In conjunction with the Max Planck International Research Network on
Aging (MaxNetAging), the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florence
(Max-Planck-Institut) seeks to appoint a doctoral or post-doctoral
student to pursue studies in Art History with a focus on human aging.

The scholarship will be granted for two years with the possibility of an
additional year, and will preferably start on January 1, 2010. During
the first six months, from January through June 2010, the fellow will
study together with other fellows at the Max-Planck-Institute for
Demographic Research in Rostock. They will attend lectures and seminars
on a broad range of topics in aging research and doctoral students will
develop the topic of their dissertation. Instruction will be in English.
At the end of the first six months, the fellow will go to the
Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florence Max-Planck-Institute
(http://www.khi.fi.it/) and spend the next 30 months (in the case of
doctoral students) or the next 18 months (in the case of postdoctoral
fellows) working on their research projects.


Potential research areas include but are not limited to:

- Representations of the ages of life

- Representations of families including the representation of
family trees and ancestral lines

- Physiognomic studies of the elderly

- Youth and beauty as topics of propaganda or commercial art

- The Fountain of Youth in art and literature

- Artistic studies of the process of aging

- Gender-specific differentiation in the iconography of aging

- Aging and death (for example, in representations of the dance
of death or in tomb sculpture)

- Artists' late work

- Age as a concept of demarcation, i.e., as a category for
exclusion or inclusion

- Artists' memoirs

- Visible traces of aging in artists' work (for example, the
trembling hand in drawings)


Applications should include:

* CV

* Statement about the level of your research projects (as doctoral or
postdoctoral student), and why you are interested in working in the
MaxNetAging Research School

* Details of qualifications, including information about honors, awards,
or evaluations of your educational degrees (e.g., "cum laude")

* A list of publications, if any

* Summary of your dissertation project (2/3 pages), and on the
postdoctoral level an outline about your research agenda in the upcoming
two years

* Names and addresses of two scholars we can contact about you


Fluency in English is essential. Knowledge of German and/or Italian,
although not essential, is preferred. The application process is open to
students of all nationalities.

The Max Planck Society wishes to increase the number of women in areas
in which they are underrepresented, and strongly encourages women to
apply. The Max Planck Society is likewise committed to funding more
scholars with disabilities and also encourages them to apply.


Applications should be sent - not later than August 31, 2009 - to:
Prof. Dr. Gerhard Wolf
Kunsthistorisches Institut Florenz
Max-Planck-Institut
Via Giuseppe Giusti 44
50121 Florence
Italy