Summer Vacation Research Scholarships
Posted on | November 6, 2005 |
Your chance to be an apprentice researcher!
In 2005-6, the Centre for the History of European Discourses will offer two Summer Vacation Research Scholarships to students who have completed three years of study in Arts, and who are planning to do honours or a research higher degree. The scholarships are for research work under the supervision of a member or affiliate of the Centre. Each scholarship will be a stipend of $3000.00 (tax free) over a six-week period.
The Centre is currently engaged in research and supervision in the following areas:
-Early modern political thought in Britain, France, and Germany
-English and French libertine and romance fiction of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, especially novels written by women
-Fin-de-siècle literature and the cultural history of sexology and psychiatry
-Medical pathologies of race and gender, and the history of psychoanalysis
-Gender and sexuality issues in relation to interwar France, World War Two, Vichy and Nazism
-GLBT and queer theories, gender studies, and critical theories of the body
-European philosophy from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century
-Cultural history of religion in Europe from 1500 to the present
-European encounters with the New World (including colonialism and post-colonialism)
-The European origins and evolution of the international system of states (international organisation and international law)
-British political, social, cultural and legal history
The Centre consists of three professors and five postdoctoral research fellows. CHED staff are currently supervising about twenty PhD candidates who are undertaking research in the areas listed above.
For further information contact:
Dr Tiina Lammervo
Centre for the History of European Discourses
Room 510, Forgan-Smith Building
The University of Queensland, Qld 4072 Australia
Tel: +61 (0)7 3346 9492; Fax: +61 (0)7 3346 9495.
Email: t.lammervo1@uq.edu.au
If you would like to take advantage of this opportunity, please complete the application form by 14th November 2005.
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