[colombiamigra] Fw: [SUNTA] CfA: "Currents of faith, places of history", 3 PhD Scholarships, 1 Postdoc position
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Subject: [SUNTA] CfA: "Currents of faith, places of history", 3 PhD
Scholarships, 1 Postdoc position
CALL FOR APPLICATIONS - 3 PhD Scholarships, 1 Postdoc position
Joint Research Programme: Currents of faith, places of history: religious
diasporas, connections, moral circumscriptions and world-making in the Atlantic
space
Starting date: October 1st, 2013
Duration: 3 years (36 months), fulltime for PhD-projects, part-time for
postdoc-project
The JRP Currents of faith, places of history: religious diasporas, connections,
moral circumscriptions and world-making in the Atlantic space, coordinated by
Ruy Blanes (ICS Lisbon, Univ. Bergen) with Birgit Meyer (Utrecht U.), David
Berliner (Univ. Libre de Bruxelles) and Ramon Sarró (Univ. Oxford), is an
international HERA-funded Joint Research Project that brings together a
multidisciplinary team of scholars. The central foci of this program are the
interconnections between religion, mobility, place and heritage in the Atlantic
space. We aim to rethink theories of Atlantic history by exploring three
dimensions of ‘religious diasporas’: connections, moral circumscriptions and
world-making.
Based on a partnership between universities in Portugal, Belgium, Netherlands,
Norway and the UK, the program brings together a team of senior and junior
scholars. Combining problems and methodologies sprung from social anthropology,
history and religious studies, we seek to synthesize an empirical ethnographic
methodology with a historical-comparative approach so as to explore ‘meaningful
histories’ in their cultural and religious manifestations.
The CURRENTS JRP is offering 3 PhD positions for students interested in
conducting field research and writing PhD theses on the topics under focus.
Next to this, it offers one postdoc position. PhD-project 1 will be located at
the Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Lisbon, Portugal, under
the research theme Encounters, Historical Acknowledgements and Moral Landscapes
Across the Atlantic (chaired by Ruy Blanes). More specifically, s/he will
conduct research on "grassroots prophetism, political interventions and
territorial heritagizations in contemporary South America". For more
information, contact Ruy Blanes (ruy.blanes@xxxxxxxxx).
PhD-project 2 will be located at the Institute of Social and Cultural
Anthropology of the University of Oxford, UK, under the research theme A King
in the Atlantic: Centripetal and Centrifugal Forces in the Making of a Kongo
Heritage. S/he will conduct research on how the historical connections between
the Kindgom of Kongo and the South American continent, which started with the
Atlantic slave trade, are remembered and recreated in today’s Brazil, a country
today discovering and reassessing its African heritage. For more information,
contact Ramon Sarró (ramon.sarro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) or visit
http://www.anthro.ox.ac.uk/prospective-students/funding/ahrc/#c9787.
PhD-project 3 will be located at the Laboratoire d’Anthropologie des Mondes
Contemporains, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium, under the research theme
Slave Trade Transatlantic Heritagescapes. Reconnections and World- Making in
Guinea-Conakry and the Mexican Gulf. More specifically, s/he will conduct
research on "Heritagized religious traditions in the Mexican Gulf / Caribbean".
For more information, contact David Berliner (David.Berliner@xxxxxxxxx).
The postdoc-project (part-time) will be located at the Department of Philosophy
and Religious Studies, Utrecht University, The Netherlands, under the research
theme Atlantic spirits. Religion, Heritage, and the Making of the Atlantic
World through Winti and Candomblé (chaired by Birgit Meyer). The research
project will focus on “Candomblé in Brazil”. For more information, contact
Birgit Meyer (b.meyer@xxxxx).
The 3 PhD students and the postdoc will conduct field research in different
locations. They will be based in their respective host institution, and will be
supervised by the project’s Principal Investigator in that institution. They
will be expected, however, to actively engage in JRP meetings, intellectual
exchanges, and academic events bringing the entire international team together.
Applicants should therefore be enthusiastic, well motivated and able to work
independently and as part of a collaborative research team.
Applicants are expected to hold a very good MA, MSc, or MPhil degree in
anthropology or a cognate field by the start of the three-year project. The
post-doc will have completed a PhD dissertation in anthropology, religious
studies or a cognate field by the start of the three-year project. Fieldwork
experience and familiarity with ethnographic research methods will be highly
valued. Relevant research experience in one of the contexts or topics of the
Joint Research Project will be particularly advantageous.
Informal enquiries about the overall Joint Research Project should be addressed
to ruy.blanes@xxxxxxxxx. Please contact each chair for specific instructions on
applications.
Applicants interested in either of these four positions will need to send the
respective chair a personal statement indicating why they think they are
particularly well prepared to undertake this research, a short research
proposal, letters of recommendation (two or three, depending on the University
they are applying for) and a sample of written work. Furthermore they will need
to satisfy the criteria for acceptance to the PhD programmes of each of the
universities involved. They will need to complete the respective application
forms available on the links provided by each chair upon initial contact.
Deadline: Friday 21 June 2013 (noon).
Shortlisted candidates may be invited for an interview.
Damiana Otoiu
Visiting Fellow, European Institute | LSEE Research on SEE
London School of Economics and Political Science
50, Lincoln's Inn Fields, Portsmouth Street
1st Floor, Room 50L 1.03
Ph.: 0044 (0) 78 4504 1229
E-mail: damiana.otoiu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, D.Otoiu@xxxxxxxxx
URL: http://www.cevipol.site.ulb.ac.be/fr/membres_otoiu-damianagabriela.html
http://www2.lse.ac.uk/europeanInstitute/research/LSEE/Whos_who/VisitingFellows.aspx
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