IWM Fellowships (VIENNA)



July - December 2000 &
January - June 2001


The Institute for Human Sciences (IWM) is accepting applications from
doctoral and post-doctoral candidates from Central, Eastern and Western
Europe for its Junior Visiting Fellowship Program. IWM is an intellectually
and politically independent institute for advanced study supported by a
community of scholars consisting of Permanent Fellows, Visiting Fellows and
Junior Visiting Fellows.

The Institute's mission is to offer a place for research and discussion that
crosses borders and disciplines. Since its founding in 1982, the Institute
has laid a particular emphasis on the resurrection of an open exchange of
ideas with academics, intellectuals and politicians from Central and Eastern
Europe, an exchange that has increasingly included researchers from North
America.

Junior Visiting Fellowship Program

The program gives promising young scholars in the humanities and social
sciences an opportunity to pursue their research in Vienna under the
guidance of IWM's Permanent and Visiting Fellows. It is expected that the
Junior Fellows will re-invest their newly acquired knowledge in their home
institutions in order to further intellectual and educational activities
there.

Permanent Fellows are:

Cornelia Klinger
Gender Studies, Philosophy
Janos Matyas Kovacs
Economics, Political Science
Krzysztof Michalski
Director of IWM, Philosophy
Klaus Nellen
History of Ideas, Patocka Archive
Doctoral and Post-doctoral Candidates

Applications are especially encouraged from doctoral candidates who are in
the concluding stages of their dissertations or have recently received their
doctorates in Philosophy, Political Science, Modern History, Sociology,
Economics, or International Relations. Preference will be given to research
projects that are thematically related to IWM's fields of research or
policy-oriented projects, in particular:

Political Philosophy of the 19th and 20th Centuries
Gender Studies
Political and Social Transformation in Central and Eastern Europe
Reform of the Welfare State
Reform of Higher Education and Research
Jan Patocka Junior Visiting Fellowships

Each term one fellowship is awarded in honor of the Czech philosopher Jan
Patocka (1907-1977) to a young scholar working on the philosophy of Jan
Patocka or in fields related to his work, especially Phenomenology,
Political Philosophy, Philosophy of History, and Czech History and Culture.
Fellows have access to IWM's Patocka Archive, which was founded in 1984.

Eligibility Requirements

In order to qualify, candidates should:

be a citizen of a Central, Eastern or Western European country;
be either in the concluding stages of their dissertation or have recently
received a doctorate;
work on a research project that corresponds to IWM's fields of research or
policy-oriented projects (see above);
have a good working knowledge of German and/or English;
not be older than 35 years of age at the commencement of the research term.
Application Procedure

There is no application form; the following materials are required to be
submitted together by mail:

a cover letter describing the reasons for applying for an IWM Fellowship,
and stating the preferred research term (this preference will be
accommodated, if possible);
a concise research proposal, in German or English, consisting of three to
four double spaced pages;
a curriculum vitae (including date of birth and citizenship);
two letters of recommendation from established scholars in the candidate's
field of study.
Stipend

For their six-month research stay at IWM, Junior Visiting Fellows receive a
stipend of ATS 108,000 to cover transportation, rent and living expenses.
Recipients of the fellowships are provided office space and access to
in-house and Viennese research facilities.



Deadline

Applications should be sent before the closing date of February 20, 2000.
Applicants are notified of the competition results roughly six weeks after
the closing date; the reviewing committee is not required to justify its
decisions.

Please address applications to:
Ms. Traude Kastner
Junior Visiting Fellowship Program
Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen
Spittelauer Laende 3
A-1090 Vienna
for more info see:
http://www.univie.ac.at/iwm/main-e.htm





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