Food has a long tradition as a marker of social and cultural norms, relationships, and difference in modern history. As Sidney Mintz highlighted, eating food is “never a purely biological activity,” but rather a basic activity with social meaning(s) that are communicated symbolically, and have histories” (Mintz 1996: 7). Europe’s diverse food cultures have been significantly shaped by migration processes; migrants formed an integral, if often marginalized, part of European societies and played an important role in (re)creating Europe’s foodways. The proposed conference explores the intersection of migration studies and food studies: It tests the analytical potential of food practices and food histories for people migrating to and from Europe and asks how we might view the history of European societies differently by examining migrant foodways. This perspective opens a window onto different layers of historical analysis from individual experiences to the discourses of absorbing societies; from the domestic to the public; from everyday practices of preparing, serving, and consuming food to questions of public health, religion, and migration politics. Furthermore, food histories articulate how “modern,” “traditional,” “migrant,” and “ethnic” cuisines are constructed and have often been gendered and racialized, as well as how the local and the global intersect.

In the  last twenty years or so, food and migration have been discussed in migration studies as well as in food studies: historians, anthropologists, and sociologists have analyzed the role of food in migration processes focusing on regional case studies, such as migrant experiences in Australia (Hage 1997, Cardona 2004, Frost 2008), the U.S. (Kalcik 1984, Diner 2001, Ray 2007, Panayi 2010), and  Europe (Jamal 1996, Harbottle 1997, Cook 1999, Berg 2008, Tuomainen 2011). Recent studies also featured the making of world cuisines from a global studies perspective (Bender/Cinotto 2024). Studies in German history have highlighted the role of migrant entrepreneurs in the establishment of ethnic cuisines in West Germany since the 1960s (Möhring 2012, Möhring 2014, Marquart/Sterzinger-Killermann 2020) and in German-Jewish emigration to Palestine in the 1930s (Alianov-Rautenberg 2013). Food in migration processes has also been linked to the history of the senses and to body history (Stoller 1989, Holtzman 2006, Abbots 2013) and to gendered histories of food labor (Baxter 1988, Limeberry 2014).

The proposed conference, “Food, Migration, and Belonging in Twentieth-Century European History,” focuses on foodways as the articulation and embodiment of individual and collective identities in migration processes and will explore the relevance of food practices as an expression of belonging. The conference will discuss multilayered food histories and their potential for untangling the complexities of homemaking, hybridization and third cultures in 20^th century Europe. We are particularly interested in contributions on food and its impact on the making of communities and its effects on social, cultural, and religious belonging(s). By highlighting the semiotic and material, the sensual and emotional dimensions of food practices, the conference aims at gaining a better understanding of the creation and transformation of (group) identities and social relations in European migration societies in the 20^th century.  We will use food as a lens to reflect on a variety of places, spaces, and methodologies in  transregional European history, including topics such as

• Food and memory (the commemorative function of food; nostalgia; social rituals of serving and preparing food; food and emotions)
• Approaches to food and “the body” in migration societies (i.e., bodily senses, taste, and smell in terms of food consumption; discourses about domestic science, health, purity etc.)
• Transcultural encounters via food; hospitality and conviviality
• Culinary racism (negative depictions of the taste and smell of the food of the “other”; culinary hierarchies)
• The role of food in the social lives of diasporas (food gifts from home communities and sharing dishes across time and space; food and the sense of attachment to or detachment from the home country)
• Food and home/homemaking (notions of “belonging” and of where and what “home” can mean; use of food for asserting one’s place in a new setting)
• Food, migration, and religion (e.g., the challenges of religious dietary laws in migration processes, kosher cooking in Jewish migration; debates in absorbing societies about migrants’ religious practices, i.e., halal slaughtering in Europe)
• Third Culture cuisines in Europe (blending food from the first generation’s “home country” with flavors of the next generation’s current location)
• Objects/material culture in the study of food and migration (i.e., migrants and long-term residents confronted with processing unknown food; handling unfamiliar household appliances, etc.)
• Methodological challenges (food consumption as a fleeting practice and methodological questions about how to approach its historical meanings; question of useful sources in migration and food studies)
• Methodological and theoretical reflections on how belonging can be conceptualized and evaluated
   

The conference will be held in English and will be hosted by the GHI Pacific Office at Berkeley (richter(at)ghi-dc.org). Individual paper presentations are limited to 20 minutes. Proposals, which should include a title, an abstract of no more than 250 words, a short CV, and contact information (address, phone, email), must be submitted online in a single pdf (the file name should be the last name of the applicant) by September 20, 2024:

Please contact Heike Friedman (friedman(at)ghi-dc.org) if you have problems submitting your information. Decisions will be sent out by mid-October 2024.

Accommodations will be arranged and paid for by the conference organizers. Participants will be expected to make their own travel arrangements. Some subsidies for travel will be available upon request, especially for those who might not otherwise be able to attend the conference, including junior scholars and scholars from universities with limited resources. There is no registration fee.

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References: 

Abbots E.-J., Lavis A. (2013), Introduction: Mapping the new terrain of eating: Reflections on the encounters between foods and bodies, in: E.-J. Abbots, A. Lavis (eds.), Why We Eat, How We Eat: Contemporary Encounters Between Foods and Bodies, London: Routledge.

Alianov-Rautenberg, Viola (2013), Schlagsahne oder Shemen-Öl? Deutsch-jüdische Hausfrauen und ihre Küche in Palästina 1936-1940, in: Tel Aviver Jahrbuch für deutsche Geschichte 41, pp. 82-96. 

Avieli, Nir (2017), Food and power. A culinary ethnography of Israel. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Baxter S., Raw G. (1988), Fast food, fettered work: Chinese women in the ethnic Catering industry, in: S. Westwood, P. Bhachu (eds.), Enterprising women: ethnicity, economy, and gender relations, pp. 58–75.

Bender, Daniel E./ Cinotto, Simone (eds.) (2024), Food Mobilities. Making World Cuisines, Toronto: University of Toronto Press.

Beyers L. (2008), Creating Home: Food, ethnicity and gender among Italians in Belgium since 1946, Food, culture, & society 2008, vol. 11 (1), pp. 7-27.

Charon Cardona E. T. (2004), Re-encountering Cuban tastes in Australia, in: The Australian Journal of Anthropology Vol, 15(1), pp. 40-53.

Cook I., Crang P., Thorpe M. (1999), Eating into Britishness: Multicultural Imaginaries and the Identity Politics of Food, in: S. Roseneil, J. Seymour (eds.), Practising Identities: Power and Resistance, pp. 223–48.

Diner H. R. (2003), Hungering for America: Italian, Irish and Jewish Foodways in the Age of Migration, Cambridge: Harvard University Press.

Douglas, Mary, (1966), Purity and danger. An analysis of concepts of pollution and taboo, New York: Praeger.

Freeman, Andrea (2013), The Unbearable Whiteness of Milk: Food Oppression and the USDA, UC Irvine Law Review 3(4), pp. 1251-1277.

Frost N. (2008), Strange people but they sure can cook! An Indonesian womens group in Sydney, in: Food, Culture and Society, Vol. 11 (2), pp.173–89.

Hage G. (1997), At home in the entrails of the West: Multiculturalism, ethnic food and migrant home-building, in: H. Grace, G. Hage, L. Johnson, J. Langsworth, M. Symonds (eds), Home/World: Space, community and marginality in Sydney’s West, pp. 99–153.

Harbottle L. (1997), Fast food/spoiled identity: Iranian migrants in the British catering trade, in: P. Caplan (ed.), Food, health and identity, Routledge: Taylor & Francis Group, pp. 87–110.

Holtzman J. D. (2006), Food and memory, in: Annual Review of Anthropology, Vol. 35 (1), pp. 361-78.

Jamal A. (1996), Acculturation: The symbolism of ethnic eating among contemporary British consumers, in: British Food Journal, Vol. 98 (10), pp. 12–26.

Kalcik S. (1984), Ethnic foodways in America: Symbol and the performance of identity, in L. Keller Brown, K. Mussell (eds.), Ethnic and Regional Foodways in the United States: The Performance of Group Identity, pp. 37–65, Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press.

Limeberry, Veronica A. (2014), Eating in Opposition: Strategies of Resistance Through Food in The Lives of Rural Andean and Appalachian Mountain Women. Electronic Theses and Dissertations. Paper 2466. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/2466

Marquardt, Vivienne/ Sterzinger-Killermann, Clara (2020), Zwei Kugeln süss-sauer mit scharf. Münchens migrantisch geprägte Gastronomie, München: Allitera.

Mintz, Sidney W. (1985), Sweetness and power. The place of sugar in modern history, New York: Viking.

Mintz, Sidney (1996),Tasting food, tasting freedom: Excursions into eating, culture, and the past, Boston: Beacon Press.

Möhring, Maren (2012), Fremdes Essen. Die Geschichte der ausländischen Gastronomie in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, München: Oldenbourg.

Möhring, Maren (2014), Food for Thought: Rethinking the History of Migration to West Germany Through the Migrant Restaurant Business, in: Journal of Contemporary History, Vol. 49 (1), Special Issue: Migration in Germany’s Age of Globalization, pp. 209-227.

Panikos, Panayi (2010): Spicing Up Britain. The Multicultural History of British Food, Reaktion Books.

Pitts, Johny, Robinson, Roger (2022), Home is not a place, London: Harper Collins.

Ray K. (2004), The migrant’s table: meals and memories in Bengali-American households, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.

Stoller D. (1989), The taste of ethnographic things: the senses in anthropology, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.

Tuomainen H. M. (2011), Ethnic identity, (post)colonialism and foodways: Ghanaians in London, in: Food, Culture and Society, Vol. 12 (4), pp. 525-54.

Valenze, Deborah (2011), Milk: A local and global history, New Haven: Yale University Press.

vergibt jedes Jahr Stipendien zur Förderung von Forschungsaufenthalten in Italien. Ab dem 01.01.2025 bzw. zum nächstmöglichen Zeitpunkt bieten wir eine

Ludwig und Margarethe Quidde Fellowship

an.

Das DHI Rom ist eine Einrichtung der in Bonn ansässigen Max Weber Stiftung – Deutsche Geisteswissenschaftliche Institute im Ausland. Es widmet sich der epochenübergreifenden, interdisziplinären Erforschung der italienischen und deutschen Geschichte und Musikgeschichte in ihren europäischen und globalen Bezügen vom Mittelalter bis heute. Dabei schöpft es aus den einzigartigen Ressourcen, die Italien und insbesondere Rom als Wissenschaftsstandort bieten. Im Mittelpunkt stehen politische, wirtschaftliche und kulturelle Aspekte sowie die Vermittlung zwischen beiden Wissenschaftskulturen.

Voraussetzungen:

• abgeschlossene Promotion in einem der am DHI Rom vertretenen Forschungsbereiche (Geschichtswissenschaft vom Frühmittelalter bis zur Zeitgeschichte oder Musikwissenschaft),

• Publikation der Dissertationsschrift,

• ein weiteres abgeschlossenes oder weit fortgeschrittenes Buchprojekt,

• Erfordernis von Archiv- bzw. Bibliotheksrecherchen in Italien für das Forschungsvorhaben,

• angemessene Vorarbeiten für das Forschungsprojekt.

Bewerbungen unter Angabe der gewünschten Monate werden bis einschließlich 31.08.2024 über das Bewerbungsportal entgegengenommen.

Das Deutsche Historische Institut in Rom (DHI Rom) ist ein Institut der Max Weber Stiftung – Deutsche Geisteswissenschaftliche Institute im Ausland. Es vergibt, nach Maßgabe der ihm vom Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung oder von Dritten zu diesem Zweck zur Verfügung gestellten Mittel, Stipendien. Die Ludwig und Margarethe Quidde Fellowship fördert einen Forschungsaufenthalt in Rom für ein eigenes wissenschaftliches Projekt. Sie richtet sich an promovierte Nachwuchswissenschaftlerinnen und Nachwuchswissenschaftler, die sich durch besonders herausragende wissenschaftliche Leistungen im Bereich der Geschichte oder Musikwissenschaft auszeichnen. Weitere Informationen zu den Modalitäten und den einzureichenden Bewerbungsunterlagen können der Quidde-Fellowshipordnung entnommen werden.
 

Die Gedenkveranstaltungen zum achtzigsten Jahrestag des Endes des Zweiten Weltkriegs in Frankreich bieten die Gelegenheit, die Bildung nationaler Narrative über die Libération zu hinterfragen und über die Einbeziehung heterogener regionaler Erinnerung nachzudenken. Mit diesem Ziel organisieren die UMR 3400 ARCHE der Universität Straßburg und die Archives d’Alsace eine Reihe von wissenschaftlichen und kulturellen Veranstaltungen, die der besonderen Geschichte des Elsass im Zweiten Weltkrieg gewidmet ist und den Arbeitstitel »Elsass 39–45. Menschen im Krieg« trägt. Im Rahmen der Veranstaltungen soll über die sehr spezifische Art und Weise nachgedacht werden, wie das Elsass befreit wurde und wie die zu diesem Zeitpunkt im Elsass anwesenden Menschen die Libération erlebten. Auch der spezifische Kontext, aus dem das Elsass befreit wurde, soll bei dieser Gelegenheit erneut untersucht werden, nämlich die De-facto-Annexion durch das »Dritte Reich«.

Eine wissenschaftliche Tagung wird am 6. und 7. Februar 2025 in Straßburg stattfinden, gerahmt von acht Vortragsveranstaltungen und Podien zwischen November 2024 und Juni 2025 im ganzen Elsass. Diese Reihe wird die aktuelle historiografische Erneuerung zum Thema Elsass im Zweiten Weltkrieg dokumentieren und zu dieser beitragen. Die Präsentation und Analyse von fünfzig biografischen Fallstudien wird von der Vielfalt und Komplexität individueller Lebenswege im Kontext von Krieg, Annexion durch ein totalitäres Regime und Befreiung zeugen.

Weitere Informationen finden Sie in dem PDF unten.

Vorschläge für Beiträge zum Kolloquium und zu den Diskussionsveranstaltungen sind zusammen mit einer Zusammenfassung von ca. 2.000 Zeichen und einer kurzen biografischen Notiz in deutscher oder französischer Sprache bis zum 28. Juli 2024 an catherine.maurer@unistra.fr und post@frederic-stroh.eu zu richten.

Die Vorschläge werden dem deutsch-französischen wissenschaftlichen Beirat der Tagungsreihe vorgelegt. Die Kandidaten werden bis Ende September 2024 über das Ergebnis informiert. Die Aufteilung zwischen dem Kolloquium und den Podiumsveanstaltungen wird im Dialog mit den ausgewählten Rednern erfolgen.

Das Kolloquium wird am 6. und 7. Februar 2025 in Straßburg (Maison interdisciplinaire des Sciences Humaines d’Alsace - MISHA - und Archives d’Alsace) stattfinden, während die Konferenzen und Debatten monatlich zwischen November 2024 und Juni 2025 im Elsass abgehalten werden.

Arbeitssprachen: Französisch und Deutsch

Organisation: Carine Lévêque (Archives d’Alsace), Catherine Maurer (Univ. Straßburg), François Petrazoller (Archives d’Alsace), Frédéric Stroh (Univ. Straßburg).

Deutsch-französischer Beirat: Christian Bonah (Univ. Straßburg), Jürgen Finger (Deutsches Historisches Institut Paris), Benoît Jordan (Archives de la Ville et de l’Eurométropole de Strasbourg), Audrey Kichelewski (Univ. Straßburg), Michaël Landolt (Centre européen du résistant déporté), Carine Lévêque (Archives d’Alsace), Catherine Maurer (Univ. Straßburg), Marie Muschalek (Univ. Freiburg i. Br.), Frédérique Neau-Dufour (Région Grand Est), Sylvia Paletschek (Univ. Freiburg i. Br.), Nicolas Patin (Univ. Bordeaux), François Petrazoller (Archives d’Alsace), Jérôme Schweitzer (Bibliothèque nationale et universitaire de Strasbourg), Frédéric Stroh (Univ. Straßburg), Alexandre Sumpf (Univ. Straßburg), Benoit Vaillot (Univ. Luxemburg), Marie-Bénédicte Vincent (Univ. Besançon), Marie-Claire Vitoux (Univ. Mulhouse).

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Integrating the history of violence in East Central Europe within the broader sweep of the human experience remains a scholarly desideratum. The majority of studies on violence in this geographical area pertain to interethnic conflicts of states or national groups. Anti-Jewish violence has been widely studied and violence under conditions of occupation, particularly during the Second World War, has also received a great deal of attention. In the course of the shift in focus towards the history of rural regions and their inhabitants, which is particularly visible in Polish public discourse, other phenomena and traditions of violence have also been engaged in recent years. This prompts the question of the extent to which approaches and concepts that have been developed in the long tradition of studying violent histories in East Central Europe can be “exported” beyond this particular region.

We invite proposals to participate in a conference devoted to the history of violence in East Central Europe from the Middle Ages to the end of the 20th century. Especially welcome is work on different types of violence: physical, symbolic, psychological, and military. We invite papers that pose bold theses and explore different research categories: gender, class, race, ethnicity. We encourage discussion of stories of individual, but also collective violence, from the perspective of social history, legal history, cultural and military history.

We encourage submissions on the following themes:

• continuity and variability in different types of violence from the Middle Ages to the first half of the 20th century
• the evolution of narratives about violence and their constant components
• the concurrence and interrelationship between different types of violence
• theories of violence in historical practice

The conference is open to a diversity of methods, sources, and types of narrative construction, to discuss “non-history” stories in various configurations made possible by comparison of different historical periods and geographical areas. We especially welcome contributions that not only transfer proven methods to our geographical area, but also provide impulses for a specifically East-Central European contribution to the universal understanding of violent phenomena.

The conference will be held within the walls of the Museum of Polish History in Warsaw, a new center that is an important point on the map of the study of Polish history, in the context of the history of the States and people of Central and Eastern Europe.
 

Conference: Histories of Violence in Central and Eastern Europe. A Comparative Perspective

Warsaw, 15-17th of September 2025

The conference is organized by:

• Faculty of History at the University of Warsaw
• Museum of Polish History in Warsaw
• Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw
• Commission on Slavonic and East European Studies of the Committee of Historical Sciences Polish Academy of Sciences
• German Historical Institute Warsaw
• The Society of Friends of History

Keynote speakers are:

• Diana Dumitru Georgetown University, Washington
• Stuart Carroll, University of York
• Piotr Maciej Majewski, University of Warsaw

The conference will be held in English. The organizers do not cover travel costs, but they provide meals.

Conference committee:

Conference Board: Philip Dwyer, Christhardt Henschel, Jeffrey Kopstein, Aneta Pieniądz, Natalia Starchenko, Michał Trębacz

Organizing committee: Victoria Gerasimova, Tomasz Kempa, Michał Kopczyński, Artur Markowski, Marta Pawlińska, Dariusz Adamczyk

We invite you to submit paper proposals by March 30, 2025 on the Google form.

Please feel free to contact historiesofviolence@uw.edu.pl if you have any questions or require further information. 

Website DHI Warschau

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Conference in Flinders University (city campus), Adelaide, South Australia | Conveners: Mathew Fitzpatrick (Flinders University), Simone Lässig (GHI Washington), Isabel Richter (GHI Washington Pacific Office at UC Berkeley)

In August 2023, German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock told an Australian audience “it is clear that the Indo-Pacific will play a decisive role in the 21st century.” Baerbock also intimated that Germany wants to become more deeply engaged in the region to assist in “strengthening the global rules that we all rely on” at a time when China is returning to the ranks of the major global powers.

But a long and complicated history informs Germany’s recent turn toward the Asia-Pacific region. Often overlooked is the fact that Germany once had a sizeable colonial empire there, with possessions in China, New Guinea, Nauru, Samoa, and many parts of Micronesia, including the Marshall, Mariana, and Caroline Islands. German firms, missionaries, and settlers established themselves in the region in the mid-nineteenth century, while scientists and researchers came to Asia and the Pacific as part of their scholarly endeavors, extracting artifacts in some places, while training local residents in German-style science in others. The experience of German colonial rule – of being educated by German missionaries, employed by German firms, and studied by German scientists – left a lasting and yet largely unacknowledged impression of the peoples of Asia and the Pacific.

After the First World War and the transfer of former German colonies in the region to Japan, Australia, and New Zealand as League of Nations Mandates, Germany played a less important role in Asia and the Pacific but still retained an important foothold. Ex-Governor of Samoa and Colonial Secretary Wilhelm Solf served as German Ambassador to Japan, laying the groundwork for a close relationship that would eventually see Japan become Nazi Germany’s Pacific ally during the Second World War. During that war, large numbers of German Jews fled and resettled in China. In the Pacific, as historians such as Christine Winter have shown, small political parties modelled on the National Socialist Party also sprang up in German expatriate communities in former German possessions such as New Guinea and Samoa.

In the postwar era, the two German states, the Federal Republic and the German Democratic Republic, followed vastly different trajectories. While Leftist students in the West rallied around Ho Chi Minh, the Federal Republic solidly supported the United States war in Vietnam and even took in South Vietnamese refugees. Meanwhile, despite tensions with China in the wake of the Sino-Soviet split, the German Democratic Republic offered some limited migration opportunities for fellow communists from Vietnam to serve as guest workers in East German factories.

What are the contours and legacies of German history in the Asia-Pacific region? Conference participants will examine the complex and varied interactions between Germans and the peoples of the Pacific and Asia-Pacific coast. The conference seeks to uncover Germany’s various entanglements in the region and to investigate the forms of cooperation and conflict that characterized German endeavors in the region. The chronological starting point for this investigation is the establishment of the Hamburg firm Godeffroy und Sohn in the Samoan capital of Apia in 1857. Focusing on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the conference will evaluate the histories of German trade, religion, culture, science, and settlement in the Asia-Pacific region, emphasizing how these were affected by shifting attitudes towards gender, race, and class. It will also examine the military, diplomatic, and humanitarian presence of Germans there and consider forms of knowledge transfer during the Wilhelmine, Weimar, Nazi, and postwar eras. It seeks to grapple with the sporadic (as opposed to steadily evolving) nature of Germany’s impact on the region and to offer a set of histories that demonstrate the multifaceted nature of German encounters with Asia and the Pacific.  

To these ends, the conference seeks to answer questions such as:

• What was the nature of German colonialism and later political and cultural involvement in Asia and the Pacific, and how did it compare with German colonial activities elsewhere?
• What role did warfare, diplomacy, and trade play in establishing Germany in the Asia-Pacific region between the 1850s and the 1980s?
• Does an exploration of gender and racial relations link German history in the Asia-Pacific region to a broader history?
• How did Asian and Pacific peoples experience and respond to German colonial endeavors, political overtures, and knowledge production in their region?
• What are the legacies of German scientific and anthropological activity in the region, and how do these histories inform current debates about repatriation and restitution?
• How did Germany’s involvement in two World Wars and the Cold War affect the Asia-Pacific region and German activity there?

The conference will be held in English. Individual paper presentations are limited to 20 minutes. Proposals, which should include a title, an abstract of no more than 250 words, a short CV, and contact information (address, phone, email) should be submitted online in a single pdf (the file name should be the last name of the applicant) by September 30, 2024. Decisions will be sent out by early November 2024.

Accommodations will be arranged and paid for by the conference organizers. Participants will need to make their own travel arrangements. Subsidies for travel will be available upon request for selected scholars, especially those who might not otherwise be able to attend the workshop, including junior scholars and scholars from universities with limited resources. There is no registration fee.

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Venue: GHIL

The German Historical Institutes in London and Washington, D.C., are excited to announce the fourteenth Medieval History Seminar, to be held in London from 8 to 10 October 2025. The seminar will bring together Ph.D. candidates and recent Ph.D. recipients (2024/2025) in medieval history from American, Canadian, British, Irish, and German universities for three days of scholarly discussion and collaboration. Participants will have the opportunity to present their work to their peers and distinguished scholars from both sides of the Atlantic. Conveners for the 2025 seminar will be Fiona Griffiths (Stanford University), Michael Grünbart (Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster), and Simon MacLean (University of St Andrews).

The Medieval History Seminar invites proposals from all areas and periods of medieval history and is not limited to historians working on German history or German-speaking regions of Europe. All methodological approaches are welcome. Applications from neighbouring disciplines are welcome if the projects have a distinct historical focus.

The seminar is bi-lingual and papers and discussions will be conducted both in German and English. Participants must have a good reading and listening comprehension of both languages. Successful applicants must be prepared to submit a paper of approximately 5,000 words by August 15, 2025. They are also expected to act as commentator for other papers presented in the seminar.

Travel and accommodation expenses of the participants will be covered. Applications may be submitted in German or English and should include:

• a CV (including institutional affiliation, postal address, and e-mail)
• a description of the proposed paper (4–5 pages, double-spaced)
• one letter of recommendation

Please e-mail a single PDF-file with all documents to: j.triandafyllou@ghil.ac.uk

The deadline for submissions is 31 January 2025.

For further information, please contact Stephan Bruhn: s.bruhn@ghil.ac.uk

German Historical Institute
17 Bloomsbury Square
London WC1A 2NJ (UK)
Tel. +44–(0)20–7309 2050

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Venue: German Historial Institute London

22-23 May 2025

Trans saints – monachoparthenoi, saints who are initially described as female by their hagiographers, but transition to a male (often monastic) identity – are present in every late antique and medieval Christian tradition. The textual and artistic renderings of these figures offer a comparative key to conceptualizing trans bodies and trans souls across geographical and chronological boundaries. Binary cis-heteronormativity has long been portrayed as unchanging and unchangeable, as outside of the scope of history. This is a central plank in the playbook followed by transphobes worldwide, in the ever-escalating “culture war” against trans and queer people. Highlighting both the ubiquity and multivalence of premodern trans monks, and connecting across disciplinary divides to do so, is urgent work, not least because it provides a necessary counterpoint to such historically inaccurate rhetoric. 

Following the insights of the “performative turn” in queer and trans studies that underscores the enactment and negotiation of gender identity through lived experiences, social practices, and narratives, we welcome explorations of gender and sexuality in the textual traditions in both East and West and in their translation. We also take into consideration aspects related to the ”performative turn” in visual studies in the last decade, as relevant for both medieval Eastern and Western hagiographic iconographies of trans saints, focusing on visual representations actively shaping identities and power dynamics and incorporating the embodied experience of the ritual practices. 

While texts regarding fifteen trans saints are attested in the Eastern Mediterranean, this conference will focus on those whose vitae were available in Greek as well as in Latin: Eugenia*us, Euphrosyne*Smaragdus, Marina*us, Pelagia*us and Theodora*us. However, we particularly invite papers covering linguistic and artistic traditions beyond Greek and Latin, from Coptic to Old Norse. Taking seriously the connectivity of the Latin West, the Orthodox East, and the Islamic World in the Middle Ages, we adopt a trans-cultural comparative approach. Thus, contributions with a multilingual perspective are particularly welcome, as are those covering both textual and iconographic representations. Conference proceedings may be published as an edited volume. 

We invite proposals for 20-minute papers. Possible questions include – but are not limited to – the following: 

• How are the trans saints described as performing their gender? What gendered language is used in different traditions of their vitae? 
• What role does sexual desire play in the performance of gender? Who is desirable to whom, and in what context? 
• What role do familial ties (biological and spiritual) play in the construction of the trans saint’s gender? 
• How does the trans saint’s performance of gender intersect with other aspects of their identity – religion, ethnicity, social status, age? 
• How are trans saints translated – as texts (between languages), as relics (between places), as visual representations (from text to image)? Does re-writing/translating/visualizing a vita change the way the saint is gendered? 
• Do different linguistic traditions of these vitae engage differently with locally important intertexts/spaces/etc.? 
• How are trans saints materialized – in manuscripts, sculpture, iconography, cult spaces? 

To apply, please send an abstract of up to 300 words, as well as your name, pronouns, and a short bio, to michael.eber@history.ox.ac.uk by September 30, 2024. We welcome applications from scholars at any stage of their career, but particularly encourage early career researchers to apply. We are currently in the process of acquiring funding to cover at least part of the participants’ travel expenses

Call for Papers (PDF file)

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Andreas Hilger hat mit sehr viel Umsicht das Büro der Max Weber Stiftung in Georgien aufgebaut und sich in kürzester Zeit in Georgien und Armenien höchste Anerkennung erworben. Die Mitarbeiter*innen des DHI Moskau, des Max Weber Netzwerks Osteuropa und des Büros in Tbilissi konnten sich, auch in schweren Situationen, immer auf seine Sachkenntnis und seine verständnisvolle Unterstützung verlassen. Wir alle werden Andreas Hilger, seine unprätentiöse zugewandte Art, seine Freundlichkeit, seinen tatkräftigen Optimismus und seinen Humor sehr vermissen. Wir bleiben unserem Freund und Kollegen in großer Dankbarkeit verbunden.

Ute Frevert, Sandra Dahlke, Harald Rosenbach

Since its foundation in 2005, the GHI Moscow has been a place of open international academic exchange and research. It has supported several hundred young academics in Russia with its scholarships. With the beginning of the Russian war of aggression against the whole of Ukraine, the institute discontinued its scholarship programmes, its cooperations with Russian state institutions and its event activities; only central services such as the library were continued. This was in the hope of preserving the last channels between Russian and German academics on site. At the same time, the MWS established a decentralised network in Eastern Europe, where expertise on Eastern Europe and Russia is to be maintained in Tbilisi/Georgia, Vilnius/Lithuania and, from autumn, in Helsinki/Finland. The Max Weber Network Eastern Europe thus creates opportunities for academics to continue researching Russian and Soviet history freely and independently.

Eine abgeschlossene Promotion im Bereich der Musikwissenschaft ist Voraussetzung.

Bewerbungen werden ausschließlich über unser Bewerbungsportal entgegengenommen. Dort stehen alle weiteren Informationen zur Ausschreibung zur Verfügung. Die Auswahlgespräche sind für Mitte August 2024 in Rom geplant.

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• German and European history
• The history of German-American relations
• The role of Germany and the USA in international relations
• North American history and Pan American, including Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean (European doctoral and postdoctoral scholars only)

The proposed research projects should make use of historical methods and engage with the relevant historiography. We especially invite applications from doctoral students and postdoctoral scholars who currently have no funding from their home institutions. The fellowships are usually granted for periods of one to four months but, in exceptional cases and depending on the availability of funds, they can be extended by one month.

The GHI will not provide funding for preliminary research, manuscript composition, or the revision of manuscripts. It will give clear priority to those postdoc projects that are designed for the "second book." The fellowship is open to both doctoral and postdoctoral scholars based in North America and Europe. The monthly stipend is € 2,000 for doctoral students and € 3,400 for postdoctoral scholars. In addition, fellowship recipients based in Europe will receive reimbursement for their round-trip airfare to the U.S. 

The GHI has two deadlines each year for the fellowships: April 1 and October 1. Questions about applying or for the fellowship program in general should be directed to fellowships(at)ghi-dc.org.

Eligibility Requirements

• Applicants should be based at (or recent graduates of) a North American or European university or research institute.
• For doctoral students applying, ABD status is required before starting the fellowship.
• For postdoctoral scholars applying, the preference is for projects that are designed for the "second book" (Habilitation or pre-tenure equivalent).
• The proposed project should require primary research that is principally located in North America.

APPLY

Apply Online Here

To apply please send the following materials using the online application form (as a pdf) by October 1, 2024.

1. A brief cover letter

2. Curriculum vitae

3. A copy of your most recent diploma or transcripts

4. Project description (no more than 2,000 words)

5. Research schedule for the fellowship

6. At least one letter of reference (sent separately to fellowships(at)ghi-dc.org)

Please combine all of your application materials except for the application form into a single PDF and include a word count at the end of your project description. Applicants may write in either English or German; we recommend that they use the language in which they are most proficient. Applicants will be notified about the outcome approximately two months after the deadline.

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Die Stelle ist eine Vollzeitstelle (40 Stunden) und zunächst auf zwei Jahre befristet zu besetzen. Eine Entfristung ist möglich. Der Dienstort ist Tokyo. Die Stelle ist durch ihre Internationalität, ihre Nähe zur wissenschaftlichen Forschung und das breite Spektrum der Tätigkeitsbereiche besonders attraktiv.

Die Stelle umfasst insbesondere folgende Aufgaben:

• Unterstützung bei der Planung und Durchführung von Veranstaltungen (Eventmanagement),
• Unterstützung bei der Beschaffung und Vergabe von Aufträgen an japanische Unternehmen und Partner,
• Kommunikation mit japanischen Behörden, Unternehmen, Kooperationspartnern, etc.,
• Unterstützung bei Visaangelegenheiten,
• sonstige Organisationaufgaben und allgemeine Unterstützung des Institutsteams.

Einstellungsvoraussetzungen:

• mindestens mittlerer Schulabschluss,
• muttersprachliche Japanischkenntnisse,
• sehr gute Kenntnisse der deutschen und englischen Sprache,
• sicherer Umgang mit Bürosoftware.

Von Vorteil sind:

• Erfahrungen im Sekretariats- bzw. Verwaltungsbereich sowie im (wissenschaftlichen) Eventmanagement,
• Berufserfahrung im wissenschaftsnahen Bereich,
• hoher Grad an Motivation, Eigeninitiative, Teamfähigkeit und Serviceorientierung,
• Bereitschaft und Fähigkeit zur Zusammenarbeit in einem multikulturellen Arbeitsumfeld,
• grundsätzliche Bereitschaft zu Einsätzen bei Abendveranstaltungen (nach vorheriger Abstimmung).

Die Max Weber Stiftung ist eine familienfreundliche Arbeitgeberin, der die Vereinbarkeit von Familie und Beruf besonders am Herzen liegt.

Fragen beantworten wir gerne unter gleichstellung@dijtokyo.org.

Gemäß den gesetzlichen Zielen stellen wir bei gleicher Qualifikation (Eignung, Befähigung und fachliche Leistung) schwerbehinderte Bewerberinnen und Bewerber vor anderen ein. Die Vergütung erfolgt auf Grundlage des Gehaltsschemas für lokalbeschäftigte Mitarbeiterinnen und Mitarbeiter der Deutschen Botschaft Tokyo.

Bewerberinnen und Bewerber ohne japanische Staatsangehörigkeit benötigen ein Arbeitsvisum. Bei der Beantragung des Arbeitsvisums ist das DIJ behilflich. Aus steuerlichen Gründen muss die Bewerberin / der Bewerber zum Zeitpunkt der Stellenausschreibung nachweislich in Japan ansässig sein.

Die Auswahlgespräche finden voraussichtlich am 7. und 8. August 2024 statt.

Bewerbungen mit den üblichen Unterlagen (Motivationsschreiben, Zeugnisse und Lebenslauf) in einer pdf-Datei sind bis zum 15. Juli 2024 sind per Email an den Direktor des DIJ, Prof. Dr. Franz Waldenberger (director@dijtokyo.org) zu senden.

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The conference will focus on the theme of “living archives” and their significance in contemporary history. Submissions are encouraged to address the value of living archives for real-time history, reflect on access and stewardship issues, provide examples for analyzing living archives, and explore the history and technology behind them. Deadline for submissions is August 15, 2024.

Date and Location

March 19-21, 2025, German Historical Institute Washington, DC, USA

Conference Theme

The Seventh Conference on Digital Humanities and Digital History will revolve around the concept of living archives and its relevance for contemporary history. The digital transformation has challenged scholars and memory workers to define their engagement with historical temporalities, with the past, present and future, in new ways. Digital technologies can be used effectively to support the development, analysis, and preservation of collections, projects, and tools that feature diverse temporal perspectives, including multifaceted, dynamic, relational, and cyclical conceptions of time. Such approaches can challenge, or even disrupt, prevalent linear conceptions of the progression of historical time. While this opens many possibilities for historical projects, it also presents new challenges. For example, historians and memory workers who have used digital technologies to document history in (almost) real time must now address new, unfamiliar, and often uncomfortable ethical and legal questions associated with “documenting the now.” Similarly, while taking advantage of the ability of new methodologies to collect large sets of data in a short period of time, we are repeatedly confronted with the fragility of digital objects and systems, and the challenges and costs of digital preservation, with the futures of the past in a digital era ranging between abundance and scarcity as astutely predicted by Roy Rosenzweig over two decades ago.   

Our conference will provide a forum to discuss these and other questions related to making history in real time. A particular focus will be on the increasing number of initiatives designed to capture history by creating “living archives” supported by digital technology. Originally, the concept of “living archives” goes back to the oral history movement during the 1970s and 1980s, when historians set out to capture people’s life experiences and memories while facilitating the transmission of generational memories embodied by living individuals. With the evolution of digital technologies, conceptions have broadened in recent decades to include a variety of collections and archives capturing events as they occur and in their immediate aftermath. This includes pioneering rapid response digital collecting projects like the September 11 Digital Archive and the Hurricane Digital Memory Bank, as well as the countless recent projects documenting people’s experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic such as A Journal of the Plague Year in the United States or Covidmemory in Europe. It also includes collections and archives utilizing social media to document the Black Lives Matter movement, the Arab Spring, the Gezi Park protests in Istanbul, and archives and art installations created as part of the Occupy Wall Street movement, to mention a few. Participatory documentation and archiving projects have also empowered migrants of all ages to document and preserve their migration experiences. Most recently, several projects and collections are documenting wartime experiences such as in Ukraine through social media. These approaches conceive of archives and collections as discursive, dynamic, and open-ended processes that actively contribute to present events and developments, which, in turn, shape the development of living archives and public history.

Submission Guidelines

For this three-day conference, we invite colleagues to submit proposals by August 15, 2024, for:

1. workshops for (hands-on) presentations of projects, tools, or skills (90 minutes),
2. or individual presentations (20 minutes)

that:

1. Discuss the value of living archives for doing real-time history By emphasizing the contingency and open-ended character of historical developments, “living archives” confront scholars and memory workers with fundamental questions regarding their roles and responsibilities in the present. How can living archives support ongoing dialogues about cycles of violence and oppression in the past, present, and future? What are the epistemological implications for the thinking, doing, and narrating of history when scholars are actively engaged in the creation, stewardship, and analysis of sources through living archives? Do living archives contribute to the democratization of historical storytelling by promoting multi-vocality and “shared authority” in digital public history?
    
2. Reflect on access to and stewardship of living archives What are some of the ethical and technical implications of “documenting the now,” including documenting the experiences of historically marginalized people and communities? How can individuals and groups be empowered to manage digital collections and archives outside of established repositories and in the post-custodial tradition throughout the life cycle of projects and records? How can living archives be maintained in an environment that is dominated by large for-profit companies driving rapid technical developments and media obsolescence? How can living archives balance the epistemological virtues of open access and respect for informational self-determination and privacy? What might ethical and professional long-term stewardship and research data management of these projects look like?
    
3. Provide examples for analyzing living archives. What methodological strategies and frameworks exist to analyze collections of data that continue to evolve over time? What does it mean if archival responsibility shifts from preserving the past for the future to documenting a multiplicity of pasts, presents, and futures? Are there best practices for the documentation of the building, managing, and maintaining of living archives aiming at promoting transparency and traceability of data? What practices can avoid creating indexical regimes that (re)produce biases or representational inequalities?
    
4. Explore the history and technology of living archives. What insights can the long history of living archives offer for scholars and memory workers creating and maintaining such archives today? What are the origins of the idea of living archives? What is the specific “archival performativity” of living archives and memory banks, and do they activate historical records in a different way than other forms of archives? How have advancements in technology influenced the development, design, and public use of living archives? How did new “mnemotechnologies” shape the documentary impulses of people and how did this affect historical imagination? Has the digital era paved the way for a new “snapshot culture” making “everyone their own historian”?

The conference will offer a dynamic, inclusive international forum to discuss these and other questions. Building on the established format of past GHI conferences on Digital History and Digital Humanities, we invite submissions of traditional analytical papers, reports reflecting on past and present projects, and workshops. We specifically encourage archivists to apply. While reflections about “living archives” will be an important component of the conference, we also invite presentations drawing on other experiences and analyses of time – and temporal multiplicities – in the digital environment.

Registration and Contact Information

Although we favor in-person attendance of participants and presenters, facilities for hybrid participation will be provided with the aim of making the event as inclusive as possible. Please submit a short CV and paper abstract of no more than 500 words to our conference platform by August 15, 2024. Accommodations will be arranged and paid for by the conference organizers. Participants will make their own travel arrangements; funding subsidies for travel is available upon request (for one presenter per paper or workshop) for selected scholars, especially those who might not otherwise be able to attend the workshop, including junior scholars and scholars from universities with limited resources. For further information regarding the event’s format and conceptualization, please contact Jana Keck, keck@ghi-dc.org. For questions about logistics (travel and accommodation), please contact our event coordinator Nicola Hofstetter, hofstetter-phelps@ghi-dc.org.

Group Bibliography

https://www.zotero.org/groups/5420323/living-archives-dh-conference-2025/library

Conference Committee

• Daniel Burckhardt, GHI Washington
• Andreas Fickers, Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C²DH)
• Peter Haslinger, Herder Institute for Historical Research on East Central Europe
• Katharina Hering, GHI Washington
• Torsten Hiltmann, Chair for Digital History at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
• Jana Keck, GHI Washington
• Simone Lässig, GHI Washington
• Lincoln Mullen, Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media (RRCHNM)
• Atiba Pertilla, GHI Washington

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Anmeldung via Conference Platform

Application Details:

Each scholar will be funded for 3 months, which will be divided between GHIL and MWF. Of these 3 months, there should be an overlap of one month in London for both scholars. Ideally, the scholar from Germany will spend 2 months at the MWF in India and 1 month in London. The tandem scholar from India will spend 3 months at the GHIL. 

The programme is meant primarily for early career scholars (postdocs/no later than 6 years from completion of PhD – you must have obtained your degree at the time of application) working on the history of the British Empire and colonial India. Transcolonial perspectives are very welcome. 

Please apply jointly with a complete CV, list of publications, a project proposal of around 3000 words with an abstract of around 300 words, and a plan of work. Please also include two references, one for each of the two applicants. The referees should be able to provide their opinion on the planned joint programme of work. Applicants should already have established contact with their tandem partner and agreed on a programme of exchange of ideas and plan of work. Applications should clearly indicate the name and academic details of each tandem partner, the plan of work and expected outcomes. 

Start Date: 2025

Application closes on: 27 September 2024 (23.59 hours Central European Time)

Please note: Single applications sent without a tandem partner in place will be automatically disqualified.

Funding

The funding for the Fellowship is as follows: 

• A monthly stipend of 2600€ for London and 2200€ for Delhi 
• A lumpsum of 1000 € towards travel costs
• Childcare costs: as per German law/DFG regulations 
• Reimbursement of visa costs up to 200€

Please send us your application as a single electronic PDF file to Ms Deepanwita Dutta at scholarship@mwsindia.org.

If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact us. 

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GHI London Scholarships

MWF Delhi Call for Applications

Das Deutsche Historische Institut Paris (DHIP) vergibt zweimal jährlich die Karl-Ferdinand-Werner-Fellowships. Gefördert werden können neben individuellen Archiv- und Bibliotheksforschungen in Paris und Umgebung auch Aufenthalte, die der konzentrierten Manuskriptarbeit mit Hilfe der gut ausgestatteten Institutsbibliothek dienen oder der Vertiefung von wissenschaftlichen Kontakten für die französisch-deutsche Wissenschaftskooperation (z. B. zur Konzeption von gemeinsamen Forschungsprojekten).

Stichdatum für Bewerbungen ist der 15. September 2024 (für Aufenthalte in den ersten Monaten des Folgejahrs) sowie der 15. Februar 2025 (für Aufenthalte im Sommer/Herbst des laufenden Jahres).

Die Dauer der geförderten Aufenthalte beträgt zwischen einer und vier Wochen. Die Fellows wohnen kostenlos in einem der Gästezimmer des DHIP, erhalten Anbindung an die Infrastruktur des Instituts sowie seine Bibliothek und können von den wissenschaftlichen Kontakten des DHIP profitieren. Das Programm richtet sich insbesondere an Professorinnen und Professoren und an Angehörige des akademischen Mittelbaus (mit zumindest abgeschlossener Promotion) an deutschen Hochschulen, deren Vorhaben sich in die Arbeitsfelder des DHIP einfügen. Dozierende, die im universitären Alltag die Lasten von Lehre und  Selbstverwaltung zu tragen haben, sollen zum Beispiel in der vorlesungsfreien Zeit während ihres kostenlosen Aufenthalts am DHIP ungestört ihre wissenschaftliche Arbeit verfolgen und von dessen Infrastruktur profitieren. Andere Bewerberinnen und Bewerber mit einem förderungsfähigen wissenschaftlichen Anliegen können dann berücksichtigt werden, wenn die Kapazitäten des Programms nicht ausgeschöpft sind. Vertreterinnen und Vertreter historisch arbeitender Nachbarfächer können sich ebenfalls bewerben, wenn ihre Forschungsanliegen interdisziplinär ausgerichtet und für das DHIP relevant sind. Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler, die schon einmal KFW-Fellow waren, können sich um weitere Forschungsaufenthalte bewerben.

Bewerbungen können in deutscher oder französischer Sprache eingereicht werden. Bitte nennen Sie in Ihrem Anschreiben die Dauer und nach Möglichkeit bereits den geplanten Zeitraum Ihres Aufenthalts und fügen Sie Ihrer Bewerbung folgende Unterlagen bei:

• eine Skizze Ihres Forschungsvorhabens im Umfang von ca. 5000 Zeichen (einschließlich Leerzeichen), aus der auch die aufzusuchenden Forschungseinrichtungen (Archive, Bibliotheken) und deren einschlägigen Bestände hervorgehen
• einen tabellarischen Lebenslauf
• ein Schriftenverzeichnis.

Über die Zuerkennung eines Fellowship entscheidet eine vom DHIP unabhängige Kommission, der zwei deutsche und zwei französische Historikerinnen und Historiker angehören. Ihr Bewerbungsdossier richten Sie bitte vollständig und in einer PDF-Datei per E-Mail (foerderung@dhi-paris.fr) an das DHIP, zu Händen von Frau Luna Hoppe. Für weitere Auskünfte zu den Karl-Ferdinand-Werner-Fellowships steht Ihnen Frau Dr. Christine Zabel gerne zur Verfügung (czabel@dhi-paris.fr /Telefon: +33 (0)1 44 54 23 80).

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• German history (submitted to a British or Irish university),
• British history or British colonial history (submitted to a German university),
• British-German relations or British-German comparative history (submitted to a British, Irish, or German university).

The Prize is 1,000 Euros and will be presented on the occasion of the GHIL’s Annual Lecture on 25 October 2024.

To be eligible, applicants must have successfully completed doctoral exams and vivas between 1 August 2023 and 31 July 2024.

To apply, send one copy of the thesis with

• a one-page abstract
• examiners’ reports on the thesis
• a brief CV
• a declaration that the work will not be published before the judges have reached a final decision
• a supervisor’s reference

to reach the Director of the German Historical Institute London, 17 Bloomsbury Square, London WC1A 2NJ, by 31 July 2024. Applications and theses should be sent by email as a PDF attachment to: prize@ghil.ac.uk.

If the prize-winning thesis is on British history, British colonial history, British-German relations or British-German comparative history it may also be considered for publication in one of the Institute's publication series.

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vergibt jedes Jahr Stipendien zur Förderung von Forschungsaufenthalten von Nachwuchswissenschaftler/-innen in Italien.

Für das erste Halbjahr 2025 (Januar bis Juni) bieten wir mehrere

Forschungsstipendien

an.

Das DHI Rom ist eine Einrichtung der in Bonn ansässigen Max Weber Stiftung – Deutsche Geisteswissenschaftliche Institute im Ausland. Es widmet sich der epochenübergreifenden, interdisziplinären Erforschung der italienischen und deutschen Geschichte und Musikgeschichte in ihren europäischen und globalen Bezügen vom Mittelalter bis heute. Dabei schöpft es aus den einzigartigen Ressourcen, die Italien und insbesondere Rom als Wissenschaftsstandort bieten. Im Mittelpunkt stehen politische, wirtschaftliche und kulturelle Aspekte sowie die Vermittlung zwischen beiden Wissenschaftskulturen.

Voraussetzungen:

Abgeschlossenes Studium (Master, Magister, Staatsexamen, Diplom, ggf. Promotion) der Geschichte.

Weitere Informationen zu den Modalitäten eines Stipendiums und den einzureichenden Bewerbungsunterlagen können der Stipendienordnung entnommen werden.

Bewerbungen werden bis einschließlich 30.6.2024 über das Bewerbungsportal entgegengenommen.

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vergibt jedes Jahr Stipendien zur Förderung von Forschungsaufenthalten von Nachwuchswissenschaftler/-innen in Italien.

Für das erste Halbjahr 2025 (Januar bis Juni) bieten wir mehrere

Stipendien zur Stellung eines Antrages auf Drittmittelförderung

an.

Anspruchsvolle und innovative Forschungsprojekte, die am DHI Rom angebunden werden sollen, können zielgerichtet gefördert werden, um Antragsreife für eine Drittmittelfinanzierung zu erlangen. Die maximale Förderdauer beträgt sechs Monate.

Voraussetzungen:

Abgeschlossenes Studium (Master, Magister, Staatsexamen, Diplom, ggf. Promotion) der Geschichte oder der Musikwissenschaften.

Das DHI Rom ist eine Einrichtung der in Bonn ansässigen Max Weber Stiftung – Deutsche Geisteswissenschaftliche Institute im Ausland. Es widmet sich der epochenübergreifenden, interdisziplinären Erforschung der italienischen und deutschen Geschichte und Musikgeschichte in ihren europäischen und globalen Bezügen vom Mittelalter bis heute. Dabei schöpft es aus den einzigartigen Ressourcen, die Italien und insbesondere Rom als Wissenschaftsstandort bieten. Im Mittelpunkt stehen politische, wirtschaftliche und kulturelle Aspekte sowie die Vermittlung zwischen beiden Wissenschaftskulturen.

Weitere Informationen zu den Modalitäten eines Stipendiums und den einzureichenden Bewerbungsunterlagen können der Stipendienordnung entnommen werden.

Bewerbungen werden bis zum 30.6.2024 ausschließlich über das Bewerbungsportal entgegengenommen.

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vergibt jedes Jahr Stipendien zur Förderung von Forschungsaufenthalten von Nachwuchswissenschaftler/-innen in Italien.

Für das erste Halbjahr 2025 (Januar bis Juni) bieten wir mehrere

Forschungsstipendien im Bereich der Musikwissenschaften

an.

Das DHI Rom ist eine Einrichtung der in Bonn ansässigen Max Weber Stiftung – Deutsche Geisteswissenschaftliche Institute im Ausland. Es widmet sich der epochenübergreifenden, interdisziplinären Erforschung der italienischen und deutschen Geschichte und Musikgeschichte in ihren europäischen und globalen Bezügen vom Mittelalter bis heute. Dabei schöpft es aus den einzigartigen Ressourcen, die Italien und insbesondere Rom als Wissenschaftsstandort bieten. Im Mittelpunkt stehen politische, wirtschaftliche und kulturelle Aspekte sowie die Vermittlung zwischen beiden Wissenschaftskulturen.

Voraussetzungen:

Abgeschlossenes Studium (Master, Magister, Staatsexamen, Diplom, ggf. Promotion) der Musikwissenschaften.

Weitere Informationen zu den Modalitäten eines Stipendiums und den einzureichenden Bewerbungsunterlagen können der Stipendienordnung entnommen werden.

Bewerbungen werden bis einschließlich 30.6.2024 über das Bewerbungsportal entgegengenommen.

Die Bewerbung schließt das stillschweigende Einverständnis der Bewerberin/des Bewerbers ein, dass der am Auswahlverfahren beteiligten Kommission für Auslandsstudien in der Gesellschaft für Musikforschung (GfM) Einsicht in die Bewerbungsunterlagen gewährt wird.

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Rome, Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institute for Art History

29-30 May 2025

Organizers Chiara Capulli, Vera Grund, Klaus Pietschmann, Kris Racaniello, Elisabetta Scirocco, Tobias C. Weißmann

Promoting Institutions Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institute for Art History, Deutsches Historisches Institut Rom, Research Project CANTORIA – Music and Sacred Architecture, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz

Premodern sacred space was never in stasis. It was moving, active, and filled with materials, objects, sounds, and people that combined to create an atmosphere of the sacred and, sometimes, the miraculous. As space in flux by definition, the sedimented temporality of devotion – ie. the fundamental composition of the space over time – poses many difficulties for historical modeling, conservation, and restoration practices, against the backdrop of the dramatic changes that spaces, installations, and practices have undergone over the centuries. More durable evidence has won out in the history and historiography of spatial reconstruction. But what of perishable materials, objects, and architectural installations, as well as musical and sonic manifestations? How do we responsibly approach recreating such ephemeral features that once graced these interiors, enlivening the volumes of often-vacant digital models? Models constitute a frozen image, necessarily in conflict with such activated sacred space. Despite this seemingly contradictory polarization, modeling “snapshots” of activated spaces enriches our understanding and documentation of the past and advances previously stagnant historiographic queries. In particular, immaterial elements such as sound and movement can be made communicable through digital reconstructions. The combination of 3D reconstructions, virtual acoustics (auralizations) and historical performance practice enables immersive simulations of the multi-sensory experience of medieval sacred spaces.

Responding in part to the sensory turn, this workshop seeks papers that address the lost or ephemeral aspects of medieval sacred spaces in two senses:

- material, installation, or object-oriented holistic approaches to reconstruction,

- innovative approaches to modeling or reconstructing embodied experience, visually and aurally induced imaginaries, and sensorial interactions with sacred space through, for example, agent-based modeling.

We foresee three possible thematic sessions:

Session 1: Spatial Voids: Modeling the Gray Zones Advancements in 3D modeling have significantly improved the understanding of complex architectures. However, ensuring academic accuracy in these visualizations remains a subject of debate. This session invites papers addressing the challenges of digitally reconstructing lost or significantly altered buildings, proposing methods to compensate for limited historical data, and transparently conveying interpretative decisions to viewers.

Session 2: Digitally Reconstructing the Ephemeral: Music, Sound and Textile Architectures In light of recent interdisciplinary progress in the emergent field of sound studies, this session seeks papers addressing the incorporation of acoustic data into spatial models. A special focus on textiles is desired but not required for this session, as such virtual soundscape modeling is uniquely impacted by ephemeral materials, like veils, curtains, or other architectural installations.

Session 3: Simulating Sensoriums: Virtual Experiences and the Problem of Sensory Archiving Sensory studies open new questions for spatial modeling even beyond auralization processes. This session seeks papers taking new approaches to the integration of sensation into virtual models, for example, through agent-based modeling which might simulate historical performance practices.

The decidedly interdisciplinary workshop addresses art and architecture historians, musicologists and musicians, digital engineers, 3D environmental artists, (archeo)acousticians and sound engineers.

We are particularly interested in receiving proposals for 20-minute papers presenting results from collaborative endeavors and incorporating problems, methodological challenges, open questions, and potential next steps in the field. We welcome submissions and papers in German, Italian, and English.

Interested speakers are invited to submit an abstract of their proposed paper (max. 500 words) and a short CV (max. 300 words) through the Bibliotheca Hertziana’s recruitment platform by June 15th.

The organization will provide accommodation for speakers and will offer reimbursement –within reasonable bounds– for travel expenses.

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October 9 - October 11, 2024

The DIJ, in collaboration with the German Centre for Research and Innovation (DWIH) Tokyo, is hosting an interdisciplinary workshop delving into both fictional and nonfictional portrayals of Japan’s technological future. We will juxtapose these visions with those from other cultures and analyze them through the lens of “narrative” and “sociotechnical imaginary” theoretical frameworks.

The future begins with imagination. Consider Mark Zuckerberg’s ‘Metaverse’, inspired by Neal Stephenson’s 1992 novel Snow Crash, or Japan’s ‘Society 5.0’ campaign, envisioning a digitally transformed “Super Smart Society”. Japanese tech giants like Sony and NTT also recognize storytelling’s role in fostering innovation and societal acceptance of emerging technologies, particularly in Sci-Fi collaborations. These narrative visions of Japan’s tech-driven future make some predictions about the future, but most importantly, they channel emotional attitudes, such as hope and fear.

This situates them within the realm of “narratives” and “sociotechnical imaginaries”. Like “discourse”, narratives thoroughly pervade scholarly and everyday discussions. Peter Brooks (2022) illustrates this by noting how even mundane purchases, like buying cookies, involve encountering brand narratives proudly displayed on the packaging. Similarly, the theoretical concept of narrative spans a wide range of academic disciplines: “life narratives” are gathered through qualitative interviews in sociology and psychology, purposefully crafted narratives are a research subject of political science (election campaigns), legal studies (legal argumentation and statements) and economics (marketing), while cultural (meta-)narratives are addressed by cultural studies and history. One reason for this omnipresence of narrative might be their persuasive and even therapeutic power, which, as Fritz Breithaupt (2022/2024) suggests, rests in their ability to promise rewarding emotions.

Building from this, “sociotechnical imaginaries” can be defined as a more normative subtype of narrative instrumentalized in political and economic contexts. Introduced in Jasanoff and Kim’s 2009 study on the differing attitudes towards nuclear energy in South Korea and the US, sociotechnical imaginaries have been almost exclusively studied within Science and Technology Studies.

The aim of our workshop is to bring together scholars whose work engages with narratives and/or imaginaries of the future, especially but not exclusively in relation to Japan. Presentations may address the content of said narratives and imaginaries, their influences on the academic and non-academic discourses, or different methodological approaches (including those from Digital Humanities). In addition to the workshop presentations, we will invite practitioners from Japan’s tech industry for practical insights into the creation and circulation of future-related imaginaries. An excursion to sites in Tokyo where Japanese conceptions of the future become tangible is also planned.

The workshop is organized by Nicole M. Mueller (DIJ Tokyo) in cooperation with Christian Oberländer and Uwe Wolfradt (MLU Halle-Wittenberg). The Keynote Speaker is Fritz Breithaupt (Experimental Humanities Lab, Indiana University Bloomington), author of The Dark Sides of Empathy (2019, Cornell University Press), and The Narrative Brain (in press, Yale University Press).

Travel (national and international) and accommodation in Tokyo can be provided for a total of around 10 participants. We plan to do partially hybrid panel sessions via zoom, but for presenters, attendance in person is preferable.

Scholars whose research aligns with the thematic scope of our workshop are invited to send their abstracts (500 words maximum) for their planned presentations (in English) via E-Mail to mueller(at)dijtokyo.org by June 15, 2024. We plan to publish the presented papers and our discussion results as an edited volume.

We welcome paper proposals by scholars from different career stages (including PhD students) and from a variety of cultural and disciplinary backgrounds. Participants who are accepted for the workshop will be notified by July 5, 2024.

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Die Stiftungskonferenzen sind ein festes Format der Max Weber Stiftung. Sie greifen Forschungsthemen der Auslandsinstitute der Stiftung auf und diskutieren sie international vergleichend sowie trans- und interdisziplinär. An den Stiftungskonferenzen beteiligen sich alle Institute sowie ihre Partner, sie werden jährlich von einem anderen Institut ausgerichtet. 

Das Programm der Konferenz sowie den Link zur Anmeldung in Präsenz finden Sie hier: https://www.oiist.org/veranstaltungen/

Die Max Weber Stiftung – Deutsche Geisteswissenschaftliche Institute im Ausland (MWS) fördert die Forschung mit Schwerpunkten auf den Gebieten der Geschichts-, Kultur-, Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften in ausgewählten Ländern und damit das gegenseitige Verständnis. Sie unterhält zurzeit weltweit elf Institute sowie weitere Forschungsgruppen und Büros. Durch eine unmittelbare Nähe zu den Forschungsgegenständen und im Austausch unterschiedlicher Perspektiven und Herangehensweisen bietet die MWS beste Voraussetzungen für exzellente grenzüberschreitende geistes- und sozialwissenschaftliche Forschung. Die Stiftung wird aus Mitteln des Bundesministeriums für Bildung und Forschung finanziert.

Das Orient-Institut Istanbul ist ein turkologisches, osmanistisches und regionalwissenschaftliches Forschungsinstitut der Max Weber Stiftung. In enger Kooperation mit türkischen und internationalen Wissenschaftler*innen widmet es sich einer Vielzahl unterschiedlicher Forschungsgebiete auf dem Gebiet der Türkischen Studien in ihrer Verflechtung mit südosteuropäischen, mediterranen, iranischen, zentralasiatischen und kaukasischen Themen. Seine Arbeitsgebiete erstrecken sich von der Osmanistik und turkologischen Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaften über Kulturanthropologie und Musikwissenschaft bis hin zu Themen aus dem Bereich Science, Technology and Society. Außerdem ist das Orient-Institut Istanbul aktiv auf dem Gebiet des wissenschaftlichen Austausches zwischen Deutschland und der Türkei.

Weitere Informationen und Kontakt:

Andrea Selimoğlu
Orient-Institut Istanbul
Galip Dede Cad. No. 65
TR - 34421 Beyoğlu – Istanbul

selimoglu(at)oiist.org
www.oiist.org  

The ECR symposium aims to provide a unique platform for early career researchers to showcase their research work in the fields of humanities and social sciences with the focus on cross-border mobility and a wide spectrum of inter- and multidisciplinary topics:

•             Refugees and Irregular Migration

•             Law and Migration 

•             Narratives of Migration

•             Migration and Education

•             Labour Migration (incl. Health)

Early career researchers from South Asia, Germany and Europe who work on topics related to India, South Asia, Germany and Europe are welcome to submit their abstracts for consideration. Doctoral students and postdocs, who completed their doctoral defence no more than two years ago, are eligible to apply. 

To register and submit your abstract, please take the following survey by clicking on the link below:

https://www.daad.de/surveys/919374?lang=en

Application deadline: 20 May 2024

The submitted proposals will be selected and shortlisted by an expert committee. Selected candidates for presentation during the symposium will be informed by 10 June 2024.

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Deadline for submitting panel, roundtable, and paper proposals: 7 May 2024

We welcome submissions to the 23rd Annual Aleksanteri Conference. This year’s conference will address the challenges posed by the spread and seeming resilience of authoritarianism in Eurasia in a variety of spheres: political contestation, social movements, political legitimacy, repression, and cultural resistance. All of these spheres reflect the formation and transformation of solidarities in the turbulent times, disruption of previously existing identities in the context of ongoing war in Ukraine and emergence of new ones.

The upcoming conference aims to explore political transformations in Eurasia from the perspective of various actors and institutions, with a particular emphasis on civil society organizations and political resistance. The conference will focus both on developments within authoritarian states and on how democracies have confronted the challenges posed by authoritarianism, including by resorting to armed resistance.

By addressing issues related to authoritarian resilience and spillover in the present and past, as well as themes such as legitimacy, civil resistance in times of war, and oppression, the conference seeks to shed light on the reshaping of political alliances and solidarities in the new era. It also aims to examine the cultural and historical origins of dictatorial as well as pluralistic regimes. Furthermore, the conference aims to explore how cultural, economic, and political attitudes have changed in times of profound crisis.

Schedule and deadlines

• Deadline for submitting proposals: Tuesday, 7 May 2024
• Notification of acceptance: Monday, 10 June 2024
• Registration fees due by:
  • Early bird (130 €): Sunday, 30 June 2024
  • Standard (170 €): Friday, 6 September 2024
• Conference programme published: late September 2024
• Conference: 23–25 October 2024

Zur Website des Büro Georgien der Max Weber Stiftung

Die Bewerber:innen können sich für Forschungsaufenthalte in bis zu zwei Ländern (z.B. Litauen und Georgien) oder in einer Region (z.B. Baltikum, inkl. Finnland; Südkaukasus; Zentralasien) bewerben.

Die Richtlinien zur Vergabe und die Höhe des Stipendiums regelt die Stipendienordnung.

Die Bewerbungsunterlagen müssen auf Deutsch oder Englisch eingereicht werden.

Bitte senden Sie das ausgefüllte Antragsformular sowie alle anderen Unterlagen in einer PDF-Datei und ausschließlich per E-Mail an stipendien(at)mws-osteuropa.org  

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Zur Website des Max Weber Netzwerk Osteuropa

Subject: Winter school: In-between: Intermediaries and Intermediate Places

Candidates with PhD funding are expected to fund their trips. However, candidates without funding can apply in their application for support of their travel expenses. You will be informed about the outcome of your application by 30 September, 2024. Successful applicants will be expected to pre-circulate their papers among the participants by 1 December, 2024.

For further information and queries, please contact:
Michaela Dimmers, Max Weber Forum for South Asian Studies, New Delhi: dimmers@mwsindia.org

Organisers:

Sebastian Schwecke, Max Weber Forum for South Asian Studies, New Delhi, India
Michaela Dimmers, Max Weber Forum for South Asian Studies, New Delhi, India
Christian Strümpell, Max Weber Forum for South Asian Studies, New Delhi, India
Christian G. De Vito, University of Vienna, Austria
Hanne Osthus, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway
Paola Revilla Orías, Universidad Católica Boliviana, La Paz, Bolivia
Paulo Cruz Terra, Universidade Federal Fluminese, Niterói, Brazil
Silvia Grinberg, National University of General San Martín, Buenos Aires, Argentina

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Academic Committee: Marnix Beyen, Anna Grześkowiak-Krwawicz, Paulina Kewes, Judit Pál, Henk te Velde

First Edition, 23-24 January 2025

Residues and Innovations within Imperial Orders. Political Assemblies in Continental Europe, 1800-1850

The turn of the 18th and 19th centuries witnessed profound transformations in the political landscape of continental Europe, that might be dubbed a Napoleonic moment. Novel ideas regarding national community and state centralization led to the rapid decline of residual republican systems, including almost synchronous collapses of the Dutch Republic, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, and Italian city-republics. Simultaneously, it paved the way for a new type of political assemblies representing a broader, modernly conceived nation, including the third estate. These newly established bodies often deviated from local political traditions, generating uncertainty but also stirring desire for change. These were, however, often created by politicians educated in the time of the 18th century ancien régime. The year 1815 marked a new wave of parliamentarization in Europe, guided by the provisions of the Congress of Vienna and subsequent treaties. Unlike in the Napoleonic era, the architects of the post Viennese order sought to restore and adapt previously existing representative institutions.

Both pre- and post-Vienna political assemblies, characterized by limited sovereignty were integrated into a broader imperial orders but often situated in buffer zones of empires. While securing imperial rule in these diverse interfaces, these assemblies articulated national-revolutionary claims in times of upheavals and crises, which spurred on centrifugal forces. By comparing these assemblies in the context of their nascent parliamentary culture mixing old forms and innovative designs, a deeper understanding of imperial nexus of power sovereignty, and representation on heterogenous territories can be fostered.

In the first edition of the 'Parliamentary Junctures in Continental Europe' conference, we welcome submissions addressing various aspects of representative assemblies' internal and external functioning during the first half of the nineteenth century. Exemplary areas of inquiry include, but are not limited to:

• parliamentary rhetoric / discourse and concepts,
• rearticulations of traditions,
• procedural and conceptual innovations,
• assemblies in interface peripheries and inter-imperial bids,
• social composition of assemblies.

Particular attention will be given to political assemblies situated in imperial borderlands.

Submission deadline: August 31st, 2024

Please send the title, abstract (up to 300 words), and a short CV (one-two pages) at parljunctures@mail.com

Selection results: mid-September 2024 Venues: German Historical Institute, Warsaw (23rd of January 2025)

Tadeusz Manteuffel Institute of History of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw (24th of January 2025)

Practicalities:

The conference organizer will provide accommodation to all participants. If necessary, travel expenses may be covered up to 300 EUR.

The conference results will be published in the form of a special issue of a respected journal in the field (in English). Participants are expected to circulate drafts of their papers at least two weeks before the workshop.

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Applications are invited from postdoctoral academics with an excellent research record. The fellowship is open to those working in any of the subjects that have a strong research base at the Institute of Advanced Studies and the German Historical Institute London (GHIL) such as history, art history and literary studies. There are no restrictions on nationality. Applicants, however, have to be affiliated to a German university or non-university research institution. They must also have obtained their doctorate and will normally have no more than five years postdoctoral research experience in an academic environment.

Fellows will be expected to take up their residence in London for the duration of the fellowship and give presentations on their research project at both institutions. To allow the fellow to focus on carrying out research, there are no teaching or administrative duties associated with the fellowship.

The non-pensionable and tax-free grant will be 3,000 € per month. During the fellowship the fellows have to be on unpaid leave from their home institutions.

The successful candidate will be provided with work space at the Institute of Advanced Studies, University College London, and will also have full access to the research facilities at both the Institute of Advanced Studies and the German Historical Institute London. Neither institution, however, can provide accommodation during the fellowship.

Applicants should send a CV, details of their proposed research project (maximum length 1000 words), a sample of their written work (preferably in English) and the names of two referees in one PDF-file to recruitment@ghil.ac.uk by 15 May 2024.

Applications will be reviewed by a selection committee consisting of the director of the Institute of Advanced Studies, a representative of the German Department of University College London and two representatives of the German Historical Institute London. Unfortunately, the Institute of Advanced Studies and the German Historical Institute London are unable to provide feedback for the applicants who are not selected.

Enquiries about the Visiting Postdoctoral Research Fellowship should be made to the Deputy Director of the GHIL, Dr Michael Schaich (m.schaich@ghil.ac.uk)

Vor dem Hintergrund dieser paradoxen und vieldeutigen Struktur des Begriffs »Natur« geht das Jahresthema 2024/26 davon aus, dass »Natur« weniger eine statische, allgemeinverbindlich fassbare Größe bezeichnet als vielmehr ein ideelles Konzept und eine Abstraktion (Philippe Descola). Das zeigt sich beispielhaft in den vielfachen Verflechtungen zwischen Natur und Kunst. Indem die Kunst die Natur zum Gegenstand ihrer Werke macht, sie als künstlerisches Material, als Ideal und Utopie, aber auch als Gegenentwurf adressiert, vermittlelt ihre konkrete Arbeit am Werk eine bestimmte Idee der Natur. Von der Urhütte als »natürlichem« Ursprung der Architektur (Gottfried Semper) über das Projekt Cézannes, »Poussin auf dem Umweg über die Natur zu erneuern« bis hin zu den aktuellen Debatten über das Anthropozän als Stadium eines denaturalisierten Lebens auf der Erde sind Konzepte der Natur in der Kunst allgegenwärtig und bestimmen die unterschiedlichsten Entwürfe und Verfahren: Malen nach der Natur, »natürliche Malerei« (John Constable), »die Natur – nicht das Werk des Künstlers – als Vorbild« (Lysipp nach Plinius d.Ä.), Moulagen und andere Abformungen der Natur, Natur als schöpferische Kraft und Bildproduzentin (Talbots Pencil of Nature), Lob der Künstlichkeit als Gegenentwurf zur verabscheuenswürdigen Natur (Baudelaire). Diese Verbindungen von Natur und Kunst umfassen die verschiedenen Gattungen der Kunst ebenso wie ihre geschichtliche Entwicklung.

Die Ausschreibung ist historisch bewusst offen gehalten. Willkommen sind Beiträge von der Frühzeit bis zur Gegenwart. Methodisch und inhaltlich sollten sich die Projektskizzen an einem der folgenden Themenfelder orientieren: Geschichte der Landschaft, Kunst und Ökologie, Kunst und Biologie, Kunstgeschichte und Anthropologie, animal studies, Kunst und Anthropozän, die Rolle der Natur in Kunstliteratur und Kunstkritik.

Zum genannten Thema vergibt das DFK Paris zum 01.10.2024 mehrere Forschungsstipendien (Dauer: 24 Monate). Interessierte mit einem abgeschlossenen Hochschulstudium der Kunstgeschichte oder anderer fachnaher Disziplinen (Doktorand:innen und Postdocs), die zum ausgeschriebenen Thema forschen, sind eingeladen, sich mit den üblichen Unterlagen (Lebenslauf, Empfehlungsschreiben der betreuenden Dozent:innen, Zeugnisse, ggf. Publikationsliste, Angabe der Sprachkenntnisse) sowie einer Projektskizze (max. 3 Seiten, dazu Zeitplan und Literaturverzeichnis) zu bewerben.

Die Bewerbungsunterlagen sind in einem einzelnen PDF-Dokument an stipendien(at)dfk-paris.org bis zum 23.05.2024 zu richten. Die Vorstellungsgespräche finden voraussichtlich in der 24. Kalenderwoche am DFK Paris statt.

Leitung: Peter Geimer (DFK Paris) und Pierre Wat (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne)

Koordination: Élodie Vaudry

Ältere deutsche Handschriften zu lesen, erscheint Anfängern auf dem Gebiet der Paläographie oft als unüberwindliches Hindernis. Um diese Hürde zu nehmen, bietet das DHIP Studierenden, Nachwuchswissenschaftlerinnen und Nachwuchswissenschaftlern einen zweitägigen Workshop mit praxisorientierter Einführung in die deutsche Paläographie an. Der Workshop konzentriert sich auf die deutsche Schreibschrift des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts und stellt das Lesen von ausgewähltem Übungsmaterial unter Anleitung in den Mittelpunkt. Unterrichtssprache ist deutsch.

Wenn Sie teilnehmen möchten, senden Sie bitte bis zum 30. Juni 2024 ein Motivationsschreiben und einen Lebenslauf (vollständig und in einer PDF-Datei) an Niels F. May: nmay@dhi-paris.fr.

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Bitte senden Sie alle Schreiben und Dokumente in einer PDF-Datei ausschließlich per E-Mail an: info@mws-georgia.org

Die Richtlinien der Vergabe und die Höhe des Stipendiums regelt im Detail die Vorläufige Stipendienordnung.

Weitere Auskünfte erhalten Sie per E-Mail unter: info(at)mws-georgia.org

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Wie haben Zivilisten in Frankreich, Belgien, Luxemburg, den Niederlanden und Italien sowie in Deutschland und Österreich die Zeit der »Befreiung« erlebt? Konnten Sie mit dem Zweiten Weltkrieg »abschließen« und wie taten sie dies? Die Tagung anlässlich des 80. Jahrestags von débarquement und Libération geht von der Prämisse aus, dass Frauen und Männer in den genannten Gebieten über nationale Unterschiede hinaus eine gemeinsame Erfahrung des Kriegsendes und ein gemeinsames Schicksal teilten. Deshalb sollen Status, Erlebnisse und Gefühle der Zivilbevölkerung vor dem Hintergrund des Kriegsendes untersucht werden. Dieses bestand meist aus einer Abfolge von Phasen des Wartens, der Kämpfe, unmittelbarer Gefahr und Instabilität und der Neuordnung der Nachkriegsgesellschaften. Dabei kommen Erwartungen und Ängste, die Interaktionen der Zivilbevölkerung mit Militärs beider Seiten sowie den Angehörigen anderer Länder und Staatenlosen in den Blick, ihre Überlebensstrategien und Anpassungsversuche an die permanent sich wandelnde Situation. Wie gelang es den Menschen, mit dem Krieg abzuschließen?

Die Organisatorinnen und Organisatoren schlagen mehrere thematische Achsen vor, in die sich die vorgeschlagenen Beiträge einordnen können: Zivilbevölkerung während der bewaffneten Befreiung; Koexistenz von Zivilisten und Soldaten nach den Kämpfen; Normalität und Vergessen; Erinnerung.

Diese Tagung wird von der Universität Lothringen (CRULH), dem Goethe-Institut Nancy und dem Musée lorrain/Palais ducal im Rahmen der Mission »80 ans de Libération« organisiert, mit Unterstützung der Stadt Nancy und des Deutschen Historischen Instituts Paris.

Beitragsvorschläge (maximal 3000 Zeichen, mit einem kurzen Lebenslauf) sind bis 26. April 2024 bei den Organisatorinnen und Organisatoren einzureichen: laurent.jalabert(at)univ-lorraine.fr, jean-noel.grandhomme(at)univ-lorraine.fr. Eine Rückmeldung erfolgt nach der Sitzung des wissenschaftlichen Beirats, Anfang Mai 2024.

Vorträge können in französischer, deutscher oder englischer Sprache gehalten werden. Es wird keine Simultanübersetzung geben, sodass zumindest passive Kenntnisse des Französischen und der weiteren genannten Sprachen begrüßenswert sind.

Zum Call for Papers (PDF)

Bitte senden Sie alle Schreiben und Dokumente in einer pdf-Datei ausschließlich per E-Mail an
info(at)mws-georgia.org

Weitere Auskünfte erhalten Sie per E-Mail unter: info(at)mws-georgia.org

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Deadline for Applications: May 15, 2024.

The Armenian School of Languages and Cultures – ASPIRANTUM, is organizing a Persian language summer school in Yerevan, Armenia. You can start the program on June 23, June 30, or July 7, 2024, and stay up to 10 weeks until August 30, 2024. If you prefer a shorter program, there are options for 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, or 9 weeks.

2024 Persian language summer school will help the participants master skills in written and oral modern Persian, read and interpret Persian texts from different periods, and rapidly deepen their knowledge in colloquial Persian.

To get more information and apply, please see this Website.

The Faculty of Russian philology of Yerevan State University invites you to study russian language. Faculty professors have prepared a number of programs:

• 8-weeks program, which involves 20-24-hours per week
• 15-weeks (semester) program with 20-hours per week

8-weeks program is designed for Beginners, Intermediate and Advanced.

For students with basic and advanced levels (Intermediate high and Advanced), a 15-
week semester program “Russian language in the professional sphere” is also offered.

Each group has 5 teachers. During the training period, students are provided with
textbooks, teaching aids and additional materials. The proposed integrated approach, the experience of our teachers, and the use of modern methods allow us to increase the language competence of students.

Application deadline: April 30, 2024.

For more details and apply, please see the PDF-flyer.

Applications must include:

The application package should be submitted as a single PDF file (excluding letters of recommendation, which should be submitted directly by the referee) to bewerbungen(at)orient-institut.org. Applicants may write in either English or German; we recommend that they use the language in which they are most proficient. The deadline for applications is 1 May 2024. Interviews will be conducted via video call later that month.

The application package should be submitted as a single PDF file (excluding letters of recommendation, which should be submitted directly by the referee) to bewerbungen(at)orient-institut.org. Applicants may write in either English or German; we recommend that they use the language in which they are most proficient. The deadline for applications is 1 May 2024. Interviews will be conducted via video call later that month. 

Die Deutschen Historischen Institute Paris und Rom setzen im akademischen Jahr 2024/2025 die Onlineseminar-Reihe zum Thema »Euro-Mediterranean Entanglements in Medieval History« fort. Die Veranstaltungen finden im Zweimonatsrhythmus statt. Sie richten sich sowohl an den wissenschaftlichen Nachwuchs als auch an etablierte Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler aller mediävistischen Disziplinen. Ziel ist es, ein internationales und interdisziplinäres Forum zu schaffen, auf dem vielfältige Themen und methodische Ansätze vorgestellt und diskutiert werden können.
Wir laden interessierte Forscherinnen und Forscher herzlich ein, ihre laufenden oder vor Kurzem abgeschlossenen Arbeiten vor einem internationalen Publikum zu präsentieren und zu diskutieren. Bitte schicken Sie einen Abstract (1–2 Seiten) und kurzen Lebenslauf (ggf. mit Publikationsverzeichnis) bis zum 3. Juni 2024 an asagasser@dhi-paris.fr und wolf@dhi-roma.it.

Themen
Der geographische Raum ist bewusst nicht klar umrissen und umfasst Europa sowie den Mittelmeerraum im weitesten Sinne. Einbezogen sind auch Verflechtungen zwischen dem euromediterranen Raum und anderen Weltregionen. Folgende Themenfelder stehen im Mittelpunkt:

• Regional übergreifende, transkulturelle und interreligiöse Verflechtungen (Prozesse/Ergebnisse);
• Grenz- und Kontakträume;
• Soziale Netzwerke und interpersonelle Beziehungen;
• Migration und Mobilität;
• Transfer, Diffusion und Adaption bzw. Transformation von Ideen, Wissen und materiellen Objekten.

Seminarablauf
Im Mittelpunkt des Seminars steht der Austausch von Ideen. Unsere Referierenden beginnen mit einer 10- minütigen Keynote, in der sie ihre laufenden oder kürzlich abgeschlossenen Forschungsarbeiten vorstellen. Im Anschluss folgt ein 10-minütiger Kommentar eines Spezialisten. Dieser bildet die Grundlage für die anschließende 40-minütige Diskussion mit dem Online-Publikum.

Termine
Dienstags 17.00–18.00 Uhr (MEZ)

• 24. September 2024
• 26. November 2024
• 28. Januar 2025
• 25. März 2025
• 27. Mai 2025

Kontakt für Fragen zum Forschungsseminar: Amélie Sagasser (DHI Paris, asagasser@dhi-paris.fr) und Kordula Wolf (DHI Rom, wolf@dhi-roma.it).

» Zum Call for Papers (auf Englisch)

Between the rise of fascism in Europe in the 1930s and decolonization after World War II, a range of non-Western, in many cases colonial, regions became hubs for people in transit. A growing body of new research on refugees “In Global Transit,” many of them Jews in flight from Nazi Germany and Nazi-occupied Europe, has highlighted this forced migration to, and in, the Global South. Scholars are documenting refugee encounters with local populations and colonial authorities, their search for more permanent new homes, as well as their attempts to maintain contact with, and facilitate the escape of, those left behind.

This conference builds on the emerging scholarship on cultural, social, and political encounters – connections and disconnects – among diverse groups of European and non-European refugees and with highly stratified host populations, including existing Jewish communities, colonial officials and settlers, and other migrants. While much of this research has relied on sources produced by state or colonial officials or the refugees themselves, this conference aims to explore new approaches and sources that require knowledge of local and national languages, archives, and histories.

“Transit” refers to individual and collective experiences of living in-between – that is, in spaces people did not envision remaining in permanently. However, it also refers to regions and countries like Turkey, Palestine, and India, where refugees from Nazi Europe found a safe haven while these regions were themselves undergoing turbulent transitions.

Examining this volatile historical moment raises further questions applicable to other refugee and migrant experiences in crisis: What kinds of knowledge transfer can we observe, and what kinds of boundaries and prejudices obstructed such transfers? What were the differential impacts of class, gender, and age on notions of ethnic, national, “racial,” and religious differences? And how can we uncover the long-term memories of this global diaspora of WWII refugees after most of them moved beyond their transit spaces in the decades following independence, state building, and – in some cases – new forms of forced migration?

We welcome paper proposals for an international conference that brings together scholars with an interdisciplinary and cross-epochal approach and are especially interested in exchange with and among scholars in and/or from the Global South. This conference aims to focus specifically on:

• hospitality, friendship, and enmity
• peaceful and violent encounters, connections, disconnects, and separations
• processes of and obstacles to knowledge transfer and cultural translation
• the formation and perception of diasporas
• memories in and of transit.

The conference will be held in English. Individual paper presentations are limited to 20 minutes. Proposals for entire panels (up to three papers) are welcome. Proposals, which should include a title, an abstract of no more than 300 words, a CV, and contact information (address, phone, email) must be submitted ONLINE in one pdf by April 30, 2024. Applicants will be informed about the acceptance of their paper by the end of June 2024.

Accommodation will be arranged and paid for by the conference organizers. Participants will make their own travel arrangements; funding subsidies for travel are available upon request for selected scholars, especially those who might not otherwise be able to attend the workshop, including junior scholars and scholars from universities with limited resources. Please inform us if you can utilize funds from your home institution to participate in the conference. There is no registration fee.

We are pleased to announce the “Catholicism and the Cold War in Latin America” conference to be held from November 21-22, 2024 at the University of Oxford with support from “The Global Pontificate of Pius XII” project directed by Dr Simon Unger (GHI Rome). We seek contributions from scholars working on Roman Catholicism and the Cold War in Latin America from c. 1940 to c. 1990. Participants may be invited to contribute to a related edited volume co-edited by Dr Daniel McDonald (Oxford), Professor Jaime Pensado (Notre Dame), and Dr Simon Unger. The conference will include both panels and a workshop to further develop the volume. We especially encourage applications from scholars based in Latin America as well as from Early Career Researchers.

The conference endeavours to assist with travel costs and accommodation for as many participants as possible, prioritizing those without institutional support and Early Career Researchers. Latin America comprised a central arena in both the global transformation of the Catholic Church and in the Cold War during the twentieth century. The elevation of Pope Francis (2013-present) to become the first Latin American pope reopened fraught questions about the role of the Catholic Church during the Cold War. Similarly, the opening of new archival collections, most notably that of the papacy of Pius XII (1939-1958), have invigorated an already thriving historiography. Here, we take inspiration from recent work on the Cold War that has moved beyond conceptualizing the conflict as a clash between the United States, the Soviet Union, and their respective allies. Rather, Latin America’s Cold War consisted of overlapping layers of conflicts of local, national, and transnational scale wherein struggles over culture, social citizenship, inequality, local issues, and more became enmeshed with one another.

Key questions we will collectively address include:

• How did the different Latin American Churches influence the global Catholic Church’s actions amid the Cold War?
• How can examining transnational religious networks and cultural discourses reshape our understanding of the global Cold War?
• How did the Vatican intervene in Latin America during the Cold War, including but not limited to measures to prevent the spread of communism and its relations with authoritarian regimes?
• And finally, how can unpacking these complex processes simultaneously help us move beyond established narratives while establishing new frameworks and periodizations?

While we welcome submissions on any topic that addresses these questions, we are especially interested in transnational approaches that place Latin America in a global context. Along these lines, possible topics may include but are not limited to works that examine the Catholic Church, Catholicism, and the Cold War with regards to:

• Inequality and poverty, including social Catholicism; liberation theology; and, relations with social revolution, communism, and socialism.
• Culture, including conflict over morality; gender and sexuality; race and racism; as well as counterculture, student movements, and 1968.
• Layperson movements, including Catholic Action and its specialized branches (JOC, JUC, JEC, JAC, etc.); Pax Romana; Base ecclesiastical communities (CEBs); as well as right-wing Catholic movements such as Family, Tradition, and Property and the National Synarchist Union, among others.
• Global connections, including with decolonization in the Global South; the Vatican and its diplomatic outreach; inter-American networks; democratizing and post-WWII Europe; as well as international NGOs. • Politics and political Catholicism, including Christian Democracy; dictatorships and state terror; as well as human rights and transitional justice.
• Ecclesiastical and theological approaches, including accounts focused on specific clergy, national Churches, missionaries, orders, and the papacy; the Second Vatican Council (1962-1965); the Conferences of Medellín (1968) and Puebla (1979); papal encyclicals and their reception; as well as theological debate on the aforementioned issues.

Please submit an abstract of no more than 250 words including a presentation title, author(s) name(s), and affiliation(s) no later than April 1, 2024. In the abstract, please indicate whether you would contribute to the edited volume. Abstracts and any questions should be submitted to Daniel McDonald (daniel.mcdonald@history.ox.ac.uk) and Jaime Pensado (jpensado@nd.edu).

Einblick in die Arbeit deutscher Forschungsinstitutionen zur mittelalterlichen Geschichte

Das Deutsche Historische Institut Paris (DHIP) bietet vom 25.–29. August 2024 eine Studienreise nach München für Studierende und Promovierende deutscher und französischer Universitäten und Hochschulen an.

Bewerbungsschluss: 1. Juni 2024

Die Studienreise bietet deutschen und französischen Studierenden und Promovierenden der mittelalterlichen Geschichte mit guten Grundkenntnissen in der jeweils anderen Sprache die Möglichkeit, einen vertieften Einblick in das deutsche Wissenschaftssystem zu gewinnen und auf diese Weise den akademischen Austausch zu fördern.
Geplant sind Besuche der Monumenta Germaniae Historica, des Bayerischen Hauptstaatsarchivs, der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, der Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek, des Zentralinstituts für Kunstgeschichte sowie des Historischen Kollegs.

Eine Teilnahmebescheinigung kann ausgestellt werden.

Die Teilnahmegebühr beträgt 50,- EUR. Die Reisekosten (üblicherweise Bahnfahrt, 2. Klasse, bis max. 180,- €) und Übernachtung werden vom DHI Paris getragen.

Die Bewerbungsunterlagen müssen einen tabellarischen Lebenslauf sowie ein kurzes Motivationsschreiben enthalten. Sie sind bis zum 1. Juni 2024 unter dem Stichwort »München für Mediävisten« an Frau Dr. Amélie Sagasser zu richten: asagasser@dhi-paris.fr.

» Zur Ausschreibung (pdf)

Socio-historical perspectives

International Conference

CERCEC-EHESS, Paris, November 7-8, 2024

The Russian occupation of Ukrainian territory since 2014 has brought into stark focus 20th century experiences and legacies of occupation in Europe. They are central in national memory cultures while generating polemics and conflicts up to this day, which are not resolved, but often enflamed, by the large body of historical research that has explored all the nuances and “greyness” of these difficult pasts. Beyond discrete case studies, we lack a clear understanding of the specificities of modern occupations, of the ways that people experience them, how they transform social, economic, political relations. 

What happens when a territory “is actually placed under the authority of the hostile army” during on-going international military conflict, when authority is split between the “legitimate power” and its exercise “in fact” by that power’s military enemy, as defined by the Hague and Geneva Conventions?

Much of the discourse and expectations surrounding this question continue to be shaped by the post-1945 diptych of “collaboration” and “resistance” as the two emblematic responses to foreign occupation and consequently the measure of all social behavior under occupation. Both terms became loaded not just with political, but with moral meaning, providing the bedrock of European post-war memory and mythmaking. Both come with expectations of legal retribution/recognition. This framework has become so entrenched in European memory and political culture as to seem natural, although it is reductive and historically situated. It also largely ignores the dynamic and fluid aspects of occupation, which is defined by much of the same uncertainty and risk as the war experience itself. It thus has limited value as either guide for empirical research or as conceptual framework to understand the complexity of social experiences of wartime occupation. Historical research has highlighted many of these aspects, turning to “attentism”, “grey areas”, forms of “passive resistance” and “cooperation”, without succeeding in providing an alternative conceptual framework for understanding this foundational experience of modern European societies.

The aim of this international conference is to explore ways to research and conceptualize the social experience of occupation beyond this post-1945 framework, through interdisciplinary discussion between historians, sociologists, and other social scientists working on contemporary European societies, within a comparative conversation including different occupations in all regions of Europe during different conflicts. We aim to shed light on the structural conditions, shifting dynamics, social actors, and orders, as well as lived experiences of wartime occupation as a social phenomenon. We welcome submissions that address the conceptual and methodological challenges of scientific research on past and present situations of wartime occupation.

We define wartime occupations as social situations, where a belligerent exercises authority over the territory and population of a country with which it is actively at war. These situations are also marked by the primacy of military actors and objectives, the presence of violence, a high degree of unsettledness, as well as the war-induced uncertainty over future outcomes.

Among the topics we would offer for consideration are:

• Social actors: how to identify and map the plurality of state and non-state actors involved at different scales from the micro-social to international? State actors include various representatives of at least two states claiming legitimate authority over the territory and the population; these can be local or central actors, present or not on occupied territory, military, police or civilian, with sometimes competing agendas. Non-state actors include civilians with diverse positions relative to state authorities, parastatal actors, militant groups with autonomous agendas, criminal ones... All these actors are forced to redefine their social identities and positions, their interactions, practices, language, values with various resources and constraints. How can we analyze their various degrees of autonomy? How can we understand “occupiers” and “occupied” as new social identities and categories, whose relations are defined by radical power imbalances, which reshape feelings of belonging and collective identities?
• Temporalities and lived experiences: how do the circumstances of invasion or retreat of occupying troops and the duration of occupation shape its experience by civilians? How is the time of everyday life transformed? How does war remain present, how do bombings, military operations and movements shape it? How are the extraordinary temporality of occupation and the ordinariness of everyday life articulated? How are time horizons of action and future expectations redefined? In how far is occupation a transformative experience? In how far are pre-war trajectories predictive or not, what pre-war dispositions and resources are useful or not? Many European regions have known repeated wartime occupations during the 20th and the 21st centuries, and some are occupied and liberated repeatedly during the same conflict: how does past experience shape the one under examination?
• Space: wartime occupation is accompanied by spatial fragmentation and reconfiguration, as pre-war borders take new meaning without disappearing and occupied territory is redefined by its position relative to the front-line. The movements of people and goods are disrupted, as the occupiers restrict and redirect them to serve what they see as their security and economic needs, including through evacuations and deportations. The distance to the front-line, the proximity to or integration in the territory of the occupying state, the natural environment, the communication and transportation infrastructures, rural or urban settings, are some of the many factors that spatially define different regimes and situations of occupation.
• Competing social orders and norms: how do the warring states adapt their legislation to address the situation of occupation? How are jurisdictions redefined? How are the state actors using legislation and regulations, on different levels, to restrict the population’s autonomy, encourage or enforce loyalty, and serve the state and army’s own objectives? How are laws enforced, how is behavior under occupation judged during the war itself? How do people under occupation understand and negotiate the sudden changes in regulations? How are these changes related to the renegotiation of social norms? How are social norms enforced, or not, under uncertainty? How does the competition between irreconcilable political orders under circumstances of uncertainty shape the experience of social order? How is the extraordinariness of the situation used by different state actors to experiment policies? How, why, and when do occupied territories become “laboratories” of new policies and orders?
• Economic dimensions: the destruction of property, the absence of parts of the population, legal uncertainty on property rights, and the value of goods, state policies that aim at exploiting the economic resources of the occupied territory for war while using their redistribution for reward and retaliation, are some of the issues that characterize wartime occupations. How do economic conflicts play out under such situations? How are social and economic hierarchies and networks redefined? How do occupying authorities articulate their aims of economic exploitation and loyalty extraction? How does the population navigate this politicization of economic survival through transformed practices, relations, strategies?
• Wars: How do we conceptualize the multiplicity of violent conflicts on different scales and with various actors and goals that characterize many occupation situations? How do political, social, economic conflicts, rooted or not in pre-war conflicts and political movements, play out under occupation? How to analyze their autonomous dynamics and logics as well as their articulation with each other and with “the” war? How does a renewed and social understanding of occupation help us reconsider the use of concepts such as “civil wars”, “internecine wars”?
• Mass violence, war crimes and crimes against humanity: wartime occupations are associated with widespread violence against civilians. For example, pillage, rape, and violence committed for “security” purposes, including arbitrary detention, kidnapping, torture and collective reprisals, are not only common, but are in various way “crimes of occupation”, violence against civilians directly linked to the specific situation of military occupation. What are those links? How do the dynamics of military occupation produce violent situations? How do occupying powers try to curb or to exploit these? Beyond this “ordinary” violence of occupation, are there specific situations, logics and dynamics that explain how occupations become spaces of mass violence and genocide?

We welcome submissions (max. 700 words) by all social scientists, including historians, on any wartime occupation in 20th and 21st century in Europe. The conference will include a half-day workshop specifically dedicated to an interdisciplinary discussion of sources and methods; submissions should point to these as well.

All applications should be sent by May 3, 2024, to: wartimeoccupations.conference(at)gmail.com.

The language of the conference will be English. Applications can be sent in most European languages, including Ukrainian, and fluency in English is not required to take part, although correct understanding is welcome. Organizers can help participants with weak English skills but strong scientific proposals during the conference.

The conference will take place on 7-8 November 2024 in Paris. The organizers will try to cover all the costs for participants who are not funded by their home institutions. Costs for all Ukrainian participants (currently in Ukraine or displaced abroad) will be entirely covered.

This conference is part of activities conducted by “War and Society in Central and Eastern Europe (20th-21st centuries)” Research Alliance (EURETES, EHESS – MESR) that bring together CERCEC-EHESS, Charles University in Prague and Lviv Center of Urban History. It is supported by the Osteuropa Network of the Max Weber Foundation, the German Historical Institute in Paris and the Marc Bloch Center (Berlin).

Scientific committee:

Xavier Bougarel (EHESS)

Masha Cerovic (CERCEC-EHESS)

Franziska Exeler (Freie Universität Berlin – Cambridge)

Jürgen Finger (Institut historique allemand de Paris)

Laurent Gayer (CERI-Sciences Po Paris)

Ota Konrad (Charles University, Prague)

Lukasz Krzyzanowski (Warsaw University)

Sophie Lambroschini (Centre Marc Bloch)

Anne Le Huérou, (University Paris Nanterre)

Silvia Serrano (Sorbonne Université)

Ioulia Shukan (University Paris Nanterre)

Iuliia Skubytska (Princeton University)

Ismee Tames (NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Utrecht University)

Zur Website des Le CERCEC, Centre d’études russes, caucasiennes, est-européennes et centrasiatiques

Zur Website des DHI Paris

Zur Website des MWN Osteuropa

Students of public relations can apply for an internship with our communications and press team, where they can assist in writing communication materials and be involved in the planning of public events. Students in the fields of public administration or public management from Germany are eligible to apply for an internship in the administration of the GHI. These interns will have the chance to gain experience in different fields, such as finances and auditing, human resources (including related legal issues). Ideally, all candidates should have prior experience in the respective fields.

For the on-site internships, a three-month stay is preferred. Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis. However, for planning purposes we recommend that applicants interested in coming to Washington in 2025 submit their applications by July 31, 2024. Preference is given to applicants who have completed a BA degree or equivalent qualification. Applicants who require a visa must be enrolled at a university at the time of their internship. Candidates who have already completed an internship at the Max Weber Foundation or one of its institutes are not eligible to receive an internship.

German students applying for an internship are strongly advised to familiarize themselves with the American visa requirements beforehand. Information is available on the website of the American Embassy in Berlin. The GHI cooperates with an organization authorized by the State Department to issue the relevant papers to obtain visas. Applicants accepted into the internship program will receive further information on the procedure in their acceptance letters.

Applications should include a cover letter, a CV, a letter of recommendation from a professor or academic advisor, and copies of university degrees/transcripts. Applicants may write in either English or German; we recommend that they use the language in which they are most proficient. Please send applications electronically in one (1) PDF file via email to internships(at)ghi-dc.org. The letter of recommendation should be sent directly by your academic advisor or professor. For further information please contact Markus Borchertmeyer (borchertmeyer(at)ghi-dc.org).

FUNDING

All interns receive a monthly stipend of €520 from the GHI. The institute also covers the cost of applying for the J-1 visa. On-site interns who are registered students at a German university can also apply for an additional grant from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). We also recommend that future interns ask their home institutions for potential internal scholarships as well as Erasmus+ grants. For more information on the DAAD special program "Max Weber Stiftung," please contact Referat 514 (Internationaler Praktikantenaustausch), DAAD Bonn, Tel. +49 (0) 228 882 255, or visit their website at:

Praktika im Ausland 

Kurzstipendien für Praktika

Further Funding opportunities are provided by Erasmus+

Erasmus+

Die Tagung versteht sich als ein Angebot an Nachwuchs­wissenschaftler­innen und Nachwuchs­wissenschaftler, eigene Forschungs­projekte im Kreis von Fach­kolleginnen und Fach­kollegen zu präsentieren und zu diskutieren. Ziel der Tagung ist es, einen intensiven Austausch und eine Vernetzung innerhalb der deutsch­sprachigen Möbel- und Raumkunst­forschung über die Grenzen der einzelnen Universitäten und Fachhochschulen hinaus zu gestalten.

Das Kolloquium richtet sich an Doktoranden (m, w, d), Postdoktoranden (m, w, d), Habilitanden (m, w, d) und allgemein an jüngere Forscher (m, w, d) von Hochschulen und musealen Einrichtungen des deutsch­sprachigen Raums, die sich mit Themen der Möbel- und Raumkunst befassen, wobei keine Beschränkungen bezüglich Epochen, Gattungen, Themengebieten etc. bestehen. Die Teilnehmenden werden gebeten, das eigene Forschungs­projekt im Rahmen eines etwa 20-minütigen Vortrags zu präsentieren. Je nach Stand der eigenen Recherchen sind hierbei sowohl Arbeits­berichte als auch die Vorstellung von Thesen oder Zusammenfassungen des Forschungsbeitrags willkommen.

Unterbringungskosten für zwei Nächte sowie Verpflegung und eine Erstattung der Reisekosten bis zu 150 Euro werden übernommen.

Die Bewerbungsunterlagen müssen einen tabellarischen Lebenslauf (ggf. mit Publikationsverzeichnis), eine knappe Zusammenfassung des Forschungsprojekts sowie ein Motivationsschreiben enthalten. Ein Anspruch auf Zulassung besteht nicht.

Die Bewerbungen sind bis zum 01. Juli 2024 zu richten an:
Dr. Andreas Büttner
Kurator Kunstgewerbe, Gemälde und Skulpturen
Städtisches Museum Braunschweig
Steintorwall 14
38100 Braunschweig
andreas.buettner(at)braunschweig.de

Auskünfte erteilen:

• Dr. Ralf Buchholz (ralf.buchholz(at)hawk.de)
• Dr. Andreas Büttner (andreas.buettner(at)braunschweig.de)
• Dr. Jörg Ebeling (jebeling(at)dfk-paris.org)

Verantwortliche Person am DFK

Dr. Jörg Ebeling

Forschungsleiter / Bibliotheksleiter

Telefon +33 (0)1 42 60 67 66

jebeling(at)dfk-paris.org

Zum dritten Mal wird das internationale Vernetzungstreffen in Form einer zweiteiligen Veranstaltung in Zusammenarbeit mit der Nationalen Autonomen Universität von Mexiko (UNAM), der Maison Universitaire Franco Mexicaine (MUFRAMEX), dem DFK Paris und dem Institut national d’histoire de l’art in Paris durchgeführt. Ziel des Treffens ist es, Studierende und Promovierende frankophoner, deutsch- und spanischsprachiger Universitäten zusammenzubringen und die Grundlagen für Austausch, Diskussion und Zusammenarbeit zu schaffen.

Das Vernetzungstreffen besteht aus zwei Volets und konzentriert sich sowohl auf Fragen der kunsthistorischen Ausbildung wie auch auf die nach der praktischen Anwendung der Kunstgeschichte. Der erste Teil findet vom 28. bis 30. Mai 2024 in Paris statt. Drei Tage Seminar, Besuche von Museen und Institutionen eröffnen den Teilnehmenden die Möglichkeit, Pariser Sammlungen und Archivbestände mit einem Bezug zu Lateinamerika kennenzulernen. Den zweiten Teil bildet die anschließende Teilnahme am Festival im Schloss Fontainebleau. Die Teilnehmer und Teilnehmerinnen können vom 31. Mai bis zum 2. Juni Vorträge, Diskussionsrunden, Filmvorführungen und andere Veranstaltungen besuchen, die das reichhaltige Programm des Festivals anbietet. Ein gemeinsames Seminar zu Methodenfragen vervollständigt das Programm.

Diese Ausschreibung richtet sich an Studierende, die einen Master 2, ein Doktorat oder ein Postdoc absolvieren und Forschung im Bereich der Kunstgeschichte, des Kulturerbes oder der Architektur, der Museumsstudien und der Archäologie betreiben. Bewerbungen müssen bis Sonntag, den 7. April (vor Mitternacht) eingereicht werden. Bedingungen und Details zur Bewerbung finden Sie in der nebenstehenden PDF-Datei. 

Link zum Bewerbungsformular: https://www.festivaldelhistoiredelart.fr/application-form-international-student-sessions-fha24/

Das Stipendium richtet sich an herausragende Wissenschaftler/-innen der Kunstgeschichte aus Frankreich, Deutschland und dem internationalen Ausland, die am Anfang ihrer Karriere stehen (Doktorand/-innen und Postdoktorand/-innen). Ziel der Förderung ist es, wissenschaftliche Arbeiten mit innovativen Forschungsansätzen zu unterstützen, die der Kunstgeschichte neue Perspektiven erschließen. Diese Arbeiten sollen sich mit kunsthistorischen Fragen befassen, die den europäischen und außereuropäischen Künsten zugrunde liegen oder sie miteinander in Verbindung bringen, insbesondere durch vergleichende Ansätze oder solche, die sich auf epistemologische, methodologische oder historiografische Aspekte konzentrieren. Themen zur Enteignung, Plünderung, Aneignung und Provenienz von Kunstwerken können ebenfalls Forschungsgegenstand sein.

Bewerbungen mit einem erforderlichen Aufenthalt in Paris werden bevorzugt behandelt.

Bedingung ist, dass die/der ausgewählte Kandidat/-in während des Förderzeitraums im engen Kontakt und Austausch mit dem DFK Paris und dem INHA steht und sich überwiegend in Paris aufhält.

Die Stipendiat/-innen forschen jeweils sechs Monate am Deutschen Forum für Kunstgeschichte Paris (DFK Paris) ab September 2024 und am Institut national d’histoire de l’art (INHA) ab März 2025. Die ausgewählten Stipendiat/-innen erwartet ein anregendes Arbeitsumfeld, das ihnen auch den Zugang zu den Archiven und den Austausch mit internationalen Expert/-innen erleichtern soll.

Der Umfang des Stipendiums beträgt monatlich 1.750 Euro (zuzüglich eines monatlichen pauschalen Sachkostenzuschusses von 250 Euro sowie ggf. einer Kinderzulage) für die Dauer von 12 Monaten. Die/der ausgewählte Kandidat/-in wird jeweils für sechs Monate am DFK Paris und am INHA als Wissenschaftler/-in gefördert. Das Stipendium beinhaltet ferner die Bereitstellung eines Arbeitsplatzes sowie die Nutzung der infrastrukturellen Ressourcen beider Institute.

Bewerbungen für die Auswahl 2024-2025 müssen auf https://candidature.inha.fr/ bis zum 15. Mai 2024 eingereicht werden.

Nur die auf diesem Wege eingereichten Bewerbungen werden im Auswahlverfahren berücksichtigt. Die Auswahlkommission, bestehend aus Peter Geimer, Julia Drost, Éric de Chassey und Juliette Trey, wird im Juni 2024 zusammentreten.

Zusammensetzung des Bewerbungsdossiers

Das Bewerbungsdossier kann in deutscher, französischer oder englischer Sprache verfasst werden.

- Ein Bewerbungsanschreiben, adressiert an den Direktor des Deutschen Forum für Kunstgeschichte Paris (DFK Paris) und die Interimsdirektorin des Département des études et de la recherche des INHA

- Einen Lebenslauf

- Eine Projektbeschreibung (maximal 3 Seiten) zzgl. einer Bibliographie mit Angaben der zu sichtenden Quellen sowie ein Zeitplan

Die Auswahlkommission tagt einmal jährlich.

Weitere Informationen und Kontakt:

Sekretariat des Département des études et de la recherche

Institut national d’histoire de l’art (INHA)

Tel.: +33 (0)1 47 03 85 81

E-Mail: der-dir@inha.fr

Deutsches Forum für Kunstgeschichte Paris (DFK Paris)

Abteilung Förderprogramme

Tel.: + 33 (0)1 42 60 68 23

E-Mail: stipendien@dfk-paris.org

Am Sitz der Geschäftsstelle in Bonn suchen wir für das Referat „Qualitätssicherung, Öffentlichkeitsarbeit, Förderung“ für Juni bis August 2024 eine*n

Praktikant*in (m/w/d)
für den Bereich Öffentlichkeitsarbeit und Content Management

Das Angebot richtet sich an Studierende ab dem zweiten Bachelor-Semester und ist als Pflichtpraktikum im Rahmen des Studiums sowie als freiwilliges Praktikum möglich.

Zu den Aufgaben des Praktikums gehört u. a. Unterstützung in den Bereichen:

• Online-Redaktion und Content Management
  (Homepage, Social Media und wissenschaftliche Blogs)
• Veranstaltungsmanagement
• Presse- und Öffentlichkeitsarbeit

Ihr Profil:

• Student*in einer geistes- oder sozialwissenschaftlichen Fachrichtung
• Interesse an Forschung und Wissenschaftskommunikation
• Sehr gute Deutschkenntnisse
• Zuverlässige, sorgfältige und strukturierte Arbeitsweise

Wir bieten:

• Eine freundliche und wertschätzende Arbeitsatmosphäre
• Abwechslungsreiche Tätigkeiten in einem interessanten, international geprägten Arbeitsumfeld
• Nach Absprache Möglichkeit zu anteiliger Arbeit im Home-Office

Das Praktikum hat einen Umfang von 30h/Woche und wird mit monatlich 450€ vergütet. Weitere Informationen zu den Grundsätzen für Praktika in der Geschäftsstelle der MWS finden Sie unter www.maxweberstiftung.de/foerderung/praktika.html. 

Wir freuen uns über Bewerbungen mit den üblichen Unterlagen in einem PDF-Dokument ausschließlich per E-Mail bis 15. April 2024 an: Carla Schmidt (schmidt(at)maxweberstiftung.de).

Zur Ausschreibung (PDF)

The German Historical Institute in Washington, DC, (part of the Bonn-based Max Weber Foundation) seeks to fill the following position as soon as possible: Administrative Assistant.

The German Historical Institute (GHI) in Washington, DC, is an internationally recognized center for advanced historical research. It serves as a transatlantic bridge connecting American and European scholars and seeks to make their work accessible to decision-makers in the public and private sectors as well as to a general audience. We offer an interesting, bilingual workplace in an international academic setting.

The Administrative Assistant works closely with the Head of Administration and Administrative Associates to provide support for the institute’s programs, staff, and operations. The successful candidate will handle the following tasks:

Administrative Tasks

• Bookkeeping, accounting, and managing bank accounts
• Human resource management, including coordinating application/hiring processes and organizing and maintaining personnel files
• Administering third party funds and providing administrative support to projects at the institute
• Reviewing monthly property management invoices
• Organizing and maintaining office supplies for general use
• Corresponding with U.S. vendors/service providers and procuring services
• Managing institute inventory
• Providing general administrative support to the team and to institute staff

Qualifications

• Fluency in spoken and written English, plus good knowledge of spoken and written German (language proficiency will be tested during the interview)
• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field OR vocational training (Ausbildung) in administration and/or human resources OR at least three years of professional administrative experience strongly desired
• Strong proficiency in Microsoft Office (Word, Outlook, and Excel)
• Proficiency in ERP software a plus
• Good oral and written intercultural communication skills
• Ability to work both independently and within teams
• Strong organizational and time management skills
• Detail-oriented with the ability to multitask
• Knowledge of German budget and subsidy law desired but not required

The position is offered on a full-time (40 hours/week) basis. A part-time position is possible if preferred. Additionally, the position allows for the option of telework (up to 40%). The GHI offers a competitive salary and a generous benefits package. We are an equal opportunity employer and family-friendly workplace. Applicants who are not U.S. citizens must have a valid work and residence permit to apply. The GHI does not sponsor work visas.

Please submit your application by March 20th, 2024, with a cover letter, CV, and any relevant diplomas/certificates in a single PDF document through our Smartsheet online application portal. Applications will only be accepted through this Smartsheet form. Interviews will be conducted on a rolling basis. For questions about the position, please contact us at verwaltung(at)ghi-dc.org.

Das Deutsche Historische Institut Paris (DHIP) ist ein Forschungsinstitut der öffentlich-rechtlichen Max Weber Stiftung – Deutsche Geisteswissenschaftliche Institute im Ausland (MWS). Wir arbeiten unter den drei Leitbegriffen »Forschen – Vermitteln – Qualifizieren« auf dem Gebiet der französischen, deutsch-französischen und westeuropäischen Geschichte von der Spätantike bis zur Gegenwart und nehmen eine Vermittlerrolle zwischen Deutschland und Frankreich ein. Weitere Arbeitsschwerpunkte sind die Digitalen Geschichtswissenschaften und die Geschichte Afrikas.

Zum 1. Juni 2024 (oder nach Vereinbarung) suchen wir eine Assistenz für die Personalverwaltung (m/w/d) (24h/Woche). Es handelt sich um eine befristete Position (CDD) für eine Dauer von 18 Monaten im Rahmen eines zeitweilig gesteigerten Arbeitsaufkommens für die Prozessoptimierung von Abläufen in der Personalverwaltung.

Die Aufgaben umfassen:

• Unterstützung der Personalverwaltung (Vergütung, Bewerbungsmanagement, Dienstreisen, Abwesenheitsverwaltung),

• Mitarbeit bei der Einführung einer elektronischen Zeiterfassung und Abwesenheitsverwaltung,

• allgemeine administrative Tätigkeiten (Ausstellung von Vermerken, Bescheinigungen und weiteren Dokumenten) sowie Ablage und Schriftgutverwaltung,

• Unterstützung bei der Planung der Raumbelegung und -ausstattung sowie im Bereich Liegenschaftsverwaltung und Sicherheit am Arbeitsplatz.

Wir erwarten:

• einen Bachelorabschluss in Personalmanagement, eine vergleichbare Ausbildung oder gleichwertige Arbeitserfahrungen,

• sehr gute deutsche und französische Sprachkenntnisse,

• eine sorgfältige und genaue Arbeitsweise,

• Serviceorientierung sowie Diskretion beim Umgang mit sensiblen Daten,

• einen routinierten Umgang mit MS‐Office Programmen,

• Freude an der Arbeit in einem internationalen Umfeld,

• Teamgeist, Flexibilität und Einsatzbereitschaft,

• einen selbstständigen Arbeitsstil.

Wir bieten:

• die Mitarbeit in einem dynamischen Team und internationalem Umfeld,

• eine abwechslungsreiche Tätigkeit im Herzen von Paris,

• einen nach französischem Recht befristeten Arbeitsvertrag in Teilzeit (24 Std./Woche) auf Grundlage des Gehaltsschemas der Deutschen Botschaft Paris mit einem Bruttogehalt von mindestens 2.119,54 € mit ortsüblichen Zusatzleistungen des Arbeitgebers: Kranken- und Arbeitsunfähigkeitsversicherung (letztere ab sechs Monaten Betriebszugehörigkeit), Restaurantschecks und zusätzliche freigestellte Arbeitstage. Hinweis: unter Anwendung des deutsch-französischen Doppelbesteuerungsabkommens erfolgt bei nicht-französischer Staatsangehörigkeit die Besteuerung in Deutschland.

Schwerbehinderte Bewerberinnen und Bewerber werden bei gleicher Eignung bevorzugt.

Frauen werden nach Maßgabe des Bundesgleichstellungsgesetzes bei gleicher Qualifikation vorrangig berücksichtigt. Das DHIP versteht sich als familienfreundlicher Arbeitgeber. Auf unserer Website finden Sie Informationen zum Familienservice des Instituts sowie einen Leitfaden zu Mutterschutz, Kinderbetreuung, Elternzeit und Elterngeld in Deutschland und Frankreich, der die Besonderheiten des Auslandsstandortes berücksichtigt. Der Dienstort ist Paris.

Bei Fragen zum Stellenprofil, zur Vergütung, Vereinbarkeit von Familie und Beruf sowie zur Arbeit an einem Auslandsstandort steht Ihnen unsere Verwaltungsleiterin, Sarah Maunz-Parkitny, zur Verfügung (smaunz-parkitny@dhi-paris.fr oder +33 [0] 1 44 54 23 81).

Bewerbungen mit den üblichen Unterlagen (Anschreiben, Lebenslauf, Zeugnisse, falls vorhanden Nachweise über Sprachkenntnisse) richten Sie bitte in elektronischer Form (vollständig und in einer PDF-Datei) bis zum 15.4.2024 an Prof. Dr. Klaus Oschema, bewerbung@dhi-paris.fr.

Die Auswahlgespräche werden voraussichtlich am 29.4.2024 in Paris stattfinden.

» Zur Ausschreibung (pdf)

Das Deutsche Historische Institut Paris (DHIP) ist ein Forschungsinstitut der öffentlich-rechtlichen Max Weber Stiftung – Deutsche Geisteswissenschaftliche Institute im Ausland (MWS). Wir arbeiten unter den drei Leitbegriffen »Forschen – Vermitteln – Qualifizieren« auf dem Gebiet der französischen, deutsch-französischen und westeuropäischen Geschichte von der Spätantike bis zur Gegenwart und nehmen eine Vermittlerrolle zwischen Deutschland und Frankreich ein. Weitere Arbeitsschwerpunkte sind die Digitalen Geschichtswissenschaften und die Geschichte Afrikas.

Zum 1. Juni 2024 (oder nach Vereinbarung) suchen wir eine Direktionsassistenz (m/w/d). Es handelt sich um eine unbefristete Stelle (CDI).

Die Aufgaben umfassen:

• Direktionssekretariat, inkl. Unterstützung der Direktion bei allen administrativen und organisatorischen Belangen, Annahme und Verteilung eingehender Post, Koordination des Institutskalenders sowie des Terminkalenders der Direktion,
• Betreuung der Förderprogramme des Instituts: Fellowships, Stipendien und Praktika (Schriftwechsel, Bescheide, Empfehlungsschreiben),
• allgemeine Verwaltungsarbeiten und Ablage, Erstellung verschiedener Schriftsätze (Berichtswesen zu den Förderprogrammen, Korrespondenz in drei Sprachen), Adressdatenverwaltung und -pflege im CRM-System CAS,
• Koordination des Belegungsplans und Betreuung der Gästezimmer des Hauses.

Wir erwarten:

• abgeschlossenes Bachelorstudium, Berufsausbildung als Bürokauffrau / -mann oder vergleichbare Qualifikation sowie Berufserfahrung im Assistenz- / Sekretariatsbereich im wissenschaftlichen Umfeld,
• sehr gute deutsche und französische Sprachkenntnisse, Englischkenntnisse erwünscht,
• routinierter Umgang mit MS‐Office Programmen, idealerweise Erfahrung mit einem CRM-Programm,
• Serviceorientierung, Teamgeist, Flexibilität und Einsatzbereitschaft,
• sicheres, freundliches und zuvorkommendes Auftreten im Umgang mit Kolleginnen und Kollegen und bei der Aufnahme von Gästen,
• Diskretion beim Umgang mit sensiblen Daten, eine sorgfältige und genaue Arbeitsweise, sowie sehr gutes Organisationsgeschick,
• Fähigkeit zum selbstständigen Arbeiten.

Wir bieten:

• die Mitarbeit in einem dynamischen Team und internationalem Umfeld,
• eine abwechslungsreiche Tätigkeit im Herzen von Paris,
• einen nach französischem Recht unbefristeten Arbeitsvertrag in Vollzeit (37 Std./Woche) auf Grundlage des Gehaltsschemas der Deutschen Botschaft Paris mit einem Bruttogehalt von mindestens 3.476,00 € mit ortsüblichen Zusatzleistungen des Arbeitgebers: Kranken- und Arbeitsunfähigkeitsversicherung (letztere ab sechs Monaten Betriebszugehörigkeit), Restaurantschecks und zusätzliche freigestellte Arbeitstage.

Hinweis: unter Anwendung des deutsch-französischen Doppelbesteuerungsabkommens erfolgt bei nicht-französischer Staatsangehörigkeit die Besteuerung in Deutschland.

Schwerbehinderte Bewerberinnen und Bewerber werden bei gleicher Eignung bevorzugt.

Frauen werden nach Maßgabe des Bundesgleichstellungsgesetzes bei gleicher Qualifikation vorrangig berücksichtigt. Das DHIP versteht sich als familienfreundlicher Arbeitgeber. Auf unserer Website finden Sie Informationen zum Familienservice des Instituts sowie einen Leitfaden zu Mutterschutz, Kinderbetreuung, Elternzeit und Elterngeld in Deutschland und Frankreich, der die Besonderheiten des Auslandsstandortes berücksichtigt. Der Dienstort ist Paris.

Bei Fragen zum Stellenprofil, zur Vergütung, zur Vereinbarkeit von Familie und Beruf sowie zur Arbeit an einem Auslandsstandort steht Ihnen unsere Verwaltungsleiterin, Sarah Maunz-Parkitny, zur Verfügung (smaunz-parkitny@dhi-paris.fr oder +33 [0] 1 44 54 23 81).

Bewerbungen mit den üblichen Unterlagen (Anschreiben, Lebenslauf, Zeugnisse, falls vorhanden Nachweise über Sprachkenntnisse) richten Sie bitte in elektronischer Form (vollständig und in einer PDF-Datei) bis zum 15.4.2024 an Prof. Dr. Klaus Oschema, bewerbung@dhi-paris.fr.

Die Auswahlgespräche werden voraussichtlich am 30.4.2024 in Paris stattfinden.

» Zur Ausschreibung (pdf)

Die MWS sucht für ihre Geschäftsstelle in Bonn-Bad Godesberg zum nächstmöglichen Zeitpunkt

eine/einen Referentin/Referenten für Veranstaltungsmanagement und Wissenschaftskommunikation (w/m/d)

mit 50 % der normalen Arbeitszeit (19,5 Stunden).

Ihre Aufgaben

• Konzeption, Planung und Organisation von Veranstaltungen und Formaten der Wissenschaftskommunikation
• Finden der Themen und Vortragenden, Abstimmung innerhalb der Stiftung u. mit externen Kooperationspartnern
• Vorbereitung und Durchführung einzelner Veranstaltungen und Formate
• Öffentlichkeitsarbeit und Bewerbung der Veranstaltungen inhaltlich und organisatorisch konzipieren und durchführen
• Anteilige Vertretung (20 %) im Team ÖA vorzugsweise im Bereich soziale Medien

Ihr Profil

• Geistes- oder sozialwissenschaftlicher Hochschulabschluss
• Erfahrungen im Bereich Veranstaltungsmanagement
• Erfahrungen und technische Kenntnisse im Bereich Online-Redaktion, Content-Management-Systeme (Typo3, WordPress, Cobra etc.), digitale Tools und soziale Medien
• Überblick über aktuelle inhaltliche und methodische Entwicklungen in der geistes- und sozialwissenschaftlichen Forschung
• Textsicherheit und die Fähigkeit, komplexe wissenschaftliche Themen auf den Punkt zu bringen und für ein außerwissenschaftliches Publikum aufzubereiten
• Teamfähigkeit, hohes Engagement und eigenverantwortliches Arbeiten, zuverlässiges Arbeiten unter Zeitdruck
• Kommunikationsfähigkeit und sicheres Auftreten
• Verhandlungssichere Englischkenntnisse sind wünschenswert

Unser Angebot

Wir bieten eine Bezahlung nach TVöD E 13 sowie die Arbeit in einem sympathischen Team und einem ebenso spannenden wie abwechslungsreichen und anspruchsvollen Umfeld. Wir legen großen Wert auf die Vereinbarkeit von Beruf und Familie. Die berufliche Gleichstellung von Frauen und Männern sowie die Chancengleichheit von Menschen mit Schwerbehinderung sind uns wichtig. Wir wertschätzen Vielfalt und begrüßen daher alle Bewerbungen unabhängig von Nationalität, ethnischer und sozialer Herkunft, Religion und Weltanschauung, Alter sowie sexueller Orientierung und Identität. Es besteht die Möglichkeit zur Arbeit im Homeoffice. Für 2024 ist eine Aufstockung der Stelle auf 70 % möglich. Eine Entfristung des 50-Prozent-Anteils nach zwei Jahren ist vorgesehen.

Für weitere Auskünfte zu inhaltlichen Fragen steht Ihnen Frau Dr. Tina Rudersdorf (rudersdorf@maxweberstiftung.de, Tel.: 0228-3778628) zur Verfügung.

Ihre Bewerbung richten Sie bitte bis zum 2. April 2024 über unser Bewerbungsportal an den Geschäftsführer.

Die Vorstellungsgespräche sind für den 12. April 2024 geplant.

Zum Bewerbungsportal

Zu den Aufgaben gehören insbesondere die Durchführung eigenständiger Forschungsarbeiten, Vorbereitung wissenschaftlicher Publikationen, Organisation wissenschaftlicher Veranstaltungen, die Betreuung von Gastwissenschaftlerinnen und -wissenschaftlern des Instituts sowie die Unterstützung der Institutsbibliothek in fachbezogenen Angelegenheiten. Die geplanten Forschungsarbeiten sollen im Zusammenhang mit den aktuellen Schwerpunkten der Forschung am DHI Warschau stehen, d.h. sie sollen sich Fragestellungen der polnischen und/oder ostmitteleuropäischen Geschichte im transnationalen Kontext widmen. Begrüßt werden interdisziplinäre Ansätze. Weitere Informationen zum aktuellen Forschungsprogramm des DHI Warschau befinden sich unter „Forschungsprogramm“ auf der Webseite des Instituts: www.dhi.waw.pl

Bewerberinnen und Bewerber sollten einschlägig promoviert sein, über internationale Kooperationserfahrungen und gute Sprachkenntnisse (Polnisch, Deutsch, Englisch) verfügen. Von Bewerberinnen und Bewerbern, die unzureichend Polnisch sprechen, wird die Bereitschaft erwartet, die Sprache zu lernen. Dafür wird intensiver Sprachunterricht angeboten. Die ausgeschriebene Stelle ist eine Vollzeitstelle. Wir bieten bei Vorliegen der Voraussetzungen für eine Entsendung eine auf zwei bzw. drei Jahre befristete Einstellung mit der Möglichkeit einer Verlängerung gemäß Wissenschaftszeitvertragsgesetz (WissZeitVG). Die Eingruppierung erfolgt in die Entgeltgruppe E13 TVöD Bund zuzüglich Auslandsvergütung und sonstigen Sozialleistungen im öffentlichen Dienst des Bundes; alternativ eine befristete Einstellung nach polnischem Arbeitsrecht mit einer Vergütung auf Grundlage des Gehaltsschemas der Deutschen Botschaft Warschau. Dienstort ist Warschau.

Die Max Weber Stiftung ist ein familienfreundlicher Arbeitgeber, dem die Vereinbarkeit von Familie und Beruf besonders am Herzen liegt. Sie setzt gleichstellungspolitische Vorgaben um, indem sie versucht, bei Stellenbesetzungen bestehende Ungleichgewichte auszugleichen, und fordert qualifizierte Frauen nachdrücklich auf, sich zu bewerben. Gemäß den gesetzlichen Zielen stellt die Max Weber Stiftung bei gleicher Qualifikation (Eignung, Befähigung und fachliche Leistung) schwerbehinderte Bewerberinnen und Bewerber vor anderen und Frauen vor Männern ein. Wir wertschätzen Vielfalt und begrüßen daher alle Bewerbungen – unabhängig von Nationalität, ethnischer und sozialer Herkunft, Religion/Weltanschauung, Alter sowie sexueller Orientierung und Identität.

Bewerbungen sind bis zum 2. April 2024 unter dem Kennwort Bewerbung_WissMA per Mail in einer PDF-Datei zu richten an das DHI Warschau: bewerbungen(at)dhi.waw.pl. Neben den üblichen Unterlagen (Lebenslauf, Publikationsverzeichnis, Abschlussurkunden usw.) ist eine Projektskizze zu den geplanten Forschungsarbeiten (max. 5 Seiten, inkl. 0,5 Seite Zusammenfassung) einzureichen, wobei deutlich auf den Bezug zu dem Profil und den Projekten am DHI Warschau hinzuweisen ist. Die Auswahlgespräche werden voraussichtlich Ende April stattfinden. Fragen zur Ausschreibung können ebenfalls an die genannte Mailadresse gerichtet werden.

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3–6 September 2024

Venue: Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich

Capitalism, broadly understood as an economic and social order characterized by profit-seeking and market exchange, has become constitutive of modern societies. The expansion of trade between Europe and Asia since early modern times facilitated a boom in capitalist enterprise not only in Northwestern Europe but also in large parts of the world that now became linked to the global economy. The coercive, exploitative practices of colonialism and the expansionist forces of imperialism undergirded this global growth of capitalism.

The history of capitalism and capitalist expansion on the back of European imperialism has long drawn the interest of historians. For example, the colonial capitalism of the cash-crop plantations in the Americas and the parallel growth of the transatlantic slave trade has been much debated for its impact, both on the rise of industrial capitalism in the nineteenth century, and on the current shape of the world. The emergence of world markets under the auspices of industrialization and imperialism went hand in hand with a transformation of economic structures and global labour relations. The British Empire stood at the centre of these fundamental shifts in the world economic order. Global capitalism on the back of empire catapulted Britain into a global economic power, arguably at the cost of its colonies, such as South Asia.

This summer school will engage with the history of capitalism in the British Empire especially in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Our tutors, Professor Maxine Berg (Warwick), Dr Karolina Hutkova (LSE), and Professor Tirthankar Roy (LSE), will discuss key questions regarding the development of capitalism in the British transatlantic economy as well as in the relations between Britain and South Asia, stressing the circulation of resources (capital, knowledge, people, and/or materials) as well as economic, social, and political conditions in these and resulting from those developments. Finally, the course will explore how the history of capitalism in Britain’s imperial past has shaped, and continues to shape, modern Britain and its former colonies.

The summer school is a part of the on-going collaboration between the German Historical Institute London and the Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich. The course convenors are Professor Alexander Engel (LMU Munich) and Dr Indra Sengupta (GHI London).

The course will take place at LMU Munich on 3 - 6 September 2024. It is aimed at advanced BA or MA students of history or other related subjects at all German universities. An interest in the history of the British Empire and the history of capitalism is desirable.

Please note: Selected participants will be expected to attend all the classes. The course language is English and participants will be required to study the mandatory readings (around 15 chapter/article length pieces) to prepare for the classes. The readings will be sent out a few weeks ahead of the course.

The course is open to students from all German universities. However, a separate selection process applies to students from the LMU who should directly contact the convener Professor Engel.

Please apply in writing by Friday 12 April with the following documents:

• A cover letter of 1-2 pages explaining why you wish to take part in the summer school;
• A brief letter of recommendation from your supervisor;
• A list of courses you have attended and exams you have taken

The organisers will bear the cost of accommodation in Munich and sandwich lunch will be provided on the days of the summer school. It may be possible to make a small contribution towards the cost of travel to Munich. Unfortunately, we are unable to cover any other costs.

Please send us your application as a single PDF file and by email only to Dr Indra Sengupta i.sengupta@ghil.ac.uk

Summer School (Download information as PDF file)

Institute of History, Czech Academy of Sciences
Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe, GWZO
German Historical Institute Warsaw
Faculty of Humanities, Charles University
Date: November 13–15, 2024

Workhouse, house of correction, reformatory, forced labour colony, disciplinary labour camp, etc. – these are only a few designations of the disciplinary institutions that proliferated across Eastern, Central, and Western Europe during the late 19th and in the first half of the 20th century. These disciplinary institutions served a dual purpose of confinement as well as correction. Behind their walls or within their compounds, citizens who deviated from the prevailing middle-class norms of “proper work” and “decent behaviour” were confined as well as corrected by making use of their labour. The declared aim of such institutions, whose tradition dates back to the early modern period, was therefore not only to punish individuals whose mobility, livelihood and other types of conduct were criminalised, but also to turn “alcoholics”, “beggars”, “delinquents”, “pimps”, “prostitutes”, and “vagrants”, to name only a few groups who were targeted, into “orderly citizens”.

The majority of existing research has focused on the 18th and 19th centuries and the role of the continental as well as the English workhouse in Western Europe in relation to nascent capitalism. Therefore, shifting the focus on the late 19th and the first half of the 20th century opens up new possibilities for inquiring into the continuities and discontinuities of the practices and functions of previously established or newly created disciplinary institutions that were intended to provide additional punishment while simultaneously correcting the allegedly deviant subjects through labour. In particular, the regions of Central and Eastern Europe underwent significant political, social and economic development during this period. This development included the transition from semi-peripheral regions of empires to nation-states and many turbulent transformations of political regimes, encompassing liberal and popular democracies, authoritarian regimes as well as Nazi and state-socialist dictatorships. The political transformations often went hand in hand with significant economic fluctuations, such as the Great Depression or the two world conflicts. In addition, various social and penal reforms were introduced during this period, which had serious repercussions on the idea of who and how should be punished and/or rehabilitated through work.

In this workshop, we aim to bring together scholars from various fields, mainly experts in the history of social policies, history of convict or forced labour, histories of diverse marginalised or criminalised groups, history of criminology and penal law, and history of prisons and prison reform. Our intention is to explore the locally diverse disciplinary institutions such as continental workhouses, reformatories for young offenders, forced labour camps, etc. from various perspectives. These institutions could be located at the nexus of confinement, labour, and rehabilitation. They were embedded in a wider net of penal, social and economic measures and at the same time debated in expert circles as well as on the pages of the popular press. We also want to overcome the fact that the historiography of these various institutions remains very much focused on Western Europe, captive to national narratives, mostly overlooking institutions designed for women and often fragmented among a variety of research perspectives that overlap with each other only sporadically. Finally, in order to see possible innovations in this research field, we want to discuss the existing concepts (including disciplination, forced labour, and convict labour) that serve to interpret the meaning of these institutions and the methods and sources which could be used in order to reconstruct the everyday life of men and women assigned to these institutions as well as to re-examine the institutions’ role in confining specific groups of inhabitants, namely the Roma and Sinti.

Issues we would like contributors to address in the workshop are:

1. INSTITUTIONS AND ACTORS

• What functions did these disciplinary institutions perform in the broader context of social processes of exclusion and inclusion?
• How did the constitutive tension between the rehabilitation and confinement of inmates affect the position of these institutions within gradually diverging systems of punishment and social welfare?
• Which actors (e.g. different bodies of the state, municipalities, churches, private companies etc.) were involved in different aspects of these institutions and in which ways?

2. IDEAS AND PRACTICES

• How to interpret the relationship between the diverse contemporary discourses of rehabilitation and punishment, and the changing practice of the disciplinary institutions such as continental workhouses, forced labour camps and reformatories?
• What role did the disciplinary institutions play in the discourses and imaginations of social outcasts, especially those who were labelled as “Gypsies”?
• Did these popular as well as expert ideas and discourses shape the practice?

3. INMATES AND STAFF

• Who actually were the people confined in these institutions, in terms of their age, gender, class, professions, ethnicity, nationality, etc.?
• Why were they confined and in what ways were they deemed to need reforming?
• Who was recruited as staff in the disciplinary institutions and how?

4. LABOUR AND ECONOMIC EFFICIENCY

• What kinds of labour were used to correct male and female convicts and what concepts (e.g. forced labour or convict labour) could be used in order to capture the complexities of penal and economic goals?
• How were the inmates’ conditions negotiated in relation to the labour market, wages, etc. in the outside world?

5. EVERYDAY LIFE AND METHODOLOGY

• What were the living conditions and everyday life of the inmates and how did the everyday life of male and female convicts differ?
• How were the social hierarchies and order negotiated by the inmates and the staff?
• What types of sources and methods can be used in order to reconstruct everyday life and to capture the agency of the inmates and how?

6. (DIS-)CONTINUITIES

• How did these disciplinary institutions change over time?
• What role did the agency of inmates play in particular?
• How were they influenced by political development of the state or local administrations?

We especially welcome scholars who deal with these topics in the context of Central and Eastern Europe and/or apply innovative qualitative and/or quantitative methods and approaches.

Our plan is to publish an edited volume.

Workshop language: English.

Organisers:

Pavel Baloun (Institute of History, Czech Academy of Sciences / Faculty of Humanities, Charles University)
Lucie Dušková (Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe, GWZO)
Jaromír Mrňka (German Historical Institute Warsaw)
Klára Pinerová (Institute of History, Czech Academy of Sciences)
Jiří Smlsal (Institute of History, Czech Academy of Sciences)

Deadlines:

• Abstract Submission (max. 300 words with short bio): April 4, 2024
• Communicating Acceptance: April 22, 2024. Selected participants will be invited to submit a paper of 3,000–5,000 words as a basis for the book chapter.
• Paper Submission: September 30, 2024
• Submit Abstracts to prworkshop2024@hiu.cas.cz

Venue: Prague

Keynote Speaker: Sigrid Wadauer (University of Vienna)

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• German and European history
• The history of German-American relations
• The role of Germany and the USA in international relations
• North American history and Pan American, including Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean (European doctoral and postdoctoral scholars only)

The proposed research projects should make use of historical methods and engage with the relevant historiography. We especially invite applications from doctoral students and postdoctoral scholars who currently have no funding from their home institutions. The fellowships are usually granted for periods of one to four months but, in exceptional cases and depending on the availability of funds, they can be extended by one month.

The GHI will not provide funding for preliminary research, manuscript composition, or the revision of manuscripts. It will give clear priority to those postdoc projects that are designed for the "second book." The fellowship is open to both doctoral and postdoctoral scholars based in North America and Europe. The monthly stipend is € 2,000 for doctoral students and € 3,400 for postdoctoral scholars. In addition, fellowship recipients based in Europe will receive reimbursement for their round-trip airfare to the U.S. 

The GHI has two deadlines each year for the fellowships: April 1 and October 1. Questions about applying or for the fellowship program in general should be directed to fellowships(at)ghi-dc.org.

Eligibility Requirements

• Applicants should be based at (or recent graduates of) a North American or European university or research institute.
• For doctoral students applying, ABD status is required before starting the fellowship.
• For postdoctoral scholars applying, the preference is for projects that are designed for the "second book" (Habilitation or pre-tenure equivalent).
• The proposed project should require primary research that is principally located in North America.

APPLY

Apply Online Here

To apply please send the following materials using the online application form (as a pdf) by April 1, 2024.

1. A brief cover letter

2. Curriculum vitae

3. A copy of your most recent diploma or transcripts

4. Project description (no more than 2,000 words)

5. Research schedule for the fellowship

6. At least one letter of reference (sent separately to fellowships(at)ghi-dc.org)

Please combine all of your application materials except for the application form into a single PDF and include a word count at the end of your project description. Applicants may write in either English or German; we recommend that they use the language in which they are most proficient. Applicants will be notified about the outcome approximately two months after the deadline.

Das DHI Rom ist eine Einrichtung der in Bonn ansässigen Max Weber Stiftung. Es widmet sich der epochenübergreifenden, interdisziplinären Erforschung der italienischen und deutschen Geschichte und Musikgeschichte in ihren europäischen und globalen Bezügen vom Mittelalter bis heute. Dabei schöpft es aus den einzigartigen Ressourcen, die Italien und insbesondere Rom als Wissenschaftsstandort bieten. Im Mittelpunkt stehen politische, wirtschaftliche und kulturelle Aspekte sowie die Vermittlung zwischen beiden Wissenschaftskulturen.

Die Zahl der Teilnehmer/-innen ist begrenzt. Erwartet wird die Übernahme eines Referates, dessen Thema bei Zusagebescheid vom DHI vorgeschlagen wird. Das Deutsche Historische Institut übernimmt die Kosten der Unterbringung in einem Doppelzimmer und gibt einen pauschalen Unkostenbeitrag von 100 €.

Weitere Informationen zu den einzureichenden Bewerbungsunterlagen können Punkt IV der Stipendienordnung entnommen werden.

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The prize-winning manuscript will and must be published in the series Transatlantic Historical Studies (THS), which the GHI has published in collaboration with the Franz Steiner Verlag since 1992. The prize will not be awarded to a manuscript that is already under contract with a publisher or is set to appear in another book series. The winning manuscript will be professionally edited, with the GHI assuming the costs of publication at the Gold Open Access level. This means that the book will immediately be available for free download upon publication.

Recently completed book manuscripts in German and English at the doctoral or higher level are eligible for consideration. The prize committee will make a decision on the basis of reviews by American and German scholars. The prize will be presented at the annual meeting of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Amerikastudien/German Association for American Studies (DGfA) in June 2025.

To have your manuscript considered for the Franz Steiner Prize, please submit your manuscript, a one-page abstract, your CV, and an evaluation of your manuscript, for example, by your doctoral adviser, via our online portal.

For the June 2025 award, the deadline for submissions is September 15, 2024. Questions may be directed to the THS series manager Casey Sutcliffe: sutcliffe(at)ghi-dc.org.

This fellowship aims to connect scholars from Europe to digital history in the United States. The fellowship is intended to support a junior scholar working in the field of digital history or a junior scholar with less experience in digital history but interested in learning new research methods. We welcome applications from scholars who are seeking seed-funding in order to develop an innovative idea into a new project and/or funding proposal as well as from scholars who wish to pursue fully-fledged research projects.

The fellowship provides a unique opportunity for the recipient to work on his or her research project at the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media (RRCHNM) at George Mason University (GMU), one of the most established centers for digital history in the United States with strengths in K-12 educational materials for history, historical podcasting, and data-driven histories. The fellow will be in residence for one year. While at the Center, the fellow will also have the opportunity to consult with the RRCHNM's faculty and staff in order to develop his or her project, join teams working on projects in development at RRCHNM, and to sit in on graduate digital history classes at GMU. 

The fellow is also expected to work with the GHI on a regular basis. She/he will participate in the Institute's scholarly activities and its digital projects. Moreover, the fellow will have the opportunity to connect with other North American centers for digital history or digital humanities and to participate in local digital history initiatives in the Washington, DC region. Depending on funding and approval, the fellow might also have the chance, after completing the fellowship, to be participate in the annual GHI Conference on Digital Humanities and Digital History, which is jointly convened with the Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C²DH).

Starting September 1, 2024, the successful applicant will be in residence at the RRCHNM and will also participate in GHI activities, events, and digital projects. Funding will be provided for a 12-month stay for postdoctoral scholars as well as advanced doctoral students, who are currently affiliated with a European research institution. The monthly stipend will be €3,400 for postdoctoral scholars or €2,400 for doctoral students. The fellow will also receive reimbursement for his or her round-trip economy airfare to the U.S. and a grant for travel to other North American institutions.

For more information, please contact: fellowships(at)ghi-dc.org at the GHI or Dr. Lincoln Mullen lmullen(at)gmu.edu at the RRCHNM.

Application Portal

The deadline for applications is February 4, 2024 March 4, 2024 (deadline extended). To apply, please send a cover letter, a CV, a copy of the certificate of your most recently earned degree, the names and contact details of two referees, and a research project proposal (5 pages or 2,000 words max.). The proposal should outline a research question, the main sources to be used, and ideas about what digital tools and methods could be used to analyze those sources. We can accept applications in electronic form only. Documents should be sent as a single PDF file.

Entanglements are the order of the day. In the last two decades or so, the notion of entanglement has not only been very popular with historians (histoire croisée, Verflechtungsgeschichte), but also on fields such as comparative literature, cultural anthropology, archeology, and some social sciences. The concept of entanglement enables researchers to avoid dealing with clearly (pre-)defined social or political entities. It has awarded researchers the opportunity to attain a freely chosen vantage point with regard to both their evidence and concepts. Finally, it has proved especially suitable for the analysis of social, intellectual and political agency and interdependencies because of the concept’s capacity to break down asymetries, dilute binaries and highlight questions of process (how?) over quiddity (what?) and cause (why?).

The conference on ‘Harmful Entanglements’ thus addresses a phenomenon caused not so much by a principal methodological flaw in the concept of entanglement. Rather, it aims to answer to the unacknowledged conditions of the concept’s ubiquity, or, with other words, by its own ‘entanglement’ in a particular political context. Arguably, the study of and the various approaches to entanglements are products of an era of run-away globalisation and the heuristic possibilities it has enabled/unleashed. Scholars also began to ask questions that, to a degree, mirror the concerns and expectations of this kind of neo-liberal instability and acceleration. While many studies of entanglement were fed by general optimism in their transformative power, significant research has also been conducted on problems created by entanglement that encompasses topics such as environmental history, international law and diplomacy, (post-) colonialism, and the position of racist and fascist cultural production in the history of modernity or the project of modernism.

By and large, however, a silent assumption has been dominant: entanglement has come to be considered a phenomenon that obeys a logic of accretion. Entanglement by default seems not to lead to disentanglement but to a new level of tighter entanglement. The last few years with their crises of contagion, war, and economic rifts and collapses may offer a good occasion to question this assumption. It seems to be time to look at those who in the past or today reject to be entangled and at those etanglements that apparently proved detrimental. We aim to ask questions such as: What kind of entanglements have been regarded as sufficiently “bad” (harmful, exploitative, morally or legally unjustifiable, politivcally flawed, economically costly and so on) to provoke attempts at disentanglement? As dependencies (they may be understood as mutual as ever) involve power inequalities, the question of agency in disentanglements becomes crucial: What regimes of power trigger decolonialisation and neo-colonialisation processes? Do harmful entanglements lead to cultures of the vernacular, the backwater, the obscure – or at least to a longing for them? Do everincreasing entanglements continuously diminish agency and lead to an animosity against connectedness (as is observable in the present conjuncture of failing optimism in globalization)? Which actors are prone to fear or reject entanglements as principally dangerous or disastrous? When and why do attempts at disentanglement fail?

This year's Max Weber Foundation Conference is already the eighth such meeting organised by the Max Weber Foundation for German Humanities Institutes Abroad. The previous conferences of this format took place at the German Historical Institutes in Paris, Warsaw, Moscow, Washington, Kairo, Rome, and Tokyo. The Foundation Conference format takes up research topics from the institutes of the Max Weber Foundation and discusses them in an internationally comparative, trans- and interdisciplinary manner. The Foundation Conferences involve all of the Foundation's institutes and their partners.

The conference will take place in connection with the opening of the new building of the Orient-Institut Istanbul in the centre of Istanbul, in Galip Dede Caddesi 65, close to the Galata Tower. Keynotes will be delivered by Prof. em. Dr. Monica Juneja (Heidelberg University) and Prof. Dr. Eugene Rogan (Oxford University).

We invite papers that engage with these or related problems in the past or present and from a variety of disciplinary perspectives. Funding (travel-expenses, board and lodging) are available for participants not affiliated with the Max Weber Foundation.

The language of the conference is English. A volume of contributions will be published.

Please apply with an abstract of two pages and a cv to https://www.oiist.org/cfc/.

Deadline for applications is Sunday February 25th.

The GHI’s fellowship program promotes cutting-edge research in history and related disciplines and international exchange of scholars. For this purpose, the GHI and IES invite two postdoctoral scholars, one from a German and one from a North American university, to collaborate as a binational research tandem during a 24-month fellowship. The GHI's Pacific Office research programs center on histories of knowledge and migration in a broadly comparative perspective, addressing the experiences of many different migrant groups, home and transit lands, and receiving societies. Moreover, they widen the geographical focus from European history to include Latin American and Pacific histories of migrant knowledge.

The visiting tandem program is designed for postdoctoral historians with a strong interest in the history of knowledge and migration and an outstanding academic record. For applicants based in Germany, a good working knowledge of English is essential. Applicants may apply individually and be matched by the GHI or apply together with their potential tandem partner. Preference will also be given to candidates doing original research for a new book project.

The visiting fellow tandem program at the GHI's Pacific Office presents an excellent opportunity for scholars to develop their expertise by collaborating closely, to work with additional resources and to make connections with others in their fields.  The successful applicants will be in residence at the GHI's Pacific Office for a 24-month fellowship, starting in September 2024. They will be expected to conduct their research and fully participate in the academic life at the GHI's Pacific Office. Further, in collaboration with the staff at the GHI's Pacific Office, they will organize a workshop at an institution of higher education at the North American West Coast of their choice in their field of expertise. Fellows will have access to the UC Berkeley academic and social facilities (library, databases, email address, office space at the IES, etc.) and are offered the opportunity to make use of further resources in the greater Bay Area–including the Magnes Collection, the Hoover Institution Library and Archives in Stanford or the National Archives/ Pacific Region in San Bruno–while pursuing their research agendas.

A member institution of the Max Weber Foundation, the German Historical Institute Washington is a distinguished independent research institute, conducting inter- and transdisciplinary research with a transatlantic focus. The GHI's Pacific Office is located at UC Berkeley’s Institute of European Studies. It organizes a series of programs and scholarly events aimed at facilitating cooperation and dialogue among researchers in the humanities and social sciences based in North America and Germany, in Latin America and the Pacific world.

Funding will be provided for a 24-month stay at the GHI's Pacific Office/ UC Berkeley. The monthly stipend will be $5562 per month. In addition, fellowship recipients will receive reimbursement for their round-trip economy airfare. The GHI regrets that it is unable to provide accommodation for its fellows.

If you have questions concerning the fellowship, please contact Isabel Richter (richter(at)ghi-dc.org).

Eligibility Requirements

• Applicants must have completed a PhD before the start date of the fellowship

• Prospective fellows should be currently or recently affiliated with a North American or European research institution or university at the time of their application 

• Applicants should be able to take leave for the duration of the program to be in residence in Berkeley, CA for the fellowship

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Apply online

To apply please fill out the online application form by January 15, 2024 January 31, 2024 (deadline extended). Please include the following materials in your application (uploaded to the online portals as one pdf):

1. a cover letter

2. a CV

3. a copy of the certificate of your most recently achieved qualification or transcripts

4. a research project proposal (2,000 words max)

5. a workshop proposal which includes the intended workshop theme and scope as well as the intended host institution (1,000 words max)

Please send two letters of reference to fellowships(at)ghi-dc.org.

While applicants may write in either English or German, we recommend that they use the language in which they are most proficient. We can accept applications in electronic form only.

vergibt jedes Jahr Stipendien zur Förderung von Forschungsaufenthalten von Nachwuchswissenschaftler/-innen in Italien.

Für das zweite Halbjahr 2024 (Juli bis Dezember) bieten wir mehrere

Reisestipendien

an.

Das Reisestipendium ermöglicht Studien in Archiven und Bibliotheken, die für Qualifikationsarbeiten (Doktorarbeiten oder Habilitationsschriften) und für wissenschaftliche Arbeiten mit Italienbezug notwendig sind. Die maximale Förderdauer beträgt drei Monate.

Voraussetzungen:

Abgeschlossenes Studium (Master, Magister, Staatsexamen, Diplom, ggf. Promotion) der Geschichte oder Musikwissenschaften.

Das DHI Rom ist eine Einrichtung der in Bonn ansässigen Max Weber Stiftung – Deutsche Geisteswissenschaftliche Institute im Ausland. Es widmet sich der epochenübergreifenden, interdisziplinären Erforschung der italienischen und deutschen Geschichte und Musikgeschichte in ihren europäischen und globalen Bezügen vom Mittelalter bis heute. Dabei schöpft es aus den einzigartigen Ressourcen, die Italien und insbesondere Rom als Wissenschaftsstandort bieten. Im Mittelpunkt stehen politische, wirtschaftliche und kulturelle Aspekte sowie die Vermittlung zwischen beiden Wissenschaftskulturen.

Weitere Informationen zu den Modalitäten eines Reisestipendiums und den einzureichenden Bewerbungsunterlagen können der Stipendienordnung entnommen werden.

Bewerbungen werden bis zum 3.3.2024 ausschließlich über das Bewerbungsportal entgegengenommen.

vergibt jedes Jahr Stipendien zur Förderung von Forschungsaufenthalten von Nachwuchswissenschaftler/-innen in Italien.

Für das zweite Halbjahr 2024 (Juli bis Dezember) bieten wir mehrere

Forschungsstipendien

an.

Das DHI Rom ist eine Einrichtung der in Bonn ansässigen Max Weber Stiftung – Deutsche Geisteswissenschaftliche Institute im Ausland. Es widmet sich der epochenübergreifenden, interdisziplinären Erforschung der italienischen und deutschen Geschichte und Musikgeschichte in ihren europäischen und globalen Bezügen vom Mittelalter bis heute. Dabei schöpft es aus den einzigartigen Ressourcen, die Italien und insbesondere Rom als Wissenschaftsstandort bieten. Im Mittelpunkt stehen politische, wirtschaftliche und kulturelle Aspekte sowie die Vermittlung zwischen beiden Wissenschaftskulturen.

Voraussetzungen:

Abgeschlossenes Studium (Master, Magister, Staatsexamen, Diplom, ggf. Promotion) der Geschichte.

Weitere Informationen zu den Modalitäten eines Stipendiums und den einzureichenden Bewerbungsunterlagen können der Stipendienordnung entnommen werden.

Bewerbungen werden bis einschließlich 3.3.2024 über das Bewerbungsportal entgegengenommen.

vergibt jedes Jahr Stipendien zur Förderung von Forschungsaufenthalten von Nachwuchswissenschaftler/-innen in Italien.

Für das zweite Halbjahr 2024 (Juli bis Dezember) bieten wir mehrere

Stipendien zur Stellung eines Antrages auf Drittmittelförderung

an.

Anspruchsvolle und innovative Forschungsprojekte, die am DHI Rom angebunden werden sollen, können zielgerichtet gefördert werden, um Antragsreife für eine Drittmittelfinanzierung zu erlangen. Die maximale Förderdauer beträgt sechs Monate.

Voraussetzungen:

Abgeschlossenes Studium (Master, Magister, Staatsexamen, Diplom, ggf. Promotion) der Geschichte oder der Musikwissenschaften.

Das DHI Rom ist eine Einrichtung der in Bonn ansässigen Max Weber Stiftung – Deutsche Geisteswissenschaftliche Institute im Ausland. Es widmet sich der epochenübergreifenden, interdisziplinären Erforschung der italienischen und deutschen Geschichte und Musikgeschichte in ihren europäischen und globalen Bezügen vom Mittelalter bis heute. Dabei schöpft es aus den einzigartigen Ressourcen, die Italien und insbesondere Rom als Wissenschaftsstandort bieten. Im Mittelpunkt stehen politische, wirtschaftliche und kulturelle Aspekte sowie die Vermittlung zwischen beiden Wissenschaftskulturen.

Weitere Informationen zu den Modalitäten eines Stipendiums und den einzureichenden Bewerbungsunterlagen können der Stipendienordnung entnommen werden.

Bewerbungen werden bis zum 3.3.2024 ausschließlich über das Bewerbungsportal entgegengenommen