This program supports projects in the humanities and related social sciences that bridge disciplinary or geographic boundaries, engage new sources, develop fresh approaches to traditional materials and issues, or otherwise bring innovative perspectives to the study of Chinese culture and society. Proposals are expected to be empirically grounded, theoretically informed, and methodologically explicit. The program especially encourages proposals concerning pre-modern China.
The program will support collaborative work of three types:
Planning Meetings - Grants up to $6,000 will be offered for one-day meetings to plan conferences or workshops, or for less structured explorations (e.g., brainstorming sessions) on issues of Chinese culture and society.
Workshops - Grants up to $15,000 will be offered for workshops designed to facilitate ongoing research on newly available or inadequately researched data or texts. Workshops are understood to last three to four days and provide an opportunity for participants to discuss and analyze new approaches and/or new sources in a seminar-like setting.
Conferences - Grants up to $25,000 will be offered for formal research conferences intended to produce significant new research that will be published in a conference volume.
The program aims to promote interchange among scholars who may not otherwise have the opportunity to work together. Accordingly, proposals will not be supported for activities of scholars from one institution or that fall within an institution's normal range of colloquia, symposia, or seminar series. The program will not support regularly scheduled meetings, conventions, or parts thereof. Proposals must include at least one scholar from Taiwan as a participant.
The deadline for completed applications is September 15, 2009.
Visit http://www.acls.org/programs/cck for program guidelines and application information. Decisions will be announced in late November/December 2009.
Kelly Buttermore
Grants Coordinator
American Council of Learned Societies
633 Third Avenue, 8th Floor
New York, NY 10017
Tel: (212) 697-1505, ext. 146
Fax: (212) 949-8058
Email: kbuttermore@acls.org