The College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Aberdeen is
offering funding for postgraduate students interested in pursuing
research on the topic of "Translating Cultures: Literature, Music and
the Arts in a World" URL:
www.abdn.ac.uk/cass/graduate/funding/research/translating-cultures
a four-year interdisciplinary project that sets out to explore how the
arts matter in an age of globalization. Through a series of case
studies that take up the theme of ?translating cultures? from a
variety of perspectives and with regard to different geopolitical
constellations, this project seeks to illuminate the ways in which the
arts play a significant role in contemporary societies. We invite
applications from students from a wide range of humanities and social
science disciplines, including those interested in pursuing
practice-based PhDs in Music, and Film and Visual Culture. Candidates
interested in joining the project who do not yet have a masters
degree, can apply for funding to take one of our research preparation
masters:
the MLitt in Comparative Literature
www.abdn.ac.uk/sll/complit
or the MLitt in Visual Culture
www.abdn.ac.uk/visualculture .

This project draws on existing research strengths at the University of
Aberdeen, such as Francophone studies, which has been singled out by
successive RAE sub-panels as truly distinctive and ground-breaking.
?Translating Cultures? forges links between this research focus and
strengths in other areas, such as Latin American Studies, Visual
Culture, Cultural Sociology and Electroacoustic Music.

The supervisory team is drawn from a number of disciplines, including
Anthropology, Film and Visual Culture, French, German, Hispanic
Studies, History, History of Art, Music, Museum Studies and Sociology.
Possible research titles and topics may include the following:

- Minor Cinema and Art;
- The Politics of Landscape (Film and Photography);
- Investigating Art as Thought in the Literature, Film and Music
of the Haitian, Antillean and West African traditions;
- Writing (in) the Museum: Constructing Knowledge Through Text;
- The Role of the Art Institute in Oil Cities;
- The City as a Space of Experiment;
- The Laboratory as a Creative and Critical Site in Contemporary Art;
- Cinema and the Construction of the Critical Spectator;
- Performing Self and Community;
- Spaces for Creation / Spaces for Performance: A Study in
Electroacoustic Music;
- Thinking the Archive;
- Developing a New Concept of the Working-Class Aesthetic.

For further information, see
http://www.abdn.ac.uk/cass/graduate/funding/research/translating-cultures

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Dr Amy Bryzgel
History of Art
King's College
University of Aberdeen
AB24 3UB Aberdeen
United Kingdom

The University of Aberdeen is a charity registered in Scotland, No SC013683.
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