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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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• 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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• 21 avr 2020

  Berlin

  Call for papers - History

  Solidarity and Humanitarianism in the Global South between Decolonization and the Cold War (1960s-1980s)

  This two-day workshop, to be held in Berlin, aims to bring together doctoral students, post-doctoral students and experienced researchers working on the history of solidarity and humanitarian engagement in the countries of the Global South, from the 1960s to the 1980s, in the context of decolonization and the Cold War. On the one hand, it offers the opportunity to present and discuss current research. On the other hand, based on these concrete examples, it wishes to offer a space for exchange and discussion on the theoretical and methodological dimensions of this research field.

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• 15 fév 2020

  Berlin

  Call for papers - Ethnology, anthropology

  Thinking about violence in Africa through women’s experiences: vulnerability & subversion

  Penser la violence en Afrique au travers de l’expérience des femmes: vulnérabilité et subversion

  The two-day conference “Junges Forum 2020” seeks to reflect on women’s experiences of violence in Africa from an interdisciplinary perspective. The aim is not to discuss passive experience in the context of violence (if it exists at all) but to attempt to outline different experiences of violence (symbolic, social, domestic, epistemic, political or sexual) as well as to explore how they can be transformed, appropriated and reversed. The “Junges Forum” explicitly invites young researchers (PhD students, postdoctoral scholars) to share their ideas from various disciplines (anthropology, film studies, gender studies, history, literary studies, psychology, sociology, etc.) in order to encourage an interdisciplinary exchange and open debates related to the topic. The main focus is to be on African countries and regions only.

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• 01 mar 2020

  Berlin

  Call for papers - History

  Music and the Spanish Civil War

  This two-day conference aims to create a framework for a broader understanding of the ways in which Spanish and non-Spanish musicians (including composers, performers, conductors, musicologists, critics, and others) relate to this key historical and ideological conflict of the 20^th century. These relationships are not limited to the wartime period but also include the subsequent decades, in which a large number of musicians from Spain and abroad reflected on the confrontation and its consequences in their work.

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• 05 déc 2019

  Berlin

  Scholarship, prize and job offer - Sociology

  Forschungsassistent wmd Working Futures - Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin

  Das Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin e.V. – Institute for Advanced Study ist eine unabhängige, von den großen deutschen Wissenschaftsorganisationen und den Berliner Universitäten mitgetragene Institution. Finanziert wird das Wissenschaftskolleg zu gleichen Teilen durch das Land Berlin und den Bund. Seit 1981 werden jährlich ca. 40 international renommierte Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler unterschiedlicher Nationalitäten und Disziplinen als Fellows eingeladen, sich auf ein selbstgewähltes Arbeitsvorhaben zu konzentrieren. Wir suchen zum nächstmöglichen Zeitpunkt einen Forschungsassistenten (m/w/d) (Teilzeit mit 19,5 Wochenstunden) im Rahmen des Netzwerkprojektes Working Futures.

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• 15 nov 2019

  Berlin

  Call for papers - Africa

  France, Germany, Africa: representations, transfers, relations

  Appréhendé à l’époque coloniale comme le « laboratoire de la modernité » européenne, le continent africain est aujourd’hui partie intégrante de l’histoire et de l’avenir de l’Europe mais aussi du monde. Dans son essai Afrotopia récemment traduit en allemand, l’économiste et écrivain sénégalais Felwine Sarr dénonce le mythe occidental du développement projeté sur les sociétés africaines et appelle à décoloniser les esprits de par et d’autre de la Méditerranée pour permettre aux Afriques de redevenir le « poumon spirituel du monde. » Ce plaidoyer pour un changement de paradigme s’inscrit dans une relation Europe-Afrique à refonder. Partant de ces réflexions, Le XV^e colloque du comité franco-allemand des historiens entend interroger cette histoire croisée entre la France, l’Allemagne et le continent africain pour les XIX^e et XX^e siècles.

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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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• 15 déc 2019

  Berlin

  Scholarship, prize and job offer - Political studies

  Grant programme for young researchers in Berlin

  The grants of the Study Foundation of the Berlin House of Representatives

  The grants of the Study Foundation of the Berlin House of Representatives shall be awarded to young university graduates and students with at least a Bachelor’s degree (or an equivalent) in all fields, in particular the humanities and social sciences, whose research or study projects deal with Berlin or require access to Berlin research facilities. The funds shall be used to advance academic education at all state and state-recognized universities and academic research institutions in Berlin.

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• 15 oct 2019

  Berlin

  Call for papers - History

  2020 world conference of public history

  Since 2011, International Federation for Public History (IFP)H has been dedicated to building an international and multi-lingual community of public historians working both outside and inside academia. The main role of the Federation is to foster the development of Public History worldwide, creating and coordinating networks and national associations for public history, promoting teaching, research, theoretical inquiry, and other activities that engage the public with the past, history and individual and collective memories. Berlin, which has been called the “Rome of contemporary history,” is an ideal location for a major meeting of public historians from across the globe. Like few other places in the world it offers many different layers of history, that not only still matter and are controversial locally or regionally, but nationally and even internationally.

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• 30 avr 2019

  Berlin

  Call for papers - Sociology

  Solidarity at Work

  The term “solidarity” seems to have fallen out of theoretical fashion despite the fact that it has a long history of describing the shared struggles of those oppressed by economic or political power structures. This conference aims to explore the past, present and future of “solidarity at work” on both the conceptual and empirical level. Its focus is on the world of work, which it wants to investigate from a transnational perspective. How have the concepts, conceptions and categories of solidarity shaped labor and the labor movements of different countries? What about the divergent conceptual meanings and practices in these assorted contexts? How have power relations as well as people’s everyday life been changed by the various practices related to solidarity? How do technological and managerial changes help to shift ideas and practices of solidarity? Do we see new forms emerging? Who are the agents of “solidarity at work” and what are the concrete mechanisms involved? More broadly, what are the levers and brakes of solidarity in the workplace today?

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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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• 15 jan 2019

  Berlin

  Call for papers - Law

  Laypersons in Law

  Social Science Perspectives on Legal Practices of Non-professionals

  The Centre Marc Bloch and the Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg organize an international conference on legal practices of laypersons to be held in Berlin from 09 to 10 May 2019. We call for papers (English, German or French) contributing to a structured analysis on the role of non-professionals in law which has been little studied so far.

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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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• 15 nov 2018

  Berlin

  Call for papers - Thought

  The politics of non-identity. Franco-German perspectives

  Interdisciplinary young researchers event

  Ce Junges forum a pour ambition d’explorer l’actualité de la pensée de la non-identité issue d’Adorno à travers ses résonnances métaphysiques, esthétiques, psychanalytiques et politiques. Une attention particulière sera portée aux enjeux politiques de la réflexion dans les différents axes de recherches.

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