Gerda Henkel Fellowships – Page 3

Duration: 2016 – 2025

Gerda Henkel Fellowships (2016-2025) are aimed at scholars in the field of the historical Humanities and Social Sciences that come from the countries of the former Soviet Union, Central Asia and Turkey. There are no thematic restrictions as regards the proposed project topics. The selection of fellows is carried out by the CAS Academic Advisory Council in coordination with the Gerda Henkel Foundation.

Information about the call is disseminated by the Gerda Henkel foundation; and by CAS Sofia via the established contacts and network of the institute.

GERDA HENKEL five-months in-residence fellowships for fundamental research in the fields of the historical humanities and the social sciences are granted within the framework of the CAS Advanced Academia programme and target PhD holders from Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, China (only Tibet and Xinjiang Autonomous Regions), Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Mongolia, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Turkey, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan. The programme tallies with CAS institutional philosophy which upholds that the freedom of research and the responsibility of the researcher are crucial for creating and communicating important new knowledge to education and civil society.

Each GERDA HENKEL Fellow is entitled to:

Stipend (800 Euro per month);
Accommodation in Sofia with a working space and internet connection;
Research expenses (up to 100 Euro per month);
Travel from the home country to Sofia and back, visa and insurance costs (up to 850 Euro);
Research field trip abroad during the fellowship period – up to 1500 Euro (a one-time allowance);
CAS library services (lending service, book exchange with the American University Library in Blagoevgrad, librarian assistance, online databases and resources, assistance with links to other libraries);
Administrative and practical support by CAS staff (project coordinator, office manager and librarian);
Bulgarian language courses (in accordance with the fellow preferences).

Supported by the Gerda Henkel Foundation

Inventing “Sexuality”: Capitalism, Nationalism and Ethnologic Knowledge Production in XIX and Beginning of XX Century

Maria Mayerchyk (2017 - 2018)

Eugenic Thinking in the CEE Countries: Never-ending Story of Root Metaphors?

Victoria Shmidt (2017 - 2018)

Juridical Works of Hanafi School: A Critical Study as a Source of Socio-political History of Central Asia

Zafar Najmiddinov (2016 - 2017)

Landscape, Law and Memory: Forging the Local Tradition and the Perambulations of Estates’ Boundaries in the Kingdom of Poland during the 15th and 16th centuries

Iurii Zazuliak (2016 - 2017)

In my project I would like to deal with the perambulations of and disputes over the boundaries of the village communities and noble estates in the Kingdom of Poland during the 15th and 16th centuries. The aim is to investigate how the perambulations of estate boundaries evolved into a complex process of conceiving of and transforming the physical space through the procedures and norms of law and to highlight the role they played in forging and reshaping the local tradition.As fundamental element of the lordship rights, the establishment of the boundaries of noble and royal estates emerged in the close interconnection with the uses of writing and local oral knowledge. I start with the premise of the special role that the interplay of literacy and oral communication had in the process of constituting and reshaping the local traditions in the context of the border perambulations. I suggest that the local tradition, embedded in the specific features and histories of the landscape, landownership and borders, emerged as a result of the complex process of the encounter and interaction between the writing and oral culture. From the late 15th century onwards, the system of proof and a set of procedures employed in the border disputes and perambulations became depended on the uses of writing and written instruments. Moreover, "the game of tradition", in which the border disputes and its perambulations were implicated, was inextricably interwoven with and affected by the relations of power, which were manifested in the rights of lordship claimed by local noblemen and kings over the peasant-subjects, land property and production. The objective of the study is therefore to demonstrate how various forms of the local knowledge which were transmitted mostly through oral communication were not only exploited in the course of border disputes and perambulations, but also were adjusted, reshaped and stabilized due to the complex influence of the institutions and practices of lordship and royal governance based on the new kind of pragmatic and administrative literacy, which became widespread in the Kingdom of Poland during the later Middle Ages.

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