M A R C H http://march.rutgers.edu THE MID-ATLANTIC REGIONAL CENTER FOR THE HUMANITIES AT RUTGERS UNIVERSITY-CAMDEN Mon, 19 Feb 2018 20:33:04 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Call for Proposals: Activist History Review Annual Conference http://march.rutgers.edu/2018/02/call-for-proposals-activist-history-review-annual-conference/ http://march.rutgers.edu/2018/02/call-for-proposals-activist-history-review-annual-conference/#respond Mon, 19 Feb 2018 19:46:57 +0000 http://march.rutgers.edu/?p=12036 ]]>  The Activist History Review has issued a call for proposals for its annual conference, to be held June 18, 2018 at George Washington University in Washington, D.C.  The theme of the conference will be power. Proposals may be for panels, posters, roundtable discussions, or individual papers. The deadline is Monday, April 9.

This is the Activist History Review‘s first conference. The publication was founded after the 2016 election and has since provided a platform for academic resistance and discourse in disciplines threatened by the current political situation in the United States. For more information about the conference and submission details, see The Activist History Review’s website.

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D.C.’s Visionary Historian Award Presented to MARCH Founder Howard Gillette http://march.rutgers.edu/2018/02/d-c-s-visionary-historian-award-presented-to-march-founder-howard-gillette/ Mon, 05 Feb 2018 19:17:56 +0000 http://march.rutgers.edu/?p=12024 Read more ›]]> The Historical Society of Washington, D.C. has named Rutgers-Camden professor emeritus and MARCH founder Howard Gillette as its 2018 Visionary Historian Award recipient. Dr. Gillette spent twenty-nine years at George Washington University and founded its Center for Washington Area Studies in 1980. He was the second editor of Washington History, the Historical Society of Washington’s scholarly journal, published biannually since 1987, and served on the organization’s board of directors. His 1995 work, Between Justice and Beauty: Race, Planning, and the Failure of Urban Policy in Washington, D.C., helped shift the paradigm of the city’s historical scholarship from ‘great white man’ theory to its present intersectionality. 

Dr. Gillette began his professorship at Rutgers-Camden in 1999. His 2005 work, Camden After the Fall, which document’s the city’s decline and renewal efforts after the failure of its industrial center, received best book awards from the New Jersey Historical Commission and the Urban History Association. He currently serves as co-editor of The Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia, published at MARCH.

Dr. Gillette will accept his award at the Historical Society’s anniversary celebration, May 10, 2018, at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center. Tickets will go on sale on March 1.

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Fellowships Available: Library Company of Philadelphia http://march.rutgers.edu/2018/01/fellowships-available-library-company-of-philadelphia/ Wed, 24 Jan 2018 19:19:56 +0000 http://march.rutgers.edu/?p=12018 Read more ›]]> The Library Company of Philadelphia is accepting applications for short-term, dissertation, and post-doctoral fellowships for the 2018-19 academic year. Fellowships will be offered to research that pertains to the Library Company’s collections and those of their local affiliates. The deadline for applications is March 1 and a decision will be announced on April 15. See the Library Company’s website for more details and submission instructions.

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Call for Papers: Third International Conference of Thomas Paine Studies at Iona College http://march.rutgers.edu/2018/01/call-for-papers-third-international-conference-of-thomas-paine-studies-at-iona-college/ Wed, 24 Jan 2018 18:36:01 +0000 http://march.rutgers.edu/?p=12015 Read more ›]]> The Institute for Thomas Paine Studies at Iona College, New Rochelle, New York has issued a call for papers for their Third International Conference. Papers should address the effect of 21st century digital humanities on 18th century sources with particular focus on Thomas Paine and his social circle. Other topics to be addressed include local and international boundaries, political discourse, digital pedagogy and research, gender, race, and class. “All but dissertation” graduate students, junior, and senior scholars are invited to submit proposals. The deadline is February 15, 2018. See the Institute’s website for more details and submission instructions. 

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Call for Papers: Community College and the Future of Humanities http://march.rutgers.edu/2018/01/call-for-papers-community-college-and-the-future-of-humanities/ Mon, 22 Jan 2018 19:08:24 +0000 http://march.rutgers.edu/?p=12007 Read more ›]]> The City University of New York (CUNY) has issued a call for papers for the upcoming conference, Community College and the Future of Humanities. The conference is sponsored by the CUNY Humanities Alliance, a collaboration between the Graduate Center at CUNY and the LaGuardia Community College. It will be held October 18-19, 2018. The call for papers is open to college students – including community college students – as well as graduate students, faculty, and administrators. Papers should address one or more of the following topics: Innovative Pedagogy, Transfer and Continuity, Diversity and Inclusion, Value of Humanities, and/or Research and Professional Pathways. The deadline is March 31. For more details, including elaboration on the topics and submission details, see the CUNY Humanities Alliance website.

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Call for Papers: Master Seminar on Post-Genocide http://march.rutgers.edu/2018/01/call-for-papers-master-seminar-on-post-genocide/ Mon, 22 Jan 2018 18:34:34 +0000 http://march.rutgers.edu/?p=12002 Read more ›]]> Kean University has issued a call for papers for the 4th Master Seminar on Post-Genocide. The seminar will take place at Kean University, Union, N.J. on April 19-20, 2018. The theme will be “Justice After Atrocity?”  The call is open to college seniors, graduate students, and professionals and the deadline is March 1. See the link above for more details and submission instructions.

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Smithsonian to Temporarily Remain Open if Government Shutdown Occurs http://march.rutgers.edu/2018/01/smithsonian-to-temporarily-remain-open-if-government-shutdown-occurs/ Fri, 19 Jan 2018 16:49:15 +0000 http://march.rutgers.edu/?p=11999 Read more ›]]> The Smithsonian Institution has announced that its museums and zoos will remain open for the weekend, despite the looming threat of a government shutdown. Institution officials announced on Thursday, January 19, that the complex in Washington, DC would remain open for the weekend of January 20-21 even if Congress failed to reach a budget decision. The complex, which is the largest museum, research, and education system in the world, would close on Monday until such a decision was reached and the government resumed regular operations. Its two museums in New York City, the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum and the National Museum of the American Indian, would also close.

The fate of other National Parks and Monuments remains in limbo as of writing. The Trump administration has expressed a desire to keep them open at least in limited capacity during the potential shutdown. A shutdown would affect some of the nation’s most popular tourism destinations, including Ellis Island and the Statue of Liberty in New York, Independence Hall and the Liberty Bell in Philadelphia, and the aforementioned Smithsonian.

A similar situation in 2013 saw the National Parks system closed for over two weeks, from October 1 until the Continuing Appropriations Act, 2014 was signed by President Obama on October 17. Images of children and families standing in front of closed and barricaded parks and monuments became some of the most popular portrayal’s of the government shutdown’s effect on ordinary Americans and tourists. In addition, the non-essential Parks employees were furloughed, while essential services employees reported to work unaware of when they would be paid for their labor. 

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National Library of Medicine Debuts Traveling Exhibit http://march.rutgers.edu/2018/01/national-library-of-medicine-debuts-traveling-exhibit/ Wed, 17 Jan 2018 20:06:12 +0000 http://march.rutgers.edu/?p=11995 Read more ›]]> The National Library of Medicine will debut a new traveling exhibit, Graphic Medicine: Ill-Conceived and Well-Drawn! The exhibit will examine personal illness narratives in comics and graphic novels. Graphic Medicine will open at the NLM’s Bethesda, Maryland campus on January 30, 2018 and remain on view until January 3, 2019. After January 3, it will be made available to institutions free of charge, traveling to fifty sites in four years.

There will be an online exhibit with K-12 and university-level lesson plans, also to be launched on January 30.  Both versions curated by New York Times Bestselling author Ellen Forney, whose 2012 graphic novel Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo, and Me addresses her own battle with bipolar disorder.

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NEH Announces Humanities Infrastructure Grant Program http://march.rutgers.edu/2018/01/neh-announces-humanities-infrastructure-grant-program/ Wed, 17 Jan 2018 18:37:21 +0000 http://march.rutgers.edu/?p=11993 Read more ›]]> The National Endowment for the Humanities has announced a new grant program aimed at developing and sustaining humanities infrastructure. The Infrastructure and Capacity-Building Challenge Grant program will award matching grants to museums, libraries, archives, historical sites, and other institutions in the humanities, helping them with the necessary finances to build capacity and infrastructure and to sustain themselves. Grants may be used to purchase equipment, document lost cultural heritage, build or renovate structures, sustain digital humanities projects, and to preserve and conserve humanities collections. The deadline for proposals is March 15, 2018. See the NEH’s press release for more information on the program and submission instructions.

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Gun Barrel Returning to Battleship New Jersey http://march.rutgers.edu/2018/01/gun-barrel-returning-to-battleship-new-jersey/ Fri, 12 Jan 2018 19:14:32 +0000 http://march.rutgers.edu/?p=11987 Read more ›]]> The USS New Jersey has been permanently docked on the Camden, New Jersey waterfront since its decommission in the late 1990s. The Iowa-class battleship was built in the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard and launched on December 7, 1942, the first anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor, to fight on the Pacific Front of World War II. With her sixteen-inch anti-aircraft barrels, her crew was able to cripple the Japanese air force at the Battle of the Philippine Sea and fight off suicide attacks by kamikaze pilots off the coast of Okinawa, Japan. In 1954, she was renovated for us in the Korean War and the anti-aircraft guns were removed at that time. She was launched again to shell North Korean targets during that conflict, after which she was decommissioned into the reserve fleet, also known as the “mothball fleet.” Heavy naval losses in the Vietnam War led to her reactivation for use in that conflict. 

In 1982, the forty-year-old ship was modernized and renovated, and the next year she was launched to fight in the Lebanese Civil War. New Jersey‘s last action was in 1991 in the Persian Gulf, though another decommission prevented service during Operation Desert Storm.

Over the half-century the New Jersey was in action, the battleship earned a total of nineteen battle stars, including nine for World War II. The accolades made the New Jersey the most decorated battleship in United States Naval history. After a renovation at her home port, the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard, she reached her final home on the Camden Waterfront in 1999 and opened as a floating museum in 2001.

But what of the sixty-six foot gun barrels removed in 1954? For the past sixty-four years they have been unceremoniously left to the elements, stored outdoors at the Norfolk Naval Shipyard’s Saint Juliens Creek Annex. Recently, organizations have scrambled to raise funds to bring the guns home to New Jersey before they were scrapped. 

The Battleship New Jersey Museum will soon reap the rewards for their effort. On January 12, 2018, one of the enormous gun barrels was removed from Norfolk and sent on its way home to the battleship. Two others were also removed, with one earmarked for the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard (now operating as a business center under the name The Navy Yard). The third will find a home at the Mahan Collection Foundation of Basking Ridge, NJ. The Mahan Foundation recently contributed to the refurbishment and reinstallation of one of New Jersey‘s quad-guns, which had been mounted at The Navy Yard for half a century after its removal. The museum hopes to eventually have a fully functioning anti-aircraft gun display to use in education and events.

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