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Initiative Fund
The Association's Initiative Fund provides small grants to individuals or institutions who are members of the Association to help defray the costs of day schools, seminars etc., and support for postgraduate activities and travel (in addition to specific funding for postgraduate conferences/day schools). The Association is particularly keen to encourage and support regionally based collaborative initiatives on the part of its members.
Forthcoming deadlines for applications: Friday 9 May 2008 and Friday 29 August 2008.
Please click on the ASMCF logo/adjacent text to download an application form in Microsoft® Word format.
Please send applications to: Hon. Secretary Emmanuel Godin.
Initiative Funding 2007-2008
Kate Marsh (University of Liverpool)
Loss, Nostalgia and la fracture coloniale: Contextualising l'Inde perdue, 2-4 July 2008.
It was agreed to support this bid with a grant of £200.
Rainbow Murray and Raymond Kuhn (Queen Mary University of London)
Women in French Politics, 20 June 2008.
It was agreed to support this bid with a grant of £210.
Maggie Allison (University of Bradford)
Parcours/ trajectories: Women in French, Women in French 10th biennial weekend conference Hinsley Hall, Leeds, 9-11 May 2008.
It was agreed to support this bid with a grant of £500.
Sarah Waters (University of Leeds)
Memories of 1968: International Perspectives, 17-18 April 2008.
It was agreed to support this bid with a grant of £500.
Natalya Vince (University of Portsmouth)
Beyond the France/Algeria binarism? 2 April 2008.
It was agreed to support this bid with a grant of £200.
Hanna Diamond (University of Bath)
The Politics of History and Memory in Contemporary France, 7 March 2008.
It was agreed to support this bid with a grant of £100.
Federico Federici (University of Durham)
II International Conference Translating Voices, Translating Regions, 14-15 September 2007.
It was agreed to support this bid with a grant of £300.
Claire Gorrara (University of Cardiff)
The Lost Decade: the 1950s in European History, Society and Culture,11-13 July 2007.
It was agreed to support this bid with a grant of £350.
M. Demossier and J. Szraka (University of Bath)
New dimensions in political competition in France, 6 July 2007.
It was agreed to support this bid with a grant of £500.
Maggie Allison (University of Bradford)
French Presidential Election 2007: Political Communication and Media, 23 June 2007.
It was agreed to support this bid with a grant of £421.
Martin Evans (University of Portsmouth)
New Perspectives on Franco-Algerian History, 14 March 2007.
It was agreed to support this bid with a grant of £255.
Peter Morris Memorial Postgraduate Travel Prize
In memory of the late Peter Morris, an award of £250 will be made to a postgraduate student to contribute towards travel costs incurred on a short trip to France.
The terms and conditions of the prize are as follows:
Postgraduates applying for the award should send an outline of their research project and the aims of their research trip to the Association's Hon. Secretary, Emmanuel Godin, at the address below. The deadline for applications is 15 May 2008. The Executive Committee will allocate the award and make known their decision by the end of May. Applications should be submitted in advance of the trip, which may take place at any time in the twelve months following 15 May of any year.
A subcommittee convened to adjudicate the prize will look for evidence that the trip has been well planned and that the student has attempted to maximize the benefits to be drawn from the time in France.
Each student shall be required to provide a letter of support from his or her supervisor.
Bids to other funding bodies either pending or known should be disclosed.
The person to whom the prize has been awarded should provide a brief report on the trip, including details of expenses, no later than three months after return to the UK.
Please send applications to: Hon. Secretary Emmanuel Godin.
The 2007 Peter Morris Prize was awarded to Emelyne Cheney (LSE) for a research trip to Paris to investigate the impact of European integration on the politics of minority nationalism in France. The prize allowed her to complete some archival work and a series of interviews with key actors on this subject.
Brian Darling Memorial Prize
The Brian Darling Memorial Prize was established in memory of the late Brian Darling, the founding Secretary of the Association.
The prize, to the value of £250, is awarded for an undergraduate essay or dissertation of distinction, which may treat any theme relevant to the Association's concerns, including aspects of modern French history, politics, society and culture, as well as the relations between France and other countries, including those in the French-speaking world. The work may be written in either French or English and should not normally exceed five thousand words.
Essays or dissertations must be accompanied by a supporting statement from a member of the Association at a UK or other university. Submissions should be made by 1 July of the year in question to the Hon Secretary of the Association:
Emmanuel Godin
Park Building
King Henry 1 Street
University of Portsmouth
Portsmouth
PO1 2DZ, UK
A three-person sub-committee of the Executive will be invited to serve by the Secretary to consider the submissions and determine the award of the prize. Prize-winners shall be notified directly and their names announced on the web-site and at the Association's AGM.
Further enquiries may be made to secretary@asmcf.org
The 2007 Brian Darling Prize was awarded to Claire Earl (Newcastle) for the following essay: 'How does feminism influence our understanding of French Politics between the wars?
Douglas Johnson Memorial Essay Prize
The Douglas Johnson Memorial Essay Prize was recently established in memory of the late Douglas Johnson, the first Honorary President of the Association.
The prize, to the value of £250, is awarded for an undergraduate essay or dissertation which may treat a theme relevant to the Association's concerns, in aspects of Modern French history, politics, society and culture, as well as the relationships between France and other countries, including those in the French-speaking world. The work may be written in either French or English, should be over five thousand words, but not exceed ten thousand words. Essays or dissertations must be accompanied by a supporting statement from a member of the Association at a UK or other university. Submissions should be made by 1 July of the year in question to the Honorary Secretary of the Association:
Emmanuel Godin
Park Building
King Henry Street
University of Portsmouth
Portsmouth P01 2DZ
UK
The 2007 Douglas Johnson Prize was awarded to Karen Saunders (Cardiff) for her dissertation on the following subject: How does Samuel Beckett use the concept of self-fragmentation within the operations of memory in his plays and to what effect?