Colleagues,
I would be grateful if you could bring the notice below to the attention of
suitable final-year undergraduates, MA students and recent graduates. The
DEL studentship is, alas, for UK residents only, but candidates from outside
the UK may wish to apply for a Vice-Chancellor's Research Scholarship for
any of the German projects.
Many thanks,
Pól.
The University of Ulster is now offering at least one full-time PhD
Studentship in German, to commence in autumn 2007, based on the University's
Coleraine campus. The Studentship(s) are sponsored by the Department of
Employment and Learning for Northern Ireland (DEL) and are open to anyone
who has been resident anywhere in the UK for three years or more prior to
the start of the studentship. Candidates are normally expected to have
obtained or expect to obtain a very good honours degree in a relevant
subject by summer 2007.
Studentships carry a stipend of £12,600 plus tuition fees, and part-time
teaching which may be undertaken is paid additionally. The studentships also
carry an annual research budget of £350.
Candidates from inside or outside the UK may also apply for a
Vice-Chancellor's Research Scholarship, a number of which are awarded on a
competitive basis across a range of subjects.
Applications for a studentship in German should be in one of the project
areas outlined below. Informal inquiries should be directed to the relevant
project supervisor.
The closing date for receipt of applications for either type of Studentship
is 30 March 2007. Further information may be obtained from the website at:
http://www.ulster.ac.uk/research/rps/prospects/.
Projects:
Erich Fried, Jewishness and Israel
Erich Fried was a controversial figure as a political poet and writer. A
Jewish refugee from Vienna, whose father had been murdered by the Nazis, he
was a left-wing writer who identified with the Palestinian cause and
fundamentally opposed Israel's treatment of the Palestinians. For some, he
was a self-hating Jew or a Jewish anti-Semite. For others he represented the
ideal of an anti-Zionist Jew. This project will look at his literary and
political writings with a view to interpreting his attitudes to Jewishness
and Israel in terms of contemporary theories of anti-Judaism, anti-Semitism
and anti-Zionism.
Supervisor/Contact: Prof. Pól Ó Dochartaigh
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Jewish Refugees in Northern Ireland, 1933-45
During the Nazi period a small number of Jewish refugees from mainland
Europe made their way to Northern Ireland. Some were involved in business
and established factories whose legacy is preserved even today in towns
across the North, while others sought to assimilate quietly into Northern
Irish life. Still others were in transit, for example via the children's
camp at Millisle, while some local organisations became involved in helping
the refugees to settle. Using documentation from the Public Record Office in
Belfast and contemporary newspaper accounts, as well as interviews with
survivors, this project will seek to reconstruct the story of these Jewish
refugees.
Supervisor/Contact: Prof. Pól Ó Dochartaigh
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German-Celtic Scholars
The German involvement in Celtic Studies has its roots in the development of
Indo-European Studies in the 19th century. As a discipline, Celtic philology
is regarded as having been founded by Johann Kaspar Zeuss with his
Grammatica Celtica (1853). Other prominent German scholars who contributed
to Celtic Studies include Hermann Ebel, Ernst Windisch, Rudolf Thurneysen,
Kuno Meyer, Ludwig Christian Stern, Julius Pokorny, Ludwig Mühlhausen,
Rudolf Hertz and others. This project would take one of the above scholars
(other than Pokorny) and look at the context and significance of his life's
work.
Supervisor/Contact: Prof. Pól Ó Dochartaigh
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Franz Delitzsch and the Jews
Franz Delitzsch has been described as the "soul" of modern German missionary
activity among Jews. As a Lutheran critical of his own church's traditions
he was respected and honoured by the Jewish community in Germany. This
project will analyse Delitzsch's attitude to Judaism and anti-Semitism
within the context of the international missionary movement.
Supervisor/Contact: Dr Nicholas Railton
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The Irish Presbyterian Mission to German Jews 1845-1938
This project will focus on the theology and history of one Christian mission
to German Jews. The context is the interplay between nationality, race and
religion in the last half of the nineteenth and the first half of the
twentieth century. Integral to the project is a study of the perceptions of
Jews and Jewishness in the minds of Irish Presbyterian missionaries during a
period in which anti-Semitism broadened its appeal. The project will provide
an outsider's view of German history from below.
Supervisor/Contact: Dr Nicholas Railton
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