COV&R PRIZES and GRANTS
Raymund Schwager Memorial Award
To honor the memory of Raymund Schwager, SJ ( 2004), the Colloquium on Violence and Religion is offering an award of $ 1,000 shared by up to three persons for the three best papers given by graduate students at the COV&R 2008 meeting in Riverside, CA.
Students presenting papers at the conference are invited to apply for the Raymund Schwager Memorial Award by sending a letter to that effect and the full text of their paper (in English, maximum length: 10 pages) in an e-mail attachment to Robert Doran, organizer of COV&R 2008 and chair of the three-person COV&R Awards Committee (covr08@ucr.edu).
Due date for submission: April 18, 2008. Winners will be announced in the conference program. Prize-winning essays will be considered for publication in Contagion.
COV&R Travel Grants
Travel grants to attend COV&R 08 are available for graduate students or independent scholars who are first-time attendees of the COV&R conference. Write a letter of application accompanied by a letter of recommendation by a COV&R member to that effect to the Executive Secretary, Ann Astell (aastell@nd.edu). The board will sponsor the attendance of up to three persons with normally an amount of $ 200, maximum $ 300 each. The officers of COV&R will base their decision above all on the need of the suggested persons.