[Bilimsel Haber] FW: Call for Applications: 10 Postdoctoral Fellowships in Berlin for 2009-2010

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From: Europe in the Middle East - The Middle East in Europe
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Subject: Call for Applications: 10 Postdoctoral Fellowships in Berlin for
2009-2010


Dear colleague,

Please find below as well as attached
in a PDF format an announcement for 10 Postdoctoral Fellowships for the
research program

EUROPE IN THE MIDDLE EAST - THE MIDDLE EAST IN EUROPE for the academic year
2009/10 in Berlin.

I kindly ask you to spread the information about the fellowships among
scholars interested in the methodological perspective of dealing with
regions or cultures, not as closed entities or polarities, but by looking at
processes of transfer, exchange, and interaction in the sense of entangled
or shared histories and cultures.

We would be grateful if you could post the announcement at your institution
and circulate it, also per email, among colleagues and scholars who you
think would be qualified and interested in applying for the
postdoc-fellowships.

Europe in the Middle East - The Middle East in Europe is a research program
of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences, the Fritz Thyssen Foundation
and the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin which builds upon the previous work of
the Working Group Modernity and Islam. For more information on the program
please
visit our website:

http://www.eume-berlin.de

With my best regards
Georges Khalil
P.S. My apologies for double postings.


CALL FOR APPLICATIONS	
10 POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIPS FOR ACADEMIC YEAR 2009/2010

The Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences, the Fritz Thyssen Foundation and
the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin invite scholars to apply for ten
post-doctoral fellowships for the research program

EUROPE IN THE MIDDLE EAST - THE MIDDLE EAST IN EUROPE

This research program seeks to rethink key concepts and premises that link
and divide Europe and the Middle East. The project draws on the
international expertise of scholars in and outside of Germany and is
embedded in university and extra-university research institutions in Berlin.
'Europe in the Middle East / The Middle East in Europe' supports
historical-critical philology, rigorous engagement with the literatures of
the Middle East and their histories, the social history of cities and the
study of Middle Eastern political and philosophical thought (Christian,
Jewish, Muslim, and secular) as central fields of research not only for area
or cultural studies, but also for European intellectual history and other
academic disciplines. The program explores modernity as a historical space
and conceptual frame. The program puts forward three programmatic ideas:
1) supporting research that demonstrates the rich and complex historical
legacies and entanglements between Europe and the Middle East;
2) reexamining genealogical notions of mythical 'beginnings', 'origins', and
'purity' in relation to culture and society; and
3) rethinking key concepts of a shared modernity in light of contemporary
cultural, social, and political entanglements that supersede identity
discourses as well as national, cultural or regional canons and
epistemologies that were established in the nineteenth century. The program
'Europe in the Middle East - The Middle East in Europe' is funded by the
Fritz Thyssen Foundation. It supports and builds upon the following
interconnected research fields:

CITIES COMPARED: COSMOPOLITANISM IN THE MEDITERRANEAN AND ADJACENT REGIONS
This research group is directed by Ulrike Freitag and Nora Lafi, both of the
Centre for Modern Oriental Studies, Berlin. It contributes to the debate on
cosmopolitanism and civil society from the historical experience of
conviviality and socio-cultural, ethnic, and religious differences in the
cities around the Mediterranean;

ISLAMIC DISCOURSE CONTESTED: MIDDLE EASTERN AND EUROPEAN PERSPECTIVES This
research group is directed by Gudrun Kraemer, Institute for Islamic Studies,
Freie Universitaet Berlin. It analyzes modern Middle Eastern thought and
discourses in the framework of theories of multiple or reflexive
modernities;


PERSPECTIVES ON THE QUR'AN: NEGOTIATING DIFFERENT VIEWS OF A SHARED HISTORY
This research group is directed by Angelika Neuwirth, Seminar for Arabic
Studies, Freie Universitdt Berlin, and Stefan Wild, Universitaet Bonn. It
situates the foundational text of Islam within the religious landscape of
late antiquity and combines a historicization of its genesis with an
analysis of its reception and perception in Europe and the Middle East;

TRAVELLING TRADITIONS: COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES ON NEAR EASTERN LITERATURES
This research group is directed by Friederike Pannewick, Centrum fuer Nah-
und Mitteloststudien, Philipps-Universitaet Marburg, and Samah Selim,
IREMAM, Aix-en-Provence. It reassesses literary entanglements and processes
of canonization between Europe and the Middle East.

TRADITION AND THE CRITIQUE OF MODERNITY: SECULARISM, FUNDAMENTALISM AND
RELIGION FROM MIDDLE EASTERN PERSPECTIVES This a special forum, directed by
Amnon Raz-Krakotzkin, Ben Gurion University, that attempts to rethink key
concepts of modernity like secularity, tradition, or religion in the context
of the experiences, interpretations, and critiques of Jews, Arabs, and
Muslims in the Middle East and in Europe.

PREREQUISITES AND APPLICATION PROCEDURE

The fellowships are intended above all for scholars of history, literature,
philology, political philosophy, religion and sociology who want to carry
out their research projects in connection with the Berlin program. Fellows
gain the opportunity to pursue research projects of their choice within the
framework of one of the above-mentioned research fields and in relation to
the program 'Europe in the Middle East - the Middle East in Europe'. In
Berlin, they will be integrated into a university or non-university research
institute. The working language of the research program is English. Fellows
will receive a monthly stipend of 1.800 Euro (supplement for accompanying
spouses: 250 Euro), and are obliged to work in Berlin and to help shape the
seminars and working discussions related to their research field. As a rule,
the fellowships begin on 1 October 2009 and end on 31 July 2010. The
applicant's doctorate should have been completed no earlier than 2001. An
application should be made in explicit relation to one of the research
fields and consist of 1.) a curriculum vitae,
2.) a 2 to 4 page project sketch,
3.) a sample of scholarly work (maximum 20 pages from an article, conference
paper, or dissertation chapter) and
4.) a letter of recommendation by one university instructor.

The application should be submitted by e-mail as word document or PDF File
in English and should be received by 11 January 2009, sent in to:

E-mail: eume at wiko-berlin.de
Europe in the Middle East - the Middle East in Europe
c/o Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin
Attn: Georges Khalil
Wallotstrasse 19, 14193 Berlin
Fax +49 30 - 89 00 12 00
E-mail: khalil at wiko-berlin.de

For further information on the program 'Europe in the
Middle East - The Middle East in Europe' and for detailed information on the
research fields, please see: www.eume-berlin.de


For information on the research institutions in Berlin participating in the
program, please visit: Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences: www.bbaw.de/
Center for Literary Research: www.zfl.gwz-berlin.de/ Centre for Modern
Oriental Studies: www.zmo.de/ Institute for Islamic Studies:
userpage.fu-berlin.de/~islamwi/ Seminar for Arabic Studies:
web.fu-berlin.de/semiarab/ Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin:
www.wiko-berlin.de/
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