Deadline: 5-May-22
The Berlin-based Forum Transregionale Studien invites researchers to apply for up to 4 postdoctoral fellowships for the academic year 2022/2023 for the research program EUROPE IN THE MIDDLE EAST—THE MIDDLE EAST IN EUROPE (EUME).
EUME seeks to rethink key concepts and premises that link and divide Europe and the Middle East. The program draws on the international expertise of a growing network of scholars in and outside of Germany and is embedded in university and extra-university research institutions in and outside of Berlin.
This fellowship supports historical-critical philology, rigorous engagement with the literatures of the Middle East and their histories, the social history and life of cities and the study of Middle Eastern political and philosophical thought 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. EUME is interested in questions relating to ongoing transformation processes in Europe and the Middle East, in re-imaginations of the past and present that contribute to free, pluralistic and just societies
Programmatic ideas
- Supporting research that demonstrates the rich and complex historical legacies and entanglements between Europe and the Middle East;
- Re-examining genealogical notions of mythical ‘origins’, and ‘purity’ in relation to culture and society;
- Rethinking key concepts of a shared modernity and future in light of contemporary cultural, social, and political divisions and entanglements that supersede identity discourses as well as national, cultural or regional canons and epistemologies that were established in the nineteenth century.
Themes
Europe in the Middle East—The Middle East in Europe (EUME) supports and rests upon interconnected research fields and themes that mark the open framework for the fellowship program that constitutes EUME:
- Travelling Traditions: Comparative Perspectives on Near Eastern Literatures
- Cities Compared: Governance, Consultative Mechanisms and Plurality
- Tradition and the Critique of Modernity: Secularism, Fundamentalism and Religion from Middle Eastern Perspectives
- Politics and Processes of Change, Archaeologies of the Present, and Imaginations of the Future
Award Information
- Postdoctoral fellows will receive a monthly stipend of 2,500 € plus supplements depending on their personal situation.
- Organisational support regarding visa, insurance, housing, etc. will be provided. Fellows are obliged to work in Berlin and to help shape the seminars and working discussions related to their research field. The working language of EUME is English.
Eligibility Criteria
- They especially encourage scholars from the Middle East to apply.
- Applicants should be at the postdoctoral level and should have obtained their doctorate within the last seven years.
- Fellows gain the opportunity to pursue research projects of their own choice within the framework of EUROPE IN THE MIDDLE EAST—THE MIDDLE EAST IN EUROPE.
- Successful applicants will be fellows of EUME at the Forum Transregionale Studien, and associate members of one of the university or non-university research institutes or connected to the Forum Transregionale Studien.
For more information, visit https://www.forum-transregionale-studien.de/news/nachrichten/details/call-for-applications-eume-fellowships-20222023.html