Call for fellowships (2nd Year) : Memory and Memorialization
Institutions: CNRS (France), New York University (USA), Memorial de Caen
(France), National Memorial & Museum September 11 (USA)
Reference Lab: UMI
(International French American Lab) "Transitions",
Washington Square, 4th (http://www.cnrsnyu.com)
Program Leaders: Edward Berenson (NYU) and Denis Peschanski (CNRS)
Our fellowships provide round-trip transportation and one or two months of
lodging in either New York, Paris, or Caen.
Please note that the funding we have received requires us to limit these
fellowships to doctoral and postdocotoral students studying in France or in the
US. Students studying in France will be invited to New York ; students studying
in the US to Paris and/or Caen.
Fellows will play an integral role in our research project, "Memory and
Memorialization: Representing Trauma and War." This project brings together
many of the world's leading academic experts and researchers on memory (in its
historical, socio-cultural and neurological manifestations) with top museum
professionals and other "memory workers" whose charge is the development and
operation of contemporary memorial museums. In doing so, we combine theory
and practice both to study questions of memory and memorialization and to
place those questions before the public at large. The partnership will create a
formal, ongoing platform for exchanges across national, professional and
disciplinary boundaries, and it will play a major role in training graduate students
working in these areas.
The program focuses on four prominent issues. 1) the perception and
representation of historical events; 2) the complex relationships between history
and memory; 3) the workings of trauma and resilience; 4) the cognitive and
neurobiological dimensions of memory. This original, innovative and
interdisciplinary program is unique in its scope and contemporary relevance: it
involves two major research institutions (NYU and the CNRS); two major
memorial museums (Caen and September 11); and cuts across a variety of
disciplines in the humanities, social sciences and cognitive sciences.
Fellows are expected to participate in the seminars that take place while they are
in residence. They are also asked to submit a 20-page research paper by the end
of the summer following their research stay. A selection of the papers will be
published in a volume edited by Denis Peschanski and Edward Berenson.
Fellowship application:
1. A 1,000-word (4-page) description of the candidate's research project.
2. One letter of recommendation
3. Deadline: June 25, 2010
4. Send applications (in English ou en français) to edward.berenson@nyu.edu
and denis.peschanski@univ-paris1.fr