PhD/Postdoc fellowships 2012 on Connecting Art Histories in the Museum

Doctoral and Postdoctoral Fellowships 2012

Berlin, March 01, 2012
Application deadline: Dec 15, 2011

Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut
Staatliche Museen zu Berlin – Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz

CONNECTING ART HISTORIES IN THE MUSEUM.
THE MEDITERRANEAN, ASIA AND EUROPE

Call for Application
DOCTORAL AND POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIPS FOR THE YEAR 2012
Deadline for applications: 15.12.2011

The Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz –
Max-Planck-Institut (KHI
Florenz) and the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin – Stiftung
Preußischer Kulturbesitz (SMB) are pleased to announce a call for application
for up to four doctoral or postdoctoral fellowships within the program
'Connecting Art Histories in the Museum. The Mediterranean, Asia and Europe',
beginning approximately March 1, 2012.

http://www.khi.fi.it/forschung/projekte/projekte/projekt133/index.html^[1]

The fellowship program, directed by Gerhard Wolf and
Hannah Baader (KHI
Florenz) together with Michael Eissenhauer and Bernd
Ebert (SMB), aims to strengthen the collaboration between museums and research
institutes and to promote projects to be realized in close contact with the
objects and collections of the SMB. The fellowships are open to scholars of art
history and related fields (in particular European, Islamic, Byzantine and
Asian Art). We seek scholars whose work has a broad horizon and whose interests
focus on the interartistic and intercultural agency as well as the mobility of
ideas, artists and works of arts within the framework and in relation to the
program. This also includes research projects dedicated to its
historiographical and museographical dimension.

The fellowships will be located in the individual museums
of the SMB, this year these are the Museum für Islamische Kunst (Museum of
Islamic Art; Stefan Weber), the Museum für Asiatische Kunst (Museum of Asian
Art; Klaas Ruitenbeek, Lilla Russell-Smith), and the Kunstbibliothek (Art
Library and Collection of Photography; Moritz Wullen). At the same time the
fellows will work as a research group, with joint seminars, workshops and
conferences involving museum curators, international experts and
scholars/fellows of the KHI. Working languages are German and English.

Fellowships are for one year, with the possibility of an
extension for a second year. The fellowship (including travel expenses) follows
the rules of the Max Planck Society. A second fellowship year will be
considered upon presentation of the researcher's first year results.

The application deadline is 15 December 2011. Application
languages are English or German. Applicants should send a C.V., a research
proposal, one substantial writing sample or a portfolio, one letter of
recommendation and a name of a second referee to:

Prof. Dr. Gerhard Wolf
Kunsthistorisches Institut – Max-Planck-Institut Via
Giuseppe Giusti 44
I-50121 Firenze
Italy

The envelope should be marked with "Connecting Art
Histories in the Museum". Applications by e-mail are particularly
appreciated, and should be sent to the following address:

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References

1. ^{^} http://www.khi.fi.it/forschung/projekte/projekte/projekt133/index.html (www.khi.fi.it)
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