[Germany] One Post-Doc position and three PhD scholarships
One Post-Doc position and three PhD scholarships
The Cluster of Excellence “Asia and Europe in a Global Context: Shifting Asymmetries in Cultural Flows” at the University of Heidelberg is offering one Post-Doc position and three PhD scholarships within the project “Hidden grammars of Transculturality – Migrations of Encyclopaedic Knowledge and Power”, Research Area “History and Historicities”.
The project “Hidden Grammars” focuses on encyclopaedia as tools of knowledge administration. While they appear as stable forms reflecting a univalent canon, they may become catalysts of change not just in translation. Idealized self-descriptions call them “universal and all-encompassing,” but they are knowledge containers constrained by the particular cultural and historical circumstances of their own creation.
Probing into questions of readership, production processes and visions of self and other, by studying elements crucial in showing cultural and power asymmetries such as gender, illustrations and biographical writing and their role in travelling and stationary encyclopedia in Europe and Asia, we hope to be able to reconstruct the peculiar «mentalités» which made possible the creation and favourable reception of some encyclopaedia but not others. In analysing encyclopaedia as global source material, we would like to re-evaluate them not as mere products of book history but as important social agents in the making of historicities between Asia and Europe. Further information on the encyclopaedia project can be found here.
Research in this project will be organised in joint research teams, where both Asian and European language competence is always available, either as a form of cooperation between two persons or, if possible when available as one person with language competence in different fields. Ideally, positions would be given to specialists in 4 regions (China, Japan, India, Europe) who would each work on at least 2 of the 3 research foci (gender, biographies, illustrations).
Deadline: All positions are open until filled, jobs will start April 1st or as soon as possible thereafter. They are awarded for 2 years with possibility of renewal for another year.
Please send your CV, copies of university degrees, and a draft of your post-doc project/PhD projects outline (max. 2 pages) in electronic form to Prof. Dr. Madeleine Herren (m.herren@urz.uni-heidelberg.de) and Prof. Dr. Barbara Mittler (bmittler@sino.uni-heidelberg.de).
Please also refer to the full job announcement (pdf, 30 KB).
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