Fully Funded Humboldt Research Fellowship in Germany 

2018 – 2019

This is a research program which call for doctoral researchers to come and spend extended period of research in Germany. The period of the research program will last long from 6 to 24 months. Please kindly check out for your own good.

Where: Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung, Germany

Nationality: International doctoral researchers

Number of applicants: This program select around 500 applicants

Award for the fellowship: The fellowship will be provided 2,650 EUR per months during the period.

Eligible:

• A doctoral researchers who have at least completed their degree more than 4 years already
• Have an academic publications reviewed according to international standards and printed in journals and/or by publishing houses.
• Shall have a confirmation from the  academic host at a research institution in Germany that the applicants have research facilities that are available and mentoring agreement and a detailed expert’s report 
• Applicant shall have commence knowledge about humanities or social sciences and physicians in German
•  Applicant must have good commence in using English and German (Option)
• Applicants shall never have spent any time more than 6 months in Germany before.

Requirements

1. Doctorate or comparable academic degree (Ph.D., C.Sc. or equivalent), completed less than four years prior to the date of application. Candidates who have nearly completed their doctoral degrees are eligible to apply provided that they submit the manuscript of their dissertation or publications containing the results of their dissertation.
2. Academic publications reviewed according to international standards and printed in journals and/or by publishing houses.
3. Confirmation that research facilities are available and mentoring agreement and a detailed expert's report by an academic host at a research institution in Germany. Details of the research outline including information on the intended duration of the fellowship must be agreed with the intended host before applying.
4. Expert reviews from the doctoral supervisor and one other academic qualified to give well-founded comments on the applicant's eligibility, preferably including a reviewer not working at the applicant's own institute.
5. Language skills: scholars in the humanities or social sciences and physicians must have a good knowledge of German if it is necessary to carry out the research successfully; otherwise a good knowledge of English; scientists and engineers must have a good knowledge of German or English.
6. Applications to continue a research stay already underway can only be considered in exceptional cases. The applicant may not have spent an extended period in Germany prior to application. Potential applicants who have been in Germany for more than six months at the time of application are not eligible to apply.
7. The Humboldt-Foundation assumes that candidates will abide the Rules of Good Scientific Practice and the legally-binding principles of scientific ethics during the application and sponsorship periods.

How to apply:

Applicants can only submit their application online.

Click here to go to online application form

Click here to go to official website

http://aseanop.com

International Conference Transatlantic Connection 

Jan 10-14,2018

Drew University, Ireland

CALL FOR PAPERS 

The Irish Studies Program at Drew University is pleased to announce the Call For Papers for the Transatlantic Connections Conference V, which takes place in Ireland January 10-14 2018.  The theme of this year’s Transatlantic Connections Conference is “Kindred Spirits / Dáimh”.  This theme will be explored across a range of interdisciplinary panels, workshops, keynote talks and cultural events. The Transatlantic Connections Conference will be an opportunity to explore cultures (broadly defined) and the interactions and intersections between them. The focus of the conference will be on cultures that are “outside the mainstream,” and the goal is to foster a sense of shared kinship and celebration amongst representatives of humanity’s cultural diversity.

About the conference

The Transatlantic Connections Conference will be an opportunity to explore cultures and the interactions and intersections between them. The focus of the conference will be on cultures that are “outside the mainstream,” and the goal is to foster a sense of shared kinship and celebration amongst representatives of humanity’s cultural diversity. Our conference model is different from most academic symposia.

Our conference model is different from most academic symposia. Our panels are open to the public, and presenters include undergraduate and post-graduate students, academics, professionals and enthusiasts in a variety of cultural pursuits.  This is a multidisciplinary conference, and papers are sought in the fields of History, Literature, Peace Studies, Architecture & Design, Minority Languages, Irish Language, Sustainability and Ecology, Medical Humanities, Activism and Protest, Literature, Food Studies, and Music Studies. Please see below, and click on each icon for the specific CFP for each area of study. 

The Irish Studies Program at Drew University, in association with the Institute of Study Abroad Ireland, is delighted to announce the fifth annual Drew University Transatlantic Connections Conference in Ireland. The theme of this year’s Transatlantic Connections Conference is “Kindred Spirits / Dáimh”.  This theme will be explored in an interdisciplinary way across a range of panels, workshops, keynote talks and cultural events.

​Multidisciplinary

​Our conference model is different from most academic symposia. ​Our panels are open to the public, and presenters include undergraduate and post-graduate students, academics, professionals and enthusiasts in a variety of cultural pursuits. Fields of Studies for the conference include; 

History, Cinema and Media,  Peace Studies, Architecture and Design, Minority Languages, Irish Language, Sustainability and Ecology, Medical Humanities, Activism and Protest, Literature, Food Studies, and Music Studies. ​

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Proposal Details

Paper proposals should not exceed 400 words in length, and must be accompanied by a short biography of the proposer. Paper proposals must be uploaded below. 

1. All proposals must be uploaded by October 1st 2017 in order to be considered for the conference.
2. All presenters must register as conference presenters and pay registration fee.
3. Accepted applicants will be informed no later than October 20, 2017. 
4. For more information on the conference, email drewtransatlantic@gmail.com

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Undergraduate Panels

Undergraduate students are invited to submit proposals to present completed research papers/projects, research-in-progress, or roundtable discussions on any topic related to the general fields listed above. We invite faculty from Drew University, and from other institutions to organise, chair and serve as discussants; each undergraduate presenter will have 8-10 minutes to speak, with a maximum of six speakers per undergraduate panel. These sessions are offer an opportunity for undergraduate students to gain experience in conference presenting, and to receive feedback from their peers and senior colleagues. Please click here for further information on faculty-led undergraduate panel submissions 

Scholars Panels

The conference organisers invite both twenty-minute paper proposals and complete panel submissions from postgraduates, early career academics and established scholars from a range of disciplines, as well as experts and representatives in related fields on topics relevant to the theme of ‘Kindred / Dáimh’

The conference also welcomes proposals for innovative panels and sessions that do not follow the usual format of academic paper presentations, such as film and media presentations, interview conversations, and others. Proposals for innovative sessions should be sent directly to the Drew Conference Team drewtransatlantic@gmail.com

Location 

The location is in Bundoran, in County Donegal, an incredibly cultural and scenic county, sandwiched between the province of Northern Ireland to the east, the counties of Sligo and Leitrim to the south, and the wild Atlantic Ocean all along the west coast. The North and North West of Ireland is home to many small communities with shared narratives of oppression, division, cultural revival and conflict resolution, and this extraordinarily friendly, beautiful and historic setting provides a unique conference experience for the visiting scholar.

For More Details Visit us-https://www.taccireland.com/

Fulbright Student Fellowships

 2018-2019

 (Deadline: June 1, 2017)    .

The Public Affairs Section of the U.S. Embassy is pleased to announce the opportunity to compete for 2018-2019 Fulbright Student Fellowships for graduate study in the United States leading to a Master’s or Doctoral degree. Fellowships are awarded on a competitive basis to qualified candidates under the auspices of the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Program, subject to the availability of funding.



Deadline: June 1, 2017



The Fulbright Program was established in 1946 by the U.S. Congress as a means “to increase mutual understanding between the people of the United States and the people of other countries.” For more than sixty years the Fulbright Program has provided opportunities for foreign nationals to study, teach, and pursue research in the U.S.

To be eligible, applicants must:

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• Have a strong academic background and a record of excellence in previous studies;
• Have completed a Bachelor’s degree from a recognized college or university for those applying to study in the U.S. for a Master’s degree program, or have a Master’s degree from a recognized college or university for those applying to study in the U.S. for a Doctoral program;
• Be proficient in English (a minimum score of 570 on TOEFL or TOEFL ITP, or 230 on computer-based TOEFL, or 88 on internet based TOEFL, or 7.0 on IELTS);
• Demonstrate the ability to adapt readily to a foreign environment;
• Be in good health and able to undergo a rigorous study program; and
• Not have extensive experience living or studying in the United States.

Fulbright Student Fellowship grants provide round-trip transportation to the United States, as well as tuition fees, and living expenses for full-time graduate study. Grant provisions do not include financial support for dependents.

Application Instructions

Applicants who do not already have a minimum TOEFL score of 570 or equivalent should plan to take a proficiency test prior to the application deadline. Proof of English proficiency must accompany the complete application form. Applicants will be deemed ineligible without providing evidence of English proficiency.
All costs associated with English language tests are borne by the applicants themselves.
Students receiving a 570 or above on the TOEFL ITP or equivalent are invited to apply for the Fulbright program online. The application is available here. The Fulbright Selection Committee will only accept online applications, which are due by June 1, 2017.  Please read instructions below for completing the Fulbright Student Program application.
Applicants must submit all required supporting documents and test score reports directly to the online application. For further information, please contact:
Mr. Ou Socheat
Public Affairs Specialist
Tel: 023-728-248
Email: PASExchanges@state.gov

Instructions for Completing the Fulbright Student Program Application

Read all instructions carefully before completing the application.

Step 1: Be sure you understand the program requirements for submitting an application

Step 2: Record user ID and password in a safe place

Step 3: Complete the application

Step 4: Print supplemental forms

Step 5: Application inspector

Step 6: Review and print your application

Step 7: Submit your application

Step 8: Track your application for missing documents

Step 9: Supporting documentation needed to complete your application

Other Important Information

For More Details Please Visit us -https://kh.usembassy.gov/fulbright-student-fellowships-2018-2019/

Call for Applicants:Funded Global Frontiers - An interdisciplinary Winter School

Tübingen, Germany, 15-17 November 2017

Call for Applicants

• An interdisciplinary Winter School for doctoral students and early-career postdoctorates, hosted by the Institute for Modern History, University of Tübingen in Germany, 15–17 November 2017
• featuring a keynote lecture by Dr. Matthew W. Mosca (University of Washington, Seattle), author of the highly acclaimed From Frontier Policy to Foreign Policy: The Question of India and the Transformation of Geopolitics in Qing China (2013).
• application deadline: 30 June 2017
• funded by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and the Institutional Strategy of the University of Tübingen (ZUK 63)

Concept

At the annual meeting of the American Historical Association in Chicago on July 12, 1893, Frederick Jackson Turner announced the closing of the United States frontier and "with its going … the first period of American history." It was the unclaimed West, he argued, that distinguished the nation's citizens from their European ancestors, "strip[ping] off the garments of civilization and array[ing] him in the hunting shirt and the moccasin." Now, for the first time in four hundred years, its residents would need to find something beyond "the stubborn American environment" to stimulate their minds and promote their united character.

Despite—or perhaps because of—Turner's remarks, the idea of the frontier has lingered in both popular and scholarly imaginations. Frontier imagery shapes the stories we tell of medieval and early modern European encounters with the Near East, indigenous resistance movements during the 1800s and 1900s, twentieth-century German imperialism, the global Space Race of the 1960s, and, most recently, the PEGIDA movement and the refugee crises of 2015 and 2016. More critically, the concept has pushed us to come to terms with different types of boundaries (geographic, social, racial, ethnic, cultural, etc.) as well as their effectiveness in dividing and uniting populations.

This three-day intensive Winter School is aimed at Ph.D. students and early postdoctorates working on the themes of borders, boundaries, and frontiers with a focus on the fifteenth through twenty-first centuries. It particularly aims to reunite the research of scholars working on these concepts across disciplines, including but not limited to the Arts, Anthropology, Ethnography, Geography, History, Literature, and various Area Studies, and to promote participants' sharing of their practical use of these frameworks in ways not limited by historical periods or spaces.

We seek proposals for presentations of 20 to 25 minutes in length, which explore demarcations, experiences, and imaginings of the frontier around the globe. Papers may be theoretical in nature or may assess the meanings of these ideas within specific communities. Motivating questions might include:

• Can we define the frontier? Does this definition carry around the globe and across time?
• Who can claim the frontier?
• What is the role of nature along the frontier?
• Are frontiers best understood as zones of demarcation and separation (borders) or of social and cultural interaction (borderlands)?
• Are frontiers less—or even unmonitored spaces? Or are they, rather, spaces subject to particular efforts of regulation, disciplining, control, and surveillance—and, if so, by whom?
• What has been the relationship between the frontier and concepts of civility?
• How are frontiers imagined in times or regions distant from their actual occurrence?

Funding

The organizers will cover travel costs to/from Tübingen (up to an agreed limit), accommodation and lunches for 10 successful applicants, who will present on their current research projects. An additional 10 individuals will be eligible to receive part-funding as participants.

The working language of the school is English.

Application and Selection Procedure

The Winter School will offer financial assistance to a maximum of 20 participants. Those interested in joining the program should submit the following documents by email to globalfrontiers2017@histsem.uni-tuebingen.de:

• a brief CV (max. 2 pages)
• a title/abstract of the proposed presentation (max. 500 words)
• a cover letter placing the applicant's proposal within their larger research project and identifying their motivations for participating in the program (max. 2 pages)

All documents should be submitted in English, preferably as a single PDF file.

The deadline for applications is Friday, 30 June 2017. Notifications will be made in late July.

Questions can be directed to the conference email provided above or to any of the organizers.

Contact Info: 

Daniel Menning, University of Tübingen, daniel.menning@uni-tuebingen.de

Kristin Condotta Lee, Washington University in St. Louis, condotta@wustl.edu

Tobias P. Graf, University of Tübingen/Heidelberg University, tobias-peter.graf@uni.tuebingen.de

Contact Email: 

globalfrontiers2017@histsem.uni-tuebingen.de

URL: 

https://www.uni-tuebingen.de/index.php?id=96422&L=1

International Interdisciplinary Conference on

“Intersemiotic Translation, Adaptation, Transposition

University of Cyprus, on November 10-12, 2017.

The first international interdisciplinary conference on “Intersemiotic Translation, Adaptation, Transposition: Saying Almost the Same Thing?” will be held at the University of Cyprus, on November 10-12, 2017. 

The conference aims at bringing together scholars from three different disciplines, Translation Studies, Semiotics, and Adaptation Studies, all of which look into intersemiotic crossovers. Join us in

Cyprus to investigate common ground and divergence, as well as potential theoretical osmosis across disciplinary boundaries. We welcome abstracts on textual transfer across semiotic systems, including ballet, opera, film and theater, comics, graphic novels and manga, photography and painting, video-games, website localization, hypertexts and multimodal texts, to name but a few.

Conference theme

The three disciplines of Adaptation Studies, Semiotics, and Translation Studies share a common interest in the transference of texts across modes of signification such as textual, visual, oral, aural, gestural or kinesic. More particularly, Semiotics looks into the interpretation of signs in various semiotic systems, Intersemiotic Translation (Jakobson 1959)  renders linguistic texts into nonverbal signs, and the study of adaptations can include any generic transposition of a text into other modes of representation. There is an obvious overlap here.

Nevertheless, although in principle at least these three disciplines share common ground, their research seems to focus on different subfields. Most of the work by semioticians focuses on non-linguistic semiotic systems, Translation Studies has traditionally focused on the interlingual transfer of texts, and Adaptation Studies usually deals with cinematic or theatrical versions of literary texts.

Regarding the theoretical approaches they apply there has been very little crossover. After some early promising voices such as Holmes (1972), Reiß (1971), and Toury (1994/1986), the disciplines have followed parallel paths, which have converged little.

In the recent past, though, translation as a practice has undergone dramatic change, especially with the advent of the Internet and technological advances: instead of the traditional rendering of written texts across languages, translation now encompasses much more dynamic forms of multimodal texts and media, making the expansion of the theory indispensable in order to account for them (Brems et al. 2014). A burgeoning new field of applied research is flourishing, a field which includes AV translation, localization, subtitling, opera surtitling, dubbing, sign language interpreting, audio description, live subtitling, fansubbing, video-games, subfields that by default entail a much more expanded understanding of text. Translation Studies has grown impressively to address them theoretically. Nevertheless, reaching out to semiotic approaches to translation (Stecconi 2007, Marais and Kull 2016) or to Adaptation Studies (Zatlin 2006, Milton 2009, 2010, Raw 2012, Cattrysse 2014, Krebs 2014) has been comparatively limited. Considerably more has been done by semioticians looking into translation (Gorlée 1994 and 2004, Fabbri 1998, Eco and Nergaard 2001, Eco 2003, Petrilli 2003 and 2007, Torop 2000 and 2002, Sütiste and Torop 2007, Dusi 2010 and 2015, Kourdis 2015).

This conference will be a forum for bringing together scholars investigating intersemiotic translation under whatever name and guise from various theoretical backgrounds and disciplines in order to promote mutual understanding and theoretical cross-fertilization.

Research topics can include the transfer of texts between any semiotic systems, including music, ballet and dance, opera, film and theater, comics, graphic novels, and manga, photography and painting, video-games, website localization, hypertexts and multimodal texts, to name but a few.

Theoretical questions discussed might include, although will not necessarily be limited to:

Intersemiotic translation and its social dimension

Intersemiosis and culture

Transmutation and ethics

(Non-) equivalence, information loss and gain

Translation as adaptation

Nomenclature and definitions: transmutation, transcreation, transposition, transduction.

Papers that address key theoretical issues from an interdisciplinary approach will be particularly welcome.

Panel proposals will also be considered; however, the individual submissions will be evaluated by the Scientific Committee.

Submissions should include: an abstract of the proposed paper of up to 300-words, along with the author’s name, communication information, and short bio-bibliographical note. Abstracts should be sent to info@intersemiosis-cy.com with the indication “Intersemiosis Conference Proposal” typed on the subject line.

One of the aims of this conference is to produce a publication that reflects on the potential for future collaborations among the three disciplines.

Conference language: English

Deadline for submission of abstracts: May 20, 2017

Notification of acceptance: June 15, 2017

Deadline for registration: September 15, 2017

Contact Us

Email:info@intersemiosis-cy.com
vasso@ucy.ac.cy
http://www.intersemiosis-cy.com/index.php/en/about-iaba