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3 September 2019

Small Grants: September 2019 update

In this cycle, we received 16 applications, a record number. The Small Grant Review committee has reviewed all of them and responded last week as follows: Accepted: 7 Requested revision: 5 Declined: 4 The following applications were accepted with either…

Alex Armstrong & Jeff Gima · 11 August 2019

Participate in the election for the 2019–2021 Coordinating Committee

The election is underway for the officers of the next Coordinating Committee. Their term will start on 1 October 2019 and conclude on 30 September 2021. The current Vice-Chair – Evi Tramantza (American College of Thessaloniki) – will be taking over as Chair. The three…

29 July 2019

AMICAL 2020: Call for proposals (Round 1)

The deadline for Round 1 of the call for proposals is just around the corner: 11 August. <p>We’ve already sent out a more detailed message about the call, but I wanted to briefly remind you of this deadline, as it’s easy to miss such…

8 July 2019

Propose a conference session for AMICAL 2020

AMICAL members: The call of proposals for AMICAL 2020 is now open! Our annual conference will take place 15–18 January at the American University of Kuwait (AUK). Over a hundred librarians, faculty members, technologists, administrators and other colleagues across…

Nikolina Ivanova-Bell, Fatme Charafeddine, Evi Tramantza · 25 June 2019

Call for nominations for AMICAL’s Coordinating Committee (2019–2021) now open

Colorful hands raised up.

We are delighted to announce that we’re looking for dynamic and enthusiastic individuals from across AMICAL to join the Coordinating Committee. The first step is to nominate candidates who wish to advance the consortium’s mission through their work in the committee. We will…

19 June 2019

Small Grants: June 2019 update

AMICAL’s grant committee recently reviewed the 6 Small Grant applications submitted for the current cycle and accepted the following 5: Title Applicant Institution Category Activity…

28 May 2019

Save the date! AMICAL 2020 will take place 15–18 January 2020

A night view of the American University of Kuwait and Kuwait City in the background.

We’re excited to announce that AMICAL 2020, the consortium’s 17th annual meeting and conference, will take place 15–18 January 2020 at the American University of Kuwait. The conference is open to all interested staff and faculty from AMICAL member institutions, as well as…

Jeff Gima · 19 May 2019

Small Grants: revised guidelines, deadlines, Rep roles, and live Q&A

Dandelions in the sunset.

AMICAL Full and Affiliate members: AMICAL’s Small Grants program for training, staff exchanges and projects is now open for a new application cycle with a deadline of 2 June. We’ve made a few changes to the Small Grants guidelines, so potential applicants, as well as AMICAL…

Jeff Gima · 15 March 2019

Supporting individuals to DHI-Beirut (and other AMICAL support for DH)

The Raouché rocks in Beirut, Lebanon.

Are you interested in the Digital Humanities Institute - Beirut, but you did not have a team and project to propose for the AMICAL cohort to DHI-B? Given the large number of applications we’ve received from project teams, we are unable to accept applications for the cohort…

15 March 2019

Small Grants: March 2019 update on recent awards and reopening of program

Update 15 March 2019: n earlier version of this post misidentified the awarded Small Grants. This has now been corrected. Recent Small Grants awarded AMICAL’s grant committee recently reviewed and accepted 3 Small Grant applications (including 1 revision of an earlier…