Additional fellowships are to be found on our partners’ websites:
Joseph Dobrovský Fellowship of the Czech Academy of Science
This program aims at encouraging “Czech studies” or studies concerning Czech countries. It helps financing short-term residencies in one of the various institute of the Academy of Sciences in the Czech Republic. Applicants should be young (usually under 35) foreign researchers, whose work focuses on the Czech Republic’s history, culture, languages or geography.
Applications are submitted by the directors of the Academy’s Institutes, after receiving a recommendation from their Institute’s board. Every year, applications must be submitted before February 28th and August 31st.
More information on the Academy of Science’s website
Mátyás Erdélyi: Research & CV
The Making of a Productivist Middle Class in the Habsburg Monarchy
Research Area 1: Displacements, “Dépaysements” and Discrepancies
Contact: matyas.erdelyi@cefres.cz
My research explores the making of a ‘productivist’ middle-class and their battle for social legitimation, intellectual authority, and middle-class identity in the Habsburg Monarchy between the 1867 Ausgleich and the aftermath of the Great War. In this study I analyze who became engaged in the battle for social recognition, what their motivations (scientific, social, economic) were, and what themes and social issues they considered important in their professional and private endeavors. A special emphasis is put on the relation between the educational system, with its inherent role in the knowledge production of specialized disciplines, and the economic and social modernization of the Dualist Monarchy. Here, my approach focuses on how educational change (e.g. the rise of professional education) could be interpreted from the perspective of its social effects or even in terms of economic causes. My research also includes the analysis of various types of white-collar work in early urban capitalism, especially from the perspective of how the struggles around class, status, and power were represented and negotiated in the public sphere and in related scientific endeavors by our protagonists. In this vein, selected case studies deal with the practices of accounting, banking, insurance business, engineering, and transportation.
CV
Education
2013-2017: PhD in Comparative History at Central European University.
2010-2012: MA in Comparative History at Central European University.
2005-2010: MA in Sociology at Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest.
Selected Publications
- “A History of the Great Influenza Pandemics: Death, Panic and Hysteria, 1830 – 1920, by Mark Honigsbaum”, European Review of History 22, no. 3 (2015), 508-509.
- “Névmagyarosítás és magyarság: gondolatok a névmagyarosítás dualizmuskori megítéléséről” [Name changes and the social recognition of non-Magyars: reflections on the reception of the Magyarization of foreign names in Dualist Hungary], in Slávka Otčenášová and Csaba Zahorán (eds.), Keressünk közös nyelvet a közös múlthoz. Szlovák és magyar történészek fiatal nemzedékének párbeszéde [Looking for a common language to our common past. Dialogues among the young generation of Slovak and Hungarian historians], Košice, Filozofická fakulta UPJŠ, 2012, 42-46.
- “Cities in Modernity. Representations and Productions of Metropolitan Space, 1840–1930 by Richard Dennis,” Korall, 47 (2012), 192-196. [In Hungarian]
- “In the Shadow of the longue-durée. Braudel and Veyne,” in …de van benne rendszer. Tanulmányok az Eötvös Collegium Filozófia műhelye fennállásának 15. évfordulójára, Budapest: Eötvös Collegium, 2012, 22-33.
- “A szabadság fogalma Sartre A lét és a semmi című munkájában” [The Concept of Liberty in Sartre’s Being and Nothingness], ELPIS 10 (2012), 72-99.
Languages
Hungarian (mother tongue); French (fluent); English (fluent); German (only reading).
Edita Wolf: Research & CV
PhD Research at CEFRES
Seneca, Tragedy & Judgement
Research Area 2: Norms & Transgressions
The research project seeks to analyse the stakes behind the concept of judgement in the light of Seneca’s tragedies. In such works, judgement stands as a decision-making process within the frame of Stoicism, as a decision of the judicial authority under the Roman Empire and last, as a part of tragedy as genre. Legal procedure formalising the decision making, the new constellation of the judicial field in the imperial era raised new questions about the nature of judgement in general, including that of moral and aesthetical judgement. The aim of this research is to explore how the formalising of assessing and decision making processes, especially in legal procedure, are being questioned–since they are at the origin of European law. This will lead to reflecting upon judicial authority and judgement. Grounded in the study of classics, this survey of the judgement in the works of Seneca should enable to look into the precondition of social sciences topics and the study of law, without being embedded in their methodology.
Filip Vostal – Research & CV
“Slowing down” Modernity: Risky, Futile or Progressive?
Research Area 2: Norms & Transgressions
Contact: filip.vostal@cefres.cz
Filip has gained his PhD in Sociology form the University of Bristol. His doctoral research critically engaged with some leading authors on social time and acceleration in late capitalism (particularly Hartmut Rosa) and examined how and with what consequences acceleration imperative plays out in contemporary academia.
Filip’s current research still revolves around theories of social acceleration, its socio-theoretical purchase and epistemological limits. He is also exploring possible intersections of acceleration theories and science and technology studies (STS).
As a postdoctoral researcher at CEFRES, Filip s will investigate both progressive potentials as well as risky pitfalls of the so-called ‘slow ideology.’ His research will focus primarily on the question as to whether abounding calls for slowing down (modernity/ modernization) contain any progressive – and transgressive – element or whether they paradoxically account for concealed engines of social acceleration dynamic and/or dangerous political currents in the form of parochial and localist fundamentalism.
2 Calls for French Institutes of Advanced Studies: Toulouse and Lyon
Two calls are currently available for IAS in Toulouse and Lyon. You can look for new calls on the NEFIAS website.
- Call for IAST in the fields of anthropology, biology, history, law, philosophy, political science, psychology and sociology. Eligible applicants are active researchers who have completed their PhD after January 2013 and before September 2015. The IAST offers candidates an opportunity to devote themselves full time to their research at the start of their careers. Fellows are provided with office space, computer facilities and a salary for two years, renewable for a third year. Deadline is 18 November 2015.
Check the call here.
- Call for Collegium de Lyon for a residence starting 1 September 2016. Deadline is 1 January 2016
Chech the selection process here.