HUMANITIES TRAVEL FUNDS REQUEST FORM
DEADLINE: FRIDAY, OCTOBER 5, 2012
The Humanities Advisory Committee has set as one of its priorities broader participation by
Otterbein faculty in professional humanities meetings (conferences, workshops, symposia). The
Committee hopes to reach this particular goal by working through department chairs who will, in
turn, encourage faculty to attend major professional meetings that fit the interests of the individual
and the department. Faculty are encouraged to look beyond local and state meetings. They are also
encouraged to consider attending conferences that are not necessarily central to their disciplines, but
which do have direct bearing on the study of the humanities.
Humanities Travel Funds Request forms along with conference information and paper abstracts
should be submitted BY EMAIL to ANDREW MILLS, Towers Faculty Suite, by the deadline of
OCTOBER 15, 2012, for consideration by the Committee. The Committee has earmarked a portion
of its budget to support such travel to conferences. Travel must take place from 1 Sep 2012-Aug 31
2013. The award cap for travel to domestic conferences is $1000, and the award cap for travel to
international conferences is $2500.
Following the travel, faculty are required to submit a “Travel and Entertainment Expense Report”
with receipts attached to Andrew Mills, along with. Please submit this report within 30 days
following the travel or by the first Friday of Fall Semester 2013 whichever occurs first. If funds
are being used from HAC and the Dean’s Travel fund, a note should be attached advising that the
funds come from both sources, and should clearly indicate the amount from each source.
NAME:
DEPARTMENT:
NAME OF CONFERENCE:
DATES OF CONFERENCE:
LOCATION:
ANTICIPATED EXPENSES:
REGISTRATION:
TRAVEL:
LODGING:
MEALS:
TOTAL ANTICIPATED EXPENSES:
Less Amount from other sources:
Humanities Funds Requested:
-
Using the next page of this form, please provide (1) a description of the conference; (2) the expected
benefits, and (3) explain how the conference is related to the Humanities as defined by the National
Endowment for the Humanities. The definition is at the end of this document.
1) Description of the Conference, Workshop, Symposia. (If you are making a presentation at the
conference, please include an abstract of your presentation.)
2) Expected Benefits from the Conference, Workshop, Symposia:
3) How does the Conference, Workshop, Symposia relate to the Humanities as defined by the NEH
(see definition below)? If the conference is not straightforwardly a humanities conference, please
include enough information about the conference that will enable the committee to determine if it fits
into the definition.
DATE SUBMITTED
WHEN FILLED OUT, E-MAIL THIS FORM TO AMILLS@OTTERBEIN.EDU BY OCTOBER 15, 2012.
PLEASE PUT “HAC TRAVEL GRANT” IN THE SUBJECT LINE. IN ORDER TO PURSUE UNIVERSITY
SUSTAINABILTY GOALS, WE ARE ONLY ACCEPTING E-MAILED FORMS
ACTION of HAC: _____Approved _____Denied
DATE OF ACTION OF HAC:______________________
The Definition of the Humanities by The National Endowment for the Humanities
In the act that established the National Endowment for the Humanities, the term humanities included, but is not limited to, study of the
following disciplines: history; philosophy; languages; linguistics; literature; archeology; jurisprudence; the history, theory, and
criticism of the arts; ethics; comparative religion; and those aspects of the social sciences that employ historical or philosophical
approaches.
Work in the creative or performing arts - such as the writing of fiction or poetry, painting, sculpture, musical composition or
performance, acting, directing, and dance - is not eligible for support by the National Endowment for the Humanities. Those interested
in support in these areas should write or call the National Endowment for the Arts. Critical, historical, and theoretical studies of the
arts, however, are eligible for NEH support.
Studies in the social sciences that are historical or philosophical in approach or that involve questions of interpretation or criticism
traditionally in the humanities are also eligible for NEH support, as are studies that use the disciplines of the humanities to interpret,
analyze, or assess science and technology.