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Purpose of Program: The IRS Program provides grants to conduct research and studies to improve and strengthen instruction in modern foreign languages, area studies, and other international fields.

See http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/2009/E9-27122.htm for details. Priority to 78 languages.

For Further Information Contact: Beth MacRae, International Education Programs Service, U.S. Department of Education, 1990 K Street, NW., room 6088, Washington, DC 20006-8521. Telephone: (202) 502-7596; or by e-mail: beth.macrae@ed.gov.

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This competition is part of the sustained public awareness campaign Discover Languages..Discover the World! which is designed to bring media attention to the critical need for all students to have the opportunity to learn a second language.

http://www.actflvideocontest.org/

Contest deadline: December 20, 2009

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Merit-based scholarships are available to study overseas for summer, semester and academic year programs in Arabic, Chinese (Mandarin), Hindi, Korean, Persian (Farsi), Russian and Turkish. In addition, your school, school system and/or local university can apply for a sub-grantee award to organize and implement six- to eight-week overseas intensive language programs to take place in summer 2010.

Interested students should visit www.nsliforyouth. org, where they can complete the online application. The deadline is December 4, 2009. Organizations interested in Summer 2010 sub-grant opportunities can view the Request for Proposal (RFP) by clicking here. The submission deadline for proposals is November 16, 2009. If after reading the RFP you have questions, please contact American Councils at 1-866-790-2086.

For the following languages: Arabic * Azerbaijani * Bangla/Bengali * Chinese * Hindi * Indonesian * Japanese * Korean * Persian * Punjabi * Russian * Turkish * Urdu

See the following page for more details:  https://clscholarship.org/home.php

2009 – 2010

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The Council of American Overseas Research Centers (CAORC) Multi-Country Fellowship Program supports advanced regional or trans-regional research in the humanities, social sciences, or allied natural sciences for U.S. doctoral candidates and scholars who have already earned their Ph.D. Preference will be given to candidates examining comparative and/or cross-regional research. Applicants are eligible to apply as individuals or in teams.

Approximately ten awards of up to $10,000 each will be given to scholars who wish to carry out research on broad questions of multi-country significance in the fields of humanities, social sciences, and related natural sciences. Scholars must carry out research in two or more countries outside the United States, at least one of which hosts a participating American overseas research center. Given changing travel restrictions and/or security warnings to many countries, applicants should contact CAORC before preparing a proposal.

Deadline: Friday, January 15, 2010

For more details and application, please see http://www.caorc.org/programs/multi.htm

CAORC Affiliated American Overseas Research Centers

American Academy in Rome ~ American Center for Mongolian Studies ~ American Institute for Maghrib Studies ~ American Institute for Sri Lankan Studies ~ American Institute for Yemeni Studies ~ American Institute of Afghanistan Studies ~ American Institute of Bangladesh Studies ~ American Institute of Indian Studies ~ American Institute of Iranian Studies ~ American Center of Oriental Research ~ American Institute of Pakistan Studies ~ American Research Center in Egypt ~ American Research Center in Sofia ~ American Research Institute in Turkey ~ American School of Classical Studies at Athens ~ Center for Khmer Studies ~ Cyprus American Archaeological Research Institute ~ Mexico-North Research Network ~ Palestinian American Research Center ~ The American Academic Research Institute in Iraq ~ West African Research Association ~ W. F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research

CAORC fellowships for multi-country research are funded by a grant from the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs of the United States Department of State.

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The amount of the award is $10,000. Submission materials must be postmarked no later than October 16, 2009.

For detailed information about the Sardar Patel award, please click here.

Additionally, if you have any questions regarding the award, please feel free to contact Juliana Espinosa at 310-267-4602 or jespinosa@international.ucla.edu.

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First Ever Online Course on Sanskrit

Are you fascinated by the famous Indian epic poem, the Bhagavad Gita? Are you interested in yoga, Hinduism, Jainism, or Buddhism and want a deeper understanding of Indic foundational texts? Learn Classical Sanskrit and gain access to an extraordinary body of literature eight times larger than that of Ancient Greek and Latin combined. During this two years-long series, students will learn to read and translate brief passages from famous epics and sutras and learn to chant brief passages from the Ramayana and Bhagavad Gita. Its position in the cultures of South and Southeast Asia is akin to that of Latin and Greek in Europe and Hebrew in Abrahmic Religions. It has evolved into, as well as influenced, many modernday languages of the world. Dating back to as early as 1500 BCE, Vedic Sanskrit is the earliest attested Indo-Aryan language, and one of the earliest attested members of the Indo-European language family.

Topics Covered:

 Sanskrit Alphabet

 Sanskrit Grammar

 Sanskrit Vocabulary

 The Ramayana

 The Bhagvad Gita

Course: Sanskrit Course for 3 credits (online or in class)

FL 295 – 005 (FL 295 – 601)

Tuesdays, Thursdays 6.00 to 7:15 pm

And online:

http://delta.ncsu.edu/apps/coursedetail/index.php?id=FL:295::601:FALL:2009

Contact: Dr. Pankaj Jain

Dept of Foreign Languages and Literatures

North Carolina State University

(919) 515 9307

pjain5@ncsu.edu

http://www.IndicUniversity.org

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The South Asia Language Resource Center at the University of Chicago announces a Request for Proposals from scholars and teachers of South Asian languages. The SALRC grants are intended to meet critical pedagogical needs at all levels of university instruction. The grants are intended to spur innovation in developing and presenting pedagogical tools and materials directed at South Asian languages, to promote collaborative approaches in the scholarly community, and to build upon the previously funded projects. Proposal review will commence on October 1st, 2009. The final date for proposal submission is October 15th, 2009.

For further details and proposal application forms, please visit http://salrc.uchicago.edu/grants/. Any questions or concerns may be directed to salrc@uchicago.edu.

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After the success of EUROCALL’s Virtual Strand in past conferences, a virtual extension to the EUROCALL conference is offered once again this year. Both virtual and on-site EUROCALL delegates are invited to take part in the Virtual Strand’s programme. Registration is now open! To register, please go to : http://eurocall.webs.upv.es/eurocall2009/onlinereg.php.  What is the Virtual Strand? The Virtual Strand offers participants the possibility of viewing all the conference plenary sessions (keynote speakers, panel discussion, etc.) in live streamed video. These will also be archived for future reference in the Members-Only Area on the EUROCALL website. The Virtual Strand also includes podcasts of selected regular parallel sessions that will be uploaded onto the VS web page, as well as a conference blog with live blogging, a twitter stream, a shared virtual space in Second Life and live online presentations.

You can even blog your conference experience! Please, send an e-mail to virtualeurocall@googlemail.com if you would like to be a conference blogger.

Who is it for?
You can join the Virtual Strand if you are:
unable to attend the conference in person
at the conference venue but also wish to take part in the Virtual Strand

What does it offer?
A virtual conference space including:
virtual strand website
streamed plenary presentations live from the conference
selected podcast presentations of regular presentations
real time chat and online presentation area
deferred time discussion list
interactive conference blog and live blogging
twitter stream

Please note:
The plenary presentations and podcast presentations will be available from the conference website during the conference only. After this time, they will be available from a restricted website available solely to EUROCALL members.

What does it cost?
EUROCALL (CALICO or IALLT) members delivering an online session: 25 EUR
Non-EUROCALL (CALICO or IALLT) members delivering an online session: 25 EUR
+ 85 EUR EUROCALL membership fee = 110EUR
Regular VS participants: 25 EUR

www.eurocall-languages.org <http://www.eurocall-languages.org/> EUROCALL 2009 Conference website:
http://eurocall.webs.upv.es/eurocall2009/

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The South Asia Language Resource Center at the University of Chicago announces a Request for Proposals from scholars and teachers of South Asian languages. The SALRC grants are intended to meet critical pedagogical needs at all levels of university instruction. The grants are intended to spur innovation in developing and presenting pedagogical tools and materials directed at South Asian languages, to promote collaborative approaches in the scholarly community, and to build upon the previously funded projects. Proposal review will commence on October 1st, 2009. The final date for proposal submission is Oct 15th, 2009.

For further details and proposal application forms, please visit http://salrc.uchicago.edu/grants/. Any questions or concerns may be directed to salrc@uchicago.edu.