Burse in Austria

Vienna Institute for Human Sciences, Austria announces

New fellowship programs which will start in the 2nd half of 2009:

- UNITED EUROPE – DIVIDED MEMORY (2009 – 2011) – Junior Visiting Fellowships for Ph.D. Candidates and Post-docs
Application deadline: April 30, 2009

- RELIGION AND SECULARISM (2009 – 2011) – Junior Visiting Fellowships for Ph.D. Candidates and Post-docs
Application deadline: April 30, 2009

Visiting Fellowships (2009 – 2011) with the research topics:
- SOCIAL SOLIDARITY
- SOCIAL INEQUALITY
- SOCIAL AND POLITICAL CONSEQUENCES OF CLIMATE CHANGE
Application deadline: April 30, 2009

- PAUL CELAN FELLOWSHIPS for Translators (2009/2010) – focusing East-West, West-East and East-East translations of canonical texts as well as contemporary key works in the Humanities, Social Sciences and Cultural Studies
Application deadline: March 31, 2009

- MILENA JESENSKA FELLOWSHIPS (2009/2010) – for European cultural journalists working in print, broadcast and electronic media to pursue in-depth research on a European topic of their choice
Application deadline: March 31, 2009

Every call is published on our website: www.iwm.at/fellowships.htm

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Burse de master si doctorat pe limba rusa si limbi slave, Marea Britanie

The University of Sheffield is offering 15 postgraduate studentships for students in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities: eight cover UK/EU fees and offer a maintenance award at the Research Council rate of £13,290; seven cover UK/EU fees and offer a maintenance award at 50% of the Research Council rate, i.e. £6,645.
Applicants for research degrees (MPhil and PhD) in the Department of Russian and Slavonic Studies may apply, subject to eligibility, for these awards. The deadline is 31 March 2009. For more information, follow the link: http://www.shef. ac.uk/russian/ postgraduate/ fees.html

13 burse de doctorat in Danemarca

The Faculty of Humanities’ Graduate School at the University of Copenhagen is inviting applications for 13 PhD fellowships starting September 1, 2009 for a period of up to three years. Application deadline is February 9, 2009.

PhD projects can be related to one of the following subject areas:
* Scandinavian studies in literature, language or media, or ideally across the boundaries of these areas (Subject area 1: Nordic Philology, General and Applied Linguistics)
* IT and communication (Subject area 2: Education, Philosophy and Rhetoric, Film and Media Studies)
* Themes within European culture and history in a global context (Subject area 3: History, Archaeology and Ethnology, Greek and Latin)
* Cultural memory and migration: The construction of nation, religion and history as rendered through exhibition, writing, canon, schoolbooks or other media (Subject area 4: Middle Eastern Studies, Asian Studies, Eskimology, History of Religion, native American Languages and Cultures, Eastern European Studies, Minority Studies, Comparative Cultural Studies)
* Globalization and transnational studies (Subject area 5: English, German and Romance Languages and Literature)
* Forms of cultural attention (Subject area 6: History, Theatre Research, Dance, Comparative Literature, Musicology)
* Medieval and/or early-modern Scandinavian textual studies (Subject area 7: Old Norse, Dialect Research, name Research)
* Language technology, preferably within the strategic fields: language resources and tools (research infrastructure) , cognitive science, knowledge systems and tools for multilinguality (Subject area 8: Language Technology)
For the complete announcement, please consult http://www.humanities.ku.dk/research/phd/announcements/

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Burse pentru doctoranzi

New Europe College (NEC) anunta concursul anual pentru bursele de cercetare NEC 2009-2010 pentru universitari/ cercetatori romani din domeniile stiintelor umaniste, sociale si economice.

Conditii de participare:
1. candidatul trebuie sa fie inscris la doctorat sau sa aiba titlul de doctor;
2. se va acorda prioritate candidatilor sub 40 ani si celor care nu au beneficiat inca de burse acordate de NEC;
3. o foarte buna cunoastere a cel putin doua din limbile straine de circulatie internationala.

Bursa se acorda pentru un an academic (10 luni). Programul bursierilor presupune prezenta obligatorie in Bucuresti cel putin o data pe saptamana timp de 9 luni. In intervalul de 10 luni, bursierii vor beneficia de un
stagiu de cercetare intr-unul din marile centre universitare/ de cercetare din strainatate. Valoarea bursei lunare (acordata pe durata a 9 luni) este echivalentul in RON a 600 EURO (neimpozabili) , la care se adauga 2.600 EURO pentru stagiul de cercetare.

Data limita de depunere a dosarului completat este: 15 ianuarie 2009 (inclusiv)

Informatii detaliate:
http://www.nec. ro/fundatia/ nec/app_fell. htm

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Doctorate în Germania pe studii literare

Funded by the Excellence Initiative of the German Research Foundation (DFG), the Friedrich Schlegel Graduate School of Literary Studies has as its aim the supervision of exceptional dissertation projects on European, American, Arabic and Asian Literatures within the doctoral degree programme “Literary Studies”. The programme offers intensive and individual supervision of the thesis as well as coursework which consists of seminars on methodology and literary theory on the one hand, and seminars that focus on transferable skills on the other hand. Research conducted abroad will be part of the degree course.
Applicants who want to take up their doctoral studies within the graduate programme “Literary Studies” must have a completed degree (Magister/Staatsexa men/M.A./ Maîtrise or equivalent) with above-average marks in the humanities, preferably literary studies.
Successful projects must have a strong theoretical and methodological foundation and should develop a comparative perspective on language, literature, culture and/or media.
The Graduate School will award 10 Scholarships per year. In the course of the selection process, the selection committee will decide upon these scholarships. Scholarships are awarded for three years; however, continuation of the degree course as well as the extension of the scholarship is subject to a favourable
evaluation of the student’s progress by the team of supervisors at the end of each academic year.
Applications should be submitted by January 31st, 2009.

Doctorat în Germania pe limbajele emoţiei

Funded within the Excellence Initiative of the German Research Foundation (DFG), the Graduate School of the Cluster “Languages of Emotion” has as its aim the supervision of exceptional dissertation projects pertinent to the research of the Cluster. The graduate school offers intensive and individual supervision of the thesis as well as a structured course of studies. The research of the cluster is dedicated to the complex interrelations between the use of signs/symbols, the transfer of emotions, aesthetic practices, mental dispositions and affective modes of constructing both personal and social identities the cluster. The graduate school focuses on the following research areas:
- the relations between affective phenomena and various representational media (language, sound, image);
- the artistic practices and poetics of (re)presenting/ shaping emotion;
- correlations between emotional and linguistic competencies (and their disorders)
- modes of emotion modelling at the level of cultural codes and patterns of social be-havior and identity.

Bursele Konrad Adenhauer pentru studentii activi

Fundatia Konrad Adenauer acorda burse de studiu studentilor foarte dotati.
Candidatii trebuie sa demonstreze faptul ca sunt preocupati de viata politica si activ implicati in comunitate, precum si receptivi la valorile crestin-democrate. Identificarea persoanelor talentate, sponsorizarea acestora si pregatirea lor în vederea asumarii de responsabilitati în domeniul politic si economic, în stiinte si în mass-media, în cadrul organizatiilor culturale si civice – sunt obiectivele programului Fundatiei Konrad Adenauer de acordare a burselor “Sur- Place”.

Programul se adreseaza tinerilor studenti, incepand cu anul I de studiu, care îndeplinesc urmatoarele criterii:
- se implica activ în viata sociala si/sau politica
- au dorinta de a influenta pozitiv viitorul politic, economic, educational sau/si social al României
- au rezultate academice deosebite
- cunosc cel putin o limba straina
- cunostintele de limba germana reprezinta un avantaj
- au ca scop profesional angajarea in domeniul public sau activitati ale vietii publice (media, partide, asociatii, universitati. ..)

Data limita pentru inscriere este: 30 octombrie 2008
Formularul de inscriere poate fi descarcat de la adresa de mai jos:
http://www.kas. de/upload/ auslandshomepage s/rumaenien/ sur-place. pdf

Informatii detaliate:
www.kas.de/bukarest
http://www.kas. de/proj/home/ events/29/ 19/veranstaltung _id-32353/ index.html

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Master in Advanced European and International Studies

Applications for Scholarships in Master in Advanced European and International Studies (M.A.E.I.S.) at Institut Européen des Hautes Etudes Internationales (Nice/France) in cooperation with Istanbul Bilgi University is open! The Master Program offers the unique opportunity to learn Europe “in Europe” and develop perspectives for Europe’s future. The programme includes semesters in Istanbul, Nice and Berlin and guarantees an international education with an excellent academic staff and environment. A limited number of full and partial scholarships are available for qualified candidates.

doctorat in Germania

Transcultural Studies, University of Heidelberg
deadline: 24.07.2008

The research group “Transcultural Studies”, part of the excellence initiative at the University of Heidelberg, is offering three PhD positions within the Junior Research Group entitled “Trading Diasporas in the Eastern Mediterranean 1200-1600″.

burse de doctorat la Universitatea din Ferrera, Italia

The University of Ferrara announces an open competition based on academic qualifications and reserved for students from international education, for admission to the following Research Doctorate courses – XXIV cycle, year 2009:

• ECONOMICS – LAW- HUMANITIES – SOCIAL STUDIES
• MEDICINE-BIOLOGY
• SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY

Detalii si formularul de candidatura la http://iuss.unife.it/news/opportunities-for-international-phd-students

Programe de doctorat la universitate: http://iuss.unife.it/

Anuntul oficial la: http://www.unife.it/formazione-postlaurea/dottorati/corsi-dottorato-di-ricerca-macroarea-anno-2008

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