Submit Applications for Event Support Grant Program

Research workshops include exclusive access to our IHS Digital Community, a self-organizing digital solution to support you in running a successful event.

Events may take place either in person or online but must be rigorously academic in nature and feature speakers or texts that represent the diversity of views within the broad liberal tradition.

Focus Areas

• Liberalism, Pluralism, Democracy: Constitutionally constrained liberal democracies foster peace, freedom, and widespread prosperity. However, the rise of contemporary illiberal ideologies threatens democratic institutions, individual freedoms, and the prospects for peaceful pluralism. The Liberalism, Pluralism, and Democracy initiative aims to spark innovative ideas and solutions that uphold and fortify the norms and institutions that underlie the liberal project and promote widespread human flourishing.
• Speech and Intellectual Freedom: Freedoms of speech, expression, and intellectual inquiry drive innovation, the growth of knowledge, and social progress. The Speech and Intellectual Freedom initiative supports research examining new and increasingly complex challenges to these freedoms, including those presented by illiberal political movements, technological change, and contemporary threats to academic freedom.
• Equality, Peace, and Prosperity: Individual liberty, equality before the law, free enterprise, and voluntary cooperation, are essential to prosperous, peaceful, and flourishing societies that enable every person to pursue their full potential. The Equality, Peace, and Prosperity initiative supports research investigating the barriers that inhibit people from realizing their full potential, the underlying causes of violent conflict, and solutions to overcoming these challenges that advance human freedom.
• Business and the Good Society: In addition to driving material well-being, entrepreneurs and businesses can foster trust, cooperation, personal growth, and moral development among business owners, employees, suppliers, and customers. The Business and the Good Society initiative supports research exploring the factors that promote commerce’s role in contributing to widespread human flourishing (within and beyond the economic realm), and factors that inhibit these effects.

Funding Information

• Awards of up to $5,000 for reviewer honoraria
  • Honoraria of $500 for paper-length manuscripts
  • Honoraria of $750 for book-length manuscripts

Eligible Expenses

• Book manuscript, single paper, and multiple paper workshops (honoraria for participants)
• Workshops to include 2–10 reviewers
• Academic conference

Ineligible Expenses

• IHS grants cannot support institutional overhead or indirect costs
• Undergraduate events and book clubs are not supported

Eligibility Criteria

• Graduate students and faculty can request funds for hosting in-person and online events, such as research workshops or academic conferences.
• Preference will be given to events which deal with the IHS areas of focus.

For more information, visit Institute for Humane Studies.