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• 09 oct 2020

  Berlin

  Scholarship, prize and job offer - Language

  Five research assistant positions for the project "Decoding Antisemitsm"

  For a 3-year research project on anti-semitic hate speech and hate images on the internet, research assistants are wanted. A qual­it­at­ive lin­guistic con­tent ana­lysis of social media com­ments and analysis of image mater­ial and text-image rela­tion­ships related to anti­semitic con­tent is planned. In addi­tion, quant­it­at­ive lin­guistic meth­ods will also be applied to the social media cor­pus. For the coun­try teams we are seek­ing two doc­toral stu­dents for the Eng­lish lan­guage area, two for the French lan­guage area and one for the Ger­man lan­guage area.

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• 30 nov 2020

  Berlin

  Call for papers - Africa

  Queer activism and aesthetics in African literature

  Congress of the Association pour l'étude des littératures africaines (APELA)

  Ce congrès propose une exploration des littératures, du cinéma et des arts performatifs africains de toutes les langues et de toutes les régions d’Afrique y compris le Maghreb et les diasporas, au prisme des théories, activismes et esthétiques queer. Il s’agira tout autant d’aborder un corpus encore peu usité dans la recherche francophone, que d’analyser le lien entre esthétique, savoir et activisme dans le contexte des luttes pour la reconnaissance des homo- et transsexuels et d’autres minorités sexuelles et de genre en Afrique. 

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• 31 oct 2020

  Berlin

  Call for papers - Thought

  Figures and Perspectives on the Mass and the Individual in Capitalist Modernity (19th-21st century)

  How is it possible to use the notion of mass without making it collapse into a complete condemnation of collective action or into an acritical celebration of the crowd? From there on, the relationship between mass and individual can be addressed in many fashions: Are there any specific ways for the mass to organize itself as a political subject? What are means whereby artworks represent and transform the linkage between  mass and individual? What are the mutations undergone by the mass qua object of the social sciences? How does capitalist modernity affect the moral and psychic autonomy of individuals?

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