Dear Friends of the Berlin Program,
We are soliciting applications for our fellowship competition 2025/26. Deadline: December 1 – Competition opening: November 1
The Berlin Program offers up to one year of dissertation or postdoctoral research support at the Freie Universität Berlin, one of Germany’s leading research universities. It is open to scholars in all social science and humanities disciplines, including historians working on German and European history since the mid-18th century.
We offer five different fellowships: Berlin Program Dissertation Fellowship, Berlin Program Postdoc Fellowship, Max Kade Berlin Postdoc Fellowship, Kerstin Leitner Berlin Dissertation Fellowship and Kerstin Leitner Berlin Postdoc Fellowship. For key features, eligibility, forms and more, check Fellowships Overview, Guidelines, and Application.
Located in one of the densest and most innovative academic regions in Europe, a Berlin Program Fellowship offers extraordinary research opportunities. Each semester, our research colloquium led by distinguished scholars, serves as the central meeting point to share, discuss and support each other’s work. Fellows are supported by program staff to assist them before and during the research stay.
The Berlin Program is administered in close cooperation with our North American partner and co-sponsor, the German Studies Association (GSA), the largest organization of scholars, professionals, and students who focus on the study of German-speaking Europe from all periods of history and all relevant disciplines.
Please spread the word about this great opportunity,
EPCAF Works in Progress Call for Papers
The European Postwar and Contemporary Art Forum seeks proposals for works in progress on any subject pertaining to the association’s geographic and temporal focus. In addition to research related to art and/or visual culture produced in Europe and the European Union in the 20th and 21st century, we also welcome original scholarship that addresses themes that intersect with the region and its wider transcultural context. To this end, papers might consider the presence, reception of, and interaction with European art across the globe. Subjects might engage issues of the impacts of global capital, migration flows and crises, climate change, and more.
Our hope with this session is to encourage an open, energetic, and lively feedback with our colleagues to generate new knowledge and ideas with one another and our EPCAF community.
We aim to host one work in progress seminar in the first week of December 2024, specifically around 10-11:30AM CDT US time. The session will include two to three papers, lasting fifteen minutes each, with feedback time at the end for Q&A from the audience and colleagues moderated by Dr. Sara Blaylock (University of Minnesota Duluth) and Dr. Kerry Greaves (University of Copenhagen). The seminar will be held over Zoom. We happily welcome submissions from MA students, PhD candidates, and early career researchers who wish to share their latest research in a supportive and informal environment.
In order to generate as robust a conversation as possible, we request that any accepted participants invite two people to attend the workshop. We are happy to facilitate connections between participants and other scholars.
We are now accepting 250-word proposal submissions. Please email your submission and a short biography (max. 100 words) to blaylock@d.umn.edu and kerr
Call for Manuscripts – German Visual Culture
Edited by Dr Christian Weikop, Senior Lecturer, Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh ISSN: 2296-0805
www.peterlang.com/view/serial/GVC
Dear Friends and Colleagues
I am writing to inform you of the launch of the first edition of our new journal: Art East Central (https://arteastcentral.eu). The journal is an open-access peer-reviewed English-language journal dedicated to the art, architecture and visual culture of east central Europe, from 1800 to the present. The editorial lays out some of the basic ideas behind the journal as well as the scope and meanings of the term ‘east central Europe.’
We look forward to receiving submissions to the journal, either scholarly articles or reviews. We hope that future issues the journal may also serve as a platform for the publication of translations of source texts, and will welcome proposals.
Please pass on the word to colleagues and researchers who may be interested!
Prof. Matthew RampleyRC
Principal Investigator | Continuity / Rupture: Art and Architecture in Central Europe 1918-1939
Ongoing
Research Forum for German Visual Culture (RFGVC)
The Research Forum for German Visual Culture (RFGVC) is a network organisation that exists under the auspices of the Visual Arts Research Institute, Edinburgh (VARIE) based at the University of Edinburgh, and involving VARIE consortium partners – Edinburgh College of Art, the National Galleries of Scotland, National Museums Scotland, National Library of Scotland, University of Glasgow, and the University of St Andrews, as well as other partner institutions in the UK and abroad.
The RFGVC is inter- and multi- disciplinary, inter-school, inter-institutional, and international in orientation. The scope of research interest encompasses Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, and while the central focus is likely to be on modern and contemporary visual culture, the forum does not exclude coverage of earlier periods.
In the first instance, the forum is designed to cohere and draw upon the considerable expertise and research networks of Germanists based in Scottish academic and art institutions, and to create various opportunities for knowledge transfer. Beyond this goal, it is intended as a key research exchange point encouraging Anglo-American-German relations within a matrix of international research institutions, centres, associations, and societies.
The RFGVC will encourage contact between British, American, and German art historians and curators, fostering and contributing to the development of national and international collaborative, cross-disciplinary and cross-cultural research by means of seminars, conferences, colloquia, and lectures. In due course, the RFGVC will also develop an active programme of film screenings and other events.
For information about the forum, and for details about forum events, visit the RFGVC website at http://rfgvc.tumblr.com/
The Research Center “Humanities, Modernity, Globalization” at Jacobs University in Bremen, Germany invites applications for Postdoctoral Fellowships in the Humanities
The position allows for independent research, but the successful applicant will be expected to contribute to the center’s research agenda; be involved in ongoing research initiatives; assist in project management, fund raising, and third-party funding applications. In addition, s/he will teach one course per semester, either a seminar related to topics of his/her expertise and/or an introductory course.
The research center is particularly interested in applicants whose scholarship focuses on contemporary issues, intercultural concepts, and global perspectives in fields such as art history, literature, cultural history, religious studies, media studies, anthropology, and philosophy. For further information regarding the research center, visit our website: http://www.jacobs-university.de/hmg
Successful applicants will hold a Ph.D. degree or equivalent in a humanities discipline. S/he will be responsible, self-motivated, and enjoy working in an international academic environment. In addition to excellent writing and presentation skills, organization and management skills are essential. Proven experience with project management and/or the acquisition of third party funds will be considered a definite plus. Fluency in English is a must, knowledge of other languages in as much as it is required by the candidate´s research interests. Candidates who do not speak German are encouraged to take part in the German courses offered by Jacobs University. Experience with ehumanities is especially welcome.
Jacobs University is a private, international, English-language University in Northern Germany. It is an equal opportunity employer and is certified “Family Friendly” by the Hertie Foundation. For further information see www.jacobs-university.de
Please sent your application as one PDF document to hmg@jacobs-university.de and include the following items:
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- Letter of application
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- Curriculum Vitae with list of publications
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- Names and contact information of three references
- A short description of three courses the candidate could teach, with indication of whether the course would be taught at an introductory or advanced level)
In addition to the PDF application, we ask you to provide us with electronic copies of two published articles or book chapters.
All correspondence should be addressed to:
Prof. Dr. Isabel Wünsche
Research Center “Humanities, Modernity, Globalization”
School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Jacobs University gGmbH
Campus Ring 1, Research IV
28759 Bremen
Germany
Call for Manuscript Proposals: German History in Context
Camden House is pleased to launch a new series in German history entitled GERMAN HISTORY IN CONTEXT. We especially encourage submissions of monographs and edited collections on any aspect of post-1945 cultural, political, and social history. Investigations of the Third Reich, the Weimar Republic, and Imperial Germany are also welcomed. Of particular interest to the series editors are studies that explore their given historical topic in a wider perspective: for instance, by comparing cultural developments in East and West Germany; by seeking to understand developments in Germany in a transnational or global context; or by analyzing the degree to which events in postwar Germany were shaped by the legacy of earlier eras. All manuscripts will be peer reviewed and, if accepted for publication, copyedited and produced in line with the highest standards in academic publishing.
Series editor is BILL NIVEN, Professor of History at the Nottingham Trent University, UK.
Members of the editorial advisory board are Professor Stefan Berger of the University of Bochum, Professor Atina Grossmann of The Cooper Union, New York, and Professor Andrew Port of Wayne State University.
Proposal forms in both Word and pdf formats are found at: http://www.camden-house.com/authors_proposalform_camden.asp
Our preference is for the Word form, sent as an email attachment to Camden House Editorial Director Jim Walker at jwalker8751@charter.net.
CAMDEN HO– USE, an imprint of BOYDELL & BREWER
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The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, “promote[s] academic cooperation between excellent scientists and scholars from abroad and from Germany.”
The German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) is the largest funding organisation in the world supporting the international exchange of students and scholars. Since it was founded in 1925, more than 1.5 million scholars in Germany and abroad have received DAAD funding. It is a registered association and its members are German institutions of higher education and student bodies.
The Gerda Henkel Foundation was established in 1976 by Lisa Maskell (1914 – 1998) in memory of her mother Gerda Henkel. Headquartered in Düsseldorf, the Gerda Henkel Foundation is a charitable organisation under private law that is independent of today’s Henkel Group. The Foundation supports national and international academic projects in the following subjects: Archaeology, History, Historical Islamic Studies, Art History, History of Law, and Pre- and Protohistory. The Foundation is active both inside and outside Germany.