Applications for George Feaver Young Scholars Fund Grants

[Leslie Marsh]

The George Feaver Young Scholars Fund, administered by the Michael
Oakeshott Association (MOA), is seeking applications for grants
enabling attendance at the fifth MOA conference to be held at the
University of Tulsa in Tulsa, Oklahoma from October 13-16, 2011 on the
theme of Religion, Politics and the Future of Liberal Education. The
focus of the conference will be Oakeshott’s understanding of liberal
education and the contemporary university. Also central will be the
possible relationships among university education, politics and
religion.

George Feaver Young Scholars Fund grants are intended to defray travel
and accommodation expenses associated with attending the conference
and are targeted at PhD candidates or early career scholars (no more
than five years since PhD was secured) with an interest in the work of
Michael Oakeshott.

Successful applicants will be expected to:

• present a paper at the conference;
• attend the entire conference;
• submit a brief written report describing their conference
experience.

To apply, email (subject heading “George Feaver Young Scholars Fund
Application,”) Dr. Elizabeth Corey (Elizabe...@baylor.edu) by
April 15, 2011. Please include:

• a current curriculum vitae;
• an abstract of no more than 500 words of the paper you intend to
present, if accepted. Potential authors should strive both to engage
Oakeshott’s work on its own terms and to locate it in broader
discussions about education, religion and politics. Papers that
compare Oakeshott to other relevant thinkers are encouraged.

Candidates will be notified by June 15, 2011 as to whether their
application has been successful.

For more on George Feaver see: http://georgefeaver.wordpress.com