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Dear colleague,
We are pleased to invite for applications for
five postdoctoral fellowships in the framework of the research program
Zukunftsphilologie: Revisiting the Canons of Textual Scholarship
for the academic year 2013/14 in Berlin.
We kindly ask you to spread the information about the fellowships among
scholars interested in primary textual scholarship and in varieties of
philology in Asia, Africa, the Middle East as well as in Europe beyond the
medieval/modern divide. For the year 2013/14, research projects focusing on
major intellectual debates, polemics, correspondences, and transregional
encounters are especially welcome.
Please find the announcement below as well as here.
Zukunftsphilologie is directed by Angelika Neuwirth and Islam Dayeh (both
Freie Universitaet Berlin), and is supported by an international group of
scholars, including Manan Ahmed (Columbia University), Michael Allan
(University of Oregon), Whitney Cox (School of Oriental and African Studies,
London), Ananya Jahanara Kabir (University of Leeds), Marcel Lepper
(Deutsches Literaturarchiv Marbach), Markus Messling (University of
Potsdam), Pascale Rabault-Feuerhahn (CNRS Paris) and Nicolai Sinai
(University of Oxford). The program is associated with and located at the
Friedrich Schlegel Graduate School for Literary Studies at Freie
Universitaet Berlin.
For more information please visit:
www.zukunftsphilologie.de
Yours sincerely,

Islam Dayeh
(Academic Coordinator of Zukunftsphilologie/
Friedrich Schlegel Graduate School of Literary Studies)
Georges Khalil
(Academic Coordinator Forum Transregionale Studien)

Forum Transregionale Studien
c/o Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin
Wallotstrasse 19, 14193 Berlin

Telefon +49 (0)30 89 001-256
Telefax +49 (0)30 89 001-200

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www.zukunftsphilologie.de
www.forum-transregionale-studien.de

Call for Applications

Call for Applications
5 Postdoctoral Fellowships for the Academic Year 2013/14
(Location: Berlin / Closing Date: 15 January 2013)
The Berlin-based Forum Transregionale Studien invites scholars to apply for
5 postdoctoral fellowships in the framework of the research program
Zukunftsphilologie: Revisiting the Canons of Textual Scholarship

Zukunftsphilologie is a Berlin-based research program, which supports
research in marginalized and undocumented textual practices and literary
cultures with the aim of integrating texts and scholarly traditions from
Asia, Africa, and the Middle East as well as from Europe itself. The program
takes as its point of departure the increasingly growing concern with the
global significance of philology and the potential of philology to challenge
exclusivist notions of the self and the canon.

The title “Zukunftsphilologie” [Future Philology] is inspired by the 1872
polemic between the classicist Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff and
Friedrich Nietzsche on the method and meaning of classical studies. The
program draws on recent calls for a return to philology as particularly
emphasized by Sheldon Pollock in his essay “Future Philology?” and the late
Edward Said’s essay “The Return to Philology”.

The program encourages research in the following areas: the genealogy and
transformations of philological practice, philology’s place in the system of
knowledge (e.g. its relation to science, theology, and jurisprudence),
philology and the university, and philology and empire. Zukunftsphilologie
aims to examine the role mobility, calamities, expulsions, and natural
catastrophes play in the dissemination and globalization of knowledge. How
does the mobility of scholars, books, and manuscripts bring about scientific
innovation (e.g. in tenth-century Baghdad, during the European Renaissance,
or during the Ming dynasty)? What types of knowledge systems are also
displaced by these processes of reorganization? What transformations and
translations accompany such mobilizations?

Zukunftsphilologie is associated with and located at the Friedrich Schlegel
Graduate School for Literary Studies at Freie Universitaet Berlin. The
program is directed by Angelika Neuwirth and Islam Dayeh (both Freie
Universitaet Berlin), and is supported by an international group of
scholars, including Manan Ahmed (Columbia University), Michael Allan
(University of Oregon), Whitney Cox (School of Oriental and African Studies,
London), Ananya Jahanara Kabir (University of Leeds), Marcel Lepper
(Deutsches Literaturarchiv Marbach), Markus Messling (University of
Potsdam), Pascale Rabault-Feuerhahn (CNRS Paris) and Nicolai Sinai
(University of Oxford).

Candidates

The fellowships are intended primarily for scholars of the major linguistic
and philological traditions from Africa, Asia and Europe (for example,
Arabic, Hebrew, Chinese, Japanese, Persian, Sanskrit, Syriac, Turkish),
whose research explores linguistic practices and disciplinary entanglements
in intellectual and literary history, comparative linguistics, philology,
religion and the history of science. The fellowships are intended for
scholars who currently reside outside Berlin and who wish to carry out their
research projects in the framework of the program Zukunftsphilologie in
Berlin. Applicants should be at the postdoctoral level and should have
obtained their doctorate within the last seven years. Fellows are given the
opportunity to pursue research projects of their own choice, provided the
topic falls within the research agenda of the program. Fellows are expected
to participate in the regular lecture series, as well as in workshops,
conferences and summer or winter academies, organized by the program and by
the Forum Transregionale Studien. The program seeks to create a context of
intellectual synergy, where scholars from various textual and philological
traditions can work together comparatively and develop a common language
necessary for an engagement in more fundamental political and cultural
concerns.
Projects

Individual research projects should fall within the intellectual framework
of Zukunftsphilologie. Projects should have a comparative perspective,
whereby the plurality of textual practices, polyphonic textuality, and the
trajectories and genealogies of philological traditions are explored.
Research projects focusing on intellectual debates, polemics,
correspondences, and transregional encounters are especially welcome. In
revisiting important philological debates, the goal is not to merely
evaluate the argumentative worth of these debates, but to reflect on the
wider cultural and political context in which these debates emerged and how
they have shaped our knowledge of the past. Moreover, an examination of
philological debates will shed light on marginal philological traditions and
undocumented intellectual positions as well as the ways in which canonical
positions were consolidated and normalized.

Fellowships

The fellowships start on 1 October 2013 and end on 31 July 2014. In certain
cases, shorter fellowship terms may be considered. Postdoctoral fellows will
receive a monthly stipend of € 2.500 plus supplements depending on their
personal situation. Organizational support regarding visa, insurances,
housing, etc. will be provided. Successful applicants will be fellows of the
program Zukunftsphilologie at the Forum Transregionale Studien and Associate
Members of the Friedrich Schlegel Graduate School of Literary Studies.
Through this association they will be integrated into the Department of
Philosophy and Humanities at the Freie Universitaet Berlin and will have
access to an academic milieu of literary and philological studies as well as
to libraries and other research facilities.

Application Procedure

To apply, please send the following documents in English exclusively by
e-mail as separate word or PDF files:
— a curriculum vitae
— a project description (not longer than five pages), stating what you will
work on in Berlin if granted a fellowship
— a sample of scholarly work (maximum 20 pages from an article, conference
paper, or dissertation chapter)
— a letter of recommendation from one academic faculty. It can be sent as a
separate e-mail.
The application should be submitted in English and should be received by 15
January 2013, addressed to:
zukunftsp...@trafo-berlin.de
Forum Transregionale Studien
c/o Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin
Attn: Georges Khalil
Wallotstraße 19, D-14193 Berlin
Germany

Institutional Framework
The Forum Transregionale Studien is a research platform of the Land of
Berlin designed to promote research that connects systematic and
region-specific questions in a perspective that addresses entanglements and
interactions beyond national, cultural or regional frames. The Forum works
in tandem with established institutions and networks engaged in
transregional studies and is supported by an association of the directors of
universities, research institutes and networks mainly based in Berlin. It
supports four research programs: Zukunftsphilologie: Revisiting the Canons
of Textual Scholarship, Rechtskulturen: Confrontations Beyond Comparison,
Global Prayers: Redemption and Liberation in the City, and Europe in the
Middle East—The Middle East in Europe. The Forum Transregionale Studien
cooperates with the Max Weber Stiftung and is funded by the Senate of
Berlin.
Information
For more information on Zukunftsphilologie, please visit:
— www.zukunftsphilologie.de
For more information on the Forum Transregionale Studien, please visit:
— www.forum-transregionale-studien.de



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