STIP 21.10.2011

Art, Space & Mobility in Early Ages of Globalization, KHI Florence

KHI Florenz, Max- Planck-Institut, 01.02.2012
Bewerbungsschluss: 20.11.2011

Mirela Ljevakovic

Art, Space and Mobility in Early Ages of Globalization.
The Mediterranean, Central Asia and the Indian Subcontinent (MeCAIS)
400-1650

Call for Application, Residential and Non Residential Fellowships

The Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florence (Max-Planck-Institute) is
pleased to announce the start of the third year of the research program
"Art, Space and Mobility in Early Ages of Globalization: The
Mediterranean, Central Asia and the Indian Subcontinent (MeCAIS)
400-1650". The project is directed by Gerhard Wolf, Hannah Baader and
Avinoam Shalem, in collaboration with The Getty Foundation. It offers
up to:

(1) Three non-residential doctoral/ postdoctoral fellowships,
beginning February 1, 2012

(2) Two residential doctoral / postdoctoral fellowships (KHI ,
Florence), beginning approximately February 1, 2012.

The project rethinks the postcolonial agenda through the study of
premodern world orders and historical concepts of space and mobility,
paying special attention to artistic objects, monuments and issues of
cultural heritage. The fellowship program is intended for young
scholars who are working towards a Ph.D., as well as recent graduates
who obtained a Ph.D. no earlier than 2008. The fellowships are mainly
open to archaeologists, art historians, and, in exceptional cases, to
scholars of related fields such as anthropology, history, philology and
religious studies. The program especially welcomes applications from
young scholars who focus on Mediterranean countries and on Asia. We
seek projects with a broad appeal grounded in a thorough study of
objects, and fellows whose interests focus on intercultural and
interartistic agency; the mobility of ideas, artists and works of art;
and the creation or transformation of spaces within the chronological
and topographical framework of the program. Applicants should be
interested in premodern models of globalization while adopting an
interdisciplinary perspective in their study of artistic objects,
images and/or texts.

Participants are invited to take part in the creation of a research
network that will connect specialists in Western, Islamic, Byzantine,
Indian, Central and East Asian art. Projects may consider one of the
following questions according to the thematic focuses of the program:
(Trans)formations of Topographies; Spaces of Power and Religion;
Borderlines between Nature and Culture; Visual Culture and Systems of
Knowledge; Transforming Artistic Languages; Making, Remaking and
Exchanging: Art and its Techniques; Historiographies and Narratives.

(1) Non-residential fellowships: Research will primarily be conducted
at fellows' home institutions. At the same time, fellows will
participate in a series of workshops, seminars and a Summer School. On
these occasions, the working language is English. Fellowships are for
one year. Fellowship amounts follow international standards and vary
according to the specific conditions of applicants and their research
environments.

(2) Residential fellowships: Research will primarily be conducted at
the KHI, Florence (Max-Planck-Institute). Fellows will participate in a
series of workshops, seminars, a Summer School and the scientific
activities of the KHI, Florence.
Fellowships are for one year. Fellowship amounts follow international
standards and vary according to the specific conditions of applicants.

Applications should include curriculum vitae, a research proposal, one
substantial writing sample or a portfolio, one letter of recommendation
and a name of a second referee.
Applications should be sent via email to asmkhi.fi.it before November
20, 2011. Notifications of acceptance will be announced by December 20,
2011.

For further information please consult the KHI website:
http://www.khi.fi.it/en/forschung/projekte/projekte/projekt35/index.html

Quellennachweis:
STIP: Art, Space & Mobility in Early Ages of Globalization, KHI Florence. In: ArtHist.net, 21.10.2011. Letzter Zugriff 28.03.2024. <https://arthist.net/archive/2096>.

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