Between Slavery and Freedom in Late Nineteenth-Century Brazil: A View from the Northeastern Backlands of Ceará, 1865-1884

November 16, 2016; CAS 124 from 1-2 pm

Drawing on re-enslavement and freedom suits, this talk explores the limits of freedom for women of African descent who lived in the Brazilian Northeastern province of Ceará during the last decades of slavery. It analyzes the local and regional conditions under which these women and their children experienced the precariousness of freedom and the strategies that they used to attempt to regain their freedom after they had become illegally enslaved or re-enslaved.

Martha S. Santos is a specialist in Brazilian and Latin American history. She is author of Cleansing Honor with Blood: Masculinity, Violence, and Power in the Backlands of Northeast Brazil, 1845-1889  (Stanford University Press, 2012) and is currently working on a book project entitled “Engendering Slavery: Mothering Slaves, Labor, and Reproduction in Nineteenth-Century Brazil, 1813-1884.” Her research has been funded by the University of Akron, the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation.

This Keck Foundation opportunity is a targeted submission.  Please follow these guidelines if interested in the Keck Foundation program:

• Review the funding announcement (Keck Proposal Guidelines), and if interested in the opportunity, contact Katie Watkins via return email (kwatkin@uakron.edu) with a brief description of your idea, much like an abbreviated white paper.  Include a summary that describes the proposal’s goals, strengths, and potential for success, given Keck’s funding criteria.  In the case of a collaborative proposal, include the names/departments of each UA collaborator.
• The “white papers” are used for internal review to determine projects with the highest likelihood for success and/or alignment with the University’s strategic plan.
• The Provost’s Office will make the final determination of which ideas will go forward to Keck.
• Timeline:
  • Project descriptions due to Katie Watkins by November 11, 2016.
  • Determination of finalists will occur no later than November 18, 2016.
• Finalists will then work with Ellen Perduyn or J.D. Spinner of the Office of Corporate Foundation Relations, Department of Development, to complete a concept paper.
• Formal concept papers are due to W.M. Keck no later than December 1, 2016.

APPLICANTS MAY NOT CONTACT THE KECK FOUNDATION DIRECTLY.  ALL CONTACT WITH KECK MUST BE MADE THROUGH THE UNIVERSITY’S OFFICE OF CORPORATE AND FOUNDATION RELATIONS.

Mathematical Sciences Infrastructure Program

Deadline: For proposals that do not deal with training, full proposals are accepted at any time. For training proposals, the deadline is December 7, 2016.

The Infrastructure Program provides support for activities that differ from the research projects supported by the disciplinary programs of the Division of Mathematical Sciences. These include working research sessions, such as conferences, symposia, colloquia, and special years, as well as training programs, such as grants for broadening education in the mathematical sciences or increasing the number of individuals in disciplines that are based in the mathematical sciences.

Paleoclimate

Deadline: Open Submission

This program supports research on the natural evolution of Earth’s climate with the goal of providing a baseline for present variability and future trends through improved understanding of the physical, chemical, and biological processes that influence climate over the long-term.

Long Term Research in Environmental Biology (LTREB)

Deadline: Preliminary Proposal Due January 23, 2017

The Long Term Research in Environmental Biology (LTREB) Program supports the generation of extended time series of data to address important questions in evolutionary biology, ecology, and ecosystem science. Research areas include, but are not limited to, the effects of natural selection or other evolutionary processes on populations, communities, or ecosystems; the effects of interspecific interactions that vary over time and space; population or community dynamics for organisms that have extended life spans and long turnover times; feedbacks between ecological and evolutionary processes; pools of materials such as nutrients in soils that turn over at intermediate to longer time scales; and external forcing functions such as climatic cycles that operate over long return intervals.

The National Science Foundation (NSF) is pleased to announce that the Fall 2016 NSF Grants Conference Plenary (General) Sessions will be webcast live to the research community on November 14-15, 2016. View these sessions to gain key insight into a wide range of current issues at NSF including: the state of current funding; new and current policies and procedures; and pertinent administrative issues.

Please click here to register. Webcast login information will be emailed to registrants on Thursday, November 10^th.

Check out the webcast agenda for more information on the sessions that will be covered.

NSF is pleased to announce that a revised version of the NSF Proposal & Award Policies & Procedures Guide (PAPPG), (NSF 17-1) has been issued.  The PAPPG has been modified in its entirety, to remove all references to the Grant Proposal Guide (GPG) and Award & Administration Guide (AAG).  The document will now be referred to solely as the NSF Proposal & Award Policies & Procedures Guide.  The document will be sequentially numbered from Chapter I-XII and all references throughout have been modified to reflect this change. Given the number of important revisions, the community is strongly encouraged to review the by-chapter summary of changes provided at the beginning of the PAPPG.

The new PAPPG will be effective for proposals submitted, or due, on or after January 30, 2017.

If you have any questions regarding these changes, please contact the Policy Office on (703) 292-8243 or by e-mail to policy@nsf.gov.