridge, MA
Presented by the Conservators PAG
May 19, 2018
Connoisseurship and Artful Deceptions: Understanding 18th-Century English Ceramic
Historic Deerfield One-Day Decorative Arts Forum in association with the Decorative Arts Trust
May 29 - June 2, 2018
Material Matters 2018
Houston, TX
American Institute for Conservation Annual Meeting
May 31 - June 2, 2018
The Society of Civil War Historians Conference
Omni William Penn Hotel, Pittsburgh, PA
June 1, 2018
The Practice of Mindful Leadership Workshop
The House of Seven Gables, Salem, MA
June 1-4
Interpreting Our Multicultural Past
Tahlequah, OK
Association for Living History, Farm and Agricultural Museums 2018 Conference
June 4, 2018
14th Annual Massachusetts History Conference
College of Holy Cross, Worcester, MA
Mass History Alliance Conference
June 4, 2018
CLHO Annual Conference
Central Connecticut State University, CT
June 8, 2018
Library Protection Workshop - New England
Half-day workshop
The Manchester Community College, Manchester, CT
June 8, 2018
Historic Preservation and Downtown Conference
Bristol, VT
June 12, 2018
Being "the Room Where It Happens:" Museum Opportunities for Civic Engagement
Edward M Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate, Boston, MA
June 14 - 16, 2018
Nonprofit Leadership Institute
Unity, ME
Presented by the Maine Association of Nonprofits. Application deadline is April 13, 2018.
June 14, 2018
Part 2: Out in All Weather! Conservation and preservation of outdoor sculpture, hardscape and architectural fabric made of stone, metal and wood.
Woodstock Historical Society, Woodstock, CT
Presented by the Conservators PAG
June 18 - 21, 2018
Fostering Transparency, Strengthening Public Trust
Chicago, IL
Association of Midwest Museums (AMM) and Visitor Studies Association Joint Conference
June 18 - 20, 2018
Museum Next
London
June 21 - 23, 2018
The Craft of Documentary Editing
Olympia, Washington
Annual Meeting for the Association of Documentary Editing.
June 21 - June 23, 2018
SHA Annual Meeting
Philidelphia, PA
The Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations Annual Meeting
June 21 - 24, 2018
Audacious Ideas: University Museums and Collections as Change-Agents for a Better World
Lowe Art Museum,University of Miami, FL
The Association of Academic Museums and Galleries Annual Conference
June 22, 2018
Investing In Your Financial Literacy
Strawbery Banke, Portsmouth, NH
NEMA Workshop
June 22 - 27, 2018
2018 Civil War Institute Conference
Civil War Institute at Gettysburg College
June 27 - 28, 2018
Churches and Sacred Places
Vermont Preservation Retreat and Partners for Sacred Places
July 16 - 20, 2018
The River, Drifting Continents, Dinosaurs, and a Glacial Lake: Understanding the Amazing Stories Preserved in our Rocks and Landscape
Historic Deerfield, Deerfield, MA
July 16 - 17, 2018
Historic Preservation & Community
Vermont Preservation Retreat
July 18 - 21, 2018
The Visitor Studies Association Annual Conference
Chicago, IL
July 21 - 25, 2018
Botany 2018: Thriving with Diversity
Rochester, MN
October 15 - 16, 2018
DIGITAL DIRECTIONS: Fundamentals of Creating and Managing Digital Collections
Atlanta, GA
Presented by NEDCC
October 28 - November 17, 2018
History Leadership Institute
Formerly Seminar for Historical Administration.
Applications due May 15, 2018
CALL FOR PAPERS
The Northeast Popular/American Culture Association has a call for proposals for their 2018 fall conference held at Worcester State University in Worcester, MA, the weekend of October 19-20, 2018. The deadline for proposals is June 1, 2018.
The Connecticut Center for the Book at Connecticut Humanities is now accepting submissions for the Connecticut Book Awards! These awards recognize the best books of 2017 by authors and illustrators who reside in Connecticut. Submissions must be postmarked by 5:00 p.m. on April 20, 2018.
Proposals are invited for Salve Regina University's Annual Cultural and Historic Preservation Conference, which will be held on October 12-13. Both individual papers and complete sessions are welcome on the theme "Community Preservation through Adaptive Reuse." Potential topics include position papers, conceptualizing adaptive reuse, historical analysis, and case studies. Papers in any field of academic or applied preservation (e.g. architecture, architectural history, archaeology, museum studies, preservation planning/policy) and public history are welcome. Submission Deadline: May 1, 2018.