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The M.S. Merian – R. TagoreInternational Centre of Advanced Studies “Metamorphoses of the Political:Comparative Perspectives on the Long Twentieth Century” (ICAS:MP), a projectunder the aegis of the Max Weber Stiftung India Branch Office, advertisesmultiple fellowships for theacademic year July 2020-June 2021. ICAS:MP is funded by the GermanMinistry of Education and Research (BMBF) and has its main location in New Delhi, India. It offers afellowship programme for senior and postdoctoral scholars whose researchfocuses on at least one of the following ICAS research themes (TM=ThematicModules). TM1: History as a PoliticalCategoryTM2: Labour as a PoliticalCategoryTM3: Critiques and Renewals ofDemocracyTM4: Normative Conflicts andTransformationsTM5: The Challenge of GenderTM6: Political Economy of Growthand DistributionFellowshipTerms &#38; Conditions:SeniorFellowships are for upto 6 months. ICAS:MP will either pay a stipend or reimburse a teachingsubstitute in the home institution of the successful candidates. Fellows alsoreceive travel costs and allowances for housing and other costs in Delhi.PostdoctoralFellowships can beawarded for up to 7 months. ICAS:MP will pay a stipend and allowances forhousing and other costs in Delhi. Fellowship recipients will also be reimbursedfor their travel costs.Application Details:Interestedapplicants from related social sciences and humanities disciplines working onthematic fields relevant to ICAS:MP are invited to apply. The fellowships areopen to applicants of all nationalities. We particularly welcome applicantsbased at German and Indian academic institutions.SeniorFellows should have a well-established research and publications profile, and arecord of substantial (institutional or independent) academic work followingthe Ph.D. PostdoctoralFellows must have successfully completed all requirements for their PhD at the time ofcommencing the fellowship. Please note that this is a fellowshipbased in New Delhi. During the fellowship period, absences for fieldwork orarchival research outside of Delhi should not exceed one month.Applicants are expected to possessadequate language skills in English as well as other languages that arerelevant to their research proposal. Application materials:Completed Applicant Information form (Download here)Application: Single PDF comprising list of publications; project description of 3000 words including description of relevance and fit with ICAS:MP research theme; research schedule for the fellowship periodCover letter: 1 page, outlining your research experience and academic qualificationsPostdoctoral fellows should also provide (1) an academic reference letter (the referee should submit this directly to Prateek Batra: batra@mwsindia.org); (2) a copy of their Ph.D. degree or a letter from their supervisor/department head confirming that they will have completed all requirements for the Ph.D. degree at the time of commencing their fellowship.All materials should be sent by email to Prateek Batra (batra@mwsindia.org) by 30.06.2019. Late applications will not be considered. The research project should berelated to a thematic module and to the broader ICAS:MP research agenda. For detailed module descriptions pleaseconsult the website of ICAS:MP https://micasmp.hypotheses.org/.Additional notes: In TM 2, the Postdoctoral fellows are expected to closely cooperate with the core digital archive initiative, “Extended Archives of Indian Labour”. Of particular interest here are projects examining conflictual processes of formalisation and informalisation in the world of labour from an Indian or comparative perspective. In TM 5, fellows conducting comparative research on the politics of gender and ways in which power and powerlessness are constructed in economic, social and cultural fields will be preferred, particularly researchers exploring gender dimensions of Religion, Performance, Reproduction, Violence or International Relations.Enquiries: TM 1: Prof. Shail Mayaram, CSDS Delhi (shail@csds.in); Dr. Indra Sengupta, GHI London (isengupta@ghil.ac.uk)TM 2: Prof. Rana Behal (rbehal@gmail.com); Prof. Ravi Ahuja, CeMIS Göttingen (Ravi.Ahuja@phil.uni-goettingen.de)TM 3: Prof. Rupa Viswanath, CeMIS Göttingen (rupa.viswanath@gmail.com); Prof. Amita Basviskar, IEG Delhi (amita.baviskar@gmail.com); Prof. Srirupa Roy, CeMIS Göttingen (srirupa.roy@sowi.uni-goettingen.de)TM 4: Prof. Rajeev Bhargava, CSDS Delhi (rbhargav4@gmail.com); Prof. Martin Fuchs, MWK Erfurt (martin.fuchs@uni-erfurt.de)TM 5: Prof. Elisabeth Schömbucher-Kusterer, Würzburg (elisabeth.schoembucher-kusterer@uni-wuerzburg.de), Prof. Samita Sen (samitasen@yahoo.co.uk), Cambridge; Prof. Jörg Gengnagel, Würzburg (joerg.gengnagel@uni-wuerzburg.de) TM 6: Prof. Oliver Kessler, Erfurt (oliver.kessler@uni-erfurt.de); Prof. Sebastian Vollmer, Göttingen (sebastian.vollmer@wiwi.uni-goettingen.de) For all general enquiries, e.g. terms of conditions of the fellowship and financial compensation, please contact Mr. Prateek Batra, ICAS:MP New Delhi (batra@mwsindia.org). 