[Commlist] MOVES - Call for PhD applications: Migration and modernity: historical and cultural challenges

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS
EUROPEAN JOINT DOCTORATE (EJD) MOVES
MIGRATION AND MODERNITY: HISTORICAL AND CULTURAL CHALLENGES

MOVES IS A MARIE SKŁODOWSKA-CURIE INNOVATIVE TRAINING NETWORK PROJECT 
FUNDED BY THE EUROPEAN UNION UNDER THE HORIZON 2020 RESEARCH AND 
INNOVATION PROGRAMME.

- EJD MOVES has been designed to provide an understanding of the 
historical, cultural and social roots of migration as a necessary 
prerequisite for effective political solutions to present migration 
problems in global terms.
- EJD MOVES’ chief objective is comparative research into the social and 
cultural roots of mass mobility from the early to the late modernity. 
Past and present forms of migration are confronted and studied both as a 
condition of modernity and one of its greatest challenges.
- EJD MOVES’ research and training network is based on interdisciplinary 
collaboration between researchers in the Humanities and the Social 
Sciences at five major European universities: Charles University 
(Univerzita Karlova) Prague, Freie Universität Berlin, Universidade do 
Porto, University of Kent (including the School of International Studies 
in Brussels) and Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3.
- EJD MOVES’ innovative training programme is carried out in conjunction 
with 18 non-academic partners (including NGOs, charities, and the 
cultural and creative industries).
- EJD MOVES’ distinctive structure hinges on the mobility of Early-Stage 
Researchers (ESR; the terms “PhD students/candidates” are not used in 
EJD). They will work full time under contract at two of the five above 
universities (for 18 months at each of them) and will be seconded to one 
of the 18 non-academic partners (for 180 hours). This mobility depends 
on Individual Research Projects (see below).

WHO CAN APPLY?
Early-Stage Researchers (ESR), who must, at the date of recruitment by 
the beneficiary, be in the first four years (full-time equivalent 
research experience) of their research careers and have not been awarded 
a doctoral degree. They can be of any nationality, but they must have 
resided or carried out their main activity outside the country of the 
recruiting university (see above; “recruiting university” is the first 
university where they will pursue their research and do their training 
in EJD MOVES) in the 3 years immediately prior to their recruitment. In 
the case of researchers with refugee status, refugee procedure is not 
counted as a period of residence/activity in the country of the 
recruiting university.

SUBMISSION DEADLINE and RELATED INFORMATION
- Submission deadline: 15 February 2019, 23:59. Required documents (see 
below) will have to be submitted electronically after 15 January 2019 in 
pdf format to (applicationprojectmoves /at/ univ-montp3.fr) 
<mailto:(applicationprojectmoves /at/ univ-montp3.fr)> .
- Applicants shortlisted for telephone interviews will be notified by 1 
March 2019.
- Telephone interviews will take place on 8 and 9 March 2019.
- All applicants will receive notifications about the results of the 
selection procedure by 31 March 2019.
- Offer letters will sent by 30 April 2019.
- The recruitment procedure will close and the EJD programme will start 
on 1 September 2019.

DOCUMENTS TO BE SUBMITTED
- a copy of the passport valid at least until the end of 2019. 
Applicants with two or more nationalities can use just one passport and 
apply only once.
- a copy of the degree certificate: Master’s (preferably) or Bachelor’s 
degree
- detailed transcript with grades and degree classification, and an 
overview of the national education system in which the degree was obtained
- a current CV (European format, see 
https://europass.cedefop.europa.eu/documents/curriculum-vitae/templates-instructions/templates/doc)
- an IELTS (https://www.ielts.org/) or TOEFL iBT 
(https://www.ets.org/toefl/ibt/about) certificate of English language 
proficiency (does not apply, if the applicant is a native speaker of 
English)
- two research proposals - each of them 1000 words plus bibliography - 
justifying the choice of two projects from the list below and 
demonstrating the applicant’s readiness for the required research.
- letters from two referees attesting to the applicant’s academic 
standing and potential

NUMBER OF VACANCIES
15 corresponding to the number of Individual Research Projects (see below).
Questions about the selection procedure and other features of EJD MOVES 
can be addressed to the Project Manager: 
(PetraJohana.Poncarova /at/ ff.cuni.cz) <mailto:(PetraJohana.Poncarova /at/ ff.cuni.cz)>


LIST OF INDIVIDUAL RESEARCH PROJECTS – RESEARCH PROPOSALS
All submitted research proposals must describe and specify TWO projects 
chosen from the list below. They must demonstrate the applicant’s 
commitment to each of them and describe the research in terms of its 
objectives, scope, material, methodology, sources and schedule.
(In the table below participating universities are referred to by their 
locations: Charles University = Prague.)

1   Host institutions: Kent, PortoDuration: 18+18 months
Project Title: Pre-Migration: Motivations and Individual Dispositions
Objectives: Uncovering significant patterns of individual decisions to 
emigrate
Expected Results: Typological description of these patterns based on 
various types of verbal and visual sources
2   Host institutions: Kent, Berlin Duration: 18+18 months
Project Title: Society and the Cultural Drivers of Migration
Objectives: Developing an indicative framework for the socio-economic 
conditions favouring migration
Expected Results: New theoretical tools to anticipate future migration flows
3   Host institutions: Kent, MontpellierDuration: 18+18 months
Project Title: Historical Migration Flows in an Economic and Political 
Perspective
Objectives: Defining the decisive socio-economic and political factors 
contributing to migratory mobility
Expected Results: Comparative data of migration flows across time and space
4   Host institutions: Berlin, KentDuration: 18+18 months
Project Title: Functions of Travel and Types of Migration
Objectives: Describing relationships between historical and present 
travel, colonization and globalization, and types of migration
Expected Results: A typology of migration compared to specific functions 
of travel
5   Host institutions: Berlin, PortoDuration: 18+18 months
Project Title: Forms of Displacement in Past and Present
Objectives: Defining major forms of displacement and dislocation in 
relation to travel, migration, colonization and globalization
Expected Results: Description of different forms of displacement and 
dislocation caused by modern travel, colonization, globalization
6   Host institutions: Berlin, PragueDuration: 18+18 months
Project Title: Types of Migration in Their Relation to Forms of Slavery
Objectives: Defining relationships between different phases and types of 
slavery and the patterns and events of migration
Expected Results: Description of functional relationships between 
different forms of slavery and types of migration
7   Host institutions: Porto, KentDuration: 18+18 months
Project Title: Cultural Encounters, Early to Late Modernity: Patterns 
and Challenges
Objectives: Defining contact zones and modes of integration in past and 
present-day cultural encounters
Expected Results: Identification of contact zones and modes of 
integration; revision of theories on intercultural communication
8   Host institutions: Porto, PragueDuration: 18+18 months
Project Title: Intermediation, Intercommunication: Go-Betweens and 
Translators
Objectives: Defining the roles of intermediaries from go-betweens to 
current organisations working with migrants
Expected Results: Description of specific rituals, intermediaries and 
instances of cultural translation during encounters
9   Host institutions: Porto, Montpellier Duration: 18+18 months
Project Title: ‘Clash of Cultures’? A Case Study and a Critique
Objectives: Establishing typologies of early cultural encounters to 
develop structured understanding of more recent encounters
Expected Results: Revision of theories and models for the study of 
cultural encounters leading to the understanding of recent encounters
10   Host institutions: Montpellier, PragueDuration: 18+18 months
Project Title: Methodologies of Historical Transformations in Modern 
Travel, Globalisation and Migration Processes
Objectives: Establishing patterns of transformations catalysed by modern 
travel, globalisation and migration processes
Expected Results: Developing an interdisciplinary methodology assessing 
historical transformations catalysed by travel and migration
11   Host institutions: Montpellier, PortoDuration: 18+18 months
Project Title: Invariant Features of Transformations Caused by Migration
Objectives: Defining invariant features of past and recent historical 
changes caused by migration, modern travel, and globalization
Expected Results: Understanding present-day migration processes through 
invariant features of migratory mobility
12   Host institutions: Montpellier, Berlin Duration: 18+18 months
Project Title: The Impact of Migration on Historical Change and Its 
Interpretation
Objectives: Defining patterns of political and cultural thought emerging 
from the comparison between past and present migration flows
Expected Results: Interpretation of cultural and social changes caused 
or catalysed by recent migration processes
13   Host institutions: Prague, Montpellier Duration: 18+18 months
Project Title: Myths of Migration and Their Significance in Past and Present
Objectives: Comparing historical and recent myths of migration to 
establish their significance in past and present
Expected Results: Determining general patterns of migration myths and 
their functioning in historiography, literature, theatre and film
14   Host institutions: Prague, BerlinDuration: 18+18 months
Project Title: Typology of Migration Myths: Theoretical/Methodological 
Questions
Objectives: Designing a typology of migration myths and histories in 
modernity
Expected Results: A typological approach facilitating the understanding 
of historical and artistic narratives of migration
15   Host institutions: Prague, Kent Duration: 18+18 months
Project Title: Representations of Migrants: Discursive Features
Objectives: Describing the major discursive features of the 
representations of migration and migrants
Expected Results: A systematic analysis of the discursive features of 
migration and travel narratives in verbal and visual art




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