KIAS Information 2012

KIAS Information SessionSpring 2012

Jerry Varsava, Founding Director

Gillian Edwards, Executive Manager

Today’s Agenda

1. KIAS Vision

2. KIAS: A Brief History

3. KIAS Governance

4. KIAS Themes (2011-2013)

5. KIAS Programs

advancing humanity, lifting the human spirit

KIAS Vision To foster an innovative intellectual

environment for the interdisciplinary study of major modern and historical, political, social, economic, and cultural issues and, therein, advance society and global polity in a manner consistent with the high humanitarian ideals of the founding benefactors, Drs. Peter and Doris Kule.


KIAS: A Brief History

June 2008: Recommendation of “Arts in the 21st

Century” Committee to establish a Centenary

Institute for the Arts

September 2008: Commitment of President

Samarasekera at Arts Faculty Council to support a

Research Institute for the SSHRC disciplines in a

major donor could be found

November 2009: President Samarasekera

announces the Kule endowment gift of $4 million


KIAS: A Brief History April 2010: KIAS is approved by Academic Programs Committee

July 2010: KIAS formally established

Fall 2010: consultation on KIAS’s research themes and

programs

November 2010: formal launch of KIAS, Faculty Club

January 2011: KIAS Administrative Board approves research

themes and programs (2011-2013)

February-October 2011: roll-out of KIAS’s programs

August 2011: first annual “Tomorrow’s Ideas, Now”

undergraduate student conference


KIAS Governance Administrative Board

chaired by Provost Carl Amrhein

Advisory Council chaired by Provost’s delegate, Ernie Ingles, Head

Librarian

Research Committee chaired by KIAS Founding Director, Jerry Varsava


Theme Preamble

Fall 2010, KIAS engaged in an extensive

consultation of undergraduates and graduate

students, faculty, and research administrators, in

an effort to identify topics of major local, national,

and global consequence that, consistent with the

Institute’s mandate, could be explored from a

socially-engaged, interdisciplinary standpoint by

researchers and creative artists in the Humanities,

Social Sciences and Fine Arts.


KIAS Themes (2011-2013)1. Stewardship of the Planet

2. Place, Belonging, and Otherness

3. Culture, Media, Technology


Stewardship of the Planet Ethically informed

stewardship of the planet can be pursued from a number of points of view and in a variety of contexts, but there is an urgency to examine the issue now, and to propose tenable responses to this challenge. Recent months have seen ecological catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico, food riots in Africa and India, renewed focus on global population growth, and a heightened concern for mitigation of environmental risk.


Place, Belonging, & Otherness There is a foundational

human concern to understand one’s place in, not only the physical world, but also in the social spaces in which we move, and to which we may feel affinity or distance. The theme of Place, Belonging, and Otherness encourages an examination of a broad range of relationships in order to better understand the human social condition, whether in the early twenty-first century or at antecedent historical points.


Culture, Media, Technology In an age saturated with

new technologies and a proliferation of representational media, there is a need to reconsider both traditional forms of cultural expression and new ones enabled by technological advancement. This topic encourages an engagement of the imaginative, material, and social conditions of arts’ production and reception.


Research Programming All continuing University of

Alberta faculty members, full or part-time, doing research and/or creative activity in the Fine Arts, Humanities or Social Sciences, and resident in a SSHRC-discipline Faculty

Faculty members are restricted to one application per competition, and one seminar per application.

One may serve as Principal Investigator on one grant, and also be a member of another grant team as collaborator.

N.B. Consistent with SSHRC policy, KIAS does not provide support to health-related areas.

SSHRC Faculties Agricultural, Life and

Environmental Sciences Arts Augustana Business Campus Saint Jean Education Extension Law Library and Information

Studies Native Studies Physical Education and

Recreation


Research Programming In recognition of the intellectual leadership of

Arts, its securing of the anchor endowment, and size of researcher cohorts, KIAS’s competitive grants will be distributed notionally according to the following formula, though merit will be the deciding factor:

50% to applicants from Arts; 50% open to applicants from SSHRC Faculties, including Arts.


Tomorrow’s Ideas, Now March 19, 2012 -

Abstract Deadline International

Interdisciplinary Undergraduate Student Conference August 16-18, 2012

40 students at 2011 conference (25 external, 15 U of A)


KIAS Research ProgramFaculty Research Cluster Grants

External Collaboration Grants Kule Dialogues Program

Interdisciplinary Course Seminar Grants

Postdoctoral/Doctoral Students KIAS Postdoctoral Fellows KIAS Doctoral Scholars


Research Cluster GrantsGoals The KIAS Research Cluster Grants Program seeks to bring together

researchers—continuing faculty, undergraduate and graduate students, Postdoctoral Fellows—with a commitment to the interdisciplinary study of major issues of social importance in order to facilitate impactful research. The Program is not meant to replace other sources of research funding such as SSHRC grants, but rather to advance research projects whether at a gestational, developed, or concluding phase of development. Holders of Cluster Grants will be provided support for local dissemination of research and creative activity under the auspices of the Kule Dialogues Program upon separate post-award application.

Value Up to 6 @ up to $20,000Duration 12 or 18 monthsDeadline Thursday, April 12, 2012 @ 4:00 p.m.


Research Cluster GrantsAdjudication Criteria Alignment with KIAS’s themes Interdisciplinarity Preference given to projects involving

interdepartmental and/or inter-Faculty collaboration Preference given to projects with undergraduate

and/or graduate student participation and full involvement in project

Preference given to projects with clear dissemination plan

Research or creative record, with activity contextualized within applicant’s seniority


External Research Collaboration Grants of up to $5,000 to holders of Research

Cluster Grants, subject to matching by external partner

Applicants encouraged to consider collaborators from among preferred partners, such as members of Worldwide Universities Network (WUN) http://www.wun.ac.uk/


http://www.wun.ac.uk/

External Research CollaborationMember institutions of the Worldwide

Universities Network (WUN): The Chinese U of Hong Kong; Nanjing U; Pennsylvania State U; U of Auckland; U of Bergen; U of Bristol; U of Cape Town; U of Leeds; U of Rochester; U of Sheffield; U of Southampton; U of Sydney; U of Washington; U of Western Australia; U of Wisconsin (Madison); York U; Zhejiang U.

Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (Munich);

National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM [Mexico City]);

Center for Research and Teaching in the Social Sciences (CIDE [Mexico City]).


Kule Dialogues Small grants for dissemination locally through

lectures, lunch talks, workshops, colloquia, etc.

Cluster Grant holders are obliged to participate in this program and have first call.

Others may apply for funds, subject to availability.


Interdisciplinary SeminarsGoals to integrate the Institute’s research mission with the strategic

objective of the University of Alberta to provide structured opportunities to develop undergraduate inquiry and research skills;

to enhance the research acumen of graduate students; to bring together instructors and students from diverse disciplinary

backgrounds in order to develop novel ways of understanding one or more of KIAS’s focus themes.

Value Up to six Seminars to be funded, @ $8,500 per course, buy-out to

Department or Faculty; supplementary $1,000 curricular grant to PI.Duration One half-course equivalent course (3 cwts.) to be delivered in Fall

2013.Deadline Fall 2012, to be announced.


Interdisciplinary SeminarsAdjudication Criteria Alignment with KIAS’s themes. Interdisciplinarity. Strength of research component. Seminars may be co- or team-taught with advance approval of

concerned Chair(s) or Dean(s). Preference given to Seminars likely to attract senior

undergraduate and graduate students from diverse disciplines, and likely to have enrolments of 8 or more students.

N.B. Seminars may be co- or team-taught with advance approval of concerned Chair(s) or Dean(s). Seminars must be 300-level or higher: they can be cross-listed within departments as, for example, 4XX/5XX; further, they may be cross-listed between departments and/or Faculties, subject to advance approval of concerned Chair(s) or Dean(s).


KIAS Postdoctoral FellowsGoals The KIAS Postdoctoral Fellowship Award seeks to support the

research of Postdoctoral Fellows working in one or more of KIAS’s three research themes during their tenure at the University of Alberta.

Value Up to 4 awards @ up to $4,000 for current Killam, SSHRC,

other PDFs.

Duration 18 months or expiry of Fellowship.

Other designation as KIAS Postdoctoral Fellow; must contribute to the intellectual life of University through

lectures, classes, etc.


KIAS Doctoral ScholarsGoals The KIAS Doctoral Dissertation Completion Awards program seek to provide

doctoral students nearing the end of their program time without employment obligations to complete their dissertation. This program will be taken-up in either the Winter, Spring, or Fall semester, at the discretion of the successful applicant.

Value Up to four @ $7,500.Duration 4 months.Other Applicants must have a firm expectation to complete their program within

12 months following tenure. Eligibility requirements include working within the KIAS Research Themes,

successful completion of candidacy examination at the time of award take-up, no other duties (teaching or otherwise), and participating full-time in their program.

Awardees will be expected to deliver a lecture or workshop or other dissemination as a part of their award terms.


Currently Funded KIAS Research

Research Cluster Grants Interdisciplinary Seminars

Isabel Altamirano-Jimenez,

Arts/Political Science

Diane Conrad,

Education/Secondary Education

Gordon Gow, Extension

David Kahane, Arts/Political

Science

Sheena Wilson, Campus Saint-

Jean

Wayne DeFehr, English & Film

Studies

Pat Demers, English & Film Studies

Joan Greer, Art & Design

Jennifer Hsu, Political Science

Natalie Kononenko, MLCS

Scott Smallwood, Music

Guillaume Tardif, Music

Guy Thompson, History & Classics

Maria Whiteman, Art & Design


Currently Funded KIAS Research

KIAS Postdoctoral Fellows KIAS Doctoral Scholars

Marcia Ostashewski,

Music

Shannon Stunden Bower,

History & Classics

Victor Taki, History &

Classics

Terri Tomsky, English &

Film Studies

Marianne Clark, Physical

Education & Recreation

Sandra Joy Friesen, Music

Lianne Lefsrud, School of

Business

Dee Patriquin, Physical

Education & Recreation


More information?

Jerry Varsava, [email protected]

Gillian Edwards, [email protected]

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