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PresentationThe project, "Other Modernities: Patrimony and Practices of Visual&#160;Expression Outside the West," is pleased to announce an open call for&#160;doctoral candidates interested in pursuing their work under the&#160;auspices of the Swiss National Fund Sinergia Program. The platform&#160;offers candidates three years of support towards a doctoral degree.Directed by Prof. Silvia Naef (Arabic Studies Section, University of&#160;Geneva), Prof. Wendy M. K. Shaw (Department of Art History and Center&#160;for Cultural Studies, University of Bern), and Prof. Irene Maffi&#160;(Department of Anthropology, University of Lausanne), the project will&#160;use a format of block seminars, workshops, colloquia, and conferences&#160;to serve as a platform for sharing methodological approaches, research&#160;strategies and results, and professional networking between project&#160;participants and related professionals in Switzerland, Europe, and the&#160;Middle East.The project focuses on the historiography of arts in the non-West as&#160;an intercultural phenomenon through the lens of worldwide processes of&#160;modernization. Rather than conceiving of the non-Western present&#160;against the backdrop of supposedly authentic, homogenous, undiluted,&#160;and nationally bounded traditions, this project focuses on the&#160;historiographic construction of art and visual culture as intertwined&#160;agents and expressions of sociopolitical modernization. It proposes&#160;art and performance as parallel arenas through &#160;which cultural identity&#160;comes to be perceived neither as a search for roots nor a striving for&#160;Westernization, but as a process of coming-into-being within a&#160;framework of shifting cultural and political hegemonies.ApplicationsApplicants must have a MA degree or equivalent at the time of&#160;application.Preliminary applications should consist of a one-page&#160;summary project proposal and a short CV.Preliminary applications&#160;are due by Nov. 15, 2012.Further materials will be&#160;requested for a second round of application.&#160;Please direct queries to&#160;silvia.naef@unige.ch or wendy.shaw@ikg.unibe.ch .