SLAS Support for Conference and Event Organisation
SLAS makes available funds amounting to £3,000 annually to support conferences and other events which are likely to be of high quality, to advance the objects of the Society, and to appeal to a considerable number of its members.
The maximum allocation is £1,000 per conference or event. All conferences and events supported must be open to all members of the Society (subject to payment of conference fees). The contribution of the Society to any conference or event must be clearly and publicly acknowledged. The criteria for the award are:
- Originality and potential contribution of the proposed conference / event
- Intellectual rationale
- Feasibility and coherence of the programme
To apply, please fill in the application form available here [Word], and send it by email to the SLAS Secretary, Dr Sarah Bowskill, at: s.bowskill@qub.ac.uk.
There are two annual deadlines for this scheme: 28 September and 28 February. SLAS will not consider applications for conferences held within one month of the deadline for submission of applications.
Please note that successful applicants must pay the costs associated with their conference or event in advance, and will be reimbursed by SLAS up to the amount of the award upon production of conference or event accounts.
Applications arriving after the deadline will not be considered under any circumstances.
For any queries, please e-mail: Adrian.Pearce@kcl.ac.uk.
Conferences Supported
Conferences supported by the SLAS Conference Grant are:
2011
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]