The IMLR Conference Grant Scheme aims to support the study of modern languages and/or Latin American studies outside London, to promote inter-institutional collaborations, and bring together scholars from the wider area as participants or attendees.
Applicants can apply for a maximum of £2,000.
The call for applications will open in February 2021, for events to be held between 1 September 2021 and 30 June 2022. The deadline for applications is 11 April 2021.
Further details / how to apply (PDF)
2021 Competition Winners
Mara Fuertes Gutiérrez and Rosina Márquez-Reiter: ‘Diversity and social justice in language teaching and learning: bringing theory and practice together’ (Open University)
Rebecca Irons and Katie Brown: 'Venezuela, Dispersed: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Venezuelan Migration and the Diaspora’ (Exeter)
Helena Miguélez-Carballeira and Maite Usoz de la Fuente: ‘Poetics of the Sayable: Framing Crisis and Conflict in Contemporary Spain’ (Bangor)
2020 Competition Winners
Derek Duncan and Ramsey McGlazer: ‘Queer Epistemicides’ (St Andrews)
Tom Smith: ‘Words, Musics and Marginalisation’ (St Andrews)
Steven Wilson and Hannah Grayson: ‘Languages of Disease in the Contemporary Francophone World’ (Stirling)
2019 Competition Winners
Martin Hurcombe: ‘Telling the Story of Sport: Narrating Sport in a Global Context’ (Bristol)
Anja Louis and Abigail Loxham: ‘Gender and Transnational TV’ (Sheffield Hallam, Liverpool)
Rosalind Silvester: ‘Sino-French Synergies: The Value of Transcultural Creativity’ (QUB)
2018 Competition Winners
Claire Gorrara and Tom Albeson: 'Photography and the Languages of Reconstruction after the Second World War, 1944-49' (Cardiff)
Lisa Shaw, Alan Rice and Adjoa Osei: 'Gender, "Race" and Performance: re-visiting the Black Atlantic' (Liverpool)
Sami Everett and Rebekah Vince: 'Jewish-Muslim Relations in Performance Culture across the Maghreb and France' (Cambridge)
2017 Competition Winners
Dr Rui Miranda (Nottingham): “Post-Conflict Reconstructions: Latin American Democracies in Transition" (March 2018)
Professor Bill Marshall, Professor David Murphy, Professor Elizabeth Ezra, Dr Cristina Johnston (Stirling): "Cinéma-monde: Film, Borders, Translation" (Jan/Feb 2018)
Dr Dunja Fehimović (Newcastle): "Decentred/dissenting connections: Envisioning Caribbean film and visual cultures" (June 2018)