Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study: Exploratory Seminars
Deadline: October 12, 2021
Award Amounts individually determined

The Radcliffe Exploratory Seminar Program provides funding to scholars, practitioners, and artists for collaboration in an interdisciplinary exploration of early-stage ideas. The program encourages intellectual risk taking as participants gather in an intensive seminar setting to explore new fields of research and inquiry. Exploratory seminars offer funding to support one- to two-day, by-invitation-only seminars for 12-20 participants at the Radcliffe Institute. The lead applicant must be either a Harvard ladder faculty member (tenured or tenure-track) from any school or a former or current Radcliffe fellow; co-applicants may apply with lead applicants who meet eligibility requirements.

Applications are currently being accepted for seminars to be held between July 2022 and June 2023. The program welcomes proposals that:

• explore the viability of early-stage research ideas in any discipline or multiple disciplines
• invite the perspectives of diverse participants and stakeholders to the discussion
• integrate senior and junior scholars from institutions in the greater Boston area, across the United States, or around the world
• demonstrate risk taking and creativity

Radcliffe welcomes proposals relevant to the Institute’s focus areas, which include law, education, justice; youth leadership and civic engagement; and legacies of slavery. Proposals that connect research to law, policy, pressing social issues, and/or seek to actively engage audiences beyond academia are of special interest. Reflecting Radcliffe's unique history, proposals that focus on women, gender, and society or draw on the Schlesinger Library's rich collections are also of special interest.

Radcliffe will be hosting five information sessions in the arts, humanities, life sciences, physical sciences, and social sciences. If you are interested in attending one of the virtual informational sessions, please sign up under the "Virtual Informational Sessions" tab at the link above.