Summer Seminar: Application

Seminar Eligibility:

Given the seminar’s goal of kindling interests among those not yet committed to dissertation topics, applicants who are not yet ABD (including first-year graduate students) or who are in the very early stages of writing dissertations on projects connected with the seminar topic will be given special preference. Applicants should be able to demonstrate strong promise for future work in early modern studies. Applicants should be as specific as possible in describing their interests in seminar’s topics and in outlining a paper-length project they are committed to writing following the seminar.

Seminar Requirements:

Applicants are required to submit the following:

- A curriculum vitae, including a list of graduate courses taken
- Two confidential letters of academic recommendation (submitted separately by the writer and unseen by the applicant)
- A statement of no more than 500 words describing the applicant’s general philosophical background (including foreign language work, if any) and interests
- A statement of no more than 500 words describing a paper idea related to the seminar’s topic that could be completed during the summer of 2010. (Applicants need not have begun work on it, but the more detailed this statement of intent is, the stronger the application will appear.)
- One previous seminar paper on any philosophical or theological topic.

All application materials, including letters of recommendation, must be received no later than January 15, 2010. Winners will be announced by March 15, 2010.

Application materials should be submitted electronically, if possible, to cprelig.1@nd.edu. Hard copies may be sent to:

Templeton Summer Seminar
c/o Samuel Newlands, Associate Director
Center for Philosophy of Religion
University of Notre Dame
Notre Dame, IN 46556

Questions about the seminar or application process can also be sent to cprelig.1@nd.edu.