SSHRC Insight Grant Roundtable for Humanities Researchers – Sept. 1, 2021

Session Description

Humanities researchers, are you finalizing your SSHRC Insight Grant application but could use an insider’s perspective? Join the JHI on September 1, 10:30-12 noon, for a roundtable Q&A session with last year’s successful recipients and a recent adjudicator to answer questions about:

• Budget
  Equipment
  Co-PIs and Collaborators
  Knowledge Mobilization
  Framing your specialist knowledge for the reviewers
  Choosing an adjudication committee

Panelists:

Sarah C. Murray is an Assistant Professor in the Classics department. Her research concerns the society and economy of Late Bronze and Early Iron Age Greece. She also has many years of experience as a Mediterranean field archaeologist and is currently co-director of the Bays of East Attica Regional Survey, an archaeological project based in Porto Rafti, Greece.

Adrien Rannaud is an Assistant Professor of Quebec literature and culture in the Department of Language Studies at UTM, and a member of the graduate faculty in the Department of French at UTSG. His first book, De l’amour et de l’audace: Femmes et roman au Québec dans les années 1930 (Presses de l’Université de Montréal, 2018), was a finalist for the 2019 Canada Prizes in the Humanities and Social Sciences, along with being awarded the 2018 Gabrielle-Roy Prize. His second book, La Révolution du magazine au Québec: Poétique historique de La Revue moderne (1919-1960), is forthcoming in Fall 2021. His current research project, funded by a SSHRC Insight grant, focuses on celebrity culture and the press in Quebec between 1930 and 1970.

Walid Ahmad Saleh is Professor of Islamic Studies at the Department for the Study of Religion and Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations at the University of Toronto.  He is a specialist on the Qur’an, the history of its interpretation, the Arabic manuscript tradition, Islamic apocalyptic literature, and Muslim’s reception of the Bible.  His first book The Formation of the Classical Tafsir Tradition was the first monograph study of al-Thalabi (d. 1035) and his influence.  His second monograph, In Defense of the Bible, is a detailed study and an edition of al-Biqa`i’s (d. 1480) Bible treatise.

Session MC: Dr. Kimberley Yates, Associate Director, JHI
Panel Moderator: Dr. Amy Ratelle, Funded Research Officer, JHI