Baecke Endowment for the Humanities
Current Awards and News
Current Awards
The Baecke Endowment for the Humanities committee announces the following award opportunities for the 2009-2010 academic year:
Baecke New Faculty Research Award
Deadline: Nov. 3, 2009
The Baecke New Faculty Research Award supports the research endeavors of faculty in their pre-tenure years at St. Ambrose. Eligible are tenure-track faculty conducting research in areas related to the humanities. As many as three awards up to the amount of $3,000 may be given this year. Funds will support travel to research sites as well as costs of research materials. Funds permitting, a second round of applications will close on Feb. 3, 2010.
Baecke Faculty Research Award
Deadline: Nov. 3, 2009
The Baecke Faculty Research Award supports the research endeavors of tenured faculty at St. Ambrose University. Eligible are tenured faculty conducting research in areas related to the humanities. As many as three awards up to the amount of $3,000 may be given this year. Funds will support travel to research sites as well as costs of research materials. Funds permitting, a second round of applications will close on Feb. 3, 2010.
News
This year the Baecke Endowment for the Humanities annual lecture will be given by Stephen Bloom, author of "Postville: A Clash of Cultures in Heartland America." The lecture, part of this year's Migration Project, is scheduled for March 11 (see details below) Please consider including Bloom’s book in your course syllabi this fall or spring (or both!).
Lessons Learned From Postville
Stephen Bloom delivers the Baecke Lecture
Thursday, March 11, 7 p.m.
Location: Rogalski Center Ballroom
Shared cultural values that once bound Americans today no longer exist. Today's multiculturalism mandates nations within a nation. With such fragmentation, many Americans no longer make emotional, political and social commitments to the United States. Their loyalty is to their own people, to maintain an identity for themselves and their own communities of shared, vested values. This is what has happened in Postville. Is this good?