Symposium Project
The UTK Office of Research, in cooperation with the Humanities Initiative, announces a new program, the Symposium Project. This project will allow individual tenure-track faculty members in the humanities to construct a small symposium that will contribute significantly to the development of an important publication. The symposium is intended to support individual faculty members who are currently engaged in, or who contemplate, a major scholarly project.
We will sponsor an internal competition for funds for two such occasions; $5,000 will be available to invite and entertain visiting scholars for each symposium. This is a specific project with one specific purpose as described above; please address elsewhere any applications for other symposia, conferences, meetings, and so forth.
Applications should include:
- A description of the current or contemplated scholarly project, with particular attention to its intellectual scope and ambition.
- A list of previous recent publications relevant to the project.
- A list of the ideal participants in the symposium, with a rationale for inviting each. This rationale should not be a personal connection, but instead should demonstrate the prominence of the invited scholar, and the intellectual contribution that the scholar can make to the applicant’s project.
- A list of important recent awards, fellowships, appointments, and other scholarly activities indicating a high degree of accomplishment in the field.
Proposals should be emailed by 5pm on May 15, 2010 to Alan Rutenberg, Director, Proposal Development, Office of Research, at arutenberg@utk.edu. The selection committee will include representatives from the Office of Research and The Humanities Initiative committee or its designees.
Faculty members should direct any questions to Alan Rutenberg.