Gaby  Divay's Website
 


See also:
Grants applied to Projects related to the UM Archives' FPG & FrL Collections
as stipulated in the Endowment Fund
devoted to FPG (Greve/Grove) & FrL (Else von Freytag-Loringhoven) Research


Grants

1998

SSHRCC Conference Grant (with M. Shkandrij): $10,000 for the International "In Memoriam FPG 1879-1948-1998" Anniversary Symposium, Sept.30 - Oct.3.

1998

University of Manitoba Program Development Grant (with Jan Horner): $6,613 for the electronic publication of Frederick Philip Grove's unpublished novel Jane Atkinson (ca. 1927), and his first autobiographical, out-of-print book A Search for America (Ottawa: Graphic Publishers, 1927)

1996

University Research Grants Program (URGP): $5,000 for the desk-top and electronic publishing of Finding Aids related to the archival Greve/Grove source- and research collections (Grove Manuscript Collection; Grove's Library (500 titles); Spettigue Research Collection; Stobie Research Collection; Divay Source- & Research Collection)

1989

University of Manitoba Academic Development Grant: $15,500 for the acquisition of expensive bibliographic tools in support of German materials in all disciplines.

1985-

Research & Travel Grants: in addition to the above, there have been successful applications to the University of Manitoba Research Administration for annual Research Travel Grants for the many years. These grants amount to well over $120.000 in support of FPG/Freytag-Loringhoven research in Germany, France, Switzerland, England, Italy, Austria and the United States.
Several of these grants were for Research/Study Leaves awarded since 1985/86 (also in: 1990, 1993, 1998, 2001, 2007). Grants are subject to a university-wide competition, and adjudicated by the UM Office of Research Administration.



Project granted from the FPG & FrL Endowment Fund
[fully or partially]
Note: This is NOT a comprehensive list
See also the Purpose & the Terms of this Endowment at:

http://www.umanitoba.ca/libraries/units/archives/collections/fpg/FPG+FrLEndowm.html

HISTORY

Web-Work for the UM Archives' FPG (Greve/Grove) & FrL (Else Baroness von Freytag-Loringhoven) Collections Website, including "Solar Grove"  & selected Grove Library Collection graphics, 1996, Curt Campbell

Video-taping of Gaby Divay's Presidential Dinner Address "A Bonanza Farm in the Dakotas" at the LCMND's annual conference banquet, October 1996, Educational Support Services, Mar Howe. (Digitization is a research project in progress)

Video-taping expense for the International Anniversary Symposium "In Memoriam FPG, 1879-1948-1998": 12 hour-long videos, 1998, Educational Support Services, Jerry Ferenc (Digitization accomplished in 2005; 10 DVDs to be made accessible on the UMA Website)

Sending research assistant Bruce Thomson to Ottawa to search successfully for for FPG's illusive passage to North America in 1909 among the Immigration Records' ship "Manifestos": Greve went, exactly as described in the opening pages of Grove's 1927 novel ASA, in late July as a second class passenger on a White Star Liner [the brand-new Megantic] from Liverpool to Montreal, November 1998

e-Publications of Grove's A Search for America (ASA, 1927) & Jane Atkinson typescript (ca. 1925) from 1998 to 2000 & 2001 -- supplemental funding for Dr. Barry Pomeroy's technical support

Transcription of Greve's 55 letters & postcards to André Gide, & Translation into English: Carole Barnabé for proofing both versions prepared by Gaby Divay, 1999/2000

Transcription of Greve's correspondence with Insel Publishers, Angela Kopp, 1999/2000

Enhancement & enlargement of the UM Archives' FPG Collections Website to accommodate Gide's "Conversation avec un Allemand" in French & English translation, including two important 1904 letters by Greve, summer 2001, Dr. Barry Pomeroy

Enhancement & enlargement of the UM Archives' FPG Collections Website to accommodate Freytag-Loringhoven's satirical poems about Ernst Hardt & August Endell, 2001/2

Enhancement & enlargement of the UM Archives' FPG Collections Website to accommodate information & Images of the Freytag-Loringhoven Exhibition at Francis Naumann's Gallery, New York. The Exhibition was opened with the launch of Irene Gammel's FrL Biography, MIT Press, 2002. Summer 2002, Dr. Barry Pomeroy

Transcription of the ca. 155 letters Grove wrote to A. L. Phelps in the 1920s, 2004/5, Alex Licker

Digitization of the 12 "In Memoriam FPG: 1879-1948-1998" Greve/Grove & FrL International Anniversary Symposium videos, Dr. Barry Pomeroy (done, July 2005: 10 DVDs)

Website about the UMA's FPG Translations Collection, including exhaustive BISON descriptions, and illustrative webpages about  the many world literature books Greve published in German between 1902-1909/10 (with the assistance of UM English Ph.D. cand. Nicole Coffey; mostly done in the spring of 2006)

Planned for summer/fall 2006: Digitization of various other videos, books, images & documents propagating Greve/Grove & FrL materials, including gd's many Power-Point presentations for the LCMND, the UW, & the UM

 
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