Re: urban and regional essay prize

It is a shame that FURS opts to penalize those young non-native scholars
who, for reasons often not of their chosing, happened to pursue graduate
studies after having reached the age of 35.

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Judi A. Kessler
Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies
University of California, San Diego
9500 Gilman Drive, Dept. 0510
La Jolla, CA 92093-0510 USA
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On Sun, 6 Jan 1980, Chris Chase-Dunn wrote:

> To: Members of the International Sociological Association
> 
> 2000 FURS Prize for the Best Essay on Urban and Regional Themes
> by Young Authors
> 
> In collaboration with the International Journal of Urban
> Regional Research and Blackwell Publishers, the Foundation for
> Urban and Regional Studies (FURS) is organising an international
> essay competition. A prize of GBP 1000 will be awarded for the best
> essay on urban and regional themes by young (under 35)
> non-native English-speakers.
> 
> The essay should be no longer than 7000 words, footnotes and
> bibliography included, and sent with a 500-word maximum summary
> in English. Essays written in the following languages will be
> considered: English (provided the author is not a national of
> the UK, the USA, anglophone Canada, Australia, New Zealand,
> Ireland or any other native English-speaking community), French,
> Spanish, German, Portuguese and Italian.
> 
> A note must be attached to the essay indicating the author's
> full name, address, university or workplace (if any), date and
> place of birth, nationality, telephone and fax number(s) and a
> short CV (max. 100 words).
> 
> Essays must be sent by 31 January 2001 to
> nicoletta.carmi@unimib.it as an attachment (Basic Mime encoding)
> or by mail (winword file on diskette) to the following address:
> FURS Essay Competition, Fondazione Bignaschi, Via Olmetto 3,
> 20123 Milano, Italy. Unsuccessful entrants in the 1999
> competition are encouraged to enter again, but may not submit
> the same essay. Essays exceeding 7000 words will not be
> considered.
> 
> The essays will be read by two anonymous referees who will send
> their comments to Prof. Enzo Mingione to prepare a shortlist for
> consideration by the judging panel. The results will be made
> public and communicated to entrants no later than 1 July 2001.
> 
> The prize-winning essay will be published in IJURR in English
> (translated if necessary) complete with any changes and
> corrections suggested by the referees. The second and third
> placed essays will be offered GBP 250 and GBP 100 worth of
> Blackwell titles respectively by Blackwell Publishers.
> 
> Prof. Ray Pahl, University of Essex, Chairman of the Foundation
> for Urban and Regional Studies
> Prof. Enzo Mingione, University of Milano Bicocca, Organizer of
> the Essay Competition
> 
> For further information please contact:
> FURS Essay competition, Fondazione Bignaschi, Via Olmetto, 3,
> 20123 Milano, Italy Tel: 39-02-8057718, Fax: 39-02-8692565,
> nicoletta.carmi@unimib.it
>