Visiting Fellowships 2020, Center for the History of Global Development, Shanghai

Visiting Fellowships 2020, Center for the History of Global Development, Shanghai

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Center for the History of Global Development and the Center for Latin-American Studies at Shanghai University; European University Institute, Florence; and University of Geneva
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Shanghai
Country
Germany
From - Until
01.04.2020 - 31.12.2020
Deadline
08.02.2020
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Iris Borowy

The Center for the History of Global Development at Shanghai University http://www.history-global-development.net/ invites applications for fellowships for visiting scholars working on projects related to the history of policies, concepts, practices or debates related to development on local, national, regional or global levels. The Center of the History of Global Development welcome applications from researchers who are taking innovative and interdisciplinary approaches to the topic. Preference is given to topics related to the focus areas of the Center:

- history of consumption / waste;
- history of sustainable development or other forms of alternative development;
- international organizations
- globalization and development
- the interaction of health and development
-urban development

Fellows with an interest in longer term cooperation between the Center and their home institution are also particularly invited to apply.

The Center for the History of Global Development was established at the College of Liberal Arts at Shanghai University in 2017. Through conferences, workshops, publications and discussion panels, the Center seeks to contribute to interdisciplinary scholarly debates on the repercussions of “development” as a phenomenon which has shaped much of recent global history while remaining conceptually vague or contradictory. Highlighting the interdisciplinary character both of past manifestations and of future challenges of development, the Center presently seeks to focus its research on areas in which the economic, environmental, conceptual and health dimensions of development interact or overlap.

“Development,” in its most basic form, is understood as the idea that socio-economic conditions would and should improve and that specific policies should be employed to bring about such improvements. Beyond this core, development has been a highly contested concept, whose constructed character has repeatedly been emphasized. Critics point to international structures created in the name of development which have often reflected power inequalities and have served the interests of those that put them in place while doing little to improve living conditions of those at whom they were allegedly addressed. Other scholars identify perceived successes of development, measured in social indicators such as life expectancy, infant mortality, gender equality or literacy, which contradict a simplistic notion of continued failure. Different evaluations of the outcome of development tie into different interpretations of what exactly the concept does – or should – mean.

Fellows can benefit from an international academic environment and from a stimulating setting in one of the most rapidly “developing” cities of the world. They are expected to share their research in one or two lectures, to generally participate in the academic life of the College of Liberal Arts at Shanghai University and to cite Shanghai University in all publications to which their fellowship stay has contributed. Fellowships are open to post-doctoral and senior scholars. Preference is given to projects at an advanced state, whose outcome and publication potential is already becoming clear.

Fellowship applications can be for periods of between one and three months, taken between 1 April and 31 December 2020.

The fellowship includes:

- Free accommodation, subsidized meals
- A monthly stipend of 7,000 RMB for postdocs/associate professors and 10,000 RMB for full professors, before taxes
- Office space

Applications should include:

- A project proposal of no more than 2,500 words, explaining the research question, relevance, work program, and expected outcome of the project
- A cv
- Titles and brief explanations of one to three proposed lectures
- The time period for which you are applying

The deadline is 8 February 2020. Please, send applications (in a single pdf file) to: Professor Iris Borowy irisborowy@shu.edu.cn.

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