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The following announcements recently appeared in the Bulletin of the CSSR.
 NEH Grants for Undergraduate Teaching - Sept/Oct Deadlines
The National Endowment for the Humanities supports undergraduate course development through:
Enduring Questions Course Grants (up to $25,000)
What is the good life? What is beauty? What is friendship? What is the relationship between humans and the natural world? Enduring questions such as these have long held interest to college students and allow for a special, intense dialogue across generations.
The National Endowment for the Humanities will award Enduring Questions course grants, which support a college faculty member from any discipline with up to $25,000 to develop a new humanities course at the undergraduate level on a question of enduring significance, to be taught at the sponsoring institution at least twice during the grant period. The application deadline is September 15, 2009. For more information and instructions, please see the grant guidelines at http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/EnduringQuestions.html
Teaching Development Fellowships (up to $21,000)
The National Endowment for the Humanities will award Teaching Development Fellowships to support college and university teachers pursuing research aimed specifically at improving an existing undergraduate course that the applicant has taught already in three different terms and will continue to teach. The research undertaken as a part of the project may involve engaging with fundamental texts or sources, exploring related subjects or academic disciplines, or cultivating neglected areas of learning. Research in any area of the humanities is welcome.
Teaching Development Fellowships cover periods from three to five months and carry stipends of $4,200 per month. Thus, the maximum stipend is $21,000 for a five-month award period. The application deadline is October 1, 2009. For more information and instructions, please see the grant guidelines at http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/TD_Fellowships.html
Call for Submissions-$1,000 Essay Prize in Psychoanalysis and Culture
APsaA’s Committee on Research and Special Training (CORST) encourages the involvement of higher education academics in psychoanalysis and works with them to stimulate interest in psychoanalysis at the university level. Academics may submit essays on psychoanalytically informed research in the biobehavioral sciences, social sciences, arts and humanities.
The winning essay will be presented at APsaA’s 2010 National Meeting in New York and will be reviewed for publication by the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association (JAPA). Additionally, the winner will receive a $1,000 prize.
Submission Guidelines:
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The essay should be no more than 30 pages in length and should neither have been published or submitted for publication to other journals.
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The deadline for submissions is September 8, 2009.
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The CORST Essay Prize is open to anyone regardless of institutional status or affiliation.
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Visit www.apsa.org for more information or contact Dottie Jeffries, 212-752-0450, ext. 29
Merrimack College's Center for the Study of Jewish-Christian-Muslim Relations announces the Goldziher Prize for scholarship which contributes significantly to understanding, reverence and common moral purpose between Jews and Muslims. The prize, a $25,000.00 cash award, made possible by a generous grant from The William & Mary Greve Foundation, is named for the great 19th-century Jewish Islamicist, Ignác Goldziher. Nominations, including self-nomination, accepted until October 1, 2009ce. Nomination should include reasons for nomination and specifically cite work or works of scholarship.
For more information, please contact: Center for the Study of Jewish-Christian-Muslim Relations, Merrimack College, 315 Turnpike Street, A-34, North Andover, MA 01845, Phone: (978) 837-5428 Website: http://www.merrimack.edu/JCM Email: JCM@merrimack.edu
Astronomy and Civilization Conference - Budapest (Hungary), August 10-13, 2009
The conference, held to celebrate the International Year of Astronomy 2009, is intended as an exceptional, multidisciplinary event on the mostchallenging questions of science, religion, and philosophy. The goal of the conference is to call attention to the close relations between astronomy, natural sciences and civilization, first of all to the foundational, active and renewing role of astronomy in the development of our civilization and shaping our future. The conference intends to combine plenary sessions on big questions in an inspiring manner with minisymposia on cutting-edge research in physics, astrobiology, complexity sciences, and on the relations between art, religion and astronomy. Therefore, in addition to the plenary talks, a few minisymposia will be held: Physical Cosmological Models and the Astronomically Observed Universe; Complexity, Emergence and Astrobiological Aspects of the Universe; Astronomy and High Tech, and Astronomy, Art and Religion. http://www.konkoly.hu/AC2009/AC2009.pdf
Galillee College Interfaith Seminar
Graduate students and Faculty are invited to a unique interfaith, academic seminar in the Galilee in July 2009. The Galilee is both an area of unparalleled natural beauty and a unique laboratory of intercultural co-existence. The region is home to Jews, Christians, Muslims, Druze, and other religious groups. Participants spend five weeks in the Holy Land studying the history of these traditions, their connections to the Land of Israel/Palestine and their relevance to the contemporary situation. Special attention will be given to the challenge of religious leaders and educators today to develop interfaith dialogue, both in Israel and in other parts of the world, in order to foster mutual understanding, tolerance and pluralism. Visit www.galilcol.ac.il or contact Shoshi Norman snorman@galilcol.ac.il.
Call for Papers
Society of Biblical Literature
Call for Papers and Registration is now open for SBL Annual Meeting. The meeting will be held 20 November - 24 November, 2009 in New Orleans, Louisiana. For more information see the SBL website at www.sbl-site.org
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Submission Information
We accept announcements of meetings and conference and call for papers as well as job listings appropriate for our readers for publication in the bulletin as well as posting them on this website.
Announcements and CFPs of approximately 100 words are free. Job listings of approximately 200 words cost $50. You can send the information to the CSSR Executive office.
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