Deadline: 1 August 2018
The Arab Fund for Arts and Culture (AFAC) and the Arab Council for the Social Sciences (ACSS) is seeking applications for their joint ‘Research on the Arts Program’ (RAP) that aims to support research on all art practices across disciplinary boundaries and methodological approaches on key themes of concern to, and in, the Arab region.
This program is funded by AFAC and by a grant provided to the ACSS by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Grants are intended to support a maximum timeline of 18 months for individuals, teams and collectives (starting December 2018 and ending May 2020) and up to 24 months for institutions (starting December 2018 and ending December 2020).
The program aims at canvassing a broad range of research proposals from across the different countries and localities of the region. We also encourage comparative studies that look at more than one country or location regionally or globally.
Organisations particularly invite interdisciplinary proposals that link the arts, humanities and social sciences. Quantitative as well as qualitative projects are eligible and mixed-methods approaches are encouraged. Finally, successful proposals will also critically examine whether current Arts analytical frameworks are adequate to conceptualize and empirically study these issues in the Arab region and will suggest new approaches and methodologies.
Arts research is dynamic, interdisciplinary and critical, and involves systematic investigation, analysis, and speculation around a specific research topic with a chosen mode of enquiry.
Funding Information
- Grants are available to individual researchers (up to USD 15,000), teams of researchers or collectives (up to USD 25,000), and institutions (up to USD 35,000).
Eligibility Criteria
- Nationality/Residence
- Applicants must be citizens of an Arab Country (defined as a member of the league of Arab States) or nationals of an Arab Country (defined as long-term residents, even if they don’t hold citizenship as in the case of refugees or stateless residents) and must be based in the Arab region.
- In the case of teams and collectives, the team leader must be a citizen/national of an Arab country and must be based in the Arab Region.
- However, teams and collectives may include Arabs in the diaspora or non-Arabs, but at least two members of the team/collective must be citizens/nationals of an Arab country and must be based in the Arab region. For institutions, the institution must be based and registered in the Arab region.
- Educational Degree
- Applicants must hold at least a Master’s degree in the fields of arts, cultural studies, humanities or social sciences.
- Individual researchers in the early stages of their professional careers (including PhD students) are especially encouraged to apply. Individuals who expect to obtain their Master’s degree before the deadline of the application are also eligible.
- Background Disciplines
- This program is open to researchers from diverse backgrounds in arts, humanities and social sciences, as well as allied fields.
- Arts and humanities disciplines include art history, comparative literature, contemporary art, cultural studies, curatorial studies, fine arts, graphic design, architecture, languages and literature, folklore studies, media studies, musicology, performance arts, and visual arts.
- The core social science fields include disciplines such as anthropology, demography, economics, history, political science, psychology and sociology.
- Interdisciplinary proposals are encouraged.
- Individuals, Teams, Collectives and Institutions
- The program is open to individual researchers, research teams, collectives of researchers and institutions (universities, research centers, arts centers, etc.).
- Research teams, collectives, and institutions must submit their applications in teams of up to four members, including a principal investigator and three co-investigators.
- For the purposes of this call, a collective is an independent group of researchers that have been working and continue to work collaboratively towards a specific issue related to the program.
How to Apply
Applicants can apply via given website.
For further information, please visit ACSS Organisation.