The Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis

invites applications from all disciplines for post-doctoral and senior
resident fellowships to be held during the academic year of 2008-9 from
individuals working on Vernacular Epistemologies.

This interdisciplinary project considers forms of knowledge that diverge
from, challenge, entangle with, and complicate fundamental categories or
apparatuses most obviously identifiable with European Enlightenment. In
thinking of and with 'vernacular' practices and knowledges, the seminar
will also explore processes by which categories and performances were
rendered 'parochial' or 'local' by taxonomic projects of others. By this
means, we hope to ensure that contested and mutable categories from social
pasts, even when translated and incorporated into cosmopolitan epistemes,
remain salient for creative research and narration of complex histories.

In 2008-9, the seminar will discuss Time and Value. We will explore plural
notions of time in the past, its valence in music, art, notions of history
and narration, their differential imbrications with shifting ideas of
value, historical subjectivity, and social life itself. Both categories
offer rich potential for rethinking relationships between ethics and
politics, exchange and redistribution, forms of numeracy, facticity and
regimes of truth. (The Vernacular Epistemologies project will explore the
theme of Body/Soul Mind in 2009-2010) We welcome scholars of all
disciplines, geographic and temporal contexts, from within and outside the
North American academy.

Applicants need not be US citizens. Rutgers is an AA/EOE institution.
The deadline for applications is December 15, 2007. Applicants and those
interested in presenting a paper related to this project during 2008/2009
should contact the project directors:
Profs. Julie Livingston & Indrani Chatterjee
Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis
88 College Ave
New Brunswick, NJ 08901-8542
USA
Email: <mailto:rcharci.rutgers.edu>rcharci.rutgers.edu, or visit
http://rcha.rutgers.edu

Lynn Shanko
Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis
88 College Avenue
New Brunswick NJ, 08901
732-932-8701 (voice)
732-932-8708 (fax)
rcharci.rutgers.edu
http://rcha.rutgers.edu