Research & Scholarship
Conferences
The Institute for Global Studies facilitates and sponsors conferences and scholarly workshops initiated by University of Minnesota faculty.
Belonging, Membership and Mobility in Global History
An International Conference
April 17 - 19, 2008 - Presidents Room, Coffman Union and 120 Andersen Library Risk and Response to Global Warming and Environmental Change:
Lessons from Cross-National and Global Social Science Research
January 25-27, 2007 – Cowles Auditorium, Humphrey Institute
Intellectual Collectives
The Institute for Global Studies supports a limited number of Intellectual Collectives. Intellectual Collectives are faculty driven research interventions on inter- and cross-disciplinary themes and topics that allow faculty members from a variety of departments to come together to explore scholarly collaborations. Intellectual Collectives serve to foster and facilitate intellectual community building among faculty members and aim at exploring, formulating, and consolidating research projects to prepare them for external funding requests such as grant applications.
The support offered by IGS consists of administrative and logistical assistance and a modest budget of up to $8,000 per year for events and activities such as workshops, work-in-progress groups, seminars, lectures, performances, reading groups, and symposia. IGS typically funds Intellectual Collectives for up to two years.
Application
Faculty members who have an interest in starting an Intellectual Collective should submit a 1 to 2 page description of the project, short CVs of faculty conveners, and a tentative budget. There is no application deadline for Intellectual Collective funding.
Send application materials to
Intellectual Collectives
IGS
214 SocSci Building
Contact Evelyn Davidheiser, director of IGS, at edavidh@umn.edu for more information and available funding.
Travel Funding and Grant Proposal Consultation
The Institute holds a bi-annual competition for Faculty Travel Grants for University of Minnesota–Twin Cities campus faculty and P&A staff. Contact Klaas van der Sanden at vande001@umn.edu or 612-625-1856 for more information.
Barbara Scott Murdock provides consultation services for social science faculty members in the area of grant searches, grant proposal planning, and grant writing.