Call for Post-Doc Applications Asia Research Institute – National University of Singapore

The Religion and Globalization Cluster at the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore has been awarded a grant from the Henry Luce Foundation to conduct a two-year research project on Religion and NGOs in Asia. We have just initiated a search for two post-docs who will work on the project full time. The job advert is below and it can also be accessed here: http://www.ari.nus.edu.sg/article_view.asp?id=2401. We are looking for candidates who have an outstanding doctoral degree in a related field (discipline open). While ideally candidates would have a background in both NGOs/development and religion (both broadly defined), we will also consider applications with strengths more in one area than the other. The research project focuses on Southeast and East Asia. The closing date for applications is 1 April 2015 and successful applicants will start working on the project in June, or as soon as possible after that.

Post-doc and PhD studentship on Leverhulme project 'Sounding Islam in China'

SOAS is delighted to announce two new full-time posts to work on the inter-disciplinary project 'Sounding Islam in China' which is hosted by the Department of Music at SOAS, University of London, and will run from Sept 2014-Sept 2017.

The project aims to provide new, ethnographically grounded research into the changing nature of Islamic belief and practice in contemporary China. The approach indicates a fieldwork-based approach to sound, experience and meaning, seeking to move beyond the habitual academic focus on text-based and visual narratives. The project will focus on sounded religious practices, including the call to prayer, Qur’anic recitation, prayers, sermons, life-cycle and calendrical rituals, and other forms of religious expressive culture, encompassing ‘live’ practices and the mediated transmission of religious sounds and ideologies.

For further information please follow the links below, or go to the SOAS website and check the scholarships and job vacancies sections, and email Rachel Harris (rh@soas.ac.uk).

Leverhulme - Research Studentship in the Department of Music - deadline 15 May 2014

Post-doctoral Research Position on the Leverhulme-funded Research Project: Sounding Islam in China - deadline 30 April 2014

MPI Summer School 2014

Ethnic and Cultural Diversity– MPI Summer School 2014

Sponsor: Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity Goettingen, Germany

Organizer:  The Center for the Study of Ethnic and Cultural Diversity in China at Minzu University in Beijing

Location: Minzu University in Beijing

Dates: July 07-11, 2014

Language: English

Invited speakers:

·         Peter van der Veer

·         Da Wu

·         Yongjia Liang

·         Dan Smyer Yu

Deadline for applications: 01.04.2014.

Themes

Social theories of inequality and diversity in relation to questions of religion and ethnicity. These theories are discussed in general, but also in relation to the ethnography of Asia and China in particular. The theoretical framework that is offered in the summer school has been developed at the Max Planck Institute and is applied in fieldwork sites all over the world.

The purpose of the MPI summer school at Minzu University is to educate students, but also to select the best students for Ph.D. and Postdoctoral scholarships. Ph.D. and Postdoctoral fellowships will be awarded depending on the quality of the applicants at the end of the summer school. Successful candidates will receive a four year fellowship for PhD or a 2 year fellowship for Postdocs. The dissertation of the Ph.D. fellowships will be defended at Utrecht University.

Requirements

PhD/Master students in Social /Cultural Anthropology, Religious Studies, Sociology, Political Science or other related disciplines of the Social Sciences or Humanities. Fluency in English and Mandarin Chinese is expected. 

Applications should include a cover letter, a Curriculum Vitae, a proposed research statement of 1000 words for the period of the fellowship, a list of publications if any, and the names and contact details of two potential referees.

Applications are due 1^st April and selection will be made before 1^st May. The Summer Institute will provide free tuition, but lodging and transportation has to be taken care of by the students. Selected students are supposed to complete pre-assigned readings before the Summer School begins.

Structure of the Summer Institute

Five days; lectures in the morning, discussions of the project proposals that have been submitted in the afternoon.