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BASIRA signs partnership with Penn Schoenberg Institute

Barbara Williams Ellertson, our indefatigable Partner Group Liaison Officer, is a founder of the BASIRA (Books as Symbols in Renaissance Art) and we are delighted to announce that BASIRA has just signed a new partnership with the Penn Schoenberg Institute.
In alliance with the Schoenberg...

Kathleen Stein-Smith publishes on "The Independent Scholar as Change Agent"

Congratulations to NCIS Communications Officer Kathleen Stein-Smith, whose latest article, "The Independent Scholar as Change Agent: The Case of Foreign Language Advocacy," has been accepted (with revisions, of course :)) for publication in the Journal of Language Teaching and Research...

New contribution to horror (film) literature by NCIS member Matt Jones

Congratulations to Matthew Jones, whose essay "Reanimating Collective Ecological Nightmares in Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives" was recently included in Horror Homeroom's "Friday the 13th at 40" Special Issue alongside some other fairly prominent scholars of horror and film.
The...

Eight new members from Britain and the USA

We are delighted to welcome no fewer than eight full members to NCIS this month.
Leni D. Anderson MLIS (USA) is a visual artist (painter and installation artist) who has been exhibiting his artwork for nearly 30 years nationally and internationally. He has exhibited at...

WELCOME TO OUR NEWEST MEMBERS

We welcome four new Full Members members from the USA, and a new Associate Member from Egypt; between them they hold advanced degrees in American Literature, Materials Science, Pastoral Studies, Hospitality Science, Education and Biblical Archeology.
Stephanie M. Stella (USA)...

WELCOME TO NEW MEMBERS FROM THE USA AND DENMARK

We are delighted to welcome the following new members this month, with some fascinating research interests ranging from aesthetics to cell biology and from ethnomusicology to the human animal bond.
Stacy Nicole Hand (USA) earned a PhD in Art History at the University of...

TIS ADOPTS APA REFERENCING SYSTEM

Now that TIS is in its sixth year, we have been looking at the way articles are presented. Until now, we have allowed authors to choose any internally consistent referencing system, but the TIS Editorial Board feels this detracts from the professionalism of our publication. The Editorial Board...

NCIS INCREASES GRANT SUPPORT FOR MEMBERS

Following long discussion, the NCIS Board of Directors has resolved to increase the percentage of stable regular income (i.e. from member fees) distributed as grants in 2020. It was agreed that the current Conference Support Grants (CFS) and Research Grants (RG) of $250 each were too low to make...

ELIZABETH EISENSTEIN ESSAY PRIZE Deadline 30 April

Here's an early reminder that the deadline for the Elizabeth Eisenstein Essay Prize is April 30. NCIS members can submit a paper for the Eisenstein Prize as soon as they are admitted to membership. The Prize was established in memory of the late Professor Elizabeth Eisenstein, mother of NCIS...

NCIS GRANT AWARDS - Spring 2020

Grant Awards Chair Dr Joan Cunningham informs us that the Grants Committee has unanimously decided that the two winners this cycle are:

• Barbara Williams Ellertson, for her roles as Organizer and Respondent at two sessions in the Renaissance Society of America national conference, to be...

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