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Saturday, January 15, 2011

Conference Grants in East European Studies: American Council of Learned Societies

Overview

The American Council of Learned Societies offers grants of up to $25,000 for the organization of conferences and up to $12,500 for the organization of workshops to be held between June 1, 2011 and December 31, 2012.

Purpose To support the organization of conferences and workshops for the presentation and critical evaluation of new research on Eastern Europe.

Conferences are formal events and should be open to the public. Conference papers should be of publishable quality, pointing new directions for scholarship.

Workshops are conceived as smaller events at which scholars discuss work in progress less formally with the intention of developing collaborations and planning conferences. A workshop should hold at least one public session such as a panel of paper presentations, a roundtable, or a lecture with discussion.

Outreach The funder, the U.S. State Department, seeks to benefit from conferences and workshops supported by ACLS grants. Though topics may range over a variety of fields in the humanities and social sciences, in each instance it should be clear how the knowledge being presented contributes to a better understanding of contemporary Eastern Europe and U.S. policy related to it. Publicity about conference and workshop sessions should be sent, as appropriate, to State Department analysts and researchers and those at other government agencies. Publicity should also be circulated to specialists not affiliated with universities so that information presented may have a broader resonance.

Award amounts: A maximum of $25,000 for conferences and $12,500 for workshops.


Eligibility – applicants: Conference/workshop organizers must be U.S. citizens holding the Ph.D. and affiliated with U.S. universities or centers of advanced study. Participants may include non-U.S. citizens, but their expenses must be paid by funds external to this grant. Conferences and workshops must be held either in the United States or in Eastern Europe. Conferences and workshops should enable collaboration among scholars who might not otherwise have the opportunity to work together. Events whose participants come mostly from one institution, or that fall within an institution’s normal range of symposia, colloquia, or seminar series, are not eligible.

Eligibility – topics: Topics should deal with Eastern Europe, defined as Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Kosovo/a, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Montenegro, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, and/or Slovenia. Papers should focus on a clearly articulated and intellectually coherent theme, which may propose to compare these countries with others in the region or with other areas of the world. Inter- and multi-disciplinarity in topics or approaches – across fields in the humanities and social sciences – is welcome.

Selection criteria include the intrinsic intellectual merit of the proposed conference/workshop, its significance to the field of East European Studies, and the effectiveness with which proposed papers contribute to the overall theme. Priority will be given to conference/workshop proposals that include scholars from diverse institutions and that show strong participation by early-career scholars, including doctoral candidates.

Instructions for applicants

Applications should consist of the following elements, numbered and arranged as below:

A. Cover sheet – please use the attached forms.

B. Application essay – maximum five double-spaced pages.

C. Budget – Please use the template provided or a similar form to show estimated expenses grouped in several general categories. Use footnotes to explain how particular estimates were derived. The final report will be required to compare estimated and actual expenses. Funds are intended primarily for participants’ travel, lodging, and meals.

Not eligible for support are direct research expenses such as field work, research materials, analysis of data; salaries or released time for organizers or participants; honoraria or speaker’s fees; purchase of equipment; and institutional overhead.

On the form provided, please indicate who will be responsible for receiving ACLS funds and disbursing them, for record-keeping, and for preparing and signing a final financial report. Funds may be released to an individual or to an institution, but the proposal must make clear how funds will be administered.

D. Curricula vitae for the conference organizers – three pages maximum for each CV.

E. A working bibliography of relevant sources.

F. A roster of conference/workshop participants with full names, titles, and institutional affiliations, clearly designating those who have already agreed to join the project and those who have yet to be contacted or have not responded to inquiries.

G. A description of participant contributions – please provide abstracts of papers to be delivered, or an annotated list of proposed paper titles and their stages of completion at the time of proposal submission.



Deadline: ACLS must receive your application by January 28, 2011.



MAILING INSTRUCTIONS

Address for electronic submissions: obukhina@acls.org

Address for U.S. Mail or other delivery service:
Committee on East European Studies
Attn: Olga Bukhina
American Council of Learned Societies
633 Third Avenue
New York, NY 10017-6795
Tel. (212) 697-1505 ext 130

No applications will be accepted by fax.
Applications should not contain material that cannot be easily photocopied.

Please address all questions to the ACLS Coordinator of International Programs, Olga Bukhina, by email obukhina@acls.org or by phone (212) 697-1505 ext 130.

http://www.acls.org/grants/Default.aspx?id=536


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