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10 bourses de post-doctorat, Berlin, 2014-2015

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS

10 POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIPS FOR ACADEMIC YEAR 2014/15 in Berlin

(Location: Berlin / Closing Date: 15 January 2014)

The Berlin-based Forum Transregionale Studien invites scholars to apply for up

to ten postdoctoral fellowships for the research program

EUROPE IN THE MIDDLE EAST - THE MIDDLE EAST IN EUROPE (EUME)

EUME seeks to rethink key concepts and premises that link and divide Europe and

the Middle East. The program draws on the international expertise of scholars

in and outside of Germany and is embedded in university and extra-university

research institutions in Berlin. It supports historical-critical philology,

rigorous engagement with the literatures of the Middle East and their

histories, the social history of cities and the study of Middle Eastern

political and philosophical thought (Christian, Jewish, Muslim, and secular) as

central fields of research not only for area or cultural studies, but also for

European intellectual history and other academic disciplines. The program

explores modernity as a historical space and conceptual frame.

The program puts emphasis on three programmatic ideas:

1) supporting research that demonstrates the rich and complex historical

legacies and entanglements between Europe and the Middle East; 2) reexamining

genealogical notions of mythical 'beginnings', 'origins', and 'purity' in

relation to culture and society; and 3) rethinking key concepts of a shared

modernity in light of contemporary cultural, social, and political

entanglements that supersede identity discourses as well as national, cultural

or regional canons and epistemologies that were established in the nineteenth

century.

EUME supports and builds upon the following interconnected research fields:

CITIES COMPARED: URBAN CHANGE IN THE MEDITERRANEAN AND ADJACENT REGIONS This

research group is directed by Ulrike Freitag and Nora Lafi, both of the Zentrum

Moderner Orient, Berlin. It contributes to the debate on plurality, citizenship

and civil society from the historical experience of conviviality and

socio-cultural, ethnic, and religious differences in the cities around the

Mediterranean;

ISLAMIC DISCOURSE CONTESTED: MIDDLE EASTERN AND EUROPEAN PERSPECTIVES is

directed by Gudrun Kraemer, Institute for Islamic Studies, Freie Universitaet

Berlin. It analyzes modern Middle Eastern thought in the framework of

discourses on modernity, secularity, and justice;

PERSPECTIVES ON THE QUR'AN: NEGOTIATING DIFFERENT VIEWS OF A SHARED HISTORY is

directed by Angelika Neuwirth, Seminar for Arabic Studies, Freie Universitaet

Berlin, and Stefan Wild, Universitaet Bonn. This research group situates the

foundational text of Islam within the religious and literary landscape of late

antiquity, early Islamic History and Arabic philology, and combines a

historicization of its genesis with an analysis of its hermeneutics, its

reception and perception in Europe and the Middle East;

TRAVELLING TRADITIONS: COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES ON NEAR EASTERN LITERATURES is

directed by Friederike Pannewick, Centrum fuer Nah- und Mitteloststudien,

Philipps-Universitaet Marburg, and Samah Selim, Rutgers University. This

research group reassesses literary entanglements and processes of canonization

between Europe and the Middle East.

TRADITION AND THE CRITIQUE OF MODERNITY: SECULARISM, FUNDAMENTALISM AND

RELIGION FROM MIDDLE EASTERN PERSPECTIVES is a special forum, directed by Amnon

Raz-Krakotzkin, Ben-Gurion University, that attempts to rethink key concepts of

modernity like secularity, tradition, or religion in the context of the

experiences, interpretations, and critiques of Jews, Arabs, and Muslims in the

Middle East and in Europe.

A new field of research that attempts to bridge the gap between political

science approaches and cultural studies will be developed during the coming

year. It will be directed by Cilja Harders, Otto-Suhr-Institut fuer

Politikwissenschaft, Freie Universitaet Berlin, and Rachid Ouaissa, Political

Science Departement, Centrum für Nah- und Mittelost-Studien,

Philipps-Universit?t Marburg.

FELLOWSHIPS

The fellowships are intended primarily for scholars of art history, history,

literature, philology, political philosophy, political science, religion and

sociology who want to carry out their research projects in connection with the

Berlin program. Applicants should be at the postdoctoral level and should have

obtained their doctorate within the last seven years. Fellows gain the

opportunity to pursue research projects of their own choice within the

framework of one of the above-mentioned research fields and in relation to the

overall program 'Europe in the Middle East - the Middle East in Europe'.

Successful applicants will be fellows of EUME at the Forum Transregionale

Studien and associate members of one of the university or non-university

research institutes listed below.

As a rule, the fellowships start on 1 October 2014 and will end on 31 July

2015. Postdoctoral fellows will receive a monthly stipend of 2.500 € plus

supplement depending on their personal situation. Organisational support

regarding visa, insurances, housing, etc. will be provided. Fellows are obliged

to work in Berlin and to help shape the seminars and working discussions

related to their research field. The working language of EUME is English.

APPLICATION PROCEDURE

An application should be made in explicit relation to one of the research

fields and consist of

- a curriculum vitae,

- a project description (no longer than 5 pages), stating what the scholar 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 by one university instructor (that can be sent by

as a separate e-mail).

The application should be submitted by e-mail as four separate word documents

or PDF files in English and should be received by 15 January 2014, sent in to:

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Europe in the Middle East - the Middle East in Europe (EUME) c/o Forum

Transregionale Studien

Attn: Georges Khalil

Wallotstrasse 14, 14193 Berlin

Fax +49 30 - 89 00 1440

INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK

'Europe in the Middle East - the Middle East in Europe' (EUME) has been

initiated in 2006 as a joint research program of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy

of Sciences and Humanities, the Fritz Thyssen Foundation and the

Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin. It builds upon the previous work of the Working

Group Modernity and Islam (1996-2006). Since 2011 EUME is continued at the

Forum Transregionale Studien.

In scholarly terms EUME is directed by a Collegium that currently consists of

the following persons: Ulrike Freitag (Zentrum Moderner Orient), Cilja Harders

(Otto-Suhr-Institut fuer Politikwissenschaft, Freie Universitaet Berlin),

Gudrun Kraemer (Institut fuer Islamwissenschaft, Freie Universitaet Berlin),

Nora Lafi (Zentrum Moderner Orient), Angelika Neuwirth (Seminar fuer Semitistik

und Arabistik, Freie Universitaet Berlin), Friederike Pannewick (Centrum fuer

Nah- und Mitteloststudien/Arabistik, Philipps-Universitaet Marburg), Amnon

Raz-Krakotzkin (Ben-Gurion University, Beer Sheva), Rachid Ouaissa (Political

Science Departement, Centrum für Nah- und Mittelost-Studien,

Philipps-Universit?t Marburg), Samah Selim (Rutgers University), Stefan Weber

(Museum fuer Islamische Kunst, Berlin), and Stefan Wild (Islamwissenschaft,

Universitaet Bonn).

The Forum Transregionale Studien is a Berlin-based research platform 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

that are 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 programs: ARTHISTORIES AND AESTHETIC

PRACTICES, RECHTSKULTUREN: Confrontations beyond Comparison,

ZUKUNFTSPHILOLOGIE: Revisiting the Canons of Textual Scholarship, and EUROPE IN

THE MIDDLE EAST—THE MIDDLE EAST IN EUROPE (EUME). The Forum Transregionale

Studien cooperates with the Max Weber Stiftung and is funded through a

public-private partnership.

For more information on the ForumTransregionale Studien please see

www.forum-transregionale-studien.de

For further information on 'Europe in the Middle East - The Middle East in

Europe' and for detailed information on the research fields, please see

www.eume-berlin.de

For information on the research institutions in Berlin participating in EUME,

please visit:

- Berlin Graduate School of Muslim Cultures and Societies, FU Berlin

www.bgsmcs.fu-berlin.de

- Center for Middle Eastern and North African Politics, FU Berlin

www.polsoz.fu-berlin.de/vorderer-orient

- Corpus Coranicum, Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities

www.koran.bbaw.de

- Zentrum Moderner Orient

www.zmo.de

- Friedrich Schlegel Graduate School of Literary Studies, FU Berlin

www.fsgs.fu-berlin.de/en/

- Institute for Islamic Studies, FU Berlin

www.geschkult.fu-berlin.de/en/e/islamwiss

- Museum for Islamic Art

www.smb.museum/isl

- Seminar for Arabic Studies, FU Berlin

www.geschkult.fu-

Please find the call for applications below this message or as a PDF document

via the following link:

http://www.eume-berlin.de/en/call-for-application-ausschreibung.html

Georges Khalil

Bitte beachten Sie die neue Adresse und Telefonnummer!

Please note the new address and telephone number!

Forum Transregionale Studien

Wallotstra?e 14, 14193 Berlin

T +49 (0)30 89 001-420

F +49 (0)30 89 001-440

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