CFA – 2024 FiF UK Young Researchers Mobility Grants At CEFRES

Call for application for 2nd year and above PhD students and postdoctoral researchers enrolled at the Faculty of Arts, Comenius University (FiF UK)

Deadline for submission: March 15, 2024 (call open)
Duration: 2 to 10 months between September 1, 2024 – June 30, 2025

The Faculty of Arts of Comenius University (FiF UK), the French Institute Slovakia (IFS) & the French Research Center in Humanities and Social Sciences (CEFRES) offer mobility grants at the CEFRES to 2nd year and above PhD students and postdoctoral researchers (up to 10 years after their PhD defense) at the FIF UK.

FELLOWSHIPS

An envelope of 5 000 € will be granted for stays ranging from 2 to 10 months (500 € per month):

  •  Funding: 500 € / month cumulative with the PhD scholarships / postdoctoral positions
  • Duration: from 2 to 10 months at CEFRES in Prague  between September 1, 2024 – June 30, 2025

The selected fellow(s) will join CEFRES multidisciplinary research team and actively take part in the Center’s scientific life. They will work in an international research center, present their work at the internal CEFRES seminars, and may also organize a scientific event (workshop, conference…) co-financed by the Center. The fellows’ research should contribute to one of CEFRES’s research areas.

ELIGIBILITY

  • PhD students enrolled at FiF UK from the 2nd year and above
  • Postdoctoral researchers at FiF UK up to 10 years after their PhD defense
  • Good command of English is mandatory, command of French is appreciated.

SCHEDULE

  • January 17, 2024 Opening of the call
  • March 17, 2024, 23:59 CET Deadline for submissions               
  • March 17- April 28, 2024 Evaluation of the applications by a Committee of experts
  • May 16-17, 2024 Online auditions with selected candidates
  • May 20, 2024 Publication of the results

APPLICATION PACKAGE (in English or French)

  • Duly filled in application form – download the form here
  • A summary of your research (3 pp. maximum) incl. the aims and inputs of the research; its methodological and theoretical frame; the first outcomes since the beginning of the research
  • A letter of motivation answering these two questions:
    • How does your research project contribute to one of CEFRES’s research areas (450 words)
    • How can your research benefit from CEFRES? (300 words)
  • Two academic reference letters (including one from the supervisor in case of PhD students)
  • A CV with a list of publications and papers
  • A letter of authorisation from the dean of the faculty (for PhD students)
  • A confirmation officially issued by the applicant’s Faculty confirming that the employer agrees to the employee’s mobility (for post-doctoral researchers only)

Applications must be submitted electronically in one PdF file entitled “FiFUK-Your surname” at: claire.madl@cefres.cz. To be considered, application packages must be complete.

An informative meeting will be proposed at the FiF UK (G239) on February 20, at 1 pm, to answer all your questions regarding the program & the application process.

Questions on the application procedure may be sent to:

Krzysztof Tarkowski – Research & CV

Ontology of Money and the Anthropocene

Research Area 2. Norms and Transgressions

Contact: krzysztof.tarkowski[@]gmail.com

Krzysztof Tarkowski (*1989) holds PhD in philosophy from Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń. His doctoral research focused on the tension between mainstream philosophy of science and contemporary social studies of science and technology. His educational background includes philosophy and history, and his research interests include science and technology studies and historical epistemology. Continue reading Krzysztof Tarkowski – Research & CV

Ivanna Tsar – Research & CV

Language Behavior of Ukrainian Youth during the Russian-Ukrainian War

Research Area 1. Displacements, “dépaysements”, discrepancies

Contact : vakavaka7[@]gmail.com

Ivanna Tsar has been working as a researcher in the department of Stylistics, Language Culture and Sociolinguistics of the Institute of Ukrainian Language of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (group of sociolinguistics) since November 2017. She holds a PhD in philological sciences, and is head of the Council of Young Scientists of the Institute. Tsar studied at Ivan Franko L’viv National University and undertook postgraduate studies at the Institute of the Ukrainian Language of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. Continue reading Ivanna Tsar – Research & CV

Bohdan Shumylovych – Research & CV

Late (post)Soviet Ukrainian art:
Urban creative groups and their involvement with the place/space of the 1980s–1990s

Research Area 3. Everyday experience of spaces

Contact: b.shumylovych[@]lvivcenter.org.ua

Bohdan Shumylovych obtained a master’s degree in modern history from the Central European University (Budapest, Hungary, 2004-2005) and a diploma in art history from the L’viv Academy of Arts (Ukraine, 1993-1999). In 2020, he received a Ph.D. from the European University Institute in Florence. He was a fellow of several grant programs and worked with the archive of the Faculty of Visual Arts at George Washington University, Washington (USA), and the archive of Open Society Institute (www.osaarchivum.org) in Budapest. Continue reading Bohdan Shumylovych – Research & CV

Sergiy Shevtsov – Research & CV

Borders of Transgression:
Violence of Norms and Violence of Violations

Research Area 2. Norms et transgressions

Contact : sergiishevtsov{@}gmail.com

Sergiy Shevtsov is Professor of the Department of Philosophy of Odesa I. I. Mechnikov National University (Odesa, Ukraine). I received a PhD in philosophy from ONU as a result of studying the formation of legal consciousness for more than ten years. My doctoral dissertation “Social mechanisms of the formation of legal consciousness” (scientific consultant: PhD, Professor Vernikov M. M.) was defended in 2013. The area of research includes the history of philosophy, philosophy of law, and ethics. In addition to publishing almost a hundred articles, I am the author of Lectures on Ancient Philosophy (2009), Metamorphoses of Law (2014), and editor of Processes of Integration and Differentiation in Modern Scientific and Philosophical Knowledge (2023). Continue reading Sergiy Shevtsov – Research & CV

Viktoriia Myronenko – Research & CV

Visual Propaganda During the War : Methods of Nazi Germany and Contemporary Russia

Research Area 3. Everyday experience of spaces

Contact : victoriaeducation{@}gmail.com

Viktoriia Myronenko, PhD, is Associate Professor of Department of Cinematography at The Kyiv National K. Karpenko-Kary Theatre, Cinema and Television University (Kyiv, Ukraine). She completed her PhD at National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture with her doctoral project titled “Peculiar traits of Photography in Kyiv of the Independence Epoch”. Currently, a full-time faculty member, she developed the lecture courses: History of Photography, Contexts of Photography and History of Ukrainian Photography.  Viktoriia Myronenko is an art historian with research interests in the history of Ukrainian photography and photography of Soviet and post-Soviet era in Ukraine. She is equally interested in the question of the intersections of gender and sexuality in visual culture of Ukraine. For five years, she worked as a researcher in the cross-disciplinary project Fragile Memory, the basis of which was the photo archive of Ukrainian cinematographer Leonid Burlaka. She is a member of the editorial team and the introductory article author of the books Ukrainian Erotic (Osnovy Publishing, 2017), Poo-tee-weet? Photography of War: Issue 1 (Osnovy Publishing, 2015). Continue reading Viktoriia Myronenko – Research & CV

French Research Center in Humanities and Social Sciences – Prague