For more information, please visit: http://www.goethe.de/uun/wwm/wuz/srv/en10409229.htm

Call for Applications for Scholars in Residence 2013/2014
The Goethe-Institut and the Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities (KWI) are pleased to announce the annual call for applications for the program “Scholars in Residence”.

Young international researchers in the humanities, cultural and social sciences are invited to apply.

About the program:
Scholars in Residence is a residency program for young academic researchers that promotes the exchange of scholarly research and provides guest residencies for researchers in the humanities, cultural studies and social sciences to visit their colleagues in Germany and abroad.

Young scholars are given the opportunity to forge intensive relationships with other researchers, to pursue joint projects and to develop long-term bilateral collaborations within an international context.

The program partners a foreign scholar and German scholar who focus on projects that bear upon the program’s annual research themes. Within the focal subject matter, one academic from abroad and one German academic will form a duo team

The Scholars in Residence research themes for 2013/2014 are:
Culture and Climate
Culture and Conflict
Culture and Economics

Residency in the host country lasts between six and eight weeks. The scholar from abroad will travel to Germany as of October 15, 2013, the German scholar will travel to his/her partner’s country as of January 1, 2014.

For more information, please visit: http://www.goethe.de/uun/wwm/wuz/srv/en10409229.htm