3-4 PhD Positions at the The Research Training Group “Interconfessionality in the Early Modern Period” (Hamburg)

The Research Training Group “Interconfessionality in the Early Modern Period” is a part of the Faculty of Humanities at Universität Hamburg and is funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). In accordance with Section 28, subsection 3 of the Hamburg Higher Education Act (Hamburgisches Hochschulgesetz, HmbHG), the Research Training Group invites applications for

3-4 PhD positions

commencing on 1 October 2018. They are remunerated at the salary level TV-L 13 and call for 65% of standard work hours (25,35h/week). The fixed-term nature of the contract is based upon Section 2, subsection 1 of the Academic Fixed-Term Labour Contract Act (Wissenschafts-Zeitvertragsgesetz, WissZeitVG). The term is fixed for a period of 3 years subject to the availability of appropriate resources.

The University aims to increase the number of women in research and explicitly encourages qualified women to apply. Equally qualified female applicants will receive preference in accordance with the Hamburg Equality Act (Hamburgisches Gleichstellungsgesetz, HmbGleiG).

The doctoral programme examines processes of interconfessional exchange in the Early Modern Period (16th to 18th century) in both the German-speaking world and other European and Non-European contexts (e.g., Italy, England, the Greek Orthodox world, South America and China). Of particular interest are the theological, literary, political, and artistic phenomena that define or overcome the boundaries between the emerging confessions (interconfessionality) or that are common to both (transconfessionality).

We expect candidates to demonstrate openness to questions about the history of media that go beyond the way heterogeneous confessional precepts are reflected in different artefacts: by focussing on individual historical examples, we seek to understand how literature, theatre, the fine arts, and sacred music have documented, varied, influenced, and reinforced these precepts.

Responsibilities:

- Further academic qualification within the structured doctoral program.

- A dissertation focussing on interconfessional constellations in the Early Modern Period at an associated department. Doctoral projects are supervised and carried out at Universität Hamburg.

- Compulsory participation in the Research Training Group’s structured doctoral program (including symposia, workshops, lectures, and seminars) and all events of the Research Training Group.

- Mandatory attendance in Hamburg.

Requirements:

- A University degree (master’s or equivalent) in one of the associated departments (Protestant or Catholic theology, German studies, English studies, history, romance languages, Byzantine/modern Greek studies, Latin, Latin American Studies, Jewish studies, sinology, historical musicology, art history).

- Interest in interdisciplinary and innovative teamwork.

- Applicants not proficient in German are expected to acquire proficiency in due time.

Severely disabled applicants will receive preference over equally qualified non-disabled applicants.

For further information, please contact us via the Research Training Group’s website:

https://www.gwiss.uni-hamburg.de/einrichtungen/graduiertenschule/interkonfessionalitaet.html

Applications:

Applications should include a cover letter, an abstract of the dissertation project (max. 6 pages), a CV, copies of degree certificates and 2 letters of recommendation. Applications may be submitted in either German or English. The application deadline is 6 June 2018. Please submit applications as a hard copy by post and electronically by email as one PDF.

Please send a hard copy by post to the Head of the Research Training Group:

Universität Hamburg

Fakultät für Geisteswissenschaften

DFG-Graduiertenkolleg 2008 “Interkonfessionalität in der Frühen Neuzeit”

Univ.-Prof. Dr. Johann Anselm Steiger

Schlüterstr. 51

20146 Hamburg

GERMANY

Please send the PDF copy of the application to both the Head of the Research Training Group (anselm.steiger@uni-hamburg.de) and the Group’s coordinator, Sabine Ledosquet (sabine.ledosquet@uni-hamburg.de).