The ICI Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry announces six post-doctoral fellowships for the interdisciplinary research focus Constituting Wholes within the core project Tension/Spannung.
Wholes are said to be more than the sum of their parts. This ‘more’ contains both a promise and a threat. When different elements – which might also be individuals, cultures, disciplines or methods – form a whole, they not only join forces, but also generate a surplus from which the parts can also benefit. Being part of a whole is a way to acquire meaning and to extend beyond one’s limited existence; and having a part in the whole is to have an enlarged agency. But wholes are also more powerful than the sum of their parts. Wholes constitute their parts, they determine what is a part and what is apart, what can become a part and which parts have no part. Even if parts therefore may not be said to pre-exist the whole, there may still be something in them that exceeds being a part – if only the possibility of being part of a different whole.
Scholars from all disciplines are invited to engage in a joint exploration of the critical potential and ambivalent function of wholeness and related notions such as complex systems, assemblages, entanglement, or hybridity.
The productive exchange between fellows is a central aim of the Institute. Applicants should be interested in a theoretical reflection upon the conceptual and intellectual basis of their projects and in discussing it with fellows from other disciplines. In particular, fellows will be expected to participate in the weekly colloquia, bi-weekly informal meetings, and other activities of the Institute and to be resident in Berlin for the duration of the fellowship.
The ICI Fellowships announced are for the academic year 2013-14 only (16 September – 18 July). There is no age limit, but applicants should have obtained their PhD within ten years of the date of appointment or have fulfilled all requirements for receiving their PhD by 1 July 2013. Stipends range from EUR 1650 to 1850 per month.
Interested applicants should consult the full fellowship announcement at www.ici-berlin.org/fellowships and send their application by e-mail only to the address indicated there.
Application deadline: 6 January 2013
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Christoph F.E. Holzhey
Director
ICI Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry
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