5 postdoctoral fellowships 2012/13 Berlin
Call for Applications 5 Postdoctoral Fellowships for Academic Year 2012/13 (Location: Berlin / Closing Date: 10 January 2012) The Berlin-based Forum Transregionale Studien invites scholars to apply for 5 postdoctoral fellowships for the research project ZUKUNFTSPHILOLOGIE: REVISITING THE CANONS OF TEXTUAL SCHOLARSHIP Zukunftsphilologie is a Berlin-based research project that aspires to support research in marginalized and undocumented textual practices and literary cultures with the aim of integrating texts and scholarly traditions from Asia, Africa, and the Middle East as well as from Europe itself. The project takes as its point of departure the increasingly growing concern with the global significance of philology and the potential of philology to challenge exclusivist notions of the self and the canon. The project endeavours