AHRC Research Training Network in Modern
Languages
ROME
LIBRARIES AND ARCHIVES VISIT
14-15
February 2008
In
February 2008, the Research Training Network in Modern Languages is supporting a
research-training visit to Rome to introduce students to the main research
libraries and archives. This trip is being organised through the Department of
Italian Studies at the University of Birmingham with the collaboration of the
Fondazione Basso in central Rome, and is open to Postgraduate students of
British Universities. Places are limited to 10 students.
Accepted
students will be awarded £80 towards their expenses.
Closing date
for applications: December 7, 2007. Award-winners will be contacted by
11th December. Successful
applicants will be responsible for
arranging their own flights and accommodation in Rome.
The visit will include a lecture on using the vast array of Libraries in the capital, personal guidance on which archives and libraries will be most relevant to your research and how to get the best from them, and a tour of the Biblioteca nazionale.
In order
for you to be eligible to apply you must be studying at a School/Department that
is registered as a participating Institution of the AHRC Research Training
Network in Modern Languages. If your School/Department is not yet registered,
please contact me.
Please
complete the attached Rome Trip Application form and send by email to:
Dr Clodagh Brook: [log in to unmask]