Dear Colleagues,
I would be grateful if you could draw the PhD
opportunity below to the
attention of suitable candidates.
Thanks,
Andrew Plowman
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Fully funded Ph.D. studentship in
Cold War Culture and Popular Genre in a Divided
Germany
at the University of Liverpool, UK
Location: United Kingdom Grant Deadline: 10-04-2006
The University of Liverpool, UK invites applications
from EU and UK
students of with a degree level qualification in
German for a
three-year
Ph.D. studentship worth £12,000 per annum, plus fees
commencing
September
2006. The deadline for applications is 10th April 2006
The field of research of this studentship is Cold-War
culture in the
Federal Republic of Germany and the German Democratic
Republic between
1949-1989. Its focus is to examine the cultural
representation of the
Cold
War conflict in popular German-language cultural
texts, films and other
artefacts produced in Germany between 1949 and 1989.
The successful
candidate will have an interest in popular genres in
literature,
television
and film; however, a candidate's potential as a
researcher is more
important than prior activity in this field.
Preference will be given to candidates who hold or
expect to receive by
autumn 2006 an Masters or equivalent qualification and
it is expected
that
the candidate will make an application to the AHRC
(guidance will be
given
on this).
Contact:
Dr Andrew Plowman
German Section
School of Cultures, Languages and Area Studies
University of Liverpool
GB-L69 7ZR UNITED KINGDOM
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In the German Section of the School of Cultures,
Languages and Area
Studies
there are currently strong staff research interests in
the social
history
of and in the popular and literary culture of the FRG
and of the GDR.
Staff
and postgraduate interest in Cold War Germany is
currently reflected in
the
organisation of a major international conference in
Liverpool ('Two
Nations, One People? The German Cold-War Experience',
September 2006):
http://www.liv.ac.uk/sml/conferences/TwoNations/index.htm
More broadly, the proposed PG studentship complements
research
undertaken
in School's 'Visual Cultures' and 'War and Conflict'
research groups:
http://www.liv.ac.uk/sml/research/researchgroups/
The project also interfaces with wider interests in
the University
(such as
atomic culture in English) and resources such as the
Science Fiction
collection in the Sydney Jones Library.
The School is also happy to support applications for
Arts and
Humanities
Research Council Research Preparation Masters and
Doctoral Studentships
from suitably qualified and interested candidates.
Members of staff in
the
SOCLAS supervise postgraduate work in Catalan, French,
Galician,
German,
Italian, Portuguese and Spanish Studies. In 2001 the
University made
submissions to the national Research Assessment
Exercise in respect of
French, German, Latin American Studies and Iberian
Studies, with the
result
that grades of 5A were awarded in French, German and
Latin American
Studies, whilst a 4A grade was awarded in Iberian
Studies.The School
has a
diverse and active postgraduate community of 16 Ph.D.
students and 10
Masters students.
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