Brown University’s Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology and Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World invite applications for an International Postdoctoral Fellowship in Critical Cultural Heritage. This position is to be held jointly with the Cogut Institute for the Humanities for a term of two years beginning in July 2018. We seek exceptional junior scholars who augment or complement the present strengths and diversity of our communities at Brown University, and who enhance our commitment to inclusive education and research.
We are particularly interested in archaeologists, anthropologists, or museum practitioners, who approach cultural heritage as an interdisciplinary field devoted to the many dimensions of cultural heritage, in particular as material, intangible, emotional, and intellectual. We wish to encourage engagements with cultural and material heritage that challenge dominant nationalist and other ideological frameworks and incorporate the active participation of local communities and marginalized peoples in heritage discourses and representations. We can also envision teaching, advising and research that from a critical perspective on cultural heritage explore topics such as: authenticity, identity, ideology, ownership, commodification, culture and conflict, trauma and memorialization, indigenous rights, and hybridity and cosmopolitanism.
Applicants will have received a Ph.D. within the past five (5) years from an institution other than Brown in the fields of Anthropology, Archaeology, Museum Studies, or Cultural Studies. The fellow will teach two courses each year (which will be cross-listed in the Cogut Institute’s Humanities course offerings). The fellow will also be affiliated with the Cogut Institute and is expected to participate in the weekly Tuesday seminars, as well as other activities of the Institute. Fellows will receive a stipend of $61,500, with an increase to $63,907 the second year, plus benefits and a research budget of $2,000 per year.
All candidates should submit a letter of application, short descriptions (150-300 words) of 3-4 proposed courses, curriculum vitae, and contact information for three references by February 12, 2018. Applications received by February 12, 2018 will receive full consideration, but the search will remain open until the position is closed or filled.
Please submit application materials online at apply.interfolio.com/48147. There is no need to provide hard copies of application materials for those that have already been submitted electronically.
For further information:
Professors Robert Preucel and Peter van Dommelen
Co-Chairs, Search Committee
Brown University
Box 1837 / 60 George Street Providence, RI 02912
Joukowsky_institute@brown.edu
Brown University is committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive academic global community; as an EEO/AA employer, Brown considers applicants for employment without regard to, and does not discriminate on the basis of, gender, race, protected veteran status, disability, or any other legally protected status.
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Call for papers
European Association of Archaeologists 24th Annual Meeting,
Barcelona, 5th-8th September 2018
‘Reflecting Futures’
We invite abstracts for a panel on ‘Lived Ancient Religion in North Africa’. The title may have max. 20 words and abstract min. 200 words and max. 300 words. Five keywords are allowed. The deadline for submitting or modifying an abstract is 15 February 2018, 23h59 CET. Proposing a paper, poster or other contribution can only be done via online submission form (link: https://www.e-a-a.org/eaa2018). Current and past EAA members can log in using their EAA credentials (EAA ID, username, password). For assistance with retrieving credentials, please contact the EAA Secretariat at helpdesk@e-a-a.org. New members need to sign up for EAA account first at www.e-a-a.org. You can either pay your membership fees upon signing up or at any time before 31 March 2018 when registering for the Annual Meeting at www.e-a-a.org/eaa2018.
General queries can be directed at this email address: valentino.gasparini@gmail.com
Panel Proposal
Thematic field: The archaeology of material culture, bodies, and landscapes
Proposal number: # 634
Title: Lived Ancient Religion in North Africa
Abstract: The session claims to explore how, in the Roman provinces of North Africa, local religious preferences were strongly influenced by shifting social networks, changing over time according to specific historical contexts. The historical issue at the core of this panel is the process of integration of the pre-Roman gods within the Roman ‘pantheon’ and, at the same time, the permeability of the ‘traditional’ Roman deities in encounters with the cults problematically labelled ‘Oriental’. Speakers will be asked to approach the study of these ‘cults in motion’ not from the perspective of the civic religion as the dominant structure (based on the static and standardised performance of public, collective rites, and on elite-driven ideology), but of the individual as an active (often unpredictable) actor, capable of situational and creative innovation. This line of research is interested in the single cultic agents, not as ‘normalising’ actors (viz. representatives of institutional entities or local oligarchies), but as individuals who (independently of their social position) act as decision-makers and conscious modifiers of established religious patterns. Papers will deal with the archaeological evidence attesting the social dimension of this religious practice, including variety, creativity, religious multiplicity, fluidity and flexibility of identities, changes in forms of individuality, and spaces for individual distinction. The goal is to examine empirically religion as a practical resource available to emergent or self-styled religious providers, and explore how this resource was selected and instrumentalised by other agents, whether individuals, families, cities, or other social groupings.
Kind regards,
Jaime Alvar, Valentino Gasparini, Attilio Mastino
In July 2018 we will conduct the 19th season of excavations at Hippos-Sussita. We warmly welcome participants from around the globe to join us at the dig in Hippos. The excavation project is an international enterprise affiliated with The Zinman Institute of Archaeology, University of Haifa.
The official language at the dig is English, including the afternoon lectures and weekly excursions. The main excavation season lasts only two-four weeks and is conducted usually during the Summer. Some of the participants return each year and some are fresh. Few have some background in archaeology but are purely driven by passion and curiosity. The work in the field is demanding due to the nature of the labor and the heat conditions, but it is very rewarding and includes long leisure time and educational opportunities. If you bear the passion and have a strong will to study the ancient remains of one of the main Classical sites in the Roman East – Antiochia Hippos (Sussita) is the right place for you.
If you are interested in enrolling into the program, please visit the excavation website (http://hippos.haifa.ac.il/index.php/join-the-dig )to fill out an application form and read the accompanying links concerning the program.
We hope the information is straight forward, but do not hesitate to email us with any question you may have.
NAFPLIO, THESSALONIKI
23 JUNE – 29 JULY 2018
If you are planning to pursue academic study abroad this summer, we invite you to consider the Harvard Summer Program in Greece.
The program, now in its seventeenth year, is the oldest continuously running and one of the most successful Harvard study-abroad programs. The five-week course (23 June – 29 July 2018) is divided between the seaside town of Nafplio, and the historical city of Thessaloniki. Greece is an ideal place for summer study: traces of ancient history and culture are found everywhere, and the country has been an important meeting point between East and West across the centuries. The beautiful climate and landscape are additional sources of inspiration.
The course carries 8 credits that in the past have included – but are not restricted to – classics, literature, and history. The course also counts towards Harvard General Education credit. In the past, participants have been recent high school graduates, undergraduates, graduate students, or independent scholars. Please note: Students must be at least 18 years old and in good academic standing to apply.
Applications are due January 25, 2018.
Students will be notified of admission decisions by mid February.
Interested candidates are encouraged to write to summergreece@chs.harvard.edu with any questions. To find out more, including detailed course descriptions, faculty bios, comments, and photos, please visit:
http://www.summer.harvard.edu/programs/study-abroad/greece
http://www.chs.harvard.edu/ccsp
We are looking forward to receiving your application!
JOIN ARCHAEOLOGICAL DIGS IN SPAIN AND ITALY
EXPERIENCE THE ADVENTURE OF HISTORY AND LEARN HOW TO UNCOVER THE PAST
- Zorita Castle. Archaeology and Osteology in central Spain
- Ilici Iberian and Roman town in the Mediterranean coast of Spain
- Italica Hadrian’s Hometown in Seville, Spain
- Roman Fortress Pulpon in central Spain
- Iberian and Roman city of Confloenta in central Spain
- Necropolis of Via Ostiense in Rome
Find more information here: http://www.archaeospain.com/programs.html
CALL FOR PAPERS
We are currently accepting abstract submission for the 5th Annual Wollesen Memorial Graduate Symposium, hosted by the Department of Art and the Graduate Union of the Students of Art at the University of Toronto.
The Art of Passage: Transnational Encounters and the Convergence of Cultures: A Symposium exploring how cultural interactions and artistic migrations have shaped the growth of art and art history.
Friday March 9th, 2018
East Common Room Hart House
7 Hart House Circle
University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Keynote Address: Professor Iftikhar Dadi, Cornell University
The transnational dimension of cultural transformation – migration, diaspora, displacement, relocation – makes the process of cultural translation a complex form of signification.
– Homi Bhabha, The Location of Culture
Concepts such as influence, originality, hybridity, and authenticity have long come to shape our perception and understanding of art history. While much of the discipline was shaped by the search for specific identities, typologies, or styles, artistic transformations brought about by intercultural exchanges and transnational interactions in diverse parts of the world throughout the history of art, have forced us to reassess seemingly fixed borders and to reconsider the mobility of art history.
Considering the expansive definition of “passage,” this symposium hopes to contribute to the increasingly robust scholarship that seeks to rehabilitate, reveal, and interrogate the formative role that intercultural encounters have had on the history of art. We encourage submissions from students and scholars employing interdisciplinary approaches in the context of visual culture from antiquity to the present.
Potential paper topics may include, but are not limited to:
- Colonialism and postcolonial perspectives
- Cultural exchange through artistic movements, techniques, methods, etc.
- Exiles, networking, and circulations of ideas
- Transnationalism and its impact on local traditions
- Nationalism, independence, and globalization
- Cosmopolitanism vs tradition
- Dislocation in the shaping of art in and beyond the “margins”
- The effect of globalism on art and art history
- Migrations and utopias
- “Hybridity,” “mimicry,” and artistic practices
- Art and ideologies
- Art beyond the Western canon
Presentations should be 20 minutes in length and will be followed by a 10-minute question and answer session for each presentation. Selected presentations will be chosen for publication in the University of Toronto Art Journal, an online publication of the symposium proceedings. For more information, please visit: https://gustasymposium.wordpress.com/. Please submit an abstract (.doc/.docx/.pdf) of no more than 300 words to the Graduate Students of Art at gustasymposium@gmail.com by Friday, December 22, 2017 at 5:00 pm EST. Participants will be notified by email by the middle of January.
With appreciation,
Rachel Dewan and Marina Dumont-Gauthier
Co-Chairs of the 5th Annual Wollesen Memorial Graduate Symposium
Beyond Marginality: Race, Ethnicity, and Memory
April 6-8, 2018
CALL FOR PAPERS
The Borderlands Research Focus Group at the University of California, Santa Barbara is pleased to announce the 6th Biennial Borderlands International Graduate Student Conference, to be held April 6-8 2018. We invite graduate students from any disciplines and any regions to submit abstracts for papers addressing the theme of Beyond Marginality: Race, Ethnicity, and Memory. Please see the attached call for papers for more information.
Please send a 300 word abstract to UCSBborderlands2018@gmail.com by December 29, 2017 to be considered. Paper presentations should be 15-20 minutes in length, and may address the conference theme from any region or historical period. We welcome both individual papers or full panels that address the conference theme in any geographical region or historical period. If submitting a full panel (3-4 papers) please send all abstracts together.
If you have any questions or comments, please email UCSBborderlands2018@gmail.com.
The 2018 Borderlands International Graduate Student Conference seeks papers that address how interactions in the borderlands may be framed through constructs of race, ethnicity, and memory. This
topic encourages inquiries into the constructed production of race and ethnicity, recognizing these categories as contested narratives of inequalities and difference developed across time and space and
inscribed or blurred through the collective experiences of memory. We are interested in how race and ethnicity are understood through these memories, and how these memories have the potential to blur
borders and re-examine marginality as a process of boundary-transgressing and hybridity. Some topics of interest to the conference organizers include, but are not limited to: racialization processes, histories of race and ethnicity, conflicting memories of difference, and the imagination of race or ethnicity.
The study of borderlands encourages an interdisciplinary approach. As such, the conference seeks to include a wide range of perspectives and methodologies across disciplinary boundaries, in any geographic region or historical period. We welcome paper submissions from scholars in history, anthropology, art history, theology, classics, religious studies, literature, linguistics, and all related disciplines. We also encourage, but do not require, papers that engage with theorists whose work has relevance for borderlands studies, such as: Gloria Anzaldúa, Fredrick Barth, Daniel Boyarin, Bradley Parker, Pierre Bourdieu, Gayatri Charkravorty Spivak, Thomas Tweed, James Romm, and Jeffrey Jerome Cohen.
2018-19 FELLOWSHIPS IN EGYPT
Fostering international scholarship, education, and cultural dialogue.
CAORC funding opportunities are now available!
NEH Senior Research Fellowship Program
The CAORC National Endowment for the Humanities Senior Research Fellowship Program supports advanced research in the humanities for US postdoctoral scholars, and foreign national postdoctoral scholars who have been residents in the US for three or more years. Fellowship stipends are $4,200 per month for a total of four months.
Eligibility
Applicants must:
- carry out research in a country which hosts a participating American overseas research center. Eligible countries for 2018 are: Algeria, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Cambodia, Cyprus, Georgia, Indonesia, Mexico, Mongolia, Morocco, Nepal, Senegal, Sri Lanka or Tunisia;
- be postdoctoral scholars;
- be US citizens or foreign nationals who have been residents in the US for three years prior to the application deadline.
Applications
Applications for the NEH Senior Research Fellowship Program are now available at orcfellowships.fluidreview.com.
The deadline for submissions is January 31, 2018 and announcements are expected to be made by the end of April 2018. More information can be found here.
Multi-Country Research Fellowship Program
The CAORC Multi-Country Research Fellowship Program supports advanced regional or transregional research in the humanities, social sciences, or allied natural sciences for US doctoral candidates and scholars who have already earned their PhD. Preference will be given to candidates examining comparative and/or cross-regional research. Scholars must carry out research in two or more countries outside the US, at least one of which hosts a participating American overseas research center. Approximately eight awards of up to $10,500 each will be given each year.
Eligibility
Applicants must:
- be a US citizen. Proof of citizenship (photocopy of passport) must be shown upon award notification;
- have a PhD or be a doctoral candidate who has completed all PhD requirements with the exception of the dissertation;
- be engaged in the study of and research in the humanities, social sciences, and allied natural sciences;
- seek to conduct research of regional or trans-regional significance in two or more countries outside the US, one of which must host a participating American overseas research center (AORC). Please note travel is currently restricted by the U.S. Department of State to the following AORC countries: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Iraq, Pakistan (senior scholars may be permitted to travel to Lahore and Islamabad subject to approval), and Yemen.
Applications
Applications for the Multi-Country Research Fellowship Program are now available at orcfellowships.fluidreview.com.
The deadline for submissions is January 31, 2018 and announcements are expected to be made by the end of April 2018. More information can be found here.
Responsive Preservation Initiative for Cultural Heritage Resources
Supported by the J.M. Kaplan Fund, CAORC is pleased to announce the new Responsive Preservation Initiative (RPI) for Cultural Heritage Resources. The RPI program is designed to fund projects for urgent, emergent, or priority issues that need to be addressed quickly. Small grants are available for rapid emergency projects in Algeria, Cyprus, Egypt, Greece, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Libya, Morocco, The Palestinian Territories, Tunisia, Turkey, and Yemen.
Eligibility
- Professionals working to preserve archaeological sites and related CHRs in countries where permanent American overseas research centers’ networks exits are encouraged to apply. Individuals or teams may apply for funding. Biographies for all team members must be included in the proposal.
- Proposed projects should address urgent, emergent, or priority issues that need to be addressed quickly.
- Projects must propose a time-bound intervention in one of the following countries: Algeria, Cyprus, Egypt, Greece, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Libya, Morocco, The Palestinian Territories, Tunisia, Turkey, and Yemen.
Applications
Applications will be considered on a rolling basis. Apply now by clicking here .
CAORC Member Centers represent the following countries:
Afghanistan, Algeria, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Cambodia, Cyprus, Egypt, Georgia, Greece, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Italy, Jordan, Mexico, Mongolia, Morocco, Nepal, Pakistan, Palestine, Senegal, Sri Lanka, Tunisia, Turkey, and Yemen
Full Scholarship Opportunity to Study Arabic this Summer
SALAM 2018: Summer Arabic Language and Media Program
The Sultan Qaboos Cultural Center (SQCC) is delighted to announce its 2018 Summer Arabic Language and Media (SALAM) program, a fully-funded intensive Arabic language scholarship program in the Sultanate of Oman. SQCC supports Arabic language study for U.S. students through its annual SALAM program. This intensive Arabic language program will allow students to gain a deeper knowledge of Arabic, while becoming familiar with Omani history and culture.
Eligibility: All applicants must be U.S. citizens, enrolled in a degree seeking program (BA, MA or PhD) in spring 2018, and have completed four semesters (or the equivalent) of university-level Arabic coursework.
Program dates: 24 June – 9 August 2018
Location: Manah, Oman
Cost: SQCC will cover international travel to and from Washington, D.C. and Muscat, Oman, program language classes, room, board, SALAM-sponsored travel for weekend excursions, and all entrance fees for program activities. Students will be required to purchase international health and medical evacuation insurance, and arrange travel to and from Washington, D.C. and their home city.
Classes: Held 8:00 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. Sunday to Thursday.
Outside of class: Students will have access to Omani peer language partners, organized weekend trips around Oman, extracurricular activities, and weekly lectures.
Housing: Shared student housing, provided by the program.
The program also provides: Three meals a day, transportation to and from student housing and the university, internet access, and laundry and gym facilities onsite.
To submit an application, or for more information,
please visit the SALAM page on the SQCC website.
Applications due 31 December 2017
SQCC is dedicated to educating the peoples of the U.S. and Oman about the breadth and richness of our two cultures. SQCC promotes mutual respect and understanding between our nations and strives to educate a new generation of culturally sensitive and knowledgeable citizens in each society.
