IFK Junior Fellowship in Humanities and Social Sciences 2018, Austria

Publish Date: May 16, 2018

Deadline: Jan 20, 2019

IFK Junior Fellowship in Humanities and Social Sciences 

The IFK_Junior Fellowships are intended for young Austrian academics doing their dissertations, as well as for non-Austrian doctoral students who are being supervised at an Austrian university.  The dissertation project must be an interdisciplinary undertaking in the humanities and social sciences that address the study of culture(s), its issues and methods. Research projects may, but are not required to, relate to the current IFK research focus.

IFK_Junior Fellowships include a monthly grant of €1,200 and a workstation at the IFK with computer and internet access; the receipt of the scholarship is tied to residency at the IFK. Nothing other than minimal part-time employment can be undertaken in addition to the scholarship. The IFK does not cover costs associated with health insurance and or social insurance. Successful applicants will take part in the IFK_Junior Fellow Abroad Scholarship Programme for the following academic year.

About the IFK International Research Center for Cultural Studies University of Art and Design Linz

The philosophy of the IFK International Research Center for Cultural Studies, University of Art and Design Linz is founded on the principles of clarity, communication and interdisciplinary exchange. The transparency of its organizational structure is not an end in itself, but aims to let visiting scholars and future academics make contact with one other. Centers such as the IFK make it possible to pursue one's own academic projects away from the workaday routine of the university. They offer the opportunity -- seldom available in universities -- of exchanging views in discussion groups and conversations, of developing new ideas and of testing out plans for future projects.

The free exchange of ideas between specialists in different subject areas is, however, not just a prerequisite of innovative research. In the academic world it usually encounters a certain resistance in established disciplines which have developed their own specific terminologies which cannot be easily translated. The success of the center depends on the creation of a communicative milieu in which questions common to diverse disciplines can be exchanged. In this way it can be understood, for example, to what degree the pictorial worlds of the natural sciences are governed by aesthetic norms; how the tradition of philosophical anthropology relates to the empirical results of the new biosciences; how currents in globalization precipitate out in town planning and popular culture; or why a different understanding of evidence applies in legal proceedings to that for the observer of photographs. The dynamic of the exchange will ideally create not just new views which extend beyond those one brings from one's own subject area, but also elements of a common language and conceptual framework. When the potential of methods and concepts in contexts which initially appear to be foreign is put to the test, new horizons of knowledge can be created.

For more information click "LINK TO ORIGINAL" below.


This opportunity has expired. It was originally published here:

http://www.ifk.ac.at/calls-detail-en/ifk_junior-fellowship-18-192018.html#utm_source=ARMACAD.info&utm_medium=ARMACAD.info

Similar Opportunities


Disciplines

Culture

Humanities

Social Sciences

Study Levels

Research

Opportunity Types

Scholarships

Eligible Countries

Austria

Host Countries

Austria