Humanities Opportunities

Helsinki Postdoctoral/University Researcher Positions

Wed, 10 Sep 2008 17:08:19 -0800

Applicants best able to meet the requirements of the post will have a doctoral degree, previous research experience in the humanities and/or social sciences, and demonstrated ability for scientific work at a high international level. The applicant must also demonstrate how she or he would participate in the multi- and cross-disciplinary cooperation practiced at the Collegium. The working language of the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies is English. The term of office for successful applicants will begin on 1 August 2009. The monthly salary will depend on the assessed job demand level and personal work performance. The Board of the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies will determine the length of the appointments for a fixed term of 1 - 5 years based on the research plan of each applicant. The Collegium will appoint applicants who are at different stages of their academic careers. The Collegium encourages applications also from professor-level applicants. Details

Doctoral Student Positions in Sweden

Mon, 15 Sep 2008 16:58:01 -0800

In cooperation with the Stockholm and Uppsala universities, Södertörn University College (Sweden) is inviting applications for 10 doctoral student positions within the Baltic and East European Graduate School. The language of instruction is English and fluency in English is required. Areas include Ethnology, History, Literature and Rhetoric. Details

Cultural Studies Association

Mon, 15 Sep 2008 17:02:39 -0800

The Cultural Studies Association (U.S.) invites participation in its Seventh Annual Meeting from all areas and on all topics of relevance to Cultural Studies, including but not limited to literature, history, sociology, geography, anthropology, communications, popular culture, cultural theory, queer studies, critical race studies, feminist studies, postcolonial studies, media and film studies, material culture studies, performance and visual arts studies. Details

Literature, Geography, Translation

Wed, 01 Oct 2008 15:48:03 -0800

Literature, Geography, Translation: The New Comparative Horizons is a conference that will be held at Uppsala University on June 11-13, 2009. Comparative literature is currently undergoing critical changes. Transnational and global paradigms of study are emerging to supplant the discipline’s earlier Eurocentric framework; circulation, translation, postcolonialism and “world literature” have become the focus of overlapping debates which expand the horizon of literary studies. Conference conveners welcome presentation proposals that address, mutatis mutandis, each of the terms “literature,” “geography” and “translation” within a transnational frame. Details

Cornell Society for the Humanities

Wed, 01 Oct 2008 17:02:50 -0800

The 2009-2010 research focal theme at Cornell University’s Society for the Humanities is “Networks/Mobilities.” Six to eight Fellows will be appointed. Selected Fellows will collaborate with two Senior Scholars in Residence, Keller Easterling (Associate Professor of Architecture, Yale University), and Brian Massumi, Professor of Communications, University of Montreal. 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. 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. Details

Frederick Burkhardt Residential Fellowships for Recently Tenured Scholars

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 11:11:54 -0800

ACLS invites applicants for its annual competition for the Frederick Burkhardt Residential Fellowships for Recently Tenured Scholars. These fellowships support long-term, unusually ambitious projects in the humanities and related social sciences. The ultimate goal of the project should be a major piece of scholarly work by the applicant that will take the form of a monograph or other equally substantial form of scholarship. ACLS does not fund creative work (e.g., novels or films), textbooks, straightforward translation, or pedagogical projects. Burkhardt Fellowships are intended to support an academic year (normally nine months) of residence at any one of the national residential research centers participating in the program. Such an environment, beyond providing free time, encourages exchanges across disciplinary lines that can be especially helpful to deepening and expanding the significance of projects in the humanities and related social sciences. Each fellowship carries a stipend of $75,000. Details

Charles A. Ryskamp Research Fellowships

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 11:19:13 -0800

ACLS invites applications for the Charles A. Ryskamp Research Fellowships, which support advanced assistant professors and untenured associate professors in the humanities and related social sciences whose scholarly contributions have advanced their fields and who have well-designed and carefully developed plans for new research. Each fellowship carries a stipend of $64,000, and a fund of $2,500 for research and travel with possible summer support. Details

ACLS Digital Innovation Fellowship

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 11:21:46 -0800

ACLS invites applications for the ACLS Digital Innovation Fellowships. This program supports digitally based research projects in all disciplines of the humanities and humanities-related social sciences. It is hoped that projects of successful applicants will help advance digital humanistic scholarship by broadening understanding of its nature and exemplifying the robust infrastructure necessary for creating further such works. Fellowship stipends are awarded in amounts up to $55,000 and project cost amounts up to $25,000. Details

Imagining America

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 11:22:55 -0800

Imagining America invites faculty, students, and community partners to participate in our October 2008 conference in Los Angeles, hosted by the University of Southern California. The theme of 2008 is “Layers of Place, Movements of People: Public Engagement in a Diverse America.” A particular focus will be the diverse layers of people, places, and disciplinary intersections that shape the work of public engagement. The conference will be held October 2-4, 2008. Details

Stanford Humanities Center Fellowships

Wed, 15 Oct 2008 11:06:54 -0800

Fellows are in residence at the Center during the regular academic year (September to June) and participate in the Center’s intellectual life, sharing ideas and work in progress with a diverse community of scholars from across the spectrum of academic fields and ranks. Applicants must have a PhD and will normally be at least three years beyond receipt of the degree by the start of the fellowship term. Fellows are awarded stipends of up to $60,000. In addition, a housing and moving allowance of up to $15,000 is offered, dependent upon need. Details

International Perspectives on Nature and Culture

Wed, 15 Oct 2008 17:15:44 -0800

The Institute for the Humanities at Simon Fraser University, in collaboration with the Western Humanities Alliance, would like to invite you to a small Symposium (about 45 participants) which will feature four theme papers focusing on different perspectives on the relationship of culture to nature. The Symposium will take place October 15 and 16, 2008 in Vancouver B.C., with presentations by Augustin Berque (Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris), Andrew Dobson (Keele University, UK ), Roderick Nash (University of California, Santa Barbara, US), and Michael Zimmerman (University of Colorado at Boulder, US). For program and registration information, contact Barbara Smith.

American Academy of Arts & Sciences Visiting Scholars Program

Fri, 17 Oct 2008 12:06:44 -0800

The American Academy of Arts & Sciences welcomes fellowship applications from untenured junior faculty and postdoctoral students who are interested in pursuing research related to one of the Academy’s four core program areas: Science and Global Security, Social Policy and American Institutions, Humanities and Culture, and Education. Established in 1780 and located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the Academy is one of the oldest learned societies in the United States and an independent policy research center, conducting multidisciplinary studies of scholarly and public policy issues. Details

Histories of Violence

Sat, 18 Oct 2008 10:12:01 -0800

The 2nd Annual Graduate Cultural Studies Conference at George Mason University will explore the ways in which violence is manifest in political, social and economic realms, and the various roles violence plays in the relation between these realms in any specific juncture, past or present. It will examine the ways in which violence is theorized, enacted, represented and obscured, and how we come to understand the role of historic violence in the construction of the contemporary cultural conjuncture, as well as how various histories influence the ways in which we relate to and theorize violence today. The 2008 Graduate Cultural Studies Conference seeks to cultivate a conversation, among emerging scholars in Cultural Studies and related fields, about the centrality and ubiquity of violence. Details

Brown University Pembroke Fellowships

Wed, 10 Dec 2008 17:13:31 -0800

“Markets and Bodies in Transnational Perspective” raises questions about global flows of people and technology that involve reimagining the body and transforming what it means to be human. We want to understand the changing ways bodies are being commodified, and the individual experiences and ideological constructions of these processes. The seminar explores innovations in international migration and biotechnology that push ahead of the law. How are these sites moralized and politicized? How are international norms and regulatory strategies formulated to define rapidly moving currents of change? We welcome applications from all scholars who do not hold a tenured position. This is a residential fellowship. Details

Folklore of Conflict Zones and Conflict Resolution

Sat, 28 Feb 2009 16:35:55 -0800

The Journal of Folklore Research invites papers on any aspect of the folklore of conflict zones and conflict resolution. Topics may be current or not-so-current. “Conflict” for the purposes of the issue should be understood to involve the group use or serious threat of coercive physical force. Theories and comparative treatments of vernacular discursive tactics and interventions, based on field observation and/or analysis of archived or published texts, are welcome. Please send an article proposal in the form of a 200-300 word abstract to mills.186@osu.edu. If accepted, we will solicit a finished paper for external review. Papers (total 20-35 pp. double-spaced) will be needed by February 28, 2009. Details