Department of English

Public Occasions Committee (POC)

Funding Guidelines

Interested in bringing a visiting writer or scholar to campus?

*  after contacting the potential visitor to assure his/her interest in a visit and when he or she might be available to come to campus, immediately contact the POC to determine whether funding is available and if there are potential scheduling conflicts (the POC will not fund applications for programs/events that conflict with those already scheduled). Then complete the application below; attach a short narrative (no more than one page) in which you discuss how this visitor will benefit the department, our students, and if possible, the campus community and beyond.  Also attach the potential visitorÕs vita, artistÕs statement, or publications list.  Please note that English Department funds are quite limited, so do pursue other funding sources (for example, apply to the Scholarly and Creative Activities Grants Program (see www.unr.edu/cla/facultystaff/Hilliard), the ASUN, the Nevada Arts Council, the Nevada Humanities Committee, etc.  The POC can help you approach these sources).

*  arrange travel and accommodations, schedule a venue, and create and distribute publicity fliers, etc. (the POC can help you).

*  please see Gailmarie (POC, Chair) or any other committee member if you have questions or would like your application reviewed.

*For fullest consideration, please submit your application by September 15th for Fall term visitors and by February 15th for Spring term visitors. Note: the release of funding is contingent upon receipt of full application and POC approval of scheduling.

2009-2010 POC Members

Gailmarie Pahmeier, Chair, pahmeier@unr.nevada.edu

     Monica Grecu, grecu@unr.nevada.edu

     Scott Slovic, slovic@unr.edu

     Valerie Fridland, fridland@unr.edu

     Merrily Dupree, Dupree@unr.nevada.edu

 

 

POC Funding Application

1.  Who is sponsor?  Please list individual or committee contact information (names, email addresses, office phone numbers)

2.  Who will introduce the visitor, arrange for a venue, handle hosting, prepare publicity?

3.  Visitor Information:

    

     Name:

                                        

     Email:

     Mailing Address:

     Phone Number:

Discipline or Professional Affiliation:

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Citizenship/SSN:

(if visitor is not a US citizen, see Cami regarding visa, SSN, etc.)

Title, Subject or Essence of Presentation:

Planned Events:

When and Where the Above will Occur:

Expected Audience(s) for Above: 

Estimated Costs:

     Honorarium:

     Airfare/Mileage:

     Hotel:

     (please consider home-stays)  

     Total:

                                                                  

Funds Requested from Department of English POC (up to $750):

                              

Funds Requested from Other Sources (specify):

Follow Through

á                  schedule travel (we cannot advance funds, only reimburse)

á* schedule accommodations and determine hosting (we cannot cover the latter)

á*  schedule presentation venue

á* connect visitor with Cami to do paperwork. Please also furnish Cami with a complete copy of your application, including the response from POC awarding funds and the correspondence from any other sources that have committed funding (make sure this correspondence lists award amount, contact info, etc.) and the flier, etc., that you created for publicity purposes

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Department of English

Public Occasions Committee (POC)

Spring Lecture Application and Guidelines

 

In 2008, the Department of EnglishÕs Public Occasions Committee initiated the Spring Lecture. This lecture series is meant to provide an opportunity to bring to Nevada a speaker of national reputation, one who could deliver a talk of interest to the whole department as well as being someone whose talk would be of interest to the college, the university, and the larger local community. Nominations for this lecture will be reviewed and voted upon by the current members of the Public Occasions Committee.

 

Please note that we are hoping to schedule the Spring Lecture for late February or early March. Nominators should keep this range of dates in mind when considering candidates for nomination.

 

Nominations should include the following

1. A completed nomination form (attached below). This form should include a short narrative (no more than one page) in which you discuss the reasons for nomination; of particular importance is an explanation of why this speaker should be considered for the Spring Lecture, as opposed to a more focused departmental visit. 

 

2. A brief vita or description of the nomineeÕs accomplishments, establishing the nomineeÕs national reputation.

Please see Gailmarie (POC, Chair) or any other committee member if you have questions or would like your application reviewed.

Nominations should be received by October 21.

 

2009-2010 POC Members

Gailmarie Pahmeier, Chair, pahmeier@unr.nevada.edu

 

Valerie Fridland, fridland@unr.edu

Merrily Dupree, dupree@unr.nevada.edu

Monica Grecu, grecu@unr.nevada.edu

Scott Slovic, slovic@unr.edu

 

 

 

2010 Spring Lecture Nomination

 

 

1.  Visitor Information:

    

     Name:

     Email:

     Mailing Address:

     Phone Number:

     Social Security Number:

 

 

Discipline or Professional Affiliation:

 

 

 

2.  NomineeÕs field of study/work (e.g. ÒMedieval LiteratureÓ or ÒMemoiristÓ):

 

 

 

3. Description of nominee and his/her reputation and appeal to the department and beyond, with emphasis on reasons for nomination as Spring Lecturer. (See above; there are other POC funding opportunities available to support visitors whose appeal/reputation might be more field or genre focused).