Cultures of Knowledge: An Intellectual Geography of the Seventeenth-Century Republic of Letters

Applications are invited for fellowships at the ‘Leibniz Graduate School for Cultures of Knowledge in Central European Transnational Contexts’, tenable at the Herder Institute in Marburg from 1 April 2010 to 31 March 2013. The school focuses on knowledge cultures in a central European context, and applicants are invited to define PhD or postdoctoral projects in the following thematic areas: scientific culture and communication from the early modern period to the present (forums, networks, modes of socialization); national and transnational orders of knowledge and intellectual styles; the plurality and transformation of scientific institutions; the influence of class, ethnicity, religion, and gender on scientific exchange; and academic practice in the age of globalization and digital networks. The language of the school is German, and the fellowships are designed primarily for emerging scholars from East Central Europe. The deadline for applications is 31 October 2009; for full details and how to apply, see H-Soz-u-Kult.