Deadline: 25 June 2014
Applications are being accepted for Zukunftsphilologie Fellowships programme offered by Berlin-based Forum Transregionale Studien and the Dahlem Humanities Center of Freie Universität Berlin. Zukunftsphilologie is a Berlin-based research program that supports research in marginalized and undocumented textual practices and literary cultures with the aim of integrating texts and scholarly traditions from Asia, Africa, and the Middle East as well as from Europe itself.
Stipend offered:
- Fellows will receive a monthly stipend of € 2.500 plus a family supplement (€ 250). Assistance regarding visa, insurances, housing, etc. will be provided.
- Successful applicants will be fellows of the Dahlem Humanities Center at Freie Universität Berlin and the program Zukunftsphilologie at the Forum Transregionale Studien, and associate members of the Friedrich Schlegel Graduate School for Literary Studies.
- Through this association they will be integrated into the Department of Philosophy and Humanities at the Freie Universität Berlin and will have access to an academic milieu of literary and philological studies as well as to libraries and other research facilities.
Eligibility criteria:
- The fellowships are intended primarily for scholars of major and minor linguistic and philological traditions from Africa, Asia and Europe, whose research explores textual practices and disciplinary entanglements in intellectual and literary history, comparative linguistics, philology, the study of religion and the history of science.
- Applicants should have obtained their doctorate within the last seven years and have an excellent record of teaching and research.
- Fellows are given the opportunity to pursue research projects of their own choice, provided the topic falls within the research agenda of the program.
- Fellows are expected to participate in the seminars, workshops and conferences organized within the framework of the program.
Required Documents:
- a curriculum vitae
- a project description (not longer than five pages), stating what applicants 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)
- the name, affiliation and contact information of one academic reference, whom we may contact.
For more information, visit Zukunftsphilologie Fellowships page.
