Six five-year postdoctoral research fellowships at Cambridge University:

The European Research Council funded project

The Bible and Antiquity in Nineteenth-Century Culture

Based at CRASSH and in collaboration with the Faculty of Classics

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CRASSH (The Centre for Research in Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities), in collaboration with the Classics Faculty of the University, and with funding provided by the European Research Council, is sponsoring a project entitled The Bible and Antiquity in Nineteenth-Century Culture. The team will consist of six postdoctoral fellows, appointed in open competition, to work independently and in collaboration with each other and the directors of the project.

for details see: http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/page/1093/bible-antiquity.htm

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The Disciplines & Technologies Project at the University of Chicago invites applications for two Mellon Postdoctoral Scholar positions, each of which will last for two academic years (2012-14). Each Postdoctoral Scholar will be expected to propose and pursue an in-depth study of how some technology has, over more than one generation, interacted with the changing disciplinary structure of universities. “Technology” is interpreted broadly, and we anticipate that one project will touch on natural science disciplines and the other on humanistic disciplines; the broader the range of disciplines and uses of the technology the better. This research will be performed in residence at the Franke Institute for the Humanities throughout the academic year (late September to mid-June). Our hope is for these projects to interact with and contribute to our larger, ongoing project to understand the co-evolution of technologies and disciplines.

Each Mellon Postdoctoral Scholar will be paired with a Faculty mentor relevant to the project. Investigators from all disciplines are encouraged to apply. Applicants must have filed their PhDs between 7/1/07 and 7/1/12, and may not hold any other appointment during the period of the Postdoctoral Scholar position. A complete application includes cover letter, c.v., and 3-5 page project description, and it should be submitted via email to mav@uchicago.edu (Ms. Mai Vukcevich). No application materials will be accepted after January 20, 2012. Additional information: http://franke.uchicago.edu. The University of Chicago is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer.

via: http://chronicle.com/jobs/0000710574-01/

The series of events on “The Disorder of Things: Predisciplinarity and the Divisions of Knowledge,” held at UC Riverside, University of London, Birkbeck, the Victoria & Albert Museum, and the British Museum from 2009-2011, has resulted in a special issue of the journal Eighteenth-Century Studies 45.1 (Oct. 2011) edited by Luisa Calè and Adriana  Craciun.

For the final conference in the series, Inscriptions: The Material Contours of Knowledge (2011), full podcasts of all the talks are available online on the Program page on the Inscriptions website. The keynote speakers were Adrian Johns and Jerome McGann. Inscriptions: http://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/disorder_of_things/inscriptions.html

The Disorder of Things series page: http://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/disorder_of_things/index.html