[Bilimsel Haber] FW: Publication of job anouncement

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From: michi knecht michi.knecht at rz.hu-berlin.de
Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2008 09:52:17 +0200
To: bilimselhaber-owner at lists.kulturad.org
Subject: Publication of job anouncement


Dear Editors,
could you please be so kind to publish the following job anouncement 
(Deadline 17. July 2008) through you list? Thank you so much,
Michi Knecht

24.06.2008 Stellenausschreibung:
1 PhD POSITION in EUROPEAN ETHNOLOGY / SOCIAL or CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY 
AT THE DEPARTMENT FOR EUROPEAN ETHNOLOGY / THE COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH 
UNIT 640, PROJECT No. C4,

HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY BERLIN
Deadline: 17 JULY 2008

The Department of European Ethnology and the Collaborative Research Unit 
640, "Changing Representations of Social Order: Intertemporal and 
Intercultural Comparisons" at Humboldt-University Berlin offer a PhD 
position within the research project "Kinship as Representation of 
Social Order and Practice: Knowledge, Performativity and Legal-Ethical 
Regulation" (Project C4, Stefan Beck and Michi Knecht) This project 
seeks to understand how notions and practices of kinship / affinity / 
togetherness are changing in relation to the appropriation of assisting 
reproductive technologies and adoption in Berlin and Istanbul/Izmir, 
with a particular focus on the emergent transnational scapes of 
reproductive medicine. The position is for 4 years, open as soon as 
possible, ending June 30th, 2012.
The PhD position will contribute to the Turkish and transnational part 
of the project directed by Prof. Stefan Beck and Dr. Michi Knecht. The 
focus will be on women, couples and kinship networks, who are using – or 
have used – reproductive technologies or adoption in order to start, to 
enlarge or complete families. Important sites of fieldwork in Istanbul, 
Izmir and Berlin will be self-help groups and other concerned groups 
within the reproductive health sector, infertility clinics, adoption 
agencies, ethic committees and governmental staff and experts engaged in 
redefining kinship and kinship law. Most importantly, interviews and 
participant observation will take place within the everyday life of 
families who are involved in our long term study.
Applicants are expected to develop, define and carry through their own 
PhD research project within the research field of our project (assisting 
reproductive technologies in Turkey and the emergent transnational 
scapes of reproductive medicine, kinship and citizenship, concerned 
groups / self help groups in the field of infertility treatment, 
adoption, bioethics and regulation in the field of reproductive 
technologies in Turkey) Applicants for this PhD position should have a 
background in social / cultural anthropology, european ethnology or STS. 
Place of work will be the Humboldt University Berlin, with long 
intermittent periods of fieldwork in Istanbul/Izmir. For further 
information on the research project see
http://www.repraesentationen.de/site/lang__en-US/3868/default.aspx
Applicants must have obtained a Master’s degree with excellent results 
or complete a Master’s course before starting at HU. They should have a 
very good written and oral Turkish and English and a good knowledge of 
German.
Further requirements:
• knowledge in one or more of the following fields: new anthropology of 
kinship, anthropology of knowledge, ethnographies of assisting 
reproductive technologies, Anthropology of Turkey and the Mediterranean, 
social studies of science and technology, transnationalisation, 
methodologies of complex comparisons.
• Ethnographic fieldwork experience
• Ability to work in a team, excellent organisation and communication
skills
Applicants are kindly asked to send a letter of application with a 
concise statement of their interest, a cv and up to three examples of 
their academic writing (including unpublished thesis material), and 
official transcripts or certified copies of University certificates.
The successful applicant must participate in and complete the PhD 
programme of the collaborative research unit 640 at Humboldt University 
Berlin.
The position is payed according to BAT IIa-O, 50 % The PhD students will 
also receive an additional stipend for time abroad and funding for 
travel and accommodation for the time spent in fieldwork.
Applications should be sent by post with the reference Nr. DR06408 to
Prof. Dr. Stefan Beck / Dr. Michi Knecht, Department of European 
Ethnology, Humboldt-University Berlin, Mohrenstrasse 41, D – 10117 
Berlin, Germany. Or per mail
michi.knecht at rz.hu-berlin.de.
Deadline is July 17th 2008.
For further information potential applicants are encouraged to contact 
their prospective part-project leader and main supervisor Prof. Stefan 
Beck and Michi Knecht informally, by email in the first instance.






-- 
Dr. Michi Knecht
Institut für Europäische Ethnologie
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Mohrenstr. 41
D - 10117 Berlin

+49 (0)30 2093 3713
+49 (0)30 2093 3726 (fax)
michi.knecht at rz.hu-berlin.de

www2.hu-berlin.de/ethno/
www.repraesentationen.de
www.csal.de




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