Applications for workshop, performance, or conference funding should include:
- a 500 word (max.) summary of the project
- a detailed budget
- a list of speakers/ artists/ performers invited
- letter of support from the Department Chair
- evidence of other funding obtained or requested.
Grant amounts up to $10,000. In lieu of funds, one course release may be provided for faculty involved in year-long interdisciplinary workshops. Applicants choosing this option are required to have the written approval of the department Chair. Applications are evaluated by a Review Board composed of tenure-stream faculty of the Bloomington campus.
N.B.: The Institute will not provide financial support for professional conferences (unless funds are requested to invite specific guest-speakers) or honoraria for IU faculty.
Upon Completion of an Award
The Institute requires that all grant and fellowship recipients send a brief description of the scholarly/artistic activities accomplished as a result of the CAHI award by the end of the semester following the award period. All grant recipients are kindly requested to acknowledge the support of the College Arts and Humanities Institute in any flyers, posters, publications or publicity.
Titles of recent conferences/ workshops sponsored:
- Variations on Blackness (American Studies and African American and African Diaspora Studies)
- Recent Events: Modernisms and Modernities (Modernism Study Group)
- MFA Creative Writing Program Master Classes 2006-2007 (English – Creative Writing Program)
- Visual Culture in Early Modern Europe (Renaissance Studies)
- Genealogy of Political Imaginaries in Latin America: Reverberations on the Contemporary Left (Caribbean and Latin American Studies, History, and Gender Studies)
- Techno Music and Audio Visual Archives (Folklore & Ethnomusicology and Archives of African American Music & Culture)
- Polish-German Post/Memory: Aesthetics, Ethics, Politics (Polish Studies Center and Slavic Languages and Literatures)
- Performing Community: Aesthetics and Politics, Violence and Re-mediation (Germanic Studies, CMLT)
- Field of Vision: Contemporary Jewelry and Hollowware Symposium (Fine Arts – Studio)