Postdoctoral bursary: Centre for Multilingualism and Diversities Research (CMDR) at the University of the Western Cape The Centre for Multilingualism and Diversities Research (CMDR) at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa, would like to invite scholars to apply for a shorter or longer postdoctoral bursary to contribute to the work of the Centre in critically interrogating notions of multilingualism within a diversities framework. Two types of postdoctoral scholarships are available at the present moment (a) a bursary of shorter duration (2-3 months) available immediately (including travel and accommodation) (b) a bursary funded by the South African National Research Foundation (an NRF Freestanding Postdoctoral Scholarships), with an application deadline for 16 September for funding in 2014 (with a possible extension). Please see application link https://nrfsubmission.nrf.ac.za/ A newly established unit, the central brief of the Center for Multilingualism and Diversities Research (CMDR) is to critically revisit and explore the reconstitution of the areas of language, literature and cultural studies from the vantage point/perspective of the global South, specifically South Africa within the conceptual and methodological framework of multilingualism and diversities research. A cohort of postgraduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and academics engaged with the new research centre, seek to establish an intellectual space to further a critical rethinking of what kinds of questions we should be asking of language, both strengthening existing interdisciplinary projects or leading to new ones, and also enabling challenging questions to be asked of disciplines and departments themselves. This means foregrounding notions of multilingualism as an epistemological frame and methodological imperative as essential for an extended critical engagement with studies of language, literature and culture. The task is to interrogate ideas of multilingualism from the vantage point of the South by providing a careful historiography of linguistic diversity and a critical analysis of contemporary deliberation on multilingualism across academia and society at large. This is a project of intellectual reorientation that promises significant rethinking of multilingualism and a new discourse with which to approach interdisciplinary work in the humanities and the education sciences. For further information, please contact [email protected], [email protected] or [email protected]
Posted on: Thu, 22 Aug 2013 09:57:35 +0000
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