{"id":2703,"date":"2017-11-07T16:22:31","date_gmt":"2017-11-07T21:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/rbsc\/?p=2703"},"modified":"2018-07-06T18:08:26","modified_gmt":"2018-07-06T22:08:26","slug":"apply-now-travel-research-grants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/rbsc\/apply-now-travel-research-grants\/","title":{"rendered":"Apply now &#8211; RBSC travel research grants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are currently accepting applications for three travel research grants to facilitate on-site research at Rare Books and Special Collections, McGill Library.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2714\" style=\"width: 170px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2714\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2714\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/rbsc\/files\/2017\/11\/512px-frances_darblay_fanny_burney_by_edward_francisco_burney.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"195\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2714\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fanny Burney by Edward Francisco Burney<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The <strong>McGill-American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS) Fellowship\u00a0<\/strong>is offered by the Burney Centre, in conjunction with Rare Books and Special Collections. The fellowship is designed to assist scholars who need to travel to and establish temporary residence in Montreal in order to use the resources of the Library.\u00a0<span style=\"font-weight: 300;\">The Fellowship is available to scholars interested in any aspect of Frances Burney, the Burney family, and their extended circle. It carries an award of US $3,000 for a one-month stay, at a time to be arranged. <\/span><strong>Application deadline: November 30, 2017. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcgill.ca\/burneycentre\/mcgill-asecs-fellowship\">How to apply<\/a>.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2704\" style=\"width: 157px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2704\" class=\"wp-image-2704\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/rbsc\/files\/2017\/11\/klibanskyphoto.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"147\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/rbsc\/files\/2017\/11\/klibanskyphoto.jpg 320w, https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/rbsc\/files\/2017\/11\/klibanskyphoto-220x300.jpg 220w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 147px) 100vw, 147px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2704\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Raymond Klibansky (1905-2005)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The<strong>\u00a0McGill Raymond Klibansky Collection Research Grant<\/strong>\u00a0is intended to enable researchers from outside the Montreal area, both established scholars and graduate students, to work on a research project related either to the Klibansky Collection itself or to the history of philosophy in the congenial circumstances of Rare Books and Special Collections, McGill University Library.<\/p>\n<p>The Klibansky Collection of over 7000 titles reflects the entire range of Raymond Klibansky&#8217;s intellectual interests from his early work on medieval thought to his engagement with the concept of &#8220;tolerance&#8221; and its importance in the post-Second World War World.\u00a0The Klibansky Research Grant, with a value of up to $4000.00 (Cdn), is open on a competitive basis.\u00a0<strong>Application deadline:\u00a0December 31, 2017. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcgill.ca\/library\/branches\/rarebooks\/research-grants\/klibansky\">How to apply.\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2705\" style=\"width: 143px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2705\" class=\"wp-image-2705\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/rbsc\/files\/2017\/11\/voltaire-1-200x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"133\" height=\"200\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2705\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Frontispiece, Oeuvres compl\u00e8tes de Voltaire, 1819.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>The McGill Library Voltaire Research Travel Grant<\/strong>\u00a0is available to literary scholars, book historians, graduate and post-doctoral students, and to those interested in the arts and humanities of the Enlightenment era.<\/p>\n<p>$2,500 in awards will be made to one or more individuals whose project requires them to spend a minimum of two weeks to come to McGill to consult the rich holdings of Voltaire and other Enlightenment works in Rare Books and Special Collections. Application deadline:\u00a0<strong>December 31, 2017. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcgill.ca\/library\/branches\/rarebooks\/research-grants\/voltaire\">How to apply.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are currently accepting applications for three travel research grants to facilitate on-site research at Rare Books and Special Collections, McGill Library. The McGill-American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS) Fellowship\u00a0is offered by the Burney Centre, in conjunction with Rare Books &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/rbsc\/apply-now-travel-research-grants\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":579,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/579"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2703"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2716,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2703\/revisions\/2716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}