2016

The Northeast Modern Language Association meeting (neMLA) in Baltimore, MD in March 2017 is hosting a panel entitled “Sea Crossings: The Global Migrant/Refugee Crisis.” This panel considers the centrality of the space of the sea in the contemporary global migrant/refugee crisis. We invite papers that explore the complexities of the current crisis by addressing issues

The Ibero-American Institute (IAI) awards ten to twelve grants each year to support a one- to three-month research stay in Berlin. The grants should give scholars the opportunity to further innovative projects related to the research focus of the IAI, participate in an interdisciplinary dialogue with the researchers of the institute and with other guest

Special Issue Call for Papers: Forgotten Corridors The ongoing Syrian crisis has, in recent years, brought asylum and migration back to the forefront of policy thinking, state action, and public concern. In light of the ‘most significant crisis’ (for Europe) since the Second World War, our responses to asylum migration are being reimagined as new deals are being

The new University Initiative of the Social Science Research Council’s Dissertation Proposal Development (DPD) Program requests proposals from US-based universities to establish on-campus dissertation research proposal training programs. The University Initiative will partner with five universities over three years to design and institutionalize innovative, interdisciplinary approaches to research proposal training for humanities and social science graduate students. Programs developed at participating

  The Social Science Research Council is pleased to invite preliminary applications for its recently expanded and enhanced Transregional Research Junior Scholar Fellowship, funded with generous support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Following on three successful grants cycles, through which more than fifty individual fellowships totaling nearly 2 million USD have been awarded, the

The Immigration and Ethnic History Society Announces competition for the 2016 George E. Pozzetta Dissertation Award. It invites applications from any Ph.D. candidate who will have completed qualifying exams by December 15, 2016, and whose thesis focuses on American immigration, emigration, or ethnic history. The award provides two grants of $1000 each for expenses to

Casa de las Américas, through its Program on Latinos in the United States Studies, announces its Fourth International Colloquium on the theme Socialization of Latinos in the United States: education, religion and mass media to be held from the 16th until the 18th of October, 2017. Please see the call for further information (call in Spanish also available).