Fellowship Opportunities
Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis
Postdoctoral and Senior Resident Fellowships
Deadline: December 15, 2007
http://rcha.rutgers.edu
The Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis invites applications
from all disciplines for post-doctoral and senior resident
fellowships to be held during the academic year of 2008-9
from individuals working on Vernacular Epistemologies.
This interdisciplinary project considers forms of knowledge
that diverge from, challenge, entangle with, and complicate
fundamental categories or apparatuses most obviously
identifiable with European Enlightenment. In thinking
of and with ‘vernacular’ practices and knowledges,
the seminar will also explore processes by which categories
and performances were rendered ‘parochial’ or ‘local’ by
taxonomic projects of others. By this means, we hope
to ensure that contested and mutable categories from
social pasts, even when translated and incorporated into
cosmopolitan epistemes, remain salient for creative research
and narration of complex histories.
In 2008-9, the seminar will discuss Time and Value. We
will explore plural notions of time in the past, its
valence in music, art, notions of history and narration,
their differential imbrications with shifting ideas of
value, historical subjectivity, and social life itself.
Both categories offer rich potential for rethinking relationships
between ethics and politics, exchange and redistribution,
forms of numeracy, facticity and regimes of truth. (The
Vernacular Epistemologies project will explore the theme
of Body/Soul Mind in 2009-2010) We welcome scholars of
all disciplines, geographic and temporal contexts, from
within and outside the North American academy. Applicants
need not be US citizens. Rutgers is an AA/EOE institution.
The deadline for applications is December 15, 2007. Applicants
and those interested in presenting a paper related to
this project during 2008/2009 should contact the project
directors: Profs. Julie Livingston & Indrani Chatterjee/
Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis/ 88 College Ave/
New Brunswick, NJ 08901-8542/USA. Email rcha@rci.rutgers.edu,
or visit http://rcha.rutgers.edu
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Jackman Humanities Institute, University of Toronto
Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowships
Deadline: January 4, 2008
http://www.humanities.utoronto.ca/proposals.html#mellon
The Jackman Humanities Institute (JHI) at the University
of Toronto is pleased to announce new Andrew W. Mellon
Postdoctoral Fellowships designed to provide financial
and intellectual support for outstanding scholars at the
beginning of their professional careers. Up to three Fellows
in the Humanities* will be selected each year for a two-year
fellowship in the new JHI. Fellows will be selected on
the basis of accomplishment appropriate to their stage
in their career, the promise of excellence and the relevance
of their research to the annual theme. The JHI interprets “Humanities” as
a broad category, including political theory, interpretative
social science, music and the arts.
The theme for the 2008-09 year is 'Telling Stories'. Making
sense of our world depends on the practice of narrating
events. In both oral and written traditions, and ranging
from the historian’s monograph to the epic poem,
a film or a single painting—the activity of telling
stories serves as a topic for diverse kinds of scholarly
inquiry. Humanities research explores various modes of
telling and the social, political, epistemological and
ethical implications of how and why stories are told.
The Fellows will pursue their individual research in the
context of the JHI. They will have offices at the JHI and
will participate in weekly seminars and other activities
in the circle of fellows. In addition, each Fellow will
be affiliated with a Department and will teach one course
each term of their two-year fellowship. We are especially
interested in candidates who have an interest in and capacity
for interdisciplinary work of a high quality The Fellowship
provides an annual $50,000 (Canadian) stipend.
We invite applications from qualified candidates for fellowships
to begin 1 July 2008. Applicants and referees are to send
these application materials electronically to: humanities@chass.utoronto.ca
by Friday, January 4, 2008. For submission guidelines,
please visit http://www.humanities.utoronto.ca/proposals.html.
Awards will be announced in March 2008.
Eligible applicants must have successfully defended their
PhD after July 2005 and prior to May 1, 2008. Applicants
who will successfully defend their Ph.D. degree by May
1, 2008 are eligible and any award will be conditional
on a successful defense. Such applicants must also include
a letter of confirmation from their supervisor and the
Chair of their Department. Degree candidates and recipients
of the Ph.D. from The University of Toronto are ineligible.
Fellowships are open to citizens of Canada, the United
States, and other nations. The University of Toronto is
strongly committed to diversity within its community and
especially welcomes applications from visible minority
group members, women, Aboriginal persons, persons with
disabilities, members of sexual minority groups, and others
who may contribute to the further diversification of ideas.
Application Procedure:
Please submit the following materials electronically by
January 4, 2008:
1. A two- to four-page letter of application, including
a statement of current research interests related to the
theme, Telling Stories, (outlining the research to be undertaken
during the term of fellowship).
2. A full curriculum vita.
3. Three letters of recommendation are to be submitted
directly by your referees (candidates should arrange to
have the three letters of reference sent electronically
by the deadline).
4. Copies of published work, extracts from dissertation,
or drafts of work in progress (not to exceed 25-30 pages).
5. A two-to four-page statement of teaching interests (including
course proposals).
For any questions or further information, please contact
Robert Gibbs, Director of the JHI, by e-mail at humanities@chass.utoronto.ca
or see the website: www.humanities.utoronto.ca
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***CALL FOR GRADUATE STUDENT FELLOWS***
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version.
The University of California Humanities Research Institute
(UCHRI) invites proposals for various programs:
Residential Research Group Fellowships
Academic Year 2008-09
Deadline: December 10, 2007
Residential Research Groups: Topic Proposals
Academic Year 2009-10
Deadline: December 15, 2007
Andrew V. White Scholarship
Academic Year 2008-09
Deadline: January 2, 2008
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The Institute for Humanities Research at Arizona State
University is pleased to announce its theme for Visiting
and ASU Fellows for 2007-08“The Humanities and
Sustainability.” We wish to host two scholars whose
projects expand the usual understanding of sustainability
as a technological challenge to encompass the long-term
thinking, sense of history, attention to language and human
creativity, and understanding of cultural and social institutions
necessary to create and critique notions of sustainable
communities and societies. Such projects might focus on
human commitment to developing and using new technologies,
rebalancing cherished traditions in light of wide-reaching
material and cultural innovation, achieving a difficult
consensus on social values, or redefining basic concepts,
such as “civilization” and “economic
growth.” In particular, we seek projects that address:
the language, rhetoric, and terminology of sustainability;
the impact of sustainable technologies on various racial,
ethnic, and gender groups; the relationship of traditional
cultures to the values and practices of sustainability;
the politics, ethics, and/or art of sustainability; the
interaction between human societies and the natural environment,
including changing climate; the difficult balance between
the values of cultural preservation and of social innovation
in the design of sustainable societies; and hidden agendas
in the concept of sustainability, especially ideologies
of race, gender, and class.
(For a complete list of suggested topics, please see http://www.asu.edu/clas/ihr/faculty/fellows/index.html).
The Visiting Fellows program enables scholars from other
institutions of higher education in the US and abroad to
spend spring semester 2008 in residence at the Institute
for Humanities Research (IHR) at Arizona State University
and to participate in the intellectual life of the IHR
and the university community. Fellows will be provided
a stipend, up to $20,000 for the spring semester (15 January
through 15 May), an office, and support services. The Visiting
Fellowship provides the opportunity to conduct research
and write and to exchange ideas with internal ASU Faculty
Fellows working on the same theme, as well as other faculty,
during their term at the IHR. Visiting Fellows will participate
in weekly meetings with the working groups of ASU Fellows
around the theme of The Humanities and Sustainability and
will give public lectures and seminars on their research
topics while in residence at ASU. We anticipate hosting
two Visiting Fellows during spring 2008.
Application materials and guidelines are also available
on the IHR web page. The deadline for Visiting Fellows
applications is January 10, 2007.
Please forward. Thank you.
Carol Withers
Assistant Director
Institute for Humanities Research
Arizona State University
Social Sciences Building Room 107; PO Box 876505
Tempe AZ 87287-6505
Phone: 480-965-3000; Fax: 480-965-4300
http://www.asu.edu/clas/ihr
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Pembroke Center Postdoctoral Fellowships
2007-08
The Question of Identity in Psychoanalysis
Seminar Leader: Bernard Reginster
Chesler-Mallow Senior Faculty Research Fellow, Pembroke
Center Department of Philosophy
The 150th anniversary of Sigmund Freud's birth has occasioned
many
reassessments of psychoanalysis, some of which are quite
critical. Such
criticisms tend to ignore two facts. One is that some of
Freud's most basic
ideas have become so deeply entrenched that they remain
untouched by those
criticisms, and their Freudian origins are overlooked.
The other is that,
over the century since Freud’s early psychoanalytical
works, the discipline
he invented witnessed a theoretical explosion of new ideas,
primarily about
the issues of identity and intersubjectivity, which themselves
became more
and more closely involved with empirical research in psychological
development. These new ideas have produced a rich and sometimes
confusing
fabric of theoretical effects on disciplines as diverse
as cultural
studies, race and gender studies, literary and media studies,
philosophy,
religious studies, history, and anthropology. The time
has come to take
stock. In 2007-2008, the Pembroke Seminar will explore
psychoanalytic views
on identification, intersubjectivity, and their interrelation.
The claim
that identification (understood as the development of an
identity or sense
of self) is fundamentally intersubjective (takes place
in a context of
relations with others) can be found in a wide variety of
guises and across
a wide variety of disciplines. But it is in psychoanalysis
that most of
these disciplines continue to find their theoretical bearings
on these issues.
What is the identity, the "ego" or sense of
self, of which psychoanalysts
speak? What does it mean to claim, as Freud did, that "the
ego is
primarily a bodily ego"? What are we to make of the
fact, recently
acknowledged by both child psychoanalysts and developmental
psychologists,
that some of the earliest, most primitive layers of the
sense of self
develop before the capacity for verbalizable (self-)representation?
What
is the relation of identity to basic human needs? Is the
development of a
sense of self the incidental by-product of frustration
in the effort to
gratify basic bodily needs, as Freud believed, or is it
the gratification
of a separate and fundamental need for a stable and enduring
sense of self,
as some of his successors argued? One of the most central
and distinctive
claims of psychoanalytic theory is that identity is not
an innate given but
the product of a psychic process that can be disrupted
or altogether
thwarted. How does the fact that some people may lack a
sense of self
affect, for example, the discourse of disciplines (such
as moral
philosophy, political science, or economic theory) that
continue to treat
as basic and unproblematic the categories of selfishness
and
unselfishness? The possibility that identification can
be disrupted has
inspired the creation of a new category of psychopathologies,
the so-called
pathologies of the self. What implicit normative views
about psychological
health, or human wellbeing, find expression in this new
category? Among
the pathological conditions it is thought to include, we
find the lack of
an integrated personality, or excessive compliance with
the demands of
one’s social environment. But what implicit values
motivate the
characterization of these conditions as pathological, and
what value do
they themselves possess?
The role and significance of relations with others have
arguably become one
of the most central issues in psychoanalytic theory, as
attested in the
names given to numerous post-Freudian theoriesobject-relations
theory,
interpersonal psychiatry, relational psychoanalysis, intersubjective
psychoanalysis, and recent psychoanalytic engagement with
attachment
theory, to mention a few. The centrality of relations with
others raises
fundamental questions. What is the "other" in
psychoanalytic theory? Is
it simply an object that provides gratification of one’s
own basic bodily
needs, with which one can therefore develop at best a purely
instrumental
relationship? Or is it the final object of a basic need
to relate? Or
again is it a formation having to do with the drives and
with the subject’s
entry into language? What does the "otherness" of
this other consist in?
And what are the implications of the various conceptions
of otherness we
can find in psychoanalytic theory for the psychoanalytic
understanding of
certain distinctively interpersonal relationships, such
as love and
trust? The significance of interpersonal relations is most
evident in the
concept of identification, which is widely viewed as an
essentially
intersubjective process. But here, too, we find considerable
theoretical
variation. To mention only one example, is identification
the consequence
of certain sorts of relational failures, as Freud thought,
or is it on the
contrary disrupted by such failures, as many of his successors
argued?
We seek applicants from a variety of disciplines who are
interested in
exploring these issues and in making use of psychoanalytic
insights to do
so, including, in no particular order, literary and media
studies, cultural
studies, race and gender studies, philosophy, anthropology,
religious
studies, and others. Although the focus of the seminar
will be primarily
on fundamental concepts (psychoanalytic conceptions of
identity,
intersubjectivity, otherness, and so on), we welcome applications
from
scholars who apply these concepts to specific fields of
inquiry.
Post-Doctoral Fellowships
Fellowships are open to scholars from all disciplines.
Recipients may not
hold a tenured position in an American college or university.
Preference
will be given to projects in which there is significant
scholarly and
theoretical attention given to the theme of the seminar.
This is a residential fellowship. Fellows participate
weekly in the
Pembroke Seminar, present two public papers during the
year, and pursue
individual research. Brown University is an EEO/AA employer.
The Center
particularly encourages third world and minority scholars
to apply. The
term of appointment is September 1, 2007-May 31, 2008.
The stipend is
$35,000, plus health insurance unless otherwise covered.
For application forms, contact: Donna_Goodnow@brown.edu
or phone
401-863-2643. The mailing address of the Center is Box
1958, Brown
University, Providence, RI 02912 (regular mail); Pembroke
Center, Alumnae
Hall, 194 Meeting Street, Room 204, Providence, RI 02906
(express mail).
The deadline for applications is December 8, 2006. Selections
will be
announced in March.
--
Donna Goodnow
Center Manager
Pembroke Center
Box 1958
194 Meeting Street, Room 204
Providence, RI 401-863-2643
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The Wolfsonian–Florida International University
is a museum and research center that promotes the examination
of modern material culture. The focus of the Wolfsonian
collection is on North American and European decorative
arts, propaganda, architecture, and industrial and graphic
design from the period 1885-1945. The United States, Great
Britain, Germany, Italy, and the Netherlands are the countries
most extensively represented. There are also smaller but
significant collections of materials from a number of other
countries, including Austria, Czechoslovakia, France, Japan,
the former Soviet Union and Hungary. The Wolfsonian library
has approximately 50,000 rare books, periodicals, and ephemeral
items, as well as standard reference materials.
Fellowships are intended to support full-time research,
generally for a period of three to five weeks. The program
is open to holders of master’s or doctoral degrees,
Ph.D. candidates, and to others who have a significant
record of professional achievement in relevant fields.
Applicants are encouraged to discuss their project with
the Fellowship Coordinator prior to submission to ensure
the relevance of their proposals to the Wolfsonian’s
collection. For more information about The Wolfsonian and
its collection, visit the website, http://www.wolfsonian.fiu.edu,
call 305-535-2613, or email to research@thewolf.fiu.edu.
The application deadline is January 2, for residency during
the 2007-2009 academic years.
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Beginning March 1, 2006, NEH will accept applications
for Fellowships and Faculty Research Awards online at:
https://securegrants.neh.gov/. These guidelines describe
the programs and how to prepare an online application.
To obtain a print-version of this application, call 202-606-8446,
send an e-mail to info@neh.gov, or write to NEH, Office
of Public Affairs, 1100 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington,
DC 20506.
* Application deadline extended to May 5. Applicants attempting
to submit their applications experienced problems reaching
the Web site. (Deadline extended May 1.)
Date posted: February 9, 2006
Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) Number:
45.160
Questions?
Contact NEH's Division of Research Programs at 202-606-8200
or fellowships@neh.gov. Hearing-impaired applicants can
contact NEH via TDD at 1-866-372-2930.
Grant Program Description
Fellowships and Faculty Research Awards support individuals
pursuing advanced research in the humanities that contributes
to scholarly knowledge or to the general public's understanding
of the humanities. Recipients usually produce scholarly
articles, monographs on specialized subjects, books on
broad topics,archaeological site reports, translations,
editions, or other scholarly tools.
Fellowships support full-time work on a humanities project
for a period of six to twelve months. Applicants may be
faculty or staff members of colleges, universities, or
primary or secondary schools, or they may be independent
scholars or writers.
For more information on NEH fellowships go to: http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/fellowships.html
The following websites offer information about a variety
of Humanities Fellowships.
http://www.asianculturalcouncil.org/programs.html
http://www.mellon.org/mmuf.html
http://www.hs.ias.edu/mellon.htm
http://www.ehow.com/how_13964_apply-andrew-w.html
http://www.whitehouse.gov/fellows/
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