Graduate International Colloquia Grants
A Graduate Colloquia grant provides an opportunity for graduate students to invite scholars to campus and catalyze discussion on a topic of relevance to their study from an international perspective. These colloquia call on graduate students to collaborate in a year-long exploration or research venture that can promote intellectual growth while contributing to the advancement of learning in engagement with global peers. The colloquium should provide graduate students an opportunity to engage with faculty members, from Brown and elsewhere, in a workshop setting. OIA will grant up to $5,000 to fund successful Graduate Colloquium proposals.
SELECTION CRITERIA:
- Does the proposed colloquium topic contribute to internationalizing academic pursuits at Brown in ways that interrogate our disciplinary cannons and bring new perspectives to the discussion?
- Is the colloquium structured so that graduate students can pursue a subject of common interest, meet on a regular basis, exchange views, papers, and research methods?
- Will it contribute to the internationalization of the institutional culture of the University?
- Will it encourage a collaborative association among faculty members and graduate students, both within Brown and in relation to global peers?
DEADLINE AND ELIGIBILITY:
Applications will be accepted on a rolling basis until April 6, 2009. Successful candidates will be notified by April 21, 2008. Post-doctoral fellows who will be in residence next year are also eligible to apply.
Please send completed applications to Graduate International Colloquia Grants at Box 1919, or you may drop off at Watson #229.
What projects could qualify for this grant?
A range of different initiatives are possible. For example, a group of students reading for general exams in a specific field might invite a scholar from abroad to meet with them to provide an intellectual map of that field as it looks from their perspective. Another group may wish to bring researchers from foreign laboratories working on similar problems in different ways, or fund a series of meetings to explore literatures relevant to their research from various foreign perspectives. Normally, these grants will not be awarded to fund conferences of foreign travel by Brown students or faculty --- the objective is to bring international perspectives into the research and teaching done in the Brown graduate division. We encourage those receiving awards to maximize the contribution to teaching and research on the campus made by those funded.
What expenses might be covered by this grant?
The award can be used for honoraria and travel for visiting lecturers, circulation of materials for readings, food and other costs entailed in convening discussion seminars. The guest speaker does not have to be based in another country; rather, the focus is on the international dimension of the intellectual perspective that he or she will bring to the field of study.