[H-verkko] Tutkimuspyyntö: 10 Postdoc Fellowships in Berlin 2012-13 - Europe in the Middle East - The Middle East in Europe

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10 Postdoc Fellowships in Berlin 2012-13 - Europe in the Middle East
- The Middle East in Europe

Subject: 10 Postdoc Fellowships in Berlin 2012-13 / Europe in the
Middle East - The Middle East in Europe

Dear colleague,

We are pleased to invite for applications for 10 Postdoctoral
Fellowships in the framework of the research project EUROPE IN THE
MIDDLE EAST - THE MIDDLE EAST IN EUROPE for the academic year 2012/13
in Berlin.

Please find the call for applications below this message or as a PDF
document via the following link:

www.wiko-eume.de/fileadmin/eume/pdf/call-1213.pdf

I kindly ask you to spread the information about the fellowships
among scholars interested in the methodological perspective of
dealing with regions or cultures, not as closed entities or
polarities, but by looking at processes of transfer, exchange, and
interaction in the sense of entangled or shared histories and
cultures.

We would be grateful if you could post the announcement at your
institution and circulate it, also per email, among colleagues and
scholars who you think would be qualified and interested in applying
for the postdoc fellowships.

'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. Since 2011, EUME is
continued as a project at the Berlin-based Forum Transregionale
Studien.


With my best regards

Georges Khalil
Forum Transregionale Studien
c/o Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin
Wallotstrasse 19, 14193 Berlin
www.eume-berlin.de
www.forum-transregionale-studien.de


P.S. My apologies for double postings.


 

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS	
10 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
ten postdoctoral fellowships for the
research project

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 project
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 forward 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 and discourses in the framework
of theories of multiple or reflexive modernities;

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.

FELLOWSHIPS

The fellowships are intended primarily
for scholars of art history, history,
literature, museology, philology, political philosophy, political
science, religion and sociology who want to carry out their research
projects in connection with the Berlin project. 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
project '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 2012 and will end on 31 July 2013.
Postdoctoral fellows will receive a monthly stipend of 2.250 euros
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
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 10
January 2012, sent in to:

eume at trafo-berlin.de

Europe in the Middle East -
the Middle East in Europe (EUME)
c/o Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin
Attn: Georges Khalil
Wallotstrasse 19, 14193 Berlin
Fax +49 30 - 89 00 12 00


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 Wissen- schaftskolleg zu Berlin. It builds upon
the previous work of the Working Group Modernity and Islam
(1996-2006). Since 2011 EUME is continued as a project at the Forum
Transregionale Studien.

In scholarly terms EUME is directed by a Kollegium 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),
Samah Selim (Rutgers University), Stefan Weber (Museum fuer
Islamische Kunst, Berlin), Stefan Wild (Islamwissenschaft,
Universitaet Bonn).

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 (EUME).
The Forum Transregionale Studien is funded by the Senate of Berlin.

For more information on the Forum 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 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/en/polwiss

- 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.geisteswissenschaften.fu-berlin.de/en/friedrichschlegel

- Institute for Islamic Studies, FU Berlin
www.geschkult.fu-berlin.de/e/islamwiss

- Museum for Islamic Art
www.smb.museum/smb/sammlungen/details.php?objID=12

- Seminar for Arabic Studies, FU Berlin
www.geschkult.fu-berlin.de/e/semiarab







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