The ESF Standing Committee for the Humanities (SCH) offers on a competitive basis, full-cost awards to leading early career researchers in the Humanities to participate in the “ESF Humanities Spring 2011”.  The 2011 event will be held under the title “Changing Publication Cultures in the Humanities” and takes place at National University Ireland, Maynooth, from 9-11 June 2011.  A group of 20 early career researchers will be selected by open competition and invited to address the opportunities and challenges facing them consequent on changes in publication cultures in the Humanities.