Health awards

[Sherrill Grace]

Dear Richard and All:
Let's keep imagining ways in which we can be part of CIHR teams by making
theatre part of what is being researched.  I think it's a natural
connection--remember what all that catharsis does for the blood pressure!
However, we will have to push ourselves forward because, in my experience,
theatre is overlooked by social scientists, scientists, and even humanists,
who just don't 'see' it except as entertainment they buy the odd ticket for
(but I stop before I start grumping!!) But how about a component on
"theatre and AIDS", "theatre and prisons", "children's theatre and abuse
awareness", "theatre, death, and dying", "theatre and disabilities" or more
elaborate Foucaultian metaphors: "the theatre of madness"?  Who is working
on cognate areas in medicine, health prevention, social work, aging,
alzheimers, etc in your universities?  Can we  push for funding components
to workshop a new play or playwright as part of a research project, put on
a relevant play as part of a Conference, bring theatre historical expertise
to contemporary medicine, the ideas proliferate.......
Go for it!
Sherrill

At 11:31 AM 8/2/00 -0400, Richard Plant wrote:
>Hello all:
>
>This is self explanatory, but seems likely to have little application in
>our area, even though there is important work being done in health and
>theatre.
>
>Richard Plant
>Dept of Drama, Queen's University
>and
>Graduate Centre for Study of Drama,
>University of Toronto
>
>---------- Forwarded message ----------
>Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 14:14:52 -0400
>From: Fedcan <fedcan at hssfc.ca>
>To: @hssfc.ca
>
>This email is to draw your attention to the awards available through
>Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), and particularly to the
>registration procedures and upcoming deadlines for these awards. Many
>investigators who traditionally apply to SSHRC or NHRDP for operating
>and/or personnel support will now be sending their applications to CIHR.
>
>Please find attached URLs for online documents outlining CIHR Research
>Personnel Awards, and registration procedures.
>
>
>http://www.cihr.ca/funding_opportunities/guide_to_applicants/recent_prog_cha
>nges/researchpers_e.shtml
>http://www.cihr.ca/funding_opportunities/application_forms/reg-www_e.shtml
>
>Many thanks,
>
>Denise Doherty-Delorme
>Director of Public Affairs / Directrice des affaires publiques
>
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