The Regional Conference Grant Scheme aims to support the study of modern languages outside London, to promote inter-institutional collaborations, and bring together scholars from the wider region as participants or attendees.
Applicants can apply for a maximum of £2,000, with up to three grants awarded each year.
The call for applications for the 2020-21 competition is now open, for events to be held between 1 September 2020 and 30 June 2021. The deadline for receipt of applications is Monday, 16 March 2020.
Further details / how to apply
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)