InterPhil: CFA: Philosophy Dissertation Fellowship
__ Call for Applications Type: Philosophy Dissertation Fellowship Institution: APRA Foundation Berlin Location: Berlin (Germany) Date: 2023–2025 Deadline: Ongoing __ The purpose of the APRA Foundation Berlin Philosophy Dissertation Fellowship is to motivate pursuit of a well-rounded education in philosophy that prepares the applicant to flourish in a variety of professional environments - whether academic or otherwise - that demand cross-cultural knowledge, logical reasoning, and recognition of the extent to which Western culture is rooted in the more ancient cultures of the Near and Far East. To this end, it requires of the applicant prior completion of a background program of philosophical study that extends beyond the scope of most undergraduate and graduate degree requirements, in its inclusion of required coursework in logic, Eastern philosophy, and the Arabic and Jewish thinkers in Medieval philosophy. In this way, the Fellowship Applicant Credentials below establish a foundation for advanced philosophical study that cultivates both familiarity with philosophical approaches from a variety of non-Western traditions, and also the shared tools of consistent reasoning and analysis through which to reintegrate them into meaningful relation with the Western tradition. This will serve all Fellowship applicants well whether they actually win the Fellowship or not. The successful applicant will receive a grant of €12,000.00/year, divided into 12 sequential monthly payments of €1,000.00 each, for a period of 36 sequential months, running from September of the first year through August of the third sequential year. The Fellowship is portable to any accredited philosophy dissertation program in Europe, Australia, New Zealand, or North America. It is the responsibility of the Fellow to gain admission to such a doctoral program at an accredited institution, to obtain a dissertation advisor, and to discharge the academic and administrative requirements described above. The Fellow agrees to teach no more than one course per semester at the most, in addition to researching and writing the dissertation, during the Fellowship period. There is no fixed annual deadline for applications. These are considered on a rolling basis. For further information, please visit: http://adrianpiper.com/foundation/PhDFellowshipMenu.shtml __ InterPhil List Administration: https://interphil.polylog.org InterPhil List Archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/interphil@list.polylog.org/ __
InterPhil: PUB: Decolonizing the Study of Memory
__ Call for Publications Theme: Decolonizing the Study of Memory Publication: Memory Studies Date: Special Issue Deadline: 10.1.2023 __ The field of memory studies, like many academic disciplines and fields, is facing calls to decolonize, deimperialize, and provincialize European-imposed and inspired knowledges. Scholars and critics such as Audre Lorde, Frantz Fanon, Gloria Anzaldua, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, Steve Biko, and Linda Tuhiwai Smith emphasize the importance of acknowledging, repairing, and transcending the lasting impact of European slavery, genocidal settler colonialism, and imperial nostalgia that have ravaged human societies and the Earth, our ground of Being. Numerous postcolonial, decolonial, and indigenous scholars as well as critics continue to shine a bright light on the enduring legacy of white supremacy in academia and beyond, calling for reparatory justice. Ongoing debates concerning provincializing, de-Westernizing, decolonizing, and other interventions, highlight the reality that Western knowledge regimes’ dominance has yet to be fully recognized, overcome, and dismantled (Quijano 1992; Chakrabarty 2000; Maldonado-Torres 2006; Chen 2010; Kimmerer 2014). Accordingly, we would like to ask whether ethnic, national, cosmopolitan, multidirectional, transcultural, and planetary memories or the ‘floating gap’ are indeed as transhistorical, universal or natural as sometimes suggested? These questions highlight the reality that the field of memory studies is, in many ways, still dominated by approaches, concepts, and methods designed in the Global North creating an undeniable “Euro/Anglo centrism” (Olick et al 2017). Furthermore, we would like to question: Do cultural memories confirm or contradict seemingly hard and fast distinctions between history and memory, male and female, modern and traditional, culture and nature, sacred and profane or life and death? How do cultural memories in specific local, regional, and transnational constellations force us to rethink seemingly universal concepts? How do we think and do history and memory? For Memory Studies, therefore, the present moment bears at least three crucial challenges: First, to highlight the limitations of currently dominant approaches, concepts, and methods; second, to introduce to memory studies the plethora of memory concepts hitherto ignored but debated in other fields, such as postcolonial studies, decolonial thought, indigenous studies, and the natural sciences; and lastly, to encourage the practice of “epistemological disobedience” (Mignolo 2011) in order to move beyond the current cultural memory frameworks that undergird the field. This, in turn, expands and creates new intellectual spaces such as those pioneered by feminist, decolonial, and queer critics including M. Jacqui Alexander, Hilary Beckles, Saidiya Hartman, bell hooks, and Sylvia Wynter, to name a few. To the foregoing end, this special issue invites the rich, dynamic, and diverse cultural memories and scholarship currently outside the framework of Memory Studies to think through decolonial and indigenous lenses, and thus fundamentally challenge the field. Our aim is to substantially extend interdisciplinary debates to look beyond European, Western, and White memory cultures and scholarship that substantially define knowledge production on the study of history and memory to date. This special issue responds to the urgent calls to both decolonize and reconceptualize the study of memory and Memory Studies in three ways: - We invite current memory studies scholars to investigate the role of decolonization and provincialization to existing approaches, theories and methods. - We explicitly invite scholars from disciplines less represented in Memory Studies to contribute to the decolonization of socio-cultural memory studies. - We also invite reviews of existing work, with a particular interest in those not in the English language, on the subject of decolonizing and provincializing memory studies or indigenous ways of knowing that have hitherto been marginalized. In a word, the collected essays seek to open the doors beyond the field’s institutional framework, taking seriously the fundamental challenge and rich potential of not only decolonizing and provincializing the study of memory and Memory Studies, but re-envisioning the field. Some questions that may be addressed in this special issue include, but are not limited to: - What is the role of language in creating memory and memory practices and how does multilingualism or translation intervene in creation or dissemination? - How do oral, visual, and/or sound cultures contribute to memory practices? - How can non-written based epistemologies enrich our knowledge base in memory studies? - How does an analysis of Anthropocene memory complicate our understanding of global systems? - What memory p
InterPhil: CFA: Postdoctoral Fellowship on the Rights of Vulnerable Groups
__ Call for Applications Type: Postdoctoral Research Fellowship on the Rights of Vulnerable Groups Institution: Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford Location: Oxford (United Kingdom) Date: from August 2023 Deadline: 9.1.2023 __ The Blavatnik School of Government is seeking to recruit a Postdoctoral Fellow to contribute to the Alfred Landecker programme, under the direction of Professor Jonathan Wolff, Alfred Landecker Professor of Values and Public Policy, and in collaboration with other academics in the School and beyond. The Alfred Landecker Foundation has provided funds to support a programme of activity at the Blavatnik School of Government to research threats to the rights, freedom, dignity and well-being of vulnerable groups in Europe. The particular focus of the research will be the threats to vulnerable people emerging from contemporary politics and society, together with the institutions of government, law and civil society that could help protect against such threats. The Postdoctoral Fellow will conduct and publish their own research, provide a review of related research and public activity and investigate possible partnerships with academic and civil society groups. They will help manage workshops, conferences and working groups, help produce group working papers and assist in the academic and public development of the programme. They will present papers at conferences or public meetings and represent the research group at external meetings/seminars. They will also carry out collaborative projects with colleagues in partner institutions and research groups, and undertake a small amount of teaching duties. The successful candidate will hold, or be close to completion of, a PhD in a topic in contemporary political philosophy, political theory, comparative politics, legal theory, or another relevant field. They will have the ability to organise conferences, workshops, working groups, partnerships and associated activity, work collaboratively across disciplines, manage their own research and associated activities, and contribute ideas for new research projects. Previous experience of contributing to publications/presentations and excellent communication skills are also essential. This post is fixed-term for three years. The successful candidate will be expected to start in August 2023. The deadline for applications is 12.00 noon (UK time) on Monday 9 January 2023. Further information: https://www.bsg.ox.ac.uk/job-alfred-landecker-postdoctoral-fellow Alfred Landecker Programme: https://www.bsg.ox.ac.uk/research/research-programmes/alfred-landecker-programme Contact: Jonathan Wolff Alfred Landecker Professor of Values and Public Policy Blavatnik School of Government University of Oxford Email: jonathan.wo...@bsg.ox.ac.uk __ InterPhil List Administration: https://interphil.polylog.org InterPhil List Archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/interphil@list.polylog.org/ __
