{"id":1471,"date":"2019-03-25T11:11:40","date_gmt":"2019-03-25T10:11:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kulturwissenschaften.de\/?page_id=1471"},"modified":"2026-06-03T13:31:27","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T11:31:27","slug":"jobs-calls","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.kulturwissenschaften.de\/en\/jobs-calls\/","title":{"rendered":"Jobs & Calls"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here you can find offers for jobs, research fellowships and awards as well as calls for papers.<\/p>\n

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Call: KWI International Fellowships<\/strong>
\nFrom 1 April 2027 until 30 September 2027<\/p>\n

The\u00a0KWI Fellowship Programme<\/a>\u00a0is designed for excellent humanities, cultural studies, and social sciences researchers. We invite applications from research fellows who have completed their PhD and have up to six years of post-doctoral experience. Project proposals should address KWI\u2019s research agenda. The KWI International Fellowship Programme is open to researchers from around the world. German nationals may only apply if they are currently employed at an international institute. The institute provides fellows with modern infrastructure, office space, technical support, and offers a library service, event and research management, as well as administrative and communicative support.<\/p>\n

Please find the full call here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

For further questions, please contact\u00a0international.fellowship@uni-due.de<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The application deadline is 17 August 2026.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Call: Thyssen@KWI Fellowship<\/strong>
\nFrom 1 April 2027 until 30 September 2027<\/p>\n

The Thyssen@KWI Fellowship is integrated into the fellowship programme and addresses excellent researchers from the humanities, cultural studies, and the social sciences. It is most generously funded by the\u00a0Fritz Thyssen Foundation<\/a>. We invite applications from research fellows who have completed their PhD and have already gained several years of post-doctoral research expertise. Project proposals should address KWI\u2019s research agenda. International researchers are invited to apply, as well as scholars of German nationality, if they provide excellent international contacts and work experience.<\/p>\n

Please find the full call here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

For further questions, please contact\u00a0international.fellowship@uni-due.de<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The application deadline is 17 August 2026.<\/em><\/p>\n

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CfP: Articles for a special Issue on ‘Comic Literacies’ by the journal ‘Comedy Studies’, abstract deadline: 31 July 2026<\/strong><\/p>\n

Like other studies in literacy (media, social, visual, etc.), we understand comic literacies as culturally and socially situated discourses and practices that produce, process, transform and contest meaning in a variety of different comedic contexts. In this sense, comic literacies can be understood as shared yet unevenly distributed repertoires of knowledge that allow performers and audiences to perceive and mobilise something as comic in historically specific ways. Existing norms and hierarchies may be reinforced or destabilised in the process, sometimes both at the same time. Three areas appear crucial to this endeavour: Comic literacies can be observed when studying comedy\u2019s materialities, its arrangements and its affects. Regarding the first area of investigation, the special issue asks how comic literacies are connected to, and indeed depend on, the materiality of human or non-human bodies and things. The second area of inquiry turns to practices of arrangement in comedic dramaturgy, choreography, oratory, etc. which involve the positioning and coordinating of words, bodies, things, actions or sounds in space and time. Finally, the special issue is interested in the evolving relationship between comic literacies and affect.<\/p>\n

We invite discussions of historically and culturally situated comedic artefacts and practices throughout the ages that explore the theoretical parameters of comic literacies through a social, economic, political, ethical, media, and\/or aesthetic lens. Submissions that approach comic literacies comparatively or genealogically as well as empirical case studies using qualitative methods are also encouraged.<\/p>\n

We suggest that authors choose whether to focus more on materialities, arrangements or affects to explore comic literacies. Topics and questions might include but are not limited to:<\/p>\n