EARLY BIRD NOTIFICATION OF …
· 2014 World Congress 28 July to 1 August 2014 at the University of Warwick, UK
· HELSINKI essay competition and PRIZE
· NEW SCHOLAR’S essay competiton and PRIZES
· BURSARY APPLICATIONS to attend the 2014 World Congress.
The mission of the International Federation of Theatre Research is to foster theatre and performance research communities across the globe and to to foster research conversations between and across countries and regions. The membership is drawn from five continents.
To fulfill this mission, IFTR expends considerable academic and financial resources on new scholars. To find out who qualifies as a ‘new scholar’, go to the website: www.firt-iftr.org At the bottom of the home page, click on the link to ‘Prizes’.
The Helsinki Prize is Conference Registration Fee, Airfare to and Accomodation at the 2014 World Congress in Warwick, England. The Helsinki Prize is only open to young scholars who took at least their first degree at a university NOT in the first world – in other words, scholars from Africa, Asia, India and South America.
The New Scholars’s Prizes (there are three) likewise cover Conference Fee, Airfare and Accomodation to the 2014 World Congress and you can send in an essay to BOTH categories.
THE DEADLINE FOR ESSAY SUBMISSIONS IS 1st December 2013 so begin thinking what you should submit ... This is the best way to attend the conference – nearly for free! Discuss this with your supervisor ...
At the same time, if you know you can not afford to attend the conference on your own financial resources, there may be at leastthree avenues open to you:
- Apply for a bursary through your university post-graduate resources
- Apply for a bursary through the South African, NRF (the national research foundation)
- Apply for an IFTR bursary.
THE DEADLINE FOR IFTR BURSARY APPLICATIONS IS 1st December 2013 and it INCLUDES SUBMISSION OF AN ABSTRACT FOR A PAPER. To find out more about the bursary scheme, you can read about how it was applied at the 2013 conference in Barcelona. Go to the website: www.firt-iftr.org At the bottom of the home page, click on the link to ‘Conferences” and on top left of that page, click on the link to ‘Conference Bursaries’.
Warwick will issue the call for papers on 1st October. Look on the IFTR website from that date onwards. The Conference Theme is theatre and stratification ... and is promising and broadly applicable to the African context.
Begin to consider what your paper might encompass so that when the call for abstracts is submitted you are not taken off-guard. You are welcome to submit a bursary application as well as an essay to the competitions.
