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

Mon Mar 26 15:01:01 GMT 2018




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

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*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).

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*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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