[INDOLOGY] Fwd: The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Fellowship and Grant Competitions in Buddhist Studies

Tue Aug 29 07:57:29 UTC 2017

Dear colleagues,

I am forwarding the official announcement of this year's round of Ho
Foundation fellowship and grant competitions in Buddhist Studies --
apologies for cross-posting. Indologists may be particularly interested
in a new funding line for critical editions and scholarly translations.
Details are given below.

With best regards, Birgit Kellner

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Betreff: 	The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Fellowship and Grant
Competitions in Buddhist Studies
Datum: 	Thu, 24 Aug 2017 11:33:18 -0400
Von: 	Andrzej Tymowski <buddhiststudies at acls.org>
An: 	birgit.kellner at oeaw.ac.at

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  The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation
  Program in Buddhist Studies

The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) invites applications in
the 2017-18 competition year of *The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation
Program in Buddhist Studies*. In cooperation with the Foundation, ACLS
offers an integrated set of fellowship and grant competitions supporting
work to expand the understanding and interpretation of Buddhist thought
in scholarship and society, to strengthen international networks of
Buddhist studies, and to increase the visibility of innovative currents
in those studies.

  * *Dissertation Fellowships

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*one-year
    stipends to PhD candidates for full-time preparation of dissertations

  * *Postdoctoral Fellowships

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*two-year
    stipends to recent recipients of the PhD for residence at a
    university for research, writing, and teaching

  * *Research Fellowships

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one-year
    stipends for the creation of critical editions, translation of
    canonical texts, and translation of scholarly works

  * *Grants for Critical Editions and Scholarly Translations

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one-year
    stipends for the creation of critical editions, translation of
    canonical texts, and translation of scholarly works

  * *New Professorships

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multi-year
    grants to colleges and universities to establish or expand teaching
    in Buddhist studies

These are global competitions. There are no restrictions as to the
location of work proposed, the citizenship of applicants, or the
languages of the final written product. Applications must be submitted
in English. Program information and applications are available
at *www.acls.org/programs/buddhist-studies/
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Deadline for submission of fellowship applications: *November 15, 2017*.

Deadline for institutional applications for New Professorships: *January
10, 2018.*

*For more information, please email **BuddhistStudies at acls.org*
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representative of American scholarship in the humanities and related
social sciences. Advancing scholarship by awarding fellowships and
strengthening relations among learned societies is central to ACLS’s
work. This year, ACLS will award more than $20 million to over 300
scholars across a variety of humanistic disciplines.

Established in 2005, The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation is a private
philanthropic organisation based in Hong Kong. The Foundation’s dual
mission is to foster appreciation of Chinese arts and culture to advance
global learning and to cultivate deeper understanding of Buddhism in the
context of contemporary life.

The Foundation’s Buddhist studies and Buddhist art programmes include
the Buddhist Ministry Initiative at Harvard Divinity School; a centre
and an endowed professorship in Buddhist studies at Stanford University;
a centre for Buddhist studies at the University of Toronto; an endowed
chair and programme in Buddhism and Contemporary Society at the
University of British Columbia; a multi-year lecture series at SOAS
University of London; the Centre for Buddhist Art and Conservation and
MA programme at The Courtauld Institute of Art; the Galleries of
Buddhist Art at the Victoria and Albert Museum; a three-year
exhibition, /Encountering the Buddha: Art and Practice Across
Asia, /opening in the Sackler Gallery in Washington in October 2017, and
other exhibitions of Buddhist art around the
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