ASA Announces Eight Irene H. Chayes Travel Grants for 2021 Annual Meeting

The American Society for Aesthetics is pleased to announced that the ASA Board of Trustees has approved the awarding of eight Irene H. Chayes Travel Grants of $1000 each for the 2021 Annual Meeting in Montreal November 17-20, 2021.

The Grants support ASA members with papers or panel presentations accepted for the Annual Meeting who do not have institutional travel support available for this meeting.

These Irene H. Chayes Travel Grants were initiated in 2018 by the ASA to assist persons without institutional travel support. Particularly at a time when so many college and university faculty have been furloughed, laid off, or had travel funds abolished, it is hoped that this additional travel support will enable more researchers to attend the meeting and present their work.

interested ASA members should submit a paper to the program committee as they normally would. In addition, they should notify the Program Chair that they wish to be considered for a Chayes Travel Grant. Papers will be accepted in February, through March 1, in the Submittable system. They must meet these conditions to receive the award:

• They are not eligible for any other travel funds from ASA for that meeting (as a full-time student, editor, program committee member, or prize winner).
• They have no other access to professional travel funds during the academic year.
• They are a member of ASA in good standing in the calendar year of the paper submission and presentation and register for the meeting.
• They notify the program chair that they wish to be considered for a Chayes Travel Grant, but should not make any such indication in the paper itself.
• The program committee, after papers have been selected for the meeting, will select up to eight eligible papers for these awards.
• Should more than eight papers qualify for this award, preference will be given to persons who have not previously received a Chayes Travel Grant. If this does not limit the papers to eight, then the Program Committee will decide which, based on merit, programmatic, and diversity priorities, should get the awards.

·These travel awards will follow the same guidelines as the other travel awards for the annual meeting, viz., reimbursement only for actual expenses for hotel, travel, registration, and ground transportation.

For more information on the meeting: https://aesthetics-online.org/events/EventDetails.aspx?id=1067550&group=

These awards are made possible due to the generosity of Irene H. Chayes, whose bequest to the ASA is the largest in the Society's history. Irene Hendry Chayes (1916-2014) received her B.A. and M.A. from New York University and her Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University. She taught literature at the University of Maryland, Hollins College, and SUNY Binghamton.  Her bibliography is here.