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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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• 09 oct 2020

  Berlin

  Scholarship, prize and job offer - Language

  Two post-doctoral positions for the projet "Decoding Antisemitism"

  In the three-year pilot pro­ject "Identi­fy­ing the Real Dimen­sion of Anti­semit­ism 2.0 in Europe", an inter­na­tional research team will invest­ig­ate anti­semitic lan­guage and image use on news web­sites and social media plat­forms of the polit­ical main­stream in three European coun­tries (Ger­many, Great Bri­tain and France). First, the object of invest­ig­a­tion is ana­lysed in detail. In the second step, all of the examined phe­nom­ena are invest­ig­ated in their breadth by means of quant­it­at­ive ana­lyses. Main tasks of the post-doctoral positions will be, on one hand, the qual­it­at­ive lin­guistic con­tent ana­lysis of social media com­ments and ana­lysis of image mater­ial and text-image rela­tion­ships in rela­tion to anti­semitic con­tent; on the other hand, the applic­a­tion of quant­it­at­ive lin­guistic meth­ods to the social media cor­pus.

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• 15 déc 2020

  Berlin

  Scholarship, prize and job offer - Sociology

  Scholarships in Berlin - Study Foundation of the Berlin House of Representatives

  The Study Foundation of the House of Representatives is a grant programme for young researchers from the United States of America, Great Britain, France, and the successor states of the Soviet Union, who want either to work on Berlin along with German as well as German-international issues or to use research facilities in Berlin. The Study Foundation of the Berlin House of Representatives shall contribute to the further development of a generation of young scholars from the aforementioned states whose research issues deal with Berlin or Germany. Moreover, the young researchers shall use their stay in Berlin in order to make themselves familiar with the political and social system in Berlin and Germany, and build lasting relationships between themselves and with the Berlin House of Representatives. Thus, the Foundation seeks to awaken or strengthen long-term interest in and understanding of Germany in the aforementioned states.

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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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• 25 oct 2019

  26 oct 2019

  Berlin

  Conference, symposium - Ethnology, anthropology

  Emotional attachment to machines

  New ways of relationship-building in Japan

  Currently, technologies that foster emotional connections between humans and digital beings are perceived as a threat by many. Because emotional devices are considered to be make-believe systems based on ‘simulation’ (which is often confused with lying, deceit or fraud), emotional technologies could potentially be suspected of affecting human sexual identity or disrupting social bonds. This Symposium will examine the ways in which humans form intimate relationships with ‘emotionally-intelligent entities’ (robots, digital characters, downloadable boyfriend…) and what purposes these relationships to machines serve for them. 

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• 25 oct 2019

  26 oct 2019

  Berlin

  Conference, symposium - Modern

  Prisons of Russia, Ukraine, France, Germany : Questioning Prison Violence

  Almost twenty years after the European Court of Human Rights affirmed the right to decent conditions of detention, has this aspiration for a violence-free sentence succeeded in counteracting operation modes usually described as inherent to prison? Has the European project for common minimum standards succeeded in overcoming national penological conceptions and professional cultures, in other words overcoming the historical inertia of prison? What resistance/adaptation strategies have deployed prison administrations in response to these reform injunctions? In view of these experiences, what are the ways out of prison violence? Can civil society actors force these transformations? In particular, can lawyers help maintaining vigilance? The Seminar is held as part of the European Lawyers' Day and will bring together former detainees, researchers, civil society leaders and lawyers to discuss the issue of prison violence as is manifest in Western (Germany, France) and Eastern former soviet (Russia, Ukraine) European prison systems.

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• 14 jui 2019

  Berlin

  Call for papers - Modern

  Emotional attachment to machines

  New ways to create ties to Japan

  Au Japon, un nombre croissant d’interfaces issues des technologies de l’information et de la communication (TC) sont spécifiquement conçues pour favoriser l'attachement : les robots de compagnie, les épouses holographiques, les petits amis à télécharger et les partenaires en réalité augmentée sont commercialisés à des prix toujours plus attractifs. L’attrait qu’ils exercent est tel qu’une frange non-négligeable de consommateurs affirme préférer ces formes de vie artificielles aux humains de chair et d’os. Ce colloque international et interdisciplinaire s’intéressera à la manière dont l’être humain établit des relations intimes avec des « entités numériques émotionnellement intelligentes » et aux raisons pour lesquelles il s’engage dans une histoire avec elles. L’impact de ces technologies sur les structures traditionnelles de la famille et de la société sera également exploré.

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• 14 avr 2019

  Berlin

  Scholarship, prize and job offer - History

  Working on Digital Scholarly Editions and Research Software Development in Berlin

  Full-time position (Digital Humanities) at Centro Humboldt – Center for Digital Cultural Heritage Research

  For the launch of an international digitization and digital edition project, the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of sciences and humanities (BBAW) invites applications for the position of a Research Assistant (male/female/divers) in the field of Digital Humanities (Digital Scholarly Editions and Research Software Development).The position is based in Berlin, Germany, but includes regular work assignments and team meetings in Havana. The focus of the project is on cultural and scientific historical sources of the 18th and 19th centuries in the context of Alexander von Humboldt's American journey.

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• 31 mar 2019

  Berlin Mitte

  Scholarship, prize and job offer - America

  Full-time Research Assistant (digital scholarly editions, project coordinator) at the Berlin Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities

  For the launch of an international digitization and digital edition project, the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (BBAW) invites applications for the position of a Research Assistant (male/female/divers) in the field of Digital Scholarly Editions and Project Coordination. 100% full-time position for an initial duration of 36 months. The position should ideally begin as soon as possible.

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• 16 jan 2019

  17 jan 2019

  18 jan 2019

  Berlin

  Conference, symposium - Thought

  The politics of non-identity

  En France comme en Allemagne, la réception de la pensée d’Adorno semble actuellement renouvelée. La notion de non-identité, dont les significations sont encore loin d’être épuisées, sont plus particulièrement au centre de l’intérêt pour la pensée du théoricien critique. Elle est de plus en plus invoquée à la faveur de la montée en puissance des « identitaires » en Europe et plus généralement de l’inflation sémantique du vocabulaire de l’identité au sein d’un spectre politique très large. À partir de ce constat d'ordre politique, le Junges Forum propose d’interroger les ressources de la notion de non-identité tout comme ses possibles mobilisations sur des terrains multiples et interdisciplinaires.

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• 30 jan 2019

  Berlin

  Call for papers - Africa

  Rethinking the Technical and the Human in Global Connectivity

  We invite contributions for our Workshop “Rethinking the Technical and the Human in Global Connectivity”, happening at Humboldt University Berlin, 24-25 May 2019. The materiality of technologies and infrastructures is significant; however, we think their impact on and interaction with societies has to be analysed in a global dimension as well. We hope to establish this approach for the broader field of African History, reacting and bringing attention to a growing interest in these questions indicated in a number of recently developed research projects and publications.

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• 30 jan 2019

  Berlin

  Call for papers - History

  Rethinking the Technical and the Human in Global Connectivity

  With this workshop we aim to explore ways to re-connect Social History in a materialist tradition and History of Technology and discuss fresh conceptual approaches. The materiality of technologies and infrastructures is significant; however, we think their impact on and interaction with societies has to be analysed in a global dimension as well. We hope to establish this approach for the broader field of African History, reacting and bringing attention to a growing interest in these questions indicated in a number of recently developed research projects and publications.

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• 14 sep 2018

  Berlin | Paris

  Call for papers - History

  The art market and art work collections in Germany and France from 1900 to the present day

  Franco-German research program

  Le but de ce programme, financé par l'université franco-allemande, est de mettre en réseau, de manière transnationale et transdisciplinaire, et sur des recherches concernant le marché de l'art, les musées et les collections d'œuvres d'art, les doctorant(e)s et postdoctorant(e)s travaillant actuellement sur le marché de l'art et les collections d'œuvres d'art. Lors de journées d'études / conférences à Berlin et à Paris, ils présenteront leurs propres recherches, s'entretiendront avec des expert(e)s et spécialistes du pays voisin et, dans le cadre d'un programme d'accompagnement, auront accès aux « laboratoires » de musées et de recherche, aux maisons de ventes, aux galeries et aux archives.

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• 07 jui 2018

  08 jui 2018

  Berlin

  Study days - History

  Excess? Images of body, health, morality and emotions across the media

  A central goal of the workshop is to open up an international exchange and to connect perspectives from the history of science, the history of emotions, the history of the body and media history in order to shed new light on a history of health as a cultural history. The event is part of the research project “The Healthy Self as Body Capital: Individuals, Market-Based Societies, and Body Politics in Visual Twentieth Century Europe” funded by the European Research Council under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (Advanced Grant agreement No 694817) led by Christian Bonah (University of Strasbourg) and Anja Laukötter (Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin).

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• 15 mar 2018

  Berlin

  Call for papers - Representation

  Capitalist Aesthetics

  Open Cultural Studies Journal (De Gruyter)

  Open Cultural Studies, an OA peer-reviewed Journal (De Gruyter) invites submissions to a special issue on  Capitalist Aesthetics edited by Dr Pansy Duncan & Dr Nicholas Holm (Massey University The issue will explore the aesthetic configurations—from the cute to the comfortable, from the no-brow to the fringe—through which the economic logics of late capitalism come to crystallize today. It invites work that treats the stylistic and formal dimension of cultural objects, and the verdictive and affective dimensions of cultural discourse/experience, as valuable “cryptograms” of contemporary ideological formations and the economic relations they sustain.

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• 18 fév 2018

  Berlin

  Summer School - History

  Visual History in the Twentieth Century: Bodies, Practices and Emotions

  The spring school Visual History in the Twentieth Century: Bodies, Practices, and Emotions invites participants to engage in five days of intensive discussion on the relation between the history of the body, body politics, and film and television in the twentieth century. The spring school will take a transnational perspective and focus particular on developments in Germany, France and Great Britain.

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• 15 jan 2018

  Berlin

  Call for papers - Political studies

  Marx, Semiotics and Political Praxis

  This special issue of Open Cultural Studies will return to the work of Karl Marx to reflect on and engage with his coherent articulation of words and their use, of words and actions, and of the intellectual and the political. The coherence of his discourse and praxis offers tools to think through, if not seek to transform, the alienated semiotic landscape of our times as described by the Frankfurt school philosopheers, Jean Baudrillard, Frederic Jameson, Sloterdijk and Slavoj Žižek. To commemorate the 200th anniversary of Marx's birth, in this special issue we want to honour his 11th Thesis on Feuerbach: "philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point, however, is to change it."

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• 15 jan 2018

  Berlin

  Call for papers - Urban studies

  Geomedia and the City

  Geomedia is an emerging concept that has been deployed to capture a particular technological condition, associated with recent rapid developments in digital technology. As such, it signals to the dialectics of locative media and the mediations of localities. However, the concept of geomedia carries deeper/wider ontological and epistemological registers that transcend the simple twining of geography and media. In this wider sense, geomedia gestures to the expanding interdisciplinary terrain at the crossroads of media studies and geography, where various ontologies and epistemologies of space/time, flows/mobilities and mediation/ mediatization come together. The aim of this special issue is to explore the urban as a key terrain where these ontologies and epistemologies are articulated.

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• 04 sep 2017

  Berlin

  Scholarship, prize and job offer - History

  Ein wissenschaftliche/n Mitarbeiter/in Akademienvorhaben "Alexander von Humboldt auf Reisen – Wissenschaft aus der Bewegung"

   

  Die Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften (BBAW) ist eine Körperschaft des öffentlichen Rechts mit Sitz in Berlin. Ihr wissenschaftliches Profil ist vor allem geprägt durch langfristig orientierte Grundlagenforschung der Geistes- und Kulturwissenschaften. Die Akademie beschäftigt etwa 350 Mitarbeiter/innen, ihr Jahresbudget beträgt rund 20 Mio. Euro. Die Akademie sucht für das Akademienvorhaben „Alexander von Humboldt auf Reisen – Wissenschaft aus der Bewegung (AvH-R)“ zum 1. Oktober 2017 eine/n wissenschaftliche/n Mitarbeiter/in mit 80% der tariflichen Regelarbeitszeit, zunächst befristet für zwei Jahre.

   

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• 08 sep 2017

  Berlin

  Call for tender - Science studies

  Mitarbeiterstelle Corpus Medicorum Graecorum

  Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften

  Die Akademie sucht für das Vorhaben „Galen als Vermittler, Interpret und Vollender der antiken Medizin (Corpus Medicorum Graecorum)“ zum nächstmöglichen Zeitpunkteine/n wissenschaftliche/n Mitarbeiter/inzunächst befristet für zwei Jahre.Die Stelle kann auch in zwei Stellen mit je der Hälfte der tariflichen Arbeitszeit geteilt werden.

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  - Mitarbeit an den an der Arbeitsstelle geplanten historisch-kritischen Galeneditionenmit Übersetzung und Kommentar. Vorgesehen ist die Bearbeitung von Teilen der zentralen therapeutischen Schrift Methodus Medendi, gegebenenfalls im Rahmen einer Promotion.- Betreuung externer Editionen, Beteiligung an der Weiterentwicklung der digitalen Arbeitsumgebung.

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