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Call for Applications Theme: The Conception, Constitution and Structure of the Self Type: Multi-Disciplinary Fellowship Institution: APRA Foundation Berlin Location: Berlin (Germany) Date: 2020 Deadline: 1.10.2019 __________________________________________________ The APRA Foundation Berlin supports research that exemplifies, models, analyzes and/or theorizes the divergent multi-disciplinary expressions of the self encouraged by globalization and cross-cultural journeying. The APRA Foundation Berlin Multi-Disciplinary Fellowship has the purpose of promoting research on the conception, constitution and structure of the self, with the educational goals of - increasing knowledge and public awareness of individual and societal strategies for surviving and flourishing in a global environment; and - discovering, identifying and promoting the cross-disciplinary and cross-cultural flexibility through which these strategies are expressed. The research topic of the conception, constitution and structure of the self includes but is not limited to - the relation among intuition, emotion, and reason in the self; - the relationship among logic, rationality and scientific method; - intrapersonal consistency in action through time; - the relation between individual and societal conceptions of the person; - the tensions and conflicts between individual and societal needs, obligations and expectations; - individual and societal memory and moral responsibility; - the interpersonal and institutional dynamics of xenophobia; - difference, anomaly and originality in the natural and social sciences; - the psychology of bodily, social and geographical boundary-violation; - the function of social transgression in defining individuals and enhancing social cohesion; - methods and procedures of self-investigation in Vedic and Western psychology; - comparative conceptions of the self in Vedic and Western philosophy; - constructions of the self through personal narrative and/or social mythology; - the interpersonal (familial, communal, social, political) dynamics of self-respect, self-worth, self-confidence, and/or self-regard; - the construction of and preconditions for personal identity. The APRA Foundation Berlin Multi-Disciplinary Fellowship is a single, annual competitive research grant designed for intellectuals who - are proven high achievers in at least two seemingly disparate fields of scholarship and/or the arts simultaneously; and - wish to use the APRA Foundation Berlin’s resources to research the conception, constitution and/or structure of the self in either or both of them. Applications for the APRA Foundation Berlin Multidisciplinary Fellowship should include, in PDF format, - a 500-word description of the project and projected timetable for the various stages of its completion; - a current Curriculum Vitae; and - the names and complete street and email addresses for four recommenders, two in each of the applicant's fields of specialization in scholarship and/or the arts respectively. The application should also include the following supporting materials as appropriate to the disciplines involved: - two recent publications; and/or - digital media documentation in JPEG format (for images), MP4 format (for video), and/or MP3 format (for audio). These materials cannot be returned. They should be collected on a CD and/or DVD, to be sent via registered mail to APRA Foundation Berlin Postfach 2 88 52 D-10131 Berlin GERMANY Attention: Multi-Disciplinary Fellowship Application deadline is October 1, 2019. The Fellowship award is announced no later than 31 March of the following calendar year. For further information, please visit: http://adrianpiper.com/foundation/M-DFellowshipMenu.shtml __________________________________________________ InterPhil List Administration: https://interphil.polylog.org InterPhil List Archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ __________________________________________________
