SLAS Support for Conference and Event Organisation
SLAS funds amounting to around £3,000 annually are available to support conferences and other events which are likely to advance the objects of the Society, to be of high quality, to appeal to a considerable number of members, and which would in other ways reflect well on the Society.
The maximum allocation will be £1,000 per conference or event. All conferences and events supported must be open to all members of the Society, subject to appropriate conference fees being paid. The contribution of the Society to any conference or event is to be clearly and publicly acknowledged.
Applications (no longer than 2-3 pages) should include statements of aims and objectives and projected outcomes. Evidence of firm support from elsewhere and a clear statement of anticipated income and expenditure will normally be required. There are two application dates – 28 February and 28 September. Applications should be submitted electronically to the SLAS Secretary by the appropriate closing date in the semester preceding the proposed event. The Secretary will then circulate the applications to members of the SLAS Committee, and decisions will be made at the first Committee meeting after the closing date.
Applications should be e-mailed to: Adrian.Pearce@sas.ac.uk. Applications arriving after the deadline will not be considered under any circumstances.
Conferences Supported
Conferences supported by the SLAS Conference Grant are:
2010
- Sandra Brunnegger (University of Cambridge). £750 for a conference
‘Legal Subjectivity, Popular / Community Justice and Human Rights in Latin America’
22-23 January 2010.
- Hazel Marsh (University of East Anglia). £750 for conference
‘Mi pueblo me hace cantar: Latin American New Song: A Contemporary Perspective’
16-17 April 2010.
- Fionnghuala Sweeney (University of Liverpool). £500 for conference
‘Afromodernisms 1: Re-encounters with the French and Anglo-Atlantic Worlds, 1907-61’
15-17 April 2010.
- Ame Berges (Institute for the Study of the America). £500 for conference
‘The Historical Roots of Social Exclusion in Latin America and the Caribbean’
24-25 June 2010.
- Sara Motta (University of Nottingham). £500 for conference
‘The Pink Tide: Reconfiguring Politics, Power and Political Economy in the Americas?’
22-24 January 2010.
2009
- Beyond Modernity. How are we writing the political history of the Spanish world in the Middle Period, ca. 1750-1850? 7 March 2009, University of Warwick (Andrea Cadelo and Francisco A. Eissa-Barroso). Report [word]