Deadline: April 6, 2012. Application information for 2013-2014 will be posted as it becomes available.

The Faculty of Arts, Celtic Studies and Philosophy and An Foras Feasa Research Institute (NUI Maynooth) has an annual call for its Visiting Fellowship Scheme in the Humanities at NUI Maynooth, Co. Kildare, Ireland. The duration of the visiting fellowship is envisaged as ordinarily between one and six months; applications for a shorter or longer duration will be considered.  Fellows will receive an office and office facilities from An Foras Feasa in its state-of-the art research space, along with full library access, computer facilities and participation in its dynamic research community. Fellows will be asked to provide one seminar to postgraduate students in the relevant discipline, and a guest lecture to Faculty and An Foras Feasa members. A limited number of travel stipends of €500 will be available; preference will be given to applicants with limited institutional funding. Maynooth is located 15 miles from Dublin city, with regular train and bus services. For more information, see http://www.forasfeasa.ie Please send any queries to foras.feasa@nuim.ie.

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The Center for 21st Century Studies (C21) at the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee invites applications for its Provost Postdoctoral Fellowship, to be held during the 2012-13 academic year. The Center leads the way in imagining, defining, and creating the burgeoning field of 21st century studies, focusing on the intersection of the humanities, arts, and sciences (social and natural) with issues of compelling concern. Applicants must have received their doctorates within five academic years previous to the year of award. The Provost fellowship is unavailable to UW-Milwaukee and UW System faculty. The fellowship is awarded to support interdisciplinary research projects in the humanities, which include, but are not limited to, philosophy, history, literature, religious studies, and art history. Proposals employing humanistic approaches from the social and natural sciences and the arts are also welcome. Applicants should be working on topics related to the 2012-13 theme “What should 21st Century Studies do?” For complete program and application information visit: www.c21.uwm.edu.

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The University of Manitoba Institute for the Humanities has an opening for a (non-stipendiary) Research Affiliate in the 2012-2013 academic year. Applications are welcome from postdoctoral fellows, independent scholars, doctoral candidates, and individuals in full-time university appointments on sabbatical leave. Applicants must have a clearly defined project in some field of humanities scholarship. Interdisciplinary projects are particularly welcome. There is no stipend, but a private office, computer, telephone, library privileges, university affiliation, and some secretarial assistance will be provided. Affiliates will be expected to participate in Institute activities, use their offices on a regular basis, and deliver a public presentation on their research. The tenure of the affiliateships is normally twelve months (July 1- June 31), however applications for six months will be considered.
The deadline for applications is April 30th, 2012. For details and application guidelines, please visit http://umanitoba.ca/faculties/arts/departments/humanities.

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The Leslie Humanities Center at Dartmouth College announces a seven-week interdisciplinary Institute at Dartmouth titled “Towards a Global History of Sexual Science, 1880-1950″ to be held between July 1 and August 17, 2013. The Institute led by Douglas Haynes (History) and Veronika Fuechtner (German Studies) will examine the transnational history of sexological ideas and practices as they circulated between Europe/North America and Asia, Africa and Latin America. Over the seven weeks of the seminar, participants will address such issues as the efforts by Western sexologists to disseminate their views in non-European regions; the emergence of local advocacy of sexual science; the role of sexual science in constituting “modern” sexualities; the encounter between indigenous conceptions of sexuality and sexological ideas; the transformation of sexology in Asian/African/Latin American contexts; the connection between sexology and birth control outside of Europe/North America; Orientalism and sexology; the connection between sexology and eugenics in Asian/African/Latin American contexts; sexology, nationalism and anti-colonialism; Orientalism and sexology; as well as other relevant topics. The majority of participants will remain in residence over the summer and will participate in a twice-weekly seminar and related events; scholars in residence will receive a summer stipend (see below). A smaller set of outside scholars will give papers during individual sessions of the seminar; their expenses and a honorarium will be paid. The goal of the Institute will be to promote exchanges between scholars working on different regions of the world and in different disciplines as well as to produce an edited volume. The Institute is open to many disciplines, including literature and culture, religion, and other humanities as well as historians, historians of science, and anthropologists.

Fellows are expected to be in residence between July 1 and August 17, 2013 and to present their work in the Institute sessions. Resident fellows will be funded according to rank (with a minimum of $6,500 for graduate students and a maximum of $13,000 for full professors). Scholars, who are interested in presenting their work in an Institute session, but can only commit to a brief visit to Hanover, are also encouraged to apply indicating their availability.

Please send inquiries and complete applications including a two-page project proposal with bibliography, a one-page statement on your research interest and background as it relates to the Institute theme, and a c.v. (Graduate students should also provide two letters of reference) by April 30th, 2012 to Humanities.Institute@dartmouth.edu. Fellows will be notified by June 30th, 2012, leaving time for those presenting papers to complete research and work on their drafts before the Institute begins.

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