12 Fellowships for Doctoral Candidates
working on image
Application Deadline: 17 July 2011
The Image as Artifact
Graduate School 01.01.2012 – 31.12.2014
Announcing 12 Fellowships for Doctoral Candidates
eikones, the National Centre of Competence in Research at the University of Basel, examines the question of the power and meaning of images through interdisciplinary research. To this end, it brings together more than 40 young scholars and scientists from various disciplines, whose PhD and post-doc projects are grouped into modules with specific areas of inquiry. An integral part of the NCCR Iconic Criticism is the Graduate School, which offers doctoral candidates a wealth of possibilities for interdisciplinary engagement, from ongoing participation in an internal colloquium to self-organized working groups and events. The Graduate School is directed and supervised by the assistant professorship “Theory of Images.”
The Image as Artifact
The Graduate School begins in January, 2012, with the title “The Image as Artifact.” For this new period, 12 fellowships are available for a maximum of three years. Funding will be awarded to projects that consider images simultaneously as fabricated artifacts and representations that convey meaning. On one hand, like all artifacts, images exist in a larger context that includes social image cultures and technological image media, as well as processes of image production, reproduction, distribution, and archiving. On the other hand, they stand apart as iconic manifestations, and generate their own, iconic meaning. The dissertation projects should therefore investigate questions of the interrelationship of these two aspects of images—for example, they should analyze the role of this interrelationship in the use of images or its impact on the historicity specific to images. What it means to conceive of the image as an artifact can either be the object of a theoretical reflection or the methodological priority of a historical investigation.
Requirements for Application
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A degree in a field relevant to the topic area, such as art history, literature, film, and media studies, classics, philosophy, theology, Islamic studies, history, sociology, science studies, the natural or technological sciences, visual communication, and design. Applications from disciplines other than those named here are expressly desired.
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Master’s degree awarded not longer than three years ago.
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Applicants should be no older than 30 (exceptions are possible in some cases).
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We aspire to an international, multi-lingual student body. Good German and English skills are essential. Competency in other languages, especially French and Italian, is desired.
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Applicants should be prepared to work together with their colleagues in interdisciplinary groups and develop familiarity with new areas of knowledge.
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The dissertation project is to be completed during the timeframe of the program.
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Applicants from Switzerland and abroad, including countries outside Europe, are desired.
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The program begins 01.01.2012. Fellowships are first awarded for two years and, in the event of a positive evaluation, can be extended for another year (maximal funding period of three years, through 31.12.2014).
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Work is to be carried out in Basel. A workspace (with computer) in the eikones building is provided, along with additional infrastructure.
For further information http://www.eikones.ch/job-offers.html?L=1