[ecrea] Ph.D. positions with stipend in interdisciplinary "Varieties of Science" Narrative

These positions may be of interest to you or your students—please 
circulate! (Apologies for multiple mails, but we have now reopened two 
positions and added a new one.)

*Ph.D.**positions with **three-year **stipends are available in the 
interdisciplinary research project “**Varieties of Science Narrative,” 
*a new cluster of interlinked projects within the Fiction Meets Science 
research program in northwestern Germany (www.fictionmeetsscience.org 
<http://www.fictionmeetsscience.org>). These projects will examine 
narrative portrayals of science—both fictional and non-fictional—in 
various forms and media, focusing on the global dimensions and diverse 
regional contexts of science and its place in society. Applicants should 
have backgrounds in sociology, literature studies, cultural studies, 
STS, media and communication studies, environmental studies, Asian 
studies, or a related field.

Fellowships are currently available for the following sub-projects (See 
www.fictionmeetsscience.org/ccm/content/news-and-events/news/fms-ii-varieties-of-science-narrative/ 
<http://www.fictionmeetsscience.org/ccm/content/news-and-events/news/fms-ii-varieties-of-science-narrative/> 
for official position announcements with details, deadlines, and 
application instructions):

*1. Transcultural Mobility of Scientists and Science in the Contemporary 
Anglophone Science Novel*

Students interested in the Anglophone science novel and the global 
dimensions of science are invited to apply for a doctoral research 
fellowship in English Literatures.

Advisor: Anton Kirchhofer 
<http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/en/anton-kirchhofer/>, Professor of English 
Literature in the Institute for British and American Literary and 
Cultural Studies at the University of Oldenburg and a co-director of 
Fiction Meets Science.

Deadline: 11 April 2018

**

*2. Narrating Science as a World-Making Activity*

This projectconducts a case study on the small island state of 
Singapore, examining how and to what extent narratives (in the sense of 
stories, whether fictional or journalistic) about climate change may 
move from popular culture into the political discourses, logics, and 
reasoning that influence policy making. The project requires several 
months of field research in Singapore. The project language is English; 
knowledge of Singaporean Chinese, Tamil, or Malay would be welcome, but 
is not required. Advisor: Anna-Katharina Hornidge, Professor for Social 
Sciences in the Marine Tropicsat the University of Bremen and the 
Leibniz Centre for Tropical Marine Research (Development and Knowledge 
Sociology 
<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.leibniz-2Dzmt.de_en_research_scientific-2Ddepartments_social-2Dsciences_wg-2Ddevelopment-2Dand-2Dknowledge-2Dsociology.html&d=DwMFAg&c=imBPVzF25OnBgGmVOlcsiEgHoG1i6YHLR0Sj_gZ4adc&r=7E0gzyRTKzcJ6HOMH5HFT07rPIWQ78d3NHUH-195eOI&m=3LHrSDg9mtJFyHeTBv1TZDXHyHk7UxExa8Pwl6YlF78&s=G5umn6zT6rmGm9wXUF3eiw8fZxpItxvnJo_SQS6e-og&e=> 
working group).

**

*3. Science in Postcolonial Speculative Fiction: 
Nature/Politics/Economies Reimagined*

This projectexamines the contemporary rise of utopian/dystopian 
postcolonial speculative fiction and asks how a focus on the “Global 
South” is influencing imaginings of future societies and the role of 
science at the nexus of nature, politics, and economics. Research will 
consider how cultural products that imagine future societies can be read 
as social critique and related to sociological knowledge. Project 
language is English; knowledge of German would be a welcome asset, but 
is not required. Advisor: Sina Farzin, Assistant Professor of Sociology 
at the University of Hamburg.


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