The Arts Council of the African Studies Association has limited funds to support graduate students participating in the Triennial Symposium on African art. To be eligible you must be enrolled as a full-time student in a graduate program focusing on African (including African-American and Caribbean) visual art, music, performance or a related field. You must present a paper or participate in another official aspect of the symposium. You should be aware that even if you receive an award, it will not cover the full expense of attending the symposium.

Name:

Address:

Email:

Academic Institution:

Focus of Research:

I will be traveling from:

Describe your contribution to the symposium (delivering a paper, chairing a panel, etc.):

Enclose a Short CV and a letter of support from your academic advisor.

If you are proposing a paper to an existing panel, enclose your application with your paper proposal and mail it to the chair of this panel. If you are a panel chair or you are proposing a paper to an open session, please forward your application to:

Christraud Geary
Curator of African and Oceanic Art,
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston,
465 Huntington Avenue; Boston, MA 02115-5597 USA

The deadline is December 1, 2003.

Note to Panel Chairs: The graduate student proposing a paper for your panel is requesting an ACASA travel grant. Please consider it carefully and provide a short and candid evaluation of the contribution of the proposed paper to your panel. Should you decide not to accept the paper proposal, pleased forward the request and the evaluation immediately to Christraud Geary.