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PASSAGES OF CULTURE
CALL FOR PHD APPLICATIONS
TO THE INTERNATIONAL PARTNERSHIP NETWORK ON MEDIA AND MEDIATIONS OF
CULTURE IN AFRICAN SOCIETIES
The Volkswagen Foundation has granted funding of the inter-
disciplinary research project and partnership network ›Passag-es of
Culture: Media and Mediations of Culture in African Societies‹.
The project aims at a deeper understanding of the significance of
media for the rapidly changing culture of African societies. It
focuses on medial shifts and how they affect and inform the
negotiation of culture. This is of particular importance to the
rapidly transforming life-world of African societies, in particu-lar
in urban settings. The methodological approach is based on case
studies: From live performance to radio, CDs, Video and TV (South
Africa), from theatre to film and TV (Cameroon), from live music to
multiple media shifts in literary and visual culture (Nigeria), and
from face-to-face to mediated interac-tion through the electronic
media (Cameroon/Germany/Swit-zerland). These passages of media are
linked by four transver-sal themes that are at the centre of our
empirical inquiry: the changing modes of perception and the
transformation of agency, the transformation of subjectivities and
identities, the emergence of transnational spaces and new public
spheres, and the question of national imaginations and the politics
of belonging.
The Passages Network is looking for applicants with an excel-lent
academic background interested in completing a doctoral degree at one
of the Universities of the network. Applicants are required to have
graduated at a Master level or equivalent by the time of their
application. Ten scholarships are available from November 15, 2008 to
both European and African stu-dents up to the age of thirty-five.
Eight scholarships are re-served for students from Africa.
If you want to apply as a PhD candidate, a short pre-proposal of
about five pages is required by September 30, 2008. The Pre-proposal
will be examined by the PhD advisory commit-tee. If it is accepted, a
full proposal of about 20 pages is ex-pected after three months of
funding.
The Passages of Culture Network:
Institute of Social Anthropology University of Basel Münsterplatz 19
CH‐4051 Basel Switzerland www.unibas‐ethno.ch Tel. +41 61 2672738
Institute of Cultural and Social Anthropology University of Freiburg
i.Br. Werthmannstr. 10 D‐79085 Freiburg i.Br. Germany
www.ethno.uni‐freiburg.de Tel. +49 761 2033593
Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research University of the
Witwatersrand Private Bag 3, P.O. Box Wits Johannesburg 2050 South
Africa www.wiserweb.wits.ac.za Tel. +27 11 717 4228
Department of Education Bayero University P.M.B. 3011 Kano Nigeria
www.kanoonline.com/buk Tel. +234 80 33208384
Département Arts et Archéologie Faculty of Arts, Letters and Social
Sciences Université de Yaoundé I P.O. Box 8269 Yaoundé Cameroon /
Cameroun www.uy1.uninet.cm Tel. +237 2206381
Grants will be approved for up to three years. A yearly progress
report is expected. The grant is estimated to cover fees, research
expenses and a living allowance.
The pre-proposal should be written in English and within the scope of
one of the four case studies on
Medial Shifts and the Constitution of Power: South African Case
Studies (directed by Liz Gunner).
The Imaging and Empowerment of Peripheral Cultures in the Era of
Globalisation: A case Study of the Identity and Cultural Expression
of Anglophone Cameroonian Perfor‐mance Forms in a Francophone
dominated Centre (directed by Bole Butake).
Intertextuality, Intratextuality, and Intermediality in Mus‐lim
Hausa Popular Culture (directed by Abdalla Uba Adamu).
Internet, Mobile Phone and Transnational Space: Africa in the Upper
Rhine Valley (directed by Judith Schlehe and Till Förster).
Comprehensive descriptions are available at:
www.unibas‐ethno.ch/forschung/forschungsprojekte/passages.php
The PhD pre-proposal should address the following points:
1. Executive summary (1/2 page)
2. State of research in the field (1 page)
3. Own work in the field (field visits or other enquiries should be
mentioned, approx. 1/2 page)
4. Research question and methodological approach (as expli‐citly as
possible, approx. 2–3 pages)
5. Timetable including planned fieldwork (1 page)
6. Two references, CV, photocopies of academic degrees, postal
address, phone and e‐mail (this part is not included in the five
pages)
Please send your application by September 30, 2008 as a word or pdf-
file by e-mail to:
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All candidates will be informed on the outcome of the evalua-tion
procedure by the proposed supervisor either in person or by e-mail by
October 21, 2008.
Participating Scholars:
Prof Dr Abdalla Uba Adamu Education and Media Studies Kano, Nigeria
Prof Dr Bole Butake Performing Arts Yaoundé, Cameroon
Prof Dr Till Förster Social Anthropology Basel, Switzerland
Prof Dr Liz Gunner Literature and Media Studies Johannesburg, South
Africa
Prof Dr Judith Schlehe Social Anthropology Freiburg i.Br., Germany
Funded by:
Volkswagen Foundation Kastanienallee 35 D‐30519 Hannover Germany
www.volkswagenstiftung.de
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