[Bilimsel Haber] Fwd: Call for Applications: Urban Frontiers

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From: Nora Lafi <nora.lafi at rz.hu-berlin.de>
Subject: Call for Applications: Urban Frontiers
Date: September 9, 2010

CALL FOR APPLICATION: 1 POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP FOR 2011/2014 (2/3time)

Conditional upon approval by BMBF, Zentrum Moderner Orient (Berlin)
invites scholars to apply for one post-doctoral fellowship (part time)
for the programme ‘Invisible Frontiers in Post-Ottoman Cities:
Edirne-Niş’

This post-doctoral position, while based at ZMO, will be also member
of the research programme ‘Phantomgrenzen in Ostmitteleuropa’, funded
by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research.

It seeks to rethink key concepts of invisible frontiers in Europe. 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 (ZMO, CMB, HU) and Halle (MPI, MLU).
The program puts forward three programmatic ideas:

1) supporting research that demonstrates the possibility to work in
comparative persperctives in urban history

2) reexamining the notion of invisible urban frontiers

3) rethinking key concepts of post-Ottoman cities.

PREREQUISITES AND APPLICATION PROCEDURE

The fellowship is intended above all for Ottomanists working on Balkan
urban history and interested in a comparison between the post-Ottoman
history of the cities of Niş; and Edirne. They should have a sound
research and linguistic background relevant for either
of these two cities, and be prepared to engage with the scholarship on
the other for comparative purposes.

Applications outlining these qualifications should also contain a
curriculum vitae, a 2 to 4 pages project sketch, a sample of scholarly
work (maximum 20 pages from an article, conference paper, or
dissertation chapter) and a letter of recommendation by one university
instructor. They will be reviewed from October 5, 2010, until the
position is filled. The application should be submitted in paper, by
fax or by E-mail in German, English or French to

Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO) Berlin
Attn: Prof. Dr. Ulrike Freitag and Dr. Nora Lafi
Kirchweg 33, 14129 Berlin
Fax +49 (0) 30 - 80 307-210
E-mail: zmo at rz.hu-berlin.de and nora.lafi at rz.hu-berlin.de

For information on the ZMO in Berlin please visit: www.zmo.de
The successful applicant will a receive a monthly salary on the basis
of TvöD 13 (2/3).

More Info:

http://www.zmo.de/Ausschreibungen/Call_PostDoc_2010.pdf

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Dr. Nora Lafi (Researcher, BMBF)

Zentrum Moderner Orient, Kirchweg 33, 14129 Berlin, Germany

Tel: + 49 30 80 307 239

Ottoman Studies
Urban Studies

co-director (with Pr. Ulrike Freitag) of 'Cities Compared:
Cosmopolitanism in the Mediterranean and Adjacent Regions', a research
field within the program Europe in the Middle East - The Middle East
in Europe.


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