To Request Seed Funding for Your Event with Romantic Bicentennials (#Romantics200)
We would like to help fund and promote your event alongside a widely-networked series of events under the broad rubric of Romantic Bicentennials for 2016-2018. A seed grant means that Romantic Bicentennials will provide a limited amount of financial support, ranging from $250 to $1,000, for an event that you are working to organize and develop. The idea is that with this initial funding, you would be able to attract further funding to support the scope of your project. All requests for seed funding will be vetted by an international advisory board.
An additional benefit of securing a seed grant is that the event will become affiliated with Romantic Bicentennials and wewill list and advertise your event on our websiteand in any related publicity. In return, you and your co-organizers should feature our Romantic Bicentennials logo (above) on any publicity for the event you are planning. These events will complement our planned annual symposia, but the impact of the symposia—and by extension your event—willbe enlarged by our Networked Events initiative, which coordinates new conferences, lectures, exhibitions, courses, and other means of commemorating the Romantic-period culture of 1816-1818 under the rubric “Romantics200,” a project with international and interdisciplinary reach.
Regardless of whether your proposal is granted funding, we remain committed to helping develop and coordinate as many events as possible that draw attention to new initiatives and vital activities in Romantic Studies and to help mobilize resources for rearticulating the aims of various critical projects central to the humanities by way ofRomantic studies.
Please let us know the following about the event for which you are requesting seed funding:
1. Name of event and brief description (up to 200 words):
2. Date and place:
3. Email and/or website URL for further contacts:
4. Participants, if known (please identify roles: speaker, moderator, etc.):
5. Event organizers--names, titles, institutions:
6. Contact Persons for Event (name, email):
7. Please describe your event in detail, with attention to the following criteria (500 w limit):
1)Potential for building academic and/or public awareness of Romanticism’s impact on
literature, culture, knowledges, and/or political and social life.
2)Timely relevance with regard to commemorating Romanticism for the time period 1816-1818. (NB Future bicentennials will take up 1819-21 and 1822-24).
3)Feasibility of planned event, through its speakers, performance, or other methods, to succeed for its intended audience.
4)Potential for raising critical questions about what it means to commemorate Romantic culture today.
8. What is the expected cost of this event?______
Please attach a budget for your event. It should show an item-by-item list of specific costs
9. Amount of seed-grant funding requested______
(Grant range is $250-1,000)
Additional funds that would be needed to cover costs of the event, and the anticipated source
of these funds______