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New Undergraduate Presentation Opportunity at Johns Hopkins

Johns Hopkins University’s first annual Richard Macksey National Undergraduate Humanities Research Symposium will be on April 3rd and 4th, 2020 at the main campus in Baltimore. The application portal is open now; the deadline for abstracts is January 24. If you need help, please consult our guide to writing an abstract.

Organizers hope to have 400 participants in the first year and will also be offering a select number of travel grants to help students afford participation (CURAH also has travel awards for students). Students working in all humanities fields are welcome. You can learn more (including details about travel arrangements, costs, etc.) at the conference site.

Interested in other presentation opportunities? Check out our long list of presentation opportunities.

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New Resource Lists Undergraduate Presentation Opportunities in the Arts & Humanities

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Finding a place to disseminate your work is the final key step in any scholarly or creative project. Now, thanks to the work of Alexa Sand and others, CURAH maintains a sortable database of undergraduate presentation opportunities in the Arts & Humanities. We have tagged conferences by region, by date, and by approximate deadline, with web addresses to provide more information. Many of these conferences have undergraduate awards. If you find an interesting conference, read the call for papers (CFP) carefully, and consider using CURAH’s excellent advice on preparing a conference abstract. Finding a local conference can reduce your travel costs; if you’re not sure how to fund your travel, consider applying for one of CURAH’s student travel awards.

New opportunities are constantly being added. If you know of a conference in your field that invites posters or presentations from undergraduates, please let us know.

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Undergraduate Poster Session at Loyola – CFP by Sept. 6

Loyola University’s History Graduate Student Association’s annual one-day conference (in Chicago on November 2) welcomes undergraduate poster submissions with a deadline of September 6. The theme of the conference is “Conscience-Driven History: Challenging Pasts, Public Spaces, and Memory.”

Here are CURAH’s tips for writing a conference abstract.

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New Travel Award for Undergraduates in Arts & Humanities: Call for Applications

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The Arts & Humanities Division proudly announces an important addition to our funding programs! Joe Trimmer, a founding member of the Arts and Humanities Division, and his wife Carol have established the Trimmer Travel Fund. The fund supports an annual award to support international travel for undergraduate research presentations in the Arts and Humanities. The Trimmer Travel Fund anticipates making its first award to a student presenting at the May 2019 World Congress on Undergraduate Research in Oldenburg, Germany.

The Donors

Joe Trimmer is Professor Emeritus of English at Ball State University (Muncie, IN) and the founding director of the Virginia B. Ball Center for Creative Inquiry. He is the author of numerous books on literature and culture, and a contributor to 20 PBS documentaries. He has served on the CUR Executive Board as the Arts and Humanities Division Representative, and as a member of the Board of Directors of Indiana Humanities. Carol Trimmer has served as the Outreach Coordinator for IPR, Ball State University’s NPR member station, as well as a member of the Board of Directors of Arts Place, a regional Indiana arts organization, and Muncie’s nonprofit Gallery 308.

The National Office and the Arts & Humanities Division are deeply grateful for Joe and Carol Trimmer’s generosity and commitment to undergraduate research. Their gift is an important step in supporting arts and humanities student participation in international research conferences.

How to Apply

The Calls for Submissions for CURAH Travel Awards are now open. Please encourage students accepted to the World Congress to apply for the Trimmer Travel Award:

The long-standing CURAH Student Travel Award will continue to sponsor students presenting at NCUR and POH:

Applicants should submit the completed application form and all attachments as per the instructions to the CURAH Division Chair, Dr. Maria T. Iacullo-Bird by the deadline of Monday, February 25, 2019.  Award announcements will be made by March 15, 2019.

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$1,000 prize for undergraduate research to be awarded by HERA

HERA offers prize for undergraduate researchOpportunities for undergraduates to present alongside faculty are rare in the humanities, but the Humanities Education and Research Association (HERA) is notable exception. Their annual conference welcomes “educators at all levels… including undergraduate/graduate students.” Best of all, HERA sponsors a $1,000 prize for undergraduate research. The prize goes to the best undergraduate paper at its annual conference. HERA also gives a smaller award to the student’s attending faculty mentor.

The 2019 conference is in Philadelphia, March 6-9. Its theme is “Highbrow, Lowbrow, Nobrow: Research and Aesthetic Values in the Humanities.” But HERA encourages participants to interpret their theme as widely as possible. The deadline for proposals (150-200 words) is January 25, 2019.

Last year’s prize for undergraduate research went to Leann Christopherson from San Francisco State University for her paper, “‘Everything was a Pretext to Arrest us’: Communicating Intersectionality through Transgressing Literary Borders in Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis.” Her faculty mentor is SFSU English Professor Sarina Cannon.

More information is available from HERA’s conference page on their website. If you are a student interested in submitting your work, you should check out CURAH’s guide to writing an abstract.

Do you have information about an undergraduate conference opportunity or a prize for undergraduate research in your area? Let us know using the comments or by direct email to the editorial team.