Deadline: 31 August 2012
Open to: PhD holders worldwide in cultural studies
Fellowship: fellowship entails working space in fully equipped offices and a competitive stipend commensurate with the applicant’s level of professional experience
Description
Käte Hamburger Kolleg/Centre for Global Cooperation Research (GCR21) at the University of Duisburg-Essen offers its fellowships. Fellows will work at the Centre for a period of one year from November2012. A shorter research stay of six months as well as a later commencement of the fellowship is possible.
The fellowship entails working space in fully equipped offices and a competitive stipend commensurate with the applicant’s level of professional experience. We offer fellowships at three levels: Selected applicants with a completed Ph.D. will work as Postdocs. Applicants with at least three years of postdoc experience and some supervising responsibilities may be employed as Fellows. Associate and Full Professors as well as other more senior scholars may be offered a position as Senior Fellows. Fellows conduct their research independently.
Fellows are expected to work at the Centre and to take residence in the region. We will be happy to assist fellows in their search for an appropriate apartment.
Please find below two Calls for Applications for Research Unit 1 on “The (Im)Possibility of Cooperation” and Research Unit 2 on “Global Cultural Conflicts and Transcultural cooperation
Eligibility
Research Unit 1 “The (Im)Possibility of Cooperation”
For the fellowships offered in research unit 1 priority will be given to applicants who could make a tangible contribution in one of the following areas:
–The fundamentals of cooperation
– The Influence of cultural factors on the success or failure of cooperation
– Towards an interdisciplinary understanding of global cooperation
Research Unit 2 “Global Cultural Conflicts and Transcultural cooperation”
For the fellowships offered in research unit 2 priority will be given to applicants who could make a tangible contribution in one of the following areas:
–Cultures of global cooperation
–The Anthropological, symbolical and Political Impact of the gift following the theoretical concept
–Global aid cultures, religion and the anthropology of humanitarianism
Application
Applications (in English language) should contain a cover letter, a CV, a list of publications, and a short presentation of the proposed research programme (3−5 pages). Please indicate at which level (Postdoc, Fellow, Senior Fellow) you wish to apply, state for which period you would like to come, and submit your application material in one pdf file. Applications for research unit 1, should be emailed to the head of research unit Dr. Silke Weinlich (weinlich@gcr21.uni-due.de) with “Fellowship Application: The (Im)possibility of Cooperation” as the subject heading. Applications for research unit 2, should be addressed to the head of research unit: PD Dr. Alexandra Przyrembel (przyrembel@gcr21.uni-due.de) and have “Fellow-ship Application: Global Cultural Conflicts” as the subject heading.
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I am having problems with the email adress (przyrembel@gcr21.uni-due.de) they gave in the fellowship post. I cant send them an email… Does anyone have the same problem? Yahoo and gmail say that the email adress is not correctly constructed…
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