Call for Applications:
The Laboratory of Excellence “Pasts in the Present: History, Heritage, Memory”
is offering three (3) three-year doctoral fellowships
The laboratory of excellence (Labex) “Pasts in the Present: History, Heritage, Memory,” will award three (3) doctoral fellowships for dissertations undertaken at one of the graduate programs of the University of Paris West Nanterre La Defense:
• ED 138 Letters, Languages, Spectacles [Lettres, Langues, Spectacles]
• ED 139 Knowledge, Language, Modeling [Connaissance, Langage, Modélisation]
• ED 395 Milieus, Cultures, and Societies of the Past and Present [Milieux, Cultures et Sociétés du Passé et du Présent]
• ED 396 Economy, Organization, Society [Economie, Organisation, Société]
• ED 141 Law and Political Science [Sciences juridiques et politiques]
Duration: 3 years (from September 1, 2013).
The host units and Labex partners are:
• la Maison Archéologie et Ethnologie, René-Ginouvès (MAE) USR 3225 http://www.mae.u-paris10.fr/
• le laboratoire Archéologies et sciences de l’antiquité (ArScAn) UMR 7041 http://www.mae.u-paris10.fr/arscan/Presentation-generale.html
• le laboratoire Préhistoire et technologie UMR 7055
http://www.mae.u-paris10.fr/prehistoire/
• le Laboratoire d’ethnologie et de sociologie comparative (LESC) UMR 7186 http://www.mae.u-paris10.fr/lesc/
• le laboratoire Institut des sciences sociales du politique (ISP) UMR 7220 http://www.isp.cnrs.fr/
• le laboratoire Modèles, Dynamiques, Corpus (Modyco) UMR 7114 http://www.modyco.fr/fr/
• l’équipe de recherche Histoire des Arts et Représentations (HAR) EA 4414 http://har.u-paris10.fr/
The dissertation project must pertain to the Labex’s general theme:
Pasts in the Present: History, Heritage, Memory is concerned with the presence of the past in contemporary society. More specifically, the laboratory of excellence seeks to understand mediations of history in the digital age, politics of memory, social appropriations of the past up- and downstream from heritage policies.
Proposed dissertation projects must be inscribed in one of the two fundamental themes of the laboratory of excellence.
The first, “Connections to the past: representations and assessments,” seeks a global analysis of representations of the past from every epic: analysis of the processes of creating heritage or the constitution of collective memory (since Antiquity); studies on public reception of contemporary practices of mediating history; propositions of repositories and of modes of interoperability adapted to mediations of history in the digital age.
The second, “Active knowledge of the past: tools and practices of transmission,” seeks to make publicly available several categories of new digitized collections relating to ancient, medieval, and contemporary history. Some of these collections concern the history of disciplines, such as, ethnology, archeology, ethnomusicology, and history of art. This second axis relies on knowledge bases and archives conserved at Paris Ouest (Maison Archéologie et Ethnologie René-Ginouvès (MAE), Bibliothèque de Documentation internationale contemporaine (BDIC), Laboratoires ArScAn, Préhistoire et technologie, LESC), as well as at the French National Library (BnF), the National Museum of Archeology (MAN), and the Quai Branly Museum.
The annual amount of the doctoral fellowship is 29,010€ (gross). For the second and third years, the fellow will have the possibility, in accordance with decree no. 2009-464 of April 23, 2009 relating to contractual doctoral students of public institutions of higher education or research, of seeking a supplementary assignment in the form of an additional clause to the research contract.
Eligibility:
The main criteria for evaluating a candidate are the scholarly quality of his/her master’s degree and dissertation project. The selection committee will pay particular attention to a project’s interdisciplinarity and to candidates enrolled in academic programs who seek a career in research, teaching, and/or heritage-promoting agencies and institutions.
In order to promote joint degrees, special attention will be paid to candidates who obtained their master’s degree from a foreign university.
Candidates may have studied at Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense, any other French university, or abroad, and earned their master’s June -September 2012 (or be in the process of earning the degree in June 2013).
Elements of the electronic application:
- Cover letter;
- Curriculum vitae;
- Master’s thesis (pdf) [if applicable];
- Master’s degree transcripts and copy of diploma;
- Completed application form signed by the student’s mentor, host director of graduate studies, and the director of the host unit;
- Overview of the dissertation (maximum 10,000 characters) and explanation of the subject’s inclusion in the laboratory’s main themes (max. 3,000 characters).
Incomplete applications will not be accepted.
NB: Candidates can contact Pierre Rouillard, responsible for the lab’s scholarship and technology, or Ghislaine Glasson Deschaumes (contact-allocation [at] u-paris10.fr), the program director, for more information on matching their project with potential host research directors in the [Paris Ouest] graduate programs.
The complete fellowship application must be sent by noon, June 10th. Interviews will take place June 20-25, 2013.
Each successfully uploaded application will receive an electronic confirmation.
Winners will be announced in July 2013.
Contact:
Ghislaine Glasson Deschaumes (contact-allocation [at] u-paris10.fr)