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Julie Billaud
Postdoctoral Fellow
Forum Transregional Studies
'Legal Cultures' program
c/o Humboldt University
Berlin
Tel: (+49) 1523 660 0350
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> De : "Georges Khalil" <[log in to unmask]>
> Date : 3 novembre 2011 14:57:16 GMT+01:00
> À : [log in to unmask]
> Objet : 5 Postdoc Fellowships in Berlin 2012-13 /
> Zukunftsphilologie: Revisiting the Canons of Textual Scholarship
>
> Dear colleague,
>
> We are pleased to invite for applications for
> five postdoctoral fellowships in the framework
> of the research project
>
> ZUKUNFTSPHILOLOGIE: REVISITING THE
> CANONS OF TEXTUAL SCHOLARSHIP
> for the academic year 2012/13 in Berlin.
>
> I kindly ask you to spread the information about
> the fellowships among scholars interested in primary
> textual scholarship and in varieties of philology in Asia,
> Africa, the Middle East as well as in Europe beyond
> the medieval/modern divide. For the year 2012/13,
> research projects focusing on major intellectual debates,
> polemics, correspondences, and transregional encounters
> are especially welcome. Please find the announcement
> below as well as via the following link:
>
> http://www.forum-transregionale-studien.de/fileadmin/pdf/ZP-call-1213.pdf
>
> The project Zukunftsphilologie is directed by
> Angelika Neuwirth, Manan Ahmed and Islam Dayeh
> (all Freie Universitaet Berlin) and is associated with
> and located at the Friedrich Schlegel Graduate School
> for Literary Studies at Freie Universitaet Berlin.
> Within the framework of the Forum Transregionale
> Studien Zukunftsphilologie is funded by the Land of Berlin.
> For more information please visit:
> www.zukunftsphilologie.de
>
>
> With my best regards and apologies
> for double postings,
> Georges Khalil
>
> Forum Transregionale Studien
> c/o Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin
> Institute for Advanced Study
> Wallotstrasse 19, 14193 Berlin
>
> Telefax +49 (0)30 89 001-200
> [log in to unmask]
> http://www.forum-transregionale-studien.de
>
>
>
> CALL FOR APPLICATIONS
> 5 POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIPS
> FOR ACADEMIC YEAR 2012/13
> (Location: Berlin / Closing Date: 10 January 2012)
>
> The Berlin-based Forum Transregionale Studien
> invites scholars to apply for 5 postdoctoral
> fellowships for the research project
>
> ZUKUNFTSPHILOLOGIE: REVISITING THE
> CANONS OF TEXTUAL SCHOLARSHIP
>
> Zukunftsphilologie is a Berlin-based research project
> that aspires to support research in marginalized and
> undocumented textual practices and literary cultures
> with the aim of integrating texts and scholarly traditions
> from Asia, Africa, and the Middle East as well as from
> Europe itself. The project takes as its point of departure
> the increasingly growing concern with the global
> significance of philology and the potential of philology
> to challenge exclusivist notions of the self and the canon.
>
> The project endeavours to promote and emphasize primary
> textual scholarship beyond the classical humanistic canon
> by a critical recuperation of philology. In an age of advanced
> communication, intellectual specialization and unprecedented
> migration of knowledge and people, the discipline of philology
> assumes new relevance. The project draws on the recent
> calls for a return to philology as particularly emphasized
> by Sheldon Pollock and the late Edward Said.
>
> The title "Zukunftsphilologie" is inspired by the 1872 polemic
> between the classicist Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff
> and Friedrich Nietzsche on the method and meaning of
> classical studies. The project draws on recent calls for
> a return to philology as particularly emphasized by
> Sheldon Pollock in his essay "Future Philology?"
> and the late Edward Said's essay "The Return to Philology".
>
> In order to promote historically-conscious philology,
> the project will encourage research in the following areas:
> the genealogy and transformations of philological practice,
> philology's place in the system of knowledge
> (e.g. its relation to science, theology, and jurisprudence),
> philology and the university, and philology and empire.
> Zukunftsphilologie aims to examine the role mobility,
> calamities, expulsions, and natural catastrophes play in
> the dissemination and globalization of knowledge.
> How does the mobility of scholars, books, and manuscripts
> bring about scientific innovation (e.g. in tenth-century
> Baghdad, during the European Renaissance, or during the
> Ming dynasty)? What kind of knowledge systems are also
> displaced by these processes of reorganization?
> What transformations and translations accompany
> such mobilizations?
>
> The project Zukunftsphilologie is associated with
> and located at the Friedrich Schlegel Graduate School
> for Literary Studies at Freie Universitaet Berlin
> Zukunftsphilologie is directed by Angelika Neuwirth,
> Manan Ahmed and Islam Dayeh (all Freie Universitaet Berlin).
>
> Candidates
>
> The fellowships are intended primarily for scholars
> of the major linguistic and philological traditions
> from Africa, Asia and Europe (for example, Arabic,
> Hebrew, Chinese, Japanese, Persian, Sanskrit, Syriac, Turkish),
> whose research explores linguistic practices and disciplinary
> entanglements in intellectual and literary history, comparative
> linguistics, philology, religion and the history of science.
> The fellowships are intended for scholars who currently
> reside outside Berlin and who wish to carry out their
> research projects in the framework of the initiative
> Zukunftsphilologie in Berlin. Applicants should be at
> the postdoctoral level and should have obtained their
> doctorate within the last seven years. Fellows are given
> the opportunity to pursue research projects of their
> own choice, provided the topic falls within the research
> agenda of the project. In the overall context of the project
> Zukunftsphilologie, they will participate in regular
> working meetings of the project group as well as in
> lectures, conferences and summer or winter academies,
> organized by the project and by the
> Forum Transregionale Studien.
>
> Projects
>
> Individual research projects should fall within the
> thematic framework of Zukunftsphilologie. Projects
> should have a comparative perspective, whereby the
> plurality of textual practices, polyphonic textuality,
> and the trajectories and genealogies of philological
> traditions since early modernity are examined.
> Research projects focusing on intellectual debates,
> polemics, correspondences, and transregional encounters
> are especially welcome. In revisiting important
> philological debates, the goal is not to merely evaluate
> the argumentative worth of these debates, but to reflect
> on the wider cultural and political context in which
> these debates emerged and how they have shaped
> our knowledge of the past. Moreover, an examination
> of philological debates will shed light on marginal
> philological traditions and undocumented intellectual
> positions as well as the ways in which canonical positions
> were consolidated and normalized.
>
> Fellowships
>
> start October 1, 2012, and will end on July 31, 2013.
> Shorter fellowship terms can be considered.
> Postdoctoral fellows will receive a monthly stipend
> of € 2.250 plus supplements depending on their personal
> situation. Organisational support regarding visa, insurances,
> housing, etc. will be provided. Successful applicants
> will be fellows of the project Zukunftsphilologie
> at the Forum Transregionale Studien and Associate
> Members of the Friedrich Schlegel Graduate School
> or Literary Studies. Through this association they will
> be integrated into the Department of Philosophy
> and Humanities at the Freie Universitaet Berlin
> and will have access to an academic milieu of literary
> and philological studies as well as to libraries
> and other research facilities.
>
> Application Procedure
>
> To apply, please send the following documents
> in English exclusively by e-mail as separate word
> or PDF files:
>
> - a curriculum vitae
> - a project description (no longer than five pages),
> stating what you will work on in Berlin if granted
> a fellowship
> - a sample of scholarly work (maximum 20 pages
> from an article, conference paper, or dissertation chapter)
> - a letter of recommendation from one
> academic faculty. It can be sent as a separate e-mail.
>
> The application should be submitted in English and
> should be received by 10 January 2012, addressed to:
>
> [log in to unmask]
>
> Forum Transregionale Studien
> c/o Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin
> Attn: Georges Khalil
> Wallotstraße 19, D-14193 Berlin / Germany
>
> Institutional Framework
>
> The Forum Transregionale Studien is a new research
> platform of the Land of Berlin designed to promote
> research that connects systematic and region-specific
> questions in a perspective that addresses entanglements
> and interactions beyond national, cultural or regional
> frames. The Forum works in tandem with established
> institutions and networks engaged in transregional studies
> and is supported by an association of the directors
> of universities, research institutes and networks mainly
> based in Berlin. It supports four research projects:
> Zukunftsphilologie: Revisiting the Canons of
> Textual Scholarship, Rechtskulturen: Confrontations
> Beyond Comparison, Global Prayers: Redemption and
> Liberation in the City, and Europe in the Middle East -
> The Middle East in Europe. The Forum Transregionale
> Studien is funded by the Senate of Berlin.
>
>
> Information
>
> For more information on the Forum please see
> - www.forum-transregionale-studien.de
>
> For more information on Zukunftsphilologie please see
> - www.zukunftsphilologie.de
> - www.geisteswissenschaften.fu-berlin.de/en/friedrichschlegel/
>
>
>
>
>
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