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Call for Appications Type: Visiting Fellowships in Transcultural Studies Institution: Heidelberg Centre for Transcultural Studies (HCTS), University of Heidelberg Location: Heidelberg (Germany) Date: from 1.3.2014 or 1.9.2014 Deadline: 1.10.2013 __________________________________________________ The Heidelberg Centre for Transcultural Studies (HCTS) is an Institute for Advanced Studies at the University of Heidelberg. The HCTS now welcomes applications (beginning on March 1st, 2014, or September 1st, 2014): 3 Visiting Fellowships are available to scholars worldwide. Building on the structures established by the Cluster of Excellence “Asia and Europe in a Global Context,” the HCTS is open to scholars especially in the Humanities and the Social Sciences. Founded in April 2013, the HCTS assembles scholars from all over the world to engage in an interdisciplinary dialogue and to enhance their understanding of transcultural processes. The Centre offers a Master’s and a Doctoral Programme in Transcultural Studies. In addition to five permanent fellows (the HCTS professorships in Transcultural Studies), a group of senior and junior fellows is invited each year to join the HCTS to pursue their own research and to engage in discussions with other fellows as well as graduate students around a common theme. Fellows can choose to be in residence in Heidelberg for a period ranging from between six months to two academic years. In 2014-15, fellows at the HCTS are invited to pursue their own research, with a suggested focus on one of the following three themes: 1. Detours-Mediated Circulations of Knowledge Movements of knowledge depend on multiple agents, frames, and pathways, and rarely proceed in linear fashion. How can we get a firmer grasp on the ways and means by which knowledge is mediated in different times and spaces? Who are the intermediaries that make knowledge travel, how can we best describe their practices, and what are the objects on which their mediations rely? 2. Transcultural exchanges in a pre-modern world The premise that cultures are formed through transcultural relationships implies that migrant actors, objects and knowledge are not unique attributes of the globalized present. What kind of a conceptual framework do we require to make sense of circulatory practices before the advent of modern communication and to describe the nature of the shifts such practices undergo in the present? How can the investigation of transcultural links in Antiquity, the Middle Ages or the Early Modern Period lead to a rethinking of notions of periodization, community and representation? How can we recuperate experiences, cosmologies and practices which articulated and simultaneously shaped a consciousness of worlds beyond the local? 3. Urban Spaces Urbanisation patterns and processes are key to cultural dynamics and globalisation. For a better understanding of entanglements between Asia, Europe and the world, across time and space, questions of the (trans)formation of urban space are central. How do traditional forms of living change through media, mobility and demographic developments, what concepts and perceptions of urbanity are developed accordingly? How can we reconceive, from a transcultural perspective, the management of migration flows, citizenship, ethnopolitical discourses and demographic shifts (ageing, gender, leisure) as they manifest themselves in urban space? In what ways could the intensity of entanglement generate modes of resistance and discourses of radical alterity? Researchers working on all historical periods, all regions of the world and from all relevant disciplinary backgrounds are encouraged to apply and to develop new, innovative ways to pursue their research from a transcultural perspective. Group applications are welcome. Fellowships are awarded to scholars employed within or outside the University who have demonstrated outstanding scholarly achievement and exhibit unusual intellectual promise. Fellowships will be awarded on the strength of a candidate's proposed research project, the relationship of the project to the programme themes, the candidate's scholarly record, and the candidate's ability to contribute to intellectual life at the HCTS. What we offer Fellows benefit from the finest research facilities, the stimulating environment of a multi-disciplinary and international community of first-rate scholars, and an excellent digital humanities unit. All Fellows will be offered the support of research assistance and library services. Senior Fellows will receive funds for the partial reduction of their teaching load (equivalent to 1/2 “Lehrstuhlvertretung”). Visiting Fellows will receive a stipend to make up for losses in (sabbatical) salary and for additional costs incurred by their stay in Germany. Junior Fellows will receive a budget to facilitate their research. Fellowship terms Fellows must be in residence in Heidelberg during their fellowship so that they can interact with one another and participate actively in the regular working meetings. Fellows are also invited to attend other events at the HCTS. Application Procedure The application deadline is October 1, 2013. The application (in German or English) consists of two (2) items and should be submitted in electronic format (single PDF File): 1. Curriculum vitae 2. Research proposal (maximum of 1500 words) To apply for a fellowship, please submit these materials as a single PDF file to the Acting Director, Prof. Dr. Barbara Mittler, at: application-hcts-fell...@asia-europe.uni-heidelberg.de For further Information, please see: http://hcts-fellows.uni-hd.de Or contact Dr. Isabel Gallin, General Manager, HCTS at: info-hcts-fell...@asia-europe.uni-heidelberg.de. Contact: Dr. Isabel Gallin Karl Jaspers Centre for Advanced Transcultural Studies University of Heidelberg Vossstrasse 2, Building 4400 D-69115 Heidelberg Germany Phone: +49 6221 544005 Email: info-hcts-fell...@asia-europe.uni-heidelberg.de Web: http://hcts-fellows.uni-hd.de __________________________________________________ InterPhil List Administration: http://interphil.polylog.org Intercultural Philosophy Calendar: http://cal.polylog.org __________________________________________________
