Call for proposals- Gerda Henkel Foundation

The Gerda Henkel Foundation is offering research grants and grants for conferences in the following three categories:

I. Grants for research projects and conferences in the fields of History, Prehistory and Early History, Archeology, Art History, Historic Islamic Studies and Legal History. Grants for research projects cover personnel costs as well as travel and material expenses.

For further information see: http://www.gerda-henkel-stiftung.de/home.php?nav_id=15&language=en

II. Special Programme “Islam, the modern nation state and transnational movements”. The Foundation supports research projects under the following five headings:
(1) Historical and present day Islamic systems of society and state
(2) The concept of nation, national movements and nationalism in Islamic civilisation

(3) Islamic fundamentalism or Islamic emancipation?
(4) Civil society movements in the Islamic world
(5) Islamic states in the international world system

 For further information see: http://www.gerda-henkel-stiftung.de/content.php?nav_id=195&language=en

III. Special Programme Central Asia, offering grants to support outstanding scholars whose research is focused on Central Asia. The Foundation also supports projects that are based on cooperation between scholars from the above-mentioned countries and European experts specialised in Central Asia.

For further information see: http://www.gerda-henkel-stiftung.de/binaries/content/336_full.pdf

The application deadline for the Foundation Committee’s autumn meeting is 30 June, 2011.

Should you have questions concerning the application, please, contact Erzsebet Racz, Research Grants Coordinator at racze@ceu.hu