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<p><strong><span style="color: #808080;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US">The Image as Artifact</span></span></span></span></strong></p>
<p><span style="color: #808080;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US">Graduate School 01.01.2012 - 31.12.2014</span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #808080;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US">Announcing 12 Fellowships for Doctoral Candidates</span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #808080;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span><span lang="EN-US">eikones, <strong>the National Centre of  Competence in Research at the University of Basel</strong>, examines the question  of the power and meaning of images through interdisciplinary research.  To this end, it brings together more than 40 young scholars and  scientists from various disciplines, whose PhD and post-doc projects are  grouped into modules with specific areas of inquiry. An integral part  of the NCCR Iconic Criticism is the Graduate School, which offers  doctoral candidates a wealth of possibilities for interdisciplinary  engagement, from ongoing participation in an internal colloquium to  self-organized working groups and events. The Graduate School is  directed and supervised by the assistant professorship “Theory of  Images.”</span></span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="color: #808080;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US">The Image as Artifact</span></span></span></span></strong></p>
<p class="bodytext"><span style="color: #808080;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US">The Graduate School begins in  January, 2012, with the title “The Image as Artifact.” </span>For this  new period, 12 fellowships are available for a maximum of three years.  Funding will be awarded to projects that consider images simultaneously  as fabricated artifacts and representations that convey meaning. On one  hand, like all artifacts, images exist in a larger context that includes  social image cultures and technological image media, as well as  processes of image production, reproduction, distribution, and  archiving. On the other hand, they stand apart as iconic manifestations,  and generate their own, iconic meaning. The dissertation projects  should therefore investigate questions of the interrelationship of these  two aspects of images—for example, they should analyze the role of this  interrelationship in the use of images or its impact on the historicity  specific to images. What it means to conceive of the image as an  artifact can either be the object of a theoretical reflection or the  methodological priority of a historical investigation.<br /></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="color: #808080;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US">Requirements for Application</span></span></span></span></strong></p>
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<p><span style="color: #808080;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US">A degree in a field relevant to the topic area, such as  art history, literature, film, and media studies, classics, philosophy,  theology, Islamic studies, history, sociology, science studies, the  natural or technological sciences, visual communication, and design.  Applications from disciplines other than those named here are expressly  desired.</span></span></span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="color: #808080;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US">Master’s degree awarded not  longer than three years ago.</span></span></span></span></p>
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<li>
<p><span style="color: #808080;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US">Applicants  should be no older than 30 (exceptions are possible in some cases).</span></span></span></span></p>
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<p><span style="color: #808080;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US">We aspire to an international, multi-lingual student body.  Good German and English skills are essential. Competency in other  languages, especially French and Italian, is desired.</span></span></span></span></p>
</li>
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<p><span style="color: #808080;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US"> Applicants should be prepared to work  together with their colleagues in interdisciplinary groups and develop  familiarity with new areas of knowledge. </span></span></span></span></p>
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<p><span style="color: #808080;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US">The dissertation project is to be completed during the  timeframe of the program.</span></span></span></span></p>
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<p><span style="color: #808080;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US"><strong>Applicants  from Switzerland and abroad,</strong><strong> including countries outside Europe, are  desired.</strong></span></span></span></span></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><span style="color: #808080;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US">The program begins  01.01.2012. Fellowships are first awarded for two years and, in the  event of a positive evaluation, can be extended for another year  (maximal funding period of three years, through 31.12.2014).</span></span></span></span></p>
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<p><span style="color: #808080;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US">Work is to be carried out in Basel. A workspace (with  computer) in the eikones building is provided, along with additional  infrastructure.<br /></span></span></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #808080;"><strong>For further information<a href="http://www.eikones.ch/job-offers.html?L=1"> http://www.eikones.ch/job-offers.html?L=1</a><br /></strong></span></span></span>
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<h3><span lang="EN-US">The Image as Artifact</span></h3>
<h4><span lang="EN-US">Graduate School 01.01.2012 - 31.12.2014</span></h4>
<h4><span lang="EN-US">Announcing 12 Fellowships for Doctoral Candidates</span></h4>
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<p class="bodytext"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="bodytext">(french/italian version see below)<br /><span lang="EN-US"><br /><a href="http://www.eikones.ch/fileadmin/documents/ext/Stellen/ausschreibung_eng.pdf" title="ausschreibung_eng.pdf (18.9 KB)" target="_self">Download  Announcing</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.eikones.ch/fileadmin/documents/ext/Stellen/Das_Bild_als_Artefakt_eng.pdf" title="Das_Bild_als_Artefakt_eng.pdf (12.6 KB)" target="_self">Download  Project Description</a><br /><br />eikones, the National Centre of  Competence in Research at the University of Basel, examines the question  of the power and meaning of images through interdisciplinary research.  To this end, it brings together more than 40 young scholars and  scientists from various disciplines, whose PhD and post-doc projects are  grouped into modules with specific areas of inquiry. An integral part  of the NCCR Iconic Criticism is the Graduate School, which offers  doctoral candidates a wealth of possibilities for interdisciplinary  engagement, from ongoing participation in an internal colloquium to  self-organized working groups and events. The Graduate School is  directed and supervised by the assistant professorship “Theory of  Images.”</span></p>
<h4 class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">The Image as Artifact</span></h4>
<p class="bodytext"><span lang="EN-US">The Graduate School begins in  January, 2012, with the title “The Image as Artifact.” </span>For this  new period, 12 fellowships are available for a maximum of three years.  Funding will be awarded to projects that consider images simultaneously  as fabricated artifacts and representations that convey meaning. On one  hand, like all artifacts, images exist in a larger context that includes  social image cultures and technological image media, as well as  processes of image production, reproduction, distribution, and  archiving. On the other hand, they stand apart as iconic manifestations,  and generate their own, iconic meaning. The dissertation projects  should therefore investigate questions of the interrelationship of these  two aspects of images—for example, they should analyze the role of this  interrelationship in the use of images or its impact on the historicity  specific to images. What it means to conceive of the image as an  artifact can either be the object of a theoretical reflection or the  methodological priority of a historical investigation.<br /><span style="background-color: yellow; border: 2px solid red; color: black;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></span></p>
<h4 class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Requirements for Application</span></h4>
<ul>
<li><span lang="EN-US">A degree in a field relevant to the topic area, such as  art history, literature, film, and media studies, classics, philosophy,  theology, Islamic studies, history, sociology, science studies, the  natural or technological sciences, visual communication, and design.  Applications from disciplines other than those named here are expressly  desired.</span></li>
<li><span lang="EN-US">Master’s degree awarded not  longer than three years ago.</span></li>
<li><span lang="EN-US">Applicants  should be no older than 30 (exceptions are possible in some cases).</span></li>
<li><span lang="EN-US">We aspire to an international, multi-lingual student body.  Good German and English skills are essential. Competency in other  languages, especially French and Italian, is desired.</span></li>
<li><span lang="EN-US"> Applicants should be prepared to work  together with their colleagues in interdisciplinary groups and develop  familiarity with new areas of knowledge. </span></li>
<li><span lang="EN-US">The dissertation project is to be completed during the  timeframe of the program.</span></li>
<li><span lang="EN-US">Applicants  from Switzerland and abroad, including countries outside Europe, are  desired.</span></li>
<li><span lang="EN-US">The program begins  01.01.2012. Fellowships are first awarded for two years and, in the  event of a positive evaluation, can be extended for another year  (maximal funding period of three years, through 31.12.2014).</span></li>
<li><span lang="EN-US">Work is to be carried out in Basel. A workspace (with  computer) in the eikones building is provided, along with additional  infrastructure.<br /></span></li>
</ul>
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