2009 Manuscript Competition Winner Announced
We are pleased to announce that Ms. Dana Rush has been awarded the inaugural ICI book prize for her work, “Global Vodun: World Encounters With Coastal Benin” and that Ms. Tamara Brown has been accorded an honorable mention for her project on dance, “Lingering Lights from America’s Black Broadway: D.C.’s Concert-Theatrical Dance Tradition.” We hope to make a public presentation of these awards at our first biennial symposium, to be convened at Vanderbilt University in the fall of 2011.
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Issues in Critical Investigation
Hortense Spillers, executive director, or
Renee de la Sea, program coordinator
Phone: 615-322-3421
Fax: 615-343-8028
ici@vanderbilt.edu
Issues in Critical Investigation (ICI) is an initiative that seeks to stimulate new scholarship in the fields of African Diasporic studies. Designed to broaden perspectives in the relevant fields and to fill a vacuum that exists for young scholars between the time that they complete work for the Ph.D. and when they are reviewed for tenure, ICI is a cooperative venture that aims to sharpen the critical and competitive edge of its participants. ICI will offer two prizes biennially in the Humanities and the Social Sciences for the best book manuscript or manuscript of linked essays on any specific aspect of the study of the African Diaspora.
2011 Manuscript Competition
We are extending the deadline for the receipt of letters of inquiry to the 2011 ICI book competition to 1 February 2011. Please see calendar below for emendations:
November 30, 2010-Feburary 1, 2011: Open call for applications to the 2011 ICI Book Competition
February 15, 2011: Candidates notified if they are invited to submit a full manuscript
March 15-30, 2011: Manuscript submissions. The full manuscript is due. All submissions must be exclusive to ICI.
April 1-August 1, 2011: Manuscript evaluations
September 29-October 1, 2011: Fall Symposium in Nashville, Tennessee. Fall symposium is to include panels, roundtables and film; and closing banquet on Saturday evening.
Fall 2012: Prize winners will be announced.