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Society
for the Humanities Fellowships 2009-2010 at Cornell University
Deadline:
October 1, 2008
The Society for the Humanities invites scholars to reflect
upon the theme of “Networks/Mobilities” in order
to further understanding of historical and contemporary flows
of peoples, materials, images, and ideas across physical and
virtual boundaries. Relations of mobility and immobility,
insofar as they are being reconfigured by broad-ranging new
technologies of surveillance, detention, and legal/administrative
regulation, are also germane to the theme. The Society encourages
applicants to investigate the cultural, social, philosophical,
and methodological implications of the theme.
In addition
to raising wide-ranging historical inquiries and broad conceptual
and epistemological issues, applicants might ask whether the
commonplace tropes of diaspora, hybridity, and migration suffice
for understanding contemporary globalization and shifting
patterns of social and cultural influences through travel,
trade, and migration of peoples, goods, and ideas--overland
and across water and air. While the Indian Ocean, the Mediterranean,
and the South Pacific have been focal sites for analysis of
movements over several centuries, critical practices and enhanced
communications provide additional networks of diverse and
activated mobilities, from an emergent understanding of Islamic
civilization to a broader recognition of comparative Latin
American and Asian cultures and their relation to the West.
Of equal
interest is the role of digital culture in relation to migrations,
networking, and global cosmopolitanisms. Just as ancient and
early modern technologies of writing have been compounded
by modernist technologies of vision and sound, from the phonograph
to the cinema, recent online networks have extended the range
of cultural mobilities, and with them the cast and reach of
experience. To what extent might these new mobilities constitute
emergent modes of embodiment?
Scholars
are encouraged to investigate transformations of concepts,
theories and practices across historical periods, disciplinary
boundaries, and social contexts. How might we consider the
migration of ideas from the humanities and arts to the information
and biological sciences and vice-versa, or the mobilization
of academic theories and conceptual networks by activist practices
inside and outside of the academy. Such migrations, mobilities
and networks need not be actual but could also be virtual
in the mobilizations of ideas and artistic practices.
Fellowships
Fellows include scholars from other universities and members
of the Cornell faculty released from regular duties. The fellowships
are held for one academic year. Each Society Fellow will receive
$45,000. Applicants living outside North America are eligible
for an additional $2000 to assist with travel costs
Fellows
spend most of their time at Cornell in research and writing
but are invited to offer one seminar related to their research.
The choice of topic and the mode and level of instruction
are at the pleasure of the Fellow, but the seminars are generally
informal, related to the Fellow's research, and open to graduate
students, suitably qualified undergraduates, and faculty members.
Fellows are encouraged to explore topics they would not normally
teach and, in general, to experiment freely with both the
content and the method of their courses.
Qualifications
Fellows should be working on topics related to the year's
theme. Their approach to the humanities should be broad enough
to appeal to students and scholars in several humanistic disciplines.
Applicants
must have received the Ph.D. degree before January 1, 2008.
The Society for the Humanities will not consider applications
from scholars who received the Ph.D. after this date. Applicants
must also have one or more years of teaching experience which
may include teaching as a graduate student.
To
Apply
Consult the Society for the Humanities web site: www.arts.cornell.edu/sochum/
The application materials must be postmarked on or before
October 1, 2008. Faxed applications will not be accepted.
Awards will be announced by the end of December 2008.
For further
information:
www.arts.cornell.edu/sochum/
Society for the Humanities
A.D. White House
27 East Avenue
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853-1101
Phone:
607-255-9274
Email: humctr-mailbox@cornell.edu
The Society
for the Humanities
The Society for the Humanities was established at Cornell
University in 1966 to support research and encourage imaginative
teaching in the humanities. It is intended to be at once a
research institute, a stimulus to educational innovation,
and a continuing society of scholars. In addition to promoting
research on central concepts, methods or problems in the humanities,
the Society for the Humanities seeks to encourage serious
and sustained discussion between teachers and learners at
all levels of maturity.
Program Administrator
Society for the Humanities
A.D. White House
27 East Avenue
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853-1101
Phone:
607-255-9274
Fax: 607-255-1422
Email:
humctr-mailbox@cornell.edu
Visit the website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/sochum/
Posted:
May 28, 2008
Fulbright Scholar Program
Deadline: August 1, 2008
The Fulbright Scholar Program for Faculty and Professionals
is offering a variety of opportunities for both area and non-area
specialists to lecture, conduct research, or carry out both
activities in the Baltic States, Central and Eastern Europe,
and Eurasia for academic year 2009-10. The traditional Fulbright
Scholar Program offers awards that range from 2 to 10 months.
Scholars may conduct research independently or in collaboration
with host country colleagues. Applications are welcome from
scholars in a broad range of disciplines in the arts, humanities,
social sciences and sciences. Opportunities also exist for
professionals in such fields as law, public administration,
conflict resolution, journalism, library science, and education.
While many awards specify project and host institution, there
are a number of open "All Discipline" awards that
allow candidates to propose their own projects and determine
their host institution affiliation. Foreign language skills
may be required for certain research projects, but lecturing
awards are in English. The application deadline for 2009-10
is August 1, 2008. For general information about application
requirements and staff contacts, visit the CIES Web site at
www.cies.org.
The
Fulbright-University of Warsaw Distinguished Chair in East
European/Eurasian Studies is seeking specialists to lecture
in East European, Russian and/or Eurasian studies at advanced
undergraduate and postgraduate levels with possibilities for
research. Special interest in 20th-century topics. Desired
specializations include history, political science, culture
and nationality issues. Candidates must be U.S. citizens and
senior scholars with a significant publication and teaching
record. For specific information about the chair, contact
Maria Bettua, at mbettua@cies.iie.org, 202-686-6245 or Abby
Greenwell, agreenwell@cies.iie.org or 202-686-6232. The application
deadline is August 1, 2008. Visit the CIES Web site at www.cies.org
for additional information.
Posted: June 19, 2008
Fellowships
at the American Academy in Berlin
Deadline: October 13, 2008
The Academy, which opened in September 1998, is a private,
non-profit center for advanced research in a range of academic
and cultural fields. It is housed in the Hans Arnhold Center,
a historic lakeside villa in the Wannsee district of Berlin.
The Academy
welcomes emerging as well as established scholars, writers,
and professionals who wish to engage in independent study
in Berlin. Fewer than two dozen Berlin Prizes are conferred
annually. Past Berlin Prize recipients have included historians,
economists, poets, art historians, journalists, legal scholars,
anthropologists, musicologists, public policy experts, and
writers, among others. The Academy does not accept project
proposals in mathematics and the hard sciences.
In addition
to placing a very high priority on the independent work of
its fellows, the Academy is in a unique position to aid fellows
in establishing professional networks, as well as links to
the media, both in Berlin and beyond. The Academy’s
public atmosphere, which actively encourages fellows to introduce
their work to wider audiences, serves its mission of fostering
transatlantic ties through cultural exchange.
Fellowships
are typically awarded for an academic semester or, in rare
cases, for an entire academic year. Only the Bosch Fellowships
in Public Policy may be for shorter stays of six to eight
weeks. Fellowship benefits include round-trip airfare, housing
at the Academy, partial board, and a stipend ranging from
$4,000 to $5,000 per month. The Academy’s elegant furnished
apartments at the Hans Arnhold Center are suitable for individuals
and couples; limited accommodations are available for families
with children. All fellows are expected to live at the Hans
Arnhold Center during the entire term of the award.
Fellowships
are restricted to US citizens and permanent residents who
are based permanently in the US. (American expatriates are
not eligible to apply.) Candidates in academic disciplines
must have completed a doctorate at the time of application.
The Academy weighs the general excellence of professional
accomplishment and proposal more than the project’s
specific relevance to Germany. Though it is helpful to explain
how a Berlin residency might contribute to the project’s
further development, candidates must by no means be specialists
in German topics.
Application
forms may be downloaded from the Academy’s website or
obtained by mail upon request. Finalist applications will
be reviewed by the General Selection Committee following a
rigorous screening process. The 2009–2010 Berlin Prizes
will be awarded in February 2009 and publicly announced in
the spring of 2009.
At this
time, the Academy is accepting general applications only.
Composers are kindly asked to visit the Academy’s website
for details regarding the competition in music composition.
The Guna S. Mundheim Fellowship in the Visual Arts is an invitation-only
competition, in which candidates are nominated by members
of the Academy’s arts jury. Please consult the Academy’s
website for more information.
For further
information, please contact:
The American
Academy in Berlin
Attn: Application for Fellowship
Am Sandwerder 17–19
14109 Berlin, Germany
Telephone +49 (30) 804 83-0
Fax +49 (30) 804 83-111
applications@americanacademy.de
www.americanacademy.de
The American Academy in Berlin
Attn: Application for Fellowship
Am Sandwerder 17–19
14109 Berlin, Germany
Telephone +49 (30) 804 83-0
Fax +49 (30) 804 83-111
Email:
applications@americanacademy.de
Visit the website at http://www.americanacademy.de
Andrew
W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Humanities
Deadline:
October 15, 2008.
Five Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowships in the Humanities
are available for the 2009-2010 academic year from the Penn
Humanities Forum of the University of Pennsylvania for untenured
junior scholars who are no more than eight years out of their
doctorate.
The programs of the Penn Humanities Forum are conceived through
yearly topics that invite broad interdisciplinary collaboration.
The Forum has set CONNECTIONS as the topic for the 2009-2010
academic year. Research proposals on this topic are invited
from a variety of theoretical perspectives in all areas of
humanistic study except educational curriculum-building and
the performing arts. Candidates from all humanistic disciplines
are eligible, as well as those in allied areas such as Anthropology
and History of Science.
Fellows
teach one undergraduate course each of two terms in addition
to conducting research. Stipend: $46,500, plus health insurance.
The fellowship is open to all scholars, national and international,
who meet eligibility criteria.
Full fellowship
guidelines, topic description, and downloadable application
are available online only: http://www.phf.upenn.edu
Jennifer Conway
Associate Director
Penn Humanities Forum
University of Pennsylvania
3619 Locust Walk
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6213
Phone: 215.898.8220
Email: phf@sas.upenn.edu
Visit the website at http://www.phf.upenn.edu
Posted:
May 28, 2008
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