British Academy: The UK's National Academy for the Humanities and Social Sciences
Conference Support Grants: December 2008
The following awards were made at a meeting held in December 2008.
Please note: Awards are arranged alphabetically by surname of the grant recipient. The institution is that given at the time of application.
For more information about this scheme, please see Conference Support Grants in the Guide to Awards.
Dr P Antonello St John's College, University of Cambridge
Apocalissi. Eschatological Imagination in Italian Culture, from Dante to the Present
(Section: H8)
£3353
Professor P Austin School of Oriental and African Studies
Beliefs and Ideologies on Endangered Languages
(Section: H4)
£2500
Professor D Behrens-Abouseif School of Oriental and African Studies
The Arts of the Mamluks in Egypt and Syria (1250-1517)
(Section: H11)
£13067
Dr P R Bullock Wadham College, University of Oxford
Russia in Britain 1880-1940: Reception, Translation and the Modernist Cultural Agenda
(Section: H6)
£2075
Dr L Cale Birkbeck, University of London
Romantic Disorder: Predisciplinary and the Divisions of Knowledge 1750-1850
(Section: H5)
£4600
Professor C Carey University College London
Eros in Ancient Greece
(Section: H1)
£1800
Dr J C Chapman University of Durham
Home, Settlement and Dwelling: Temporal Perspectives
(Section: H7)
£4520
Dr L Donkin University College, University of Oxford
Imagining Jerusalem in the Medieval West
(Section: H8)
£2585
Dr P Drinot University of Manchester
Global Wounds
(Section: H10)
£4283
Professor R Evans, FBA University of Oxford
The Changing Landscape of East-Central Europe in Transnational Context c. 1700-1989
(Section: H10)
£3620
Professor C J Gill University of Exeter
Teleology in the Ancient World: The Dispensation of Nature
(Section: H12)
£2144
Professor A Heath, FBA Nuffield College, University of Oxford
Affirmative Action in the Labour Market: International Perspectives
(Section: S4)
£11000
Dr S L Heckler University of Durham
Indigenous Studies and Engaged Anthropology: Opening a Dialogue
(Section: S3)
£12904
Dr S Hoffmann Lancaster University
ICAME 30
(Section: H4)
£6776
Professor E Hopkins University of Edinburgh
Relativity, Inequality and Public Policy
(Section: S2)
£5000
Mr M Jones King's College London
XXI Anglo-German Colloquium: Seeing and Visibility in the Literature of the German Middle Ages
(Section: H8)
£4132
Dr G W Leeson University of Oxford
Ageing in Latin America - Developing the Research Agenda
(Section: S4)
£19515
Dr E O'Ciardha University of Ulster
The Plantation of Ulster 1609-2009: A Laboratory for Empire
(Section: H9)
£10920
Dr D Schiek University of Leeds
Multidimensional Equality Law 2nd European conference
(Section: S1)
£5901
Professor A Shlaim, FBA St Antony's College, University of Oxford
June 1967: The Crisis and its Consequences
(Section: S5)
£12752
Dr T Stack University of Aberdeen
The Category of Religion: Boundaries and their Consequences
(Section: H2)
£13000
Dr J Stallabrass Courtauld Institute of Art University of London
Modernity's Cultural Politics: China in Context
(Section: H11)
£5000
Dr V Vergiani University of Cambridge
Bilingual Discourse and Cross-Cultural Fertilisation: Sanskrit and Tamil in Mediaeval India
(Section: H3)
£8552
Mr A Wilmott Independent Researcher
Roman Archaeology Conference 2009
(Section: H7)
£9600