Rückblick: IRF 2012
International Research Fellowship Program IRF 2012
In winter 2011, the Dahlem Humanities Center published a Call for Applications for the IRF 2012, an international fellowship program for postdoctoral researchers from the humanities. The program is designed to support the career of distinguished postdoctoral students, and to facilitate cooperations between Freie Universität and international researchers from selected partner organizations, which are:
- Columbia University
- Johns Hopkins University
- The University of Chicago
- The Chinese University of Hong Kong
- University of Cambridge
- Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa
- École des hautes études en sciences sociales.
The program is open to projects from all disciplines of the humanities and offers funding for the maximum of six months.
Applications were reviewed and preselected by a committee of professors from different fields of the humanities at Freie Universität. Potential applicants had to defend their proposals by conducting an interview with the selection committee on March 2, 2012.
The following 7 research projects have been selected for funding:
Pavel Blažek (University of Cambridge, École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa): |
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Ruth S. Noyes (Johns Hopkins University):
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Leon Antonio Rocha (University of Cambridge): Creating a Canon of "Chinese Sexology": Ye Dehui's Shadow of the Double Plum Tree Anthology (1903-1914) This project broadly investigates the reception of and resistance to Western sexual sciences in China, and the invention of a tradition of "Chinese sex" and "Chinese sexology", in the late-nineteenth to early-twentieth century. It focusses on the book-collecting activities and the philological scholarship of Hunanese literatus Ye Dehui (1864-1927), particularly the making of his Shadow of the Double Plum Tree Anthology (Shuang mei jing an cong shu, 1903-1914) and its subsequent reception among European Sinologists.
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Scott James Rufolo (Johns Hopkins University):
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Nils F. Schott (Johns Hopkins University): He is also the translator of several books and numerous articles (see the CV www.nilsfrederickschott.wordpress.com/cv for a full list).
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Eleonora Vratskidou (École des hautes études en sciences sociales): This project aims to study the redefinitions of the concept of genius against the background of an emerging psychological aesthetics in late 19th-century Europe. I concentrate on the work of a French and a Greek philosopher, Gabriel Séailles and Georgios Vizyinos, both of which were largely inspired by German developments in experimental psychology, as students of Wilhelm Wundt at the University of Leipzig. Proposing a comparative analysis of Séailles’ and Vizyinos’ essays on genius, I investigate the alliance between psychology and aesthetics in different European contexts, in view of contributing to a cross-cultural history of the humanities.
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Zemian Zheng (The Chinese University of Hong Kong): My doctoral dissertation was about the moral psychology in later Confucianism (especially Zhu Xi's thought and Wang Yangming's criticisms). Now my new research plan is to explore the issue of moral consciousness and emotions repeatedly discussed in later Confucianism, through a comparative approach, with a special focus on Scheler’s phenomenological ethics. |