Dear Colleague,
LASA is pleased to announce the following two special competitions and hope that you will find them of interest. Please note the deadline date for submission. Do contact us if you have any additional questions.
Best regards,
LASA Staff
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FORD-LASA Special Projects - FIFTH Cycle
The Ford-LASA Special Projects competition is made possible by a contribution by the Ford Foundation to the LASA Endowment. The funds provide support for such activities as transregional research initiatives, conferences, working groups, the development of curriculum and teaching resources, and similar projects organized and carried out by LASA Sections or by ad hoc groups of LASA members. Proposers are encouraged to think creatively about how this funding might be used to advance the principles of hemispheric collaboration among Latin American Studies scholars and teachers. Proposals that do not assign priority to this objective will not be considered for funding.
Proposals should identify the participants in the proposed activity, the objectives of the project, and the process by which those objectives are to be achieved. The total amount requested in each proposal may not exceed $12,500. Grants may be combined with other sources of funding, and may be used to initiate projects that continue with funding from other sources. No project or group will be funded more than once.
Proposals of no more than five (5) single-spaced pages in length must be received by the LASA Secretariat (lasa@pitt.edu) by September 1, 2009. Proposals will be reviewed by a panel of four LASA members appointed by the President for each program cycle, chaired by the Vice President of LASA.
Preference will be given to projects that involve transregional collaboration in the Western Hemisphere, and which are intended to result in publication of project results. It may be possible for LASA to disseminate project results, including conference papers, through its website, which would not preclude eventual publication in other media. Project directors are encouraged to consider submitting a panel proposal based on their work for presentation at the October 2010 LASA Congress. Within 18 months of the announcement of the award recipients, the project directors will be required to submit a report on the activities undertaken with Special Project funding, suitable for publication in the LASA Forum.
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MELLON-LASA SEMINARS
LASA is pleased to announce a competition for workshop and conference funds as part of the program of Mellon-LASA seminars, made possible through a generous grant to the Association by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. This program is intended to foster innovation in Latin American Studies and enrich LASA Congresses by supporting projects that reflect one or more of the following objectives:
1. Incorporate into Latin American Studies researchers whose primary geographic focus is on other regions of the world, thus adding comparative or connective dimensions to Latin America-related work and/or introducing to the field methodological or analytical perspectives that have typically been applied elsewhere.
2. Challenge conventional geographic boundaries of Latin American Studies, for example by exploring opportunities for articulating research in terms of the Americas, the Atlantic, the Pacific Rim, or other geographic configurations.
3. Integrate into Latin American Studies theoretical and/or methodological perspectives drawn from state-of-the-art research in core disciplines of the social sciences and humanities.
Proposals that do not assign priority to one or more of these objectives will not be considered for funding. Preference will be given to projects that involve significant participation by researchers from Latin America; inclusion of junior scholars is encouraged. To be eligible for consideration, proposals must be submitted by a LASA member in good standing, but other participants in the project need not be members of the Association. Organizers of successful projects must convene a panel at the 2010 LASA meeting in Toronto to present preliminary results of the initiative.
Proposals should identify the participants in the proposed workshop or conference, the objectives of the project, the process by which those objectives are to be achieved, and the anticipated calendar of activities. The total amount requested in each proposal may not exceed $22,000, devoted primarily to covering travel and per diem expenses for workshop participants. Of the project’s total budget, up to $3,000 may be allocated for travel of key participants to present results of the project at a Mellon-LASA panel convened during the October 2010 LASA Congress in Toronto, and up to $3,000 may be reserved for publication support, including translation. Administrative and indirect costs will not be eligible. Grants may be combined with other sources of funding, and may be used to initiate projects that continue with funding from other sources.
This will be the first of three rounds of competitions for Mellon-LASA seminar grants. To be considered for this round, the core project activities must take place prior to the October 2010 LASA Congress in Toronto. No project or group will be funded more than once through this program.
Proposals of no more than five (5) single-spaced pages in length, plus a one-page summary of the budget and one-page c.v.s of principal organizers, must be received by the LASA Secretariat (lasa@pitt.edu) by September 1, 2009. The narrative must make clear how the project will contribute to innovation in Latin American Studies by advancing one or more of the three objectives outlined above. Proposals will be evaluated by a peer review panel, and applicants will be informed of the results by October 1, 2009.
Note: given that most proposals are not likely to be funded, applicants who wish to convene a panel at the 2010 LASA Congress in Toronto should also submit a proposal through the normal channels.
Within 18 months of the announcement of the award recipients, the project director(s) will be required to submit a report on the activities undertaken, suitable for publication in the LASA Forum |
