SSHRC Connection Grants

Deadline: Rolling deadline
http://www.sshrc-crsh.gc.ca/funding-financement/programs-programmes/connection_grants-subventions_connexion-eng.aspx

Connection Grants support events and outreach activities geared toward short-term, targeted knowledge mobilization initiatives. These events and activities represent opportunities to exchange knowledge and to engage on research issues of value to those participating. Events and outreach activities funded by a Connection Grant may often serve as a first step toward more comprehensive and longer-term projects potentially eligible for funding through other SSHRC funding opportunities.
Value and Duration: $7000 to $50,000 for one year

Ontario-China Research and Innovation Fund (OCRIF)

Deadline: May 17, 2012 (ORS), May 31, 2012 (agency)
http://www.mri.gov.on.ca/english/programs/ocrif/program.asp

The Ministry of Economic Development and Innovation (MEDI) and the Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) invite you to consider applying to round two of the Ontario-China Research and Innovation Fund (OCRIF).  This fund will support collaborations between researchers and innovative companies in Ontario and China, to generate positive economic, technological, scientific and social impacts for both jurisdictions.
Value and Duration: up to $250,000 for Ontario collaborator, for up to three years

Marie Curie Fellowships of the Gerda Henkel Foundation - M4HUMAN Programme

Deadline: June 1, 2012 (ORS), June 15, 2012 (agency)
http://www.gerda-henkel-stiftung.de/m4human.php?nav_id=831&language=en

The Foundation focuses on the support of academic projects, primarily in the fields of History, Prehistory and Early History, Archaeology, Art History, Historic Islamic Studies and Legal History. In addition, appropriate applications may be submitted in respect of projects that align to the Gerda Henkel Foundation’s special programme “Islam, the modern nation state and transnational movements”. The research project must correspond to one of these areas in order to meet the eligibility criteria.
Value and Duration: Travel, research and living costs, for two years

2013 Australia Endeavour Awards for Canada

Deadline: June 30, 2012
http://www.deewr.gov.au/International/EndeavourAwards/IntApp/Pages/ResearchFellowship.aspx

The Endeavour Research Fellowship provides financial support for postgraduate students and postdoctoral fellows from participating countries to undertake short-term research (4-6 months) towards a Masters or PhD (which they are enrolled in a participating country) or postdoctoral research in any field of study in Australia.

EU Culture Program

Deadline: May 2013

Canada is one of two countries selected to participate in a program with arts organizations in European countries beginning in 2013. The program funds Canadian arts and culture organizations to work with counterparts in three European countries.

Value and Duration: Up to € 200,000 for up to two years.

Tainted Goods: Contemporary Sculpture and the Critique of Display Cultures in Germany and Europe

Friday, May 11, 2012 10:30am - 6:00pm

Nat Taylor Cinema (N102 Ross Building), York University

Conference opens with a keynote lecture by one of Germany's leading intellectuals and cultural critics, Prof. Diedrich Diedrichsen. This lecture (with reception to follow) will take place on Thursday, May 10 from 7:00 - 9:00pm in the Debates Room at Hart House, University of Toronto. Preregistration required at:
http://diedrichsen-lecture.eventbrite.ca/

 

E3 Symposium: Education for a Sustainable Energy Economy

Tuesday, May 22, 8:30am – 6:00pm

Markham Convergence Centre (MCC), 7271 Warden Ave., Markham ON

Centennial College and York University present the second annual E3 Symposium “Ontario and Baden-Wurttemberg: Leading Partners for a Sustainable Energy Economy”. This event will bring together top educators and industry professionals from Canada and Germany to address where each player stands in the sustainable energy field, where they are going and how they will get there.
http://www.centennialcollege.ca/e3symposium/agenda

 

Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences 2012 - Crossroads: Scholarship for an Uncertain World

May 26 - June 2, 2012

University of Waterloo

Organized by the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences (CFHSS), Congress brings together thousands of scholars, students, practitioners and policy makers in a different city each year to share ideas, discuss today’s complex issues and enrich their research. They gather under the aegis of more than 70 associations representing a rich spectrum of disciplines in the humanities and social sciences. From theatre, literature and education to history, sociology and international development.
http://congress2012.ca/attend/events-and-programs/

 

Arts, Humanities, and Complex Networks (call for papers)

June 19, 2012

Northwestern University, Evanston Illinois

Submission Deadline: March 16, 2012

The aim of this symposium is to foster cross-disciplinary research on complex systems within or with the help of arts and humanities.

http://artshumanities.netsci2012.net/

Rivalry in the Arts: Paragone Studies Conference (call for papers)

July 20-21, 2012

Flint Institute of the Arts, Flint Michigan

Submission Deadline: April 15, 2012.

Rather than encourage hegemony in artistic practice, scholars and artists will convene to examine rivalry’s historical impact in the arts, and how competition, or the legacy of that competitive history, continues to play out in our own time, or has evolved into new forms. 
http://blogs.umflint.edu/paragonestudies/

 

Theatre Between Tradition and Contemporaneity

December 17 - 21, 2012

Leitring bei Leibnitz, Austria

The conference is inviting professionals working in the field of music - musicians, composers, singers, music researchers, journalists and critics, music educators and teachers, music producers and promoters from all over the world interested in the research of traditional methods as applied to contemporary performing arts work.

http://www.iugte.com/projects/music