Most important decisions taken by the Board of ESSE
during its meeting on 28th and 29th August 2022, in Mainz, Germany
1. The Board of ESSE re-elected the current ESSE Treasurer, Professor Gašper Ilc, from Slovenia and the current ESSE Secretary, Professor Biljana Mišić Ilić, from Serbia, for another three-year period. Their second term of office will begin on 1st January 2023.
2. The Board of ESSE unanimously agreed to continue the reduction of annual fees from €9.00 to €7.00. This will be in effect for the following two years. In 2025, the fees will automatically return to €9.00 unless the Board of ESSE at its meeting in 2024 decides otherwise.
3. The Board of ESSE strongly reaffirmed its commitment to promote research and to support activities aimed to help both young and established researchers. The Board decided to:
- continue with the Bursaries and appointed a Bursary committee for 2023. The Board also decided to continue with bursaries for Gender Studies within English studies for 2023.
- continue with the Book and Resources grants and extend this research support scheme to enable applicants to gain access to resources other than books, for example, specialized online databases, corpora, library collections, etc.
- continue with the Doctoral Symposium in both the conference and non-conference years and, for the non-conference year 2023, to offer funding to help eligible doctoral students in need of support to participate in the Doctoral Symposium that will be held together with the Board Meeting in Italy.
- continue the Collaborative Project Workshop, whose purpose is to support a preliminary meeting of European researchers working towards a collaborative research project in the field of English Studies, and to offer funding for it.
- continue with a special research support scheme for national associations with tight resources to invite plenary speakers from other national associations to their own national conferences and to cover their travel expenses.
4. The Board of ESSE delegated four members to represent ESSE in the Academic Programme Committee for the ESSE-17 conference in 2024 in Lausanne, Switzerland, together with the APC members from the host association.
5. The Board of ESSE agreed to adhere to the rule established at the Board meeting in 2019 to have only one date for membership updates per calendar year. Fees will be collected according to the membership lists sent to the ESSE Treasurer by 15th November of the current year. Members whose names are included in these lists will be able to apply for ESSE privileges the following year, such as ESSE Bursaries, ESSE Book grants, ESSE Book awards, conference fee waivers and the Collaborative Project Workshop Schemes. The only exception will be the ESSE Doctoral Symposium, for which different rules apply as specified in the Symposium announcement.
6. The Board of ESSE agree that Board members can apply for all ESSE privileges provided they are not members of the relevant selection committee. For the ESSE Book Awards this rule does not apply. Books of board members cannot be submitted.
Most important decisions taken by the Board of ESSE
(27th August 2021)
1. The Board of ESSE re-elected the current ESSE President, Professor Andreas H. Jucker, Switzerland, for another three-year period. His new term of office will begin on 1st January 2022.
2. The Board of ESSE elected the new Editor of The ESSE Messenger, Professor Laura Esteban Segura, Spain, for the period of three years. Her term of office will begin on 1st January 2022. The ESSE Board thanked Dr Adrian Radu for his dedicated work as the Editor in the past six years.
3. The Board of ESSE confirmed the appointment of the new ESSE Webmaster, Dr Adrian Radu, Romania. His term of office will begin on 1st January 2022. The ESSE Board thanked Dr Jacques Ramel, France, for his dedicated work as the ESSE Webmaster in the past 20 years.
4. The Board of ESSE appointed a nominations committee for the election of the ESSE Secretary and the ESSE Treasurer. The term of office for both posts will begin on 1st January 2023. The deadline for the submission of applications is 30th April 2022.
5. The Board of ESSE appointed the evaluation committees for the ESSE Book Awards for 2022. It was also decided to award winners only and to discontinue the category of honourable mention.
6. The Board of ESSE accepted the proposed parallel lectures, seminars and round tables for the ESSE-16 conference in Mainz in 2022. The call for papers will soon be published on the ESSE website.
7. The Board of ESSE strongly reaffirmed its commitment to promote research and to support activities aimed to help both young and established researchers. The Board decided to:
- continue with the Bursaries and appointed a Bursary committee for 2022. The Board also decided to introduce a new category of bursary to support gender studies within English studies for 2022. The deadline for the submission of applications is 1st March 2022;
- continue with the Book grants and extend this research support scheme to enable applicants to gain access to resources other than books, for example, specialized online databases, corpora, library collections, etc. The deadline for the submission of applications is 1st May 2022;
- continue with ESSE Book Awards in the category of English Language and Linguistics, Literatures in the English Language, and Cultural and Area studies in English. The deadline for the submission of applications is 1st February 2022;
- continue with the Doctoral Symposium in both the conference and non-conference years and, for the conference year 2022, to offer funding to help eligible doctoral students in need of support to participate in the Doctoral Symposium that will be held in Mainz, Germany, for two days during the ESSE 16 conference, 29th August – 2nd September 2022. The deadline for the submission of applications is 15th January 2022;
- continue the Collaborative Project Workshop, whose purpose is to support a preliminary meeting of European researchers working towards a collaborative research project in the field of English Studies, and to offer funding for it. The deadline for the submission of applications is 1st March 2022;
- introduce a new research support scheme for national associations with tight resources to propose parallel lecture speakers from their national associations for the ESSE conference and to cover their travel expenses;
- introduce a new research support scheme for national associations with tight resources to invite plenary speakers from other national associations to their own national conferences and to cover their travel expenses.