sponsored by
UCLA Center for 17th-& 18th-Century Studies
and the
William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
Combined fellowship information can be found here:
Post-doctoral application forms can be accessed directly via this link:
Clark Short-Term Fellowships
Fellowship
support is available to scholars with research projects that require
work in any area of the Clark's collections. Applicants must hold a
Ph.D. degree
or have equivalent academic experience. Awards are for periods of one
to three months in residence.
Stipend: $2,500 per month in residence.
Application deadline: 1 February 2013
ASECS/Clark Fellowships
Fellowships
jointly sponsored by the American Society for Eighteenth-Century
Studies and the Clark Library are available to postdoctoral scholars and
to ABD graduate
students with projects in the Restoration or the eighteenth century.
Fellowship holders must be members in good standing of ASECS. Awards are
for one month of residency.
Stipend: $2,500 for one month in residence.
Application deadline: 1 February 2013
Kanner Fellowship in British Studies
These
three-month fellowships, established through the generosity of Penny
Kanner, support research at the Clark Library in any area pertaining to
British history
and culture. Fellowships are open to both postdoctoral and predoctoral
scholars.
Stipend: $7,500 for three months in residence.
Application deadline: 1 February 2013
Clark-Huntington Joint Bibliographical Fellowship
Sponsored
jointly by the Clark and the Huntington Libraries, this two-month
fellowship (one month at each library) provides support for
bibliographical research
in early modern British literature and history as well as other areas
where the two libraries have common strengths. Applicants should hold a
Ph.D. degree
or have equivalent academic experience.
Stipend: $5,500 for two months in residence
Application deadline: 1 February 2013
Ahmanson-Getty Postdoctoral Fellowships
This theme-based resident fellowship program,
established with the support of the Ahmanson Foundation of Los Angeles
and the J. Paul Getty Trust, is designed to encourage the participation
of junior scholars in the Center's yearlong core
programs.
Iberian Globalization of the Early Modern World
Organized by Anna More (UCLA) and Ivonne del Valle (UC Berkeley)
Iberian imperialism was one of the first attempts to link the globe through supposedly universal
values, in this case derived from Christianity. Yet Spanish and Portuguese monarchies strove to achieve this global reach with technological, scientific, and juridical practices that accompanied and at times competed with their evangelical pursuits. These attempts to overhaul vast cultural territories between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries resulted in a variety of consequences and responses, from absolute upheavals, to compromises and new syntheses. The purpose of this core program is to examine the radical changes that Iberian empires brought to areas such as land tenure, technological practices, racial classifications, and cultural expression in light of the deep histories of the indigenous, African, and Asian regions they affected. Through this investigation, we wish to arrive at a more precise concept of globalization in its early modern guise.
This conference will
address the role of religion in the transformation of pre-Hispanic,
African and Asian worlds into Westernized milieus. It will address
Christianity not as dogma but as a flexible corpus of ideas
and practices engaged by the different local populations in novel ways.
Sessions may investigate the relationship between religion and the arts
(theater, painting, music) as a source of popular culture that remains
significant even now. Likewise, since evangelization
had the double task of Christianizing and civilizing the native
populations, another field covered will be the impact of religion, both
Christian and native, in a variety of non-religious practices and
institutions such as knowledge production, the university,
and politics. Through these themes, the conference will question the
sharp divide between a religious and a secular base for modern
societies.
While often supposedly a
neutral instrument for gathering knowledge or transforming nature,
technology, understood broadly as an instrumental practice toward a
material end, had an enormous impact on the creation
of a colonial world. Mining, cattle, agriculture, urbanism itself,
radically transformed not only the environment of the newly acquired
territories, but through this, the relationships of people to their
surroundings, their practices and to themselves. Furthermore,
the labor required for new endeavors such as mining, pearl diving, and
textile production was frequently secured by the forced relocation of
local or external populations, and therefore the uprooting of cultural
practices, including technological and scientific,
that had preceded the colonial ones. Drawing on new work in history of
science, labor and cultural studies, panels will address the material
effects, both designed and unintended, of technological practices in the
Iberian empires.
This conference will
explore the changes brought about to the traditional epistemologies and
imaginary structures of both Europeans and non-Europeans when faced with
the consequences of Iberian expansion. Reflecting
the creative spaces in which ideas took form, it will consider not only
such emerging genres as the novel but also those more prevalent in
Iberian colonies, such as histories, sermons, theater and poetry.
Through these it will address the responses of European
and colonial authors to the massive challenges posed by the novelty,
violence and desire unleashed in global expansion. At the same time
panels will also consider the impact of non-written cultures on erudite
culture, as well as ways that ideas circulated
outside of the written word. Panels will thus explore how knowledge
was produced through processes of exchange that involved all sectors of
society, including African and indigenous peoples.
Scholars will need to have received their
doctorates in the last six years, (no earlier than July 1, 2007 and no
later than September 30, 2013). Scholars whose research pertains to the
announced theme are eligible to apply. Fellows are
expected to make a substantive contribution to the Center’s workshops
and seminars. Awards are for three consecutive quarters in residence at
the Clark.
Stipend: $39,264 for the three-quarter period together with paid medical benefits for scholar and dependents.
Application deadline: 1 February 2013
To support our fellows in residency at the
Clark we offer the Clark Summer Institute. Each year a professor from
UCLA leads this interdisciplinary research group based at the Clark.
Each Summer Institute focuses on new developments
in the field and shared works-in-progress. Attending the Summer
Institute is encouraged but is not a requirement of the fellowship. This
coming summer’s Institute is:
The Future of Early Modern Studies (July 22 thru August 10, 2013)
led by Helen Deutsch (UCLA).
led by Helen Deutsch (UCLA).
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