Conference Grant

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Are you the Meeting Organizer?

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STOP NOW. the Foundation only accepts applications submitted by the Organizer and Primary Contact. The email used to submit this application MUST match the Organizer's Contact Information in the application, or your application will not be accepted for review.

I am applying for:

ConferenceWorkshop

STOP NOW. Please apply for the Workshop Grant instead (click here to go to the form).

Does this conference involve the gathering of a national association?

YesNo

STOP NOW. Priority is given to major conferences sponsored by large international anthropological organizations (e.g., the European Association of Social Anthropologists, European Anthropological Association, Pan African Anthropological Association, and Latin American Anthropological Association) that serve as their annual or periodic meetings.

Will this conference be a virtual meeting?

YesNo

Thanks so much for applying to Wenner-Gren. Please help us do a better job of selecting reviewers for your project by providing us with some information about yourself and your research interests. We’ll also be asking you for some confidential demographic information. This section, which is voluntary, will help us in our efforts to support anthropologists from diverse backgrounds and scholarly traditions.

Primary Organizer Info

Please Enter Your Legal or Chosen Name

First Name	Middle Name
Last Name

Title

Department

Other Department

Institution (Please enter proper names to search for institutions. We only abbreviate University, not the entire name: New York U, U College London, U California, Davis, etc.)	Institution Not Listed Institution not listed
Institution

Institutional Country (or Independent Scholar's Country)

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Email

Phone

Address line 1	Address line 2
City	Country
State/Province	Zip/Postal Code

In order to approve your application for funding, U.S. law requires us to collect the following information.

What is your primary citizenship?	Do you hold dual citizenship?
Secondary citizenship	Do you hold additional citizenships?
Additional citizenships

Place of birth

Date of birth

(MM/DD/YYYY)

Academic Background

Please tell us about your education.

Highest academic degree	Discipline of degree
Year degree awarded

Institution that awarded the degree (Please enter proper names to search for institutions. We only abbreviate University, not the entire name: New York U, U College London, U California, Davis, etc.)	Institution Not Listed Institution not listed
Institution that awarded the degree, other

Is English your primary scholarly language?	Please select your primary scholarly language
Language not listed	Please provide your primary scholarly language (255 characters)

Is English your institution's primary scholarly language?	Please select the institution's primary scholarly language
Language Not Listed - Contact Primary Scholarly Language not listed	Please provide the institution's primary scholarly language (255 characters) (We are attempting to provide a list that is as inclusive as possible. If your institution's primary scholarly language is not on this list, what is it?)

Will you have a Co-Organizer?

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Co-organizer 1 Information

First Name	Middle Name
Last Name

Address line 1	Address line 2
City	Country
State/Province	Zip/Postal Code

Email

Phone

Title

Department

Other Department

Institution (Please enter proper names to search for institutions. We only abbreviate University, not the entire name: New York U, U College London, U California, Davis, etc.)	Institution Not Listed Institution not listed
Institution

Highest academic degree	Discipline of degree
Year degree awarded

Institution that awarded the degree (Please enter proper names to search for institutions. We only abbreviate University, not the entire name: New York U, U College London, U California, Davis, etc.)	Institution Not Listed Institution not listed
Institution that awarded the degree, other

Is English your primary scholarly language?	Please select your primary scholarly language
Language not listed	Please provide your primary scholarly language (255 characters)

Is English your institution's primary scholarly language?	Please select the institution's primary scholarly language
Language Not Listed - Contact Primary Scholarly Language not listed	Please provide the institution's primary scholarly language (255 characters) (We are attempting to provide a list that is as inclusive as possible. If your institution's primary scholarly language is not on this list, what is it?)

Do you have another Co-organizer?

YesNo

Co-organizer 2 Information

First Name	Middle Name
Last Name

Address line 1	Address line 2
City	Country
State/Province	Zip/Postal Code

Email

Phone

Title

Department

Other Department

Institution (Please enter proper names to search for institutions. We only abbreviate University, not the entire name: New York U, U College London, U California, Davis, etc.)	Institution Not Listed Institution not listed
Institution

Highest academic degree	Discipline of degree
Year degree awarded

Institution that awarded the degree (Please enter proper names to search for institutions. We only abbreviate University, not the entire name: New York U, U College London, U California, Davis, etc.)	Institution Not Listed Institution not listed
Institution that awarded the degree, other

Is English your primary scholarly language?	Please select your primary scholarly language
Language not listed	Please provide your primary scholarly language (255 characters)

Is English your institution's primary scholarly language?	Please select the institution's primary scholarly language
Language Not Listed - Contact Primary Scholarly Language not listed	Please provide the institution's primary scholarly language (255 characters) (We are attempting to provide a list that is as inclusive as possible. If your institution's primary scholarly language is not on this list, what is it?)

Do you have another Co-organizer?

YesNo

Co-organizer 3 Information

First Name	Middle Name
Last Name

Address line 1	Address line 2
City	Country
State/Province	Zip/Postal Code

Email

Phone

Title

Department

Other Department

Institution (Please enter proper names to search for institutions. We only abbreviate University, not the entire name: New York U, U College London, U California, Davis, etc.)	Institution Not Listed Institution not listed
Institution

Highest academic degree	Discipline of degree
Year degree awarded

Institution that awarded the degree (Please enter proper names to search for institutions. We only abbreviate University, not the entire name: New York U, U College London, U California, Davis, etc.)	Institution Not Listed Institution not listed
Institution that awarded the degree, other

Is English your primary scholarly language?	Please select your primary scholarly language
Language not listed	Please provide your primary scholarly language (255 characters)

Is English your institution's primary scholarly language?	Please select the institution's primary scholarly language
Language Not Listed - Contact Primary Scholarly Language not listed	Please provide the institution's primary scholarly language (255 characters) (We are attempting to provide a list that is as inclusive as possible. If your institution's primary scholarly language is not on this list, what is it?)

Initial Information

Conference Title

25 words or less (255 character maximum)

Requested Funding
Virtual meetings have a maximum of $20,000; In-person meetings have a maximum of $20,000. List only the amount requested from Wenner-Gren Foundation.

Please enter a whole number here without any commas or decimals: eg. 20000

Please provide an abstract of the conference's aim and scope.
This should be a general description of your proposal in language that an interested layperson could understand. If your application is successful, we will post this abstract on the Foundation’s website. By submitting your application, you grant the Foundation permission to publish the project abstract on the Foundation's website and/or use it for other purposes related to the Foundation's activities.

please keep response to 200 words (max 1500 characters)

Please include the Conference Dates:

Start Date

(MM/DD/YYYY)

End Date

(MM/DD/YYYY)

Please list the country location(s) where this project will be carried out.
(Briefly offer reasons for this selection.)

Funding and Grants

Does your institution provide funding for organizing meetings?

YesNo

What percentage of your budget would this funding cover?

Who will administer the conference?
(Please indicate if this is an individual or an institution.)

Who will handle the disbursement of funds?

Please describe the sponsoring institution or organization and outline its role.

What other sources of aid have you received or requested for this conference?
(Please list the source(s), the items covered, and the amount of funding.)

Have you ever received a Wenner-Gren Foundation grant?

YesNo

If so, please list prior grants below.

Longform Questions

Conference Description Question 1:
What is the rationale for the conference? What are your aims and objectives in holding the event? Address the current status of research on the topic and theme, the particular need for a conference at this time and with these participants, and the meeting's potential contribution to anthropology.

please keep response to 500 words

Conference Description Question 2:
What are the specific topics to be discussed during the conference?

please keep response to 500 words

Conference Description Question 3:
How will the event be structured? Describe the length, format, and structure of the conference.

please keep response to 500 words

Conference Participants:
Please indicate those who have confirmed that they will participate. If this is not possible, please list the individuals who will be funded by the Wenner-Gren grant. If this is not possible at this stage, please describe how you will distribute the funds to ensure the maximum number of international participants.

please keep response to 1000 words

Did you have your application translated into English from another language?

YesNo

Attachments

Please upload your Application Budget here as PDFs with an individual file size maximum of 25 MB.

Application Budget

A Conference Grant Application Budget Form must be completed as a part of the official application. Download the "Conference Grant Application: Budget Form", fill out , save and print to PDF format, then upload to complete this task.

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Project Bibliography

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