The Humanities Research Center at Rice University is now accepting applications for semester-long visiting professorships during the 2011-12 academic year. Fellowships are awarded to support interdisciplinary research in the humanities. Fellows teach one humanities course and actively participate in the intellectual life of the Center. Fellows receive a semester salary reflective of their rank (at least $40K) and a research/relocation allowance. Applicants should describe how their research project would contribute to one of the Center’s interdisciplinary workshops (see www.hrc.rice.edu/workshops.aspx) or other Rice humanities initiative. Applicants should describe how their research project would contribute to one of the Center’s interdisciplinary workshops or write to hrc@rice.edu. Applicants must be three or more years beyond receipt of the PhD and hold a tenured or tenure-track position in a humanities-related field. International applications are welcome. For complete information visit www.hrc.rice.edu/EFFcall.aspx or write to melba@rice.edu.

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In 2011-12, the Pembroke Center is awarding residential postdoctoral fellowships to scholars from any field whose research relates to the theme of “The Question of Consent.” Fellows are required to participate in a weekly research seminar and teach one undergraduate course. Candidates are selected on the basis of their scholarly potential and the relevance of their work to the research theme. Recipients must have a Ph.D. and may not hold a tenured position. Brown University is an EEO/AA employer. The Center strongly encourages underrepresented minority scholars to apply. The term of appointment is July 1, 2011 – June 30, 2012. The stipend is $50,000, plus a supplement for health insurance, unless otherwise covered. For complete information and application forms see www.pembrokecenter.org, or contact Donna_Goodnow@Brown.edu. The deadline for applications is December 10, 2010. Selections will be announced in March, 2011.

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The American Academy of Arts & Sciences, an international learned society located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, invites applications for its 2011-2012 scholar-in-residence program. Preference will be given to untenured junior faculty, but qualified post-doctoral scholars are also urged to apply. The Academy seeks proposals that relate to its research areas: Science & Global Security, Social Policy & American Institutions, Humanities & Culture, and Education. Projects that address American cultural, social, or political issues from the founding period to the present are welcome, as are studies that examine developments in public policy. Candidates should consider the relationship of their work to archival, library, and other intellectual resources in the Boston area. In addition to conducting individual research, Visiting Scholars are expected to participate in conferences, seminars, and events at the Academy. The stipend is $40,000 for post-doctoral scholars; $60,000 for junior faculty (not to exceed one half of salary). The postmark deadline for applications is 15 October, 2011. For further information, contact the Visiting Scholars Program, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 136 Irving Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 (617-576-5002; fax 617-576-5050; vsp@amacad.org). Complete application information is available on the Academy’s website.

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Established in 2007, centerNet is an international network of digital humanities centers formed for cooperative and collaborative action that benefits the digital humanities and allied fields in general, and has special resources in the domain of cyberinfrastructure to offer humanities centers in particular. This initiative recognizes a strong connection that follows from CHCI’s commitment to innovative research and from centerNet’s linkage of new technologies with work in the humanities. Under the terms of the agreement, the two organizations that represent interdisciplinary humanities centers and digital humanities centers will partner to explore matters of mutual interest, including:

Digital Disciplines: how digital practices might or might not become disciplinary in themselves and/or reshape humanities disciplines.

Digital Publics: how digital scholarship engages groups of scholars within universities and colleges, between universities and colleges, and with publics beyond academia.

Questions about Digital Disciplines that will guide our initiative include:

What is the idea of the digital? What is the utility of the notion of “digital humanities”?

What is the relation between digital practices and disciplinary expertise?

How should digital practices be incorporated into the disciplinary structures of the 21st-century university?

To what extent should digital techniques and methods be granted autonomous disciplinary status in the coming university?

To what extent should we think of their impact as distributed in existing (or emergent) disciplines, i.e., disciplines otherwise constituted.

Alternatively, how are digital practices affecting research practices in the humanities and the arts? How are “traditional” disciplines and fields challenged to renew themselves?

How are newer disciplines and fields shaped and enabled? How have the relations between disciplines been transformed?

In relation to Digital Publics, there is a second set of questions:

How can digital technologies facilitate a broader engagement with a wide range of publics?

What are the implications for universities and colleges of the “democratization of knowledge” presented by the new digital media?

How do new-media artistic practices as well as new work in the humanities deploying digital technologies affect the question of what counts as knowledge and what counts as public?

And finally, the largest question: what sort of humanities will be accessible to the next generation?

The two affiliated organizations will pursue these questions with a five-year plan to support a number ofactivities:

Organizing shared events at our respective conferences

Developing proposals to funding agencies to support research and initiatives across centers from both organizations

Developing opportunities for joint inquiry into questions across the humanities, arts, and digital Technologies

Engaging discussions about how structures of the academy and disciplines are adapting appropriately to digital culture and technologies

Developing training in digital practice across centers as a way to build capacity.

The affiliation of CHCI and centerNet was developed at a series of three meetings sponsored by the Scholarly Communication Institute (SCI) in 2008-9. The SCI provides opportunities for leaders in scholarly disciplines, academic libraries, advanced technologies, and higher education administration to study, develop, and implement creative and innovative strategies to advance scholarly communication in the context of the ongoing digital revolution. Generously funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, SCI events are hosted annually by the University of Virginia Library.

The John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress is accepting applications for Kluge Fellowships that offer post-doctoral scholars an opportunity to conduct humanistic and social-science research in the Library’s large and varied collections. The fellowships are awarded for periods of up to 11 months at a stipend of $4,200 per month. The fellowships are open to scholars worldwide with a PhD or other terminal advanced degree conferred within seven years of the July 15 deadline. The Kluge Center encourages research that makes use of the Library’s collections. Interdisciplinary, cross-cultural or multilingual research is particularly welcome. Among the collections available to researchers are the world’s largest law library and outstanding multilingual collections of books and periodicals. Deep special collections of manuscripts, maps, music, films, recorded sound, prints and photographs are also available. Further information about the Library’s collections can be found at www.loc.gov/rr/ . Applications must be postmarked by Thursday, July 15, 2010. For more information and an application form, visit www.loc.gov/kluge/.

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The European Institutes for Advanced Study (EURIAS) Fellowship Programme is an international researcher mobility programme offering 33 fellowships per year. It proposes 10-month residencies in one of the 14 participating Institutes: Berlin, Bologna, Brussels, Bucharest, Budapest, Cambridge, Helsinki, Jerusalem, Lyons, Nantes, Paris, Uppsala, Vienna, Wassenaar. The Programme builds on the strong reputation of the Institutes for Advanced Study for promoting the concentrated, self-directed work of excellent researchers within the stimulating environment of a multi-disciplinary and international group of fellows. EURIAS Fellowships are mainly offered in the fields of the humanities and social sciences but may also be granted to scholars in natural and exact sciences, if their proposed research project does not require laboratory facilities. The diversity of the 14 participating IAS organizations, which have agreed on a common selection procedure, offers a wide range of possible research contexts in Europe for worldwide scholars. Applicants select up to three IAS outside their country of nationality or residence as possible host institutions.

The Programme welcomes applications worldwide from promising scholars at an early stage of their careers as well as from established senior researchers. During their fellowship, EURIAS fellows benefit from the high-quality research environment and working conditions provided by the host Institute. All IAS have agreed on common standards, including the provision of a living allowance (in the range of €26,000 for a junior fellow and €38,000 for a senior fellow), accommodation (or a mobility allowance), a research budget, plus coverage of travel expenses. For complete information and online application materials, visit www.eurias-fp.eu. For questions and more information, write to mylene.trouve@rfiea.fr.

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With the support of a donator within the Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft, the Centre for Advanced Study Sofia (CAS Sofia) announces a Call for Applications for its 2011/2012 In-Residence Advanced Academia Fellowships in the fields of the humanities and the social sciences. CAS Sofia is an independent Institute with international and multidisciplinary profile. Located in Sofia, Bulgaria, it promotes high-level scholarship in the social sciences and the humanities. In addition to supporting focus-group research, CAS Sofia invites outstanding scholars to pursue their individual research projects during in-residence periods of up to five months. The invited Fellows participate in the intellectual life and the scholarly community of the Centre (Bulgarian and foreign fellows) while working on projects of their own choice. Fellows receive adequate material and intellectual support and can profit from the Centre’s wide international networks, international seminar- and guest-lecturer programme. CAS Sofia assists Fellows in all practical matters concerning travel, residence and research in Sofia. For the academic year 2011/2012 CAS Sofia provides in-residence fellowships of two- to five- month duration to post-doctoral non-Bulgarian researchers. Junior as well as Senior scholars are invited to apply.

The selected Fellows are entitled to a monthly stipend of €700 (liable to 10% income tax) to cover living expenses related to the stay in Sofia, as well as accommodation in Sofia, comprising living quarters and working space. The Fellows will also have free access to the CAS library and electronic resources/databases. The fellowships also provide for a Travel allowance €400, and a research fund of €100. Candidates must indicate the preferred fellowship duration and its starting date within the following periods: 1 March 2011 – 31 July 2011, or 1 October 2011 – 29 February 2012. The selected Fellows will take part in the regular Fellow seminars and the other scientific events organized by the Centre (workshops, conferences, lectures, etc.) and are invited to present and discuss their project in lectures or seminars. The results of their work shall be summarized in a paper (in English), to be published in the electronic CAS Working Paper Series.

Candidates should: be non-Bulgarian citizens; ave completed a PhD in the fields of the humanities and social sciences; posess international research experience (participation in projects and refereed conferences) and publications in peer-reviewed academic editions are strong advantages. The application deadline is November 1, 2010. For complete information on the program and application materials, please visit http://www.cas.bg/en/news/advanced-academia-fellowship-programme-1523.html.

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With the financial support of America for Bulgaria Foundation, the Centre for Advanced Study Sofia announces a Call for Applications for participation in its 2011/2012 Independent Fellowship Programme in the area of social sciences and humanities. CAS will provide five, 5-month fellowships for young Bulgarian researchers, and five, 5-month fellowships for established Bulgarian scholars. The Independent Fellowship Program will support independent research projects of young and established scholars in the area of social sciences and humanities. There will be no disciplinary, methodological or thematic restrictions applied to the project proposals. Selection will be based solely on the potential of the candidate and the quality of the project. CAS will award monthly stipends of €700 for young scholars and €1000 for established scholars.
The fellowship includes all taxes and social insurance fees. The fellows will have the opportunity to use working space at the CAS office, have access to electronic resources and become fully integrated in the regular research seminars and discussions taking place within the existing programmes of the Centre. The Program will be organized in two semesters: March 1 to July 31, 2011, and October 1, 2011 to February 29, 2012. Candidates should indicate their preference for one of the two semesters. The final distribution of approved fellows between the two semesters will be negotiated in view of the thematic coherence of the teams. We expect the approved candidates to be able to dedicate their time entirely to the proposed research. For complete information on the program and application materials, please visit http://www.cas.bg/en/news/call-for-applications-independent-fellowships-1513.html.

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The Society for the Humanities expects to appoint six to eight Fellows whose research is related to our focal theme for 2011-2012, “Sound: Culture, Theory, Practice, Politics.” Each Fellow will receive $45,000 for the year.

The Society for the Humanities invites scholars to reflect this year upon the theme of Sound: Culture, Theory, Practice, Politics as a means of analyzing the resonance of historical and contemporary representations, movements, ideas, and negations of sound.

Representations of sound abound in visual, textual, and aural realms. Storytelling, poetry, music, theater, oral histories, political speeches, and noise find their way in and out of texts, images, and recordings as various kinds of sound travel through different media. From “voicing” to “listening,” sound shapes the framework of much critical and philosophical analysis of the body, affect, and social publics. How does sound function in establishing parameters of psycho-cultural imaginaries, social practice, religious ritual, and political regulation across the globe? How do manifestations of sound differ in the global context of capitalism and cosmopolitanism, not to mention the specificities of ethnic difference and cultural diversity?

How are “voice,” “hearing,” and “listening” defined in various disciplines and in relation to aesthetic properties of the disciplines, such as meter, rhythm, montage, and amplification? What criteria are used for differentiating natural from artificial sounds? Does sound challenge disciplinary distinctions between the visual and the oral/aural/tactile? Can the loud noises of industrial culture be distinguished from the synthetic sounds of electronic music, the stammerings of performance and philosophical manifestos, and the burps and sighs of comics and cinematic sound tracks?

Beyond music’s embodiment of sound as artistic form, applicants are welcome to consider the broader sense of sonic environments, the role of silence in private and public space and performance, and the ways in which sound underlies life itself, either naturally (the “pink noise” of earthquakes and ocean currents) or negatively (from environmental pollution to torture and warfare). Possible topics might include the use of sound to mark the passage of time; the correlation of sound to the movement of the body in dance and performance; deafness and disability studies; the sonic promise of cartographic projects of social movements and migrations. Of equal import are the cultural impact of the electronic and digital age and the harmonious collusion of the virtual and the visceral in internet-driven communities. Applicants might also consider sound’s importance to visual studies, the cultural and ethnic specificity of acoustic fields and rhythms in the age of sampling and mixing, and the gender import of voice and spoken narrative.

This interdisciplinary invitation is open to study of the broadest cross-cultural range of contexts and media that cross the boundaries of time and space, from East and West/South and North. For complete application information visit http://www.arts.cornell.edu/sochum or write to postdoc@as.pitt.edu.

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The University of Pittsburgh School of Arts and Sciences is now offering up to eight postdoctoral fellowships in the humanities and social sciences to begin in January 2011. The fellowships are for one year and are renewable for an additional year. Fellows will teach two courses per year, complete scholarly work, and participate in the academic and intellectual community of the School of Arts and Sciences and the Department with which they are affiliated. The annual stipend will be $45,000.

We invite applications from qualified candidates in the humanities and social sciences who have received the PhD between December 1, 2007 and November 1, 2010. Applicants who do not have the PhD in hand at the time of application must provide a letter from their department chair or advisor, stating that the PhD will be conferred before the term of the fellowship begins. Applications are due JUNE 1, 2010. For complete information visit www.as.pitt.edu/postdoc or e-mail postdoc@as.pitt.edu.

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