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APPLYING FOR TRAVEL
GRANTS FOR
THE D.C. SHAW
CONFERENCE
OF OCTOBER 15-18, 2009
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The International Shaw Society is offering up to ten travel grants of up
to $500 each to young scholars (40 and under) to help defray unreimbursed
expenses involved in attending the Shaw Conference in Washington, D.C. on
October 15-18, 2009. These grants, to
begin with, will pay the conference registration fee.
The registration fee covers much of your cost: it includes the welcome
reception at the Irish Embassy on Thursday evening, all sessions at CUA’s
Pryzbyla Center on Friday and Saturday, continental breakfasts there,
refreshments during the day, buffet banquets on Friday & Saturday nights,
tickets to two Shaw productions, and chartered bus transportation back to the
conference hotel after the plays. For possible assistance in meeting other,
unreimbursed conference expenses as well (hotel, flight, etc.), please explain
your need for additional funding below. Whatever
the grant (up to $500 total), you are expected to attend the entire conference
and, if scheduled, to deliver a paper or participate on a panel. Send application below to committee chair
Professor Leonard Conolly, preferably as an email attachment (lconolly@trentu.ca),
but otherwise by mail to Professor Leonard Conolly, Department of English,
Trent University, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada K9J 7B8. Please copy ISS president Richard Dietrich at
dietrich@cas.usf.edu on all submissions. See www.shawsociety.org/DC-Shaw-Conference.htm
for conference details, including the rate on the conference hotel (a special rate is available for the conference hotel, the Hilton Rockville,
where an ISS business meeting will be held on Sunday morning, Oct. 18).
ELIGIBILITY
Generally, any young scholar 40 or under may apply, whether student or
faculty or independent. Students should
be registered at a recognized degree-granting institution. Preference will be given to applicants who
are also submitting a proposal for a paper to be presented at the
conference.
APPLICATION
Applicants for the grant should send, all
in one document and in this order, a covering letter, an application form,
an abstract, and a current c.v. (see below) to the selection committee by
attachment to an email to committee chair Professor Leonard Conolly at lconolly@trentu.ca or by mail to Dr. Conolly at the Department
of English, Trent University, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada K9J 7B8. Proposals for papers
should go to the same addresses. Please
copy ISS president R. F. Dietrich at dietrich@cas.usf.edu
on all submissions.
DEADLINES:
Ø Deadline for submitting a 300-500 word abstract for a paper is May 1, 2009.
Ø Deadline for grant/scholarship applications is also May 1, 2009.
Ø Candidates will be notified in June, 2009, regarding the acceptance of
their paper proposal and grant/scholarship application.
ISS MEMBERSHIP: You need not be a
member of the ISS to apply for this grant.
Non-members who receive a grant will be given a free membership to the
ISS for the balance of the year 2009 and for 2010.
APPLICATION FORM FOR ISS
TRAVEL GRANTS: Click HERE for a form that
can be downloaded, expanded as needed, and printed out or just attached to an
email. Or you could print it out and
retype, expanding as needed.
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