From mandisa.mbali at uct.ac.za Mon Sep 2 11:08:54 2019 From: mandisa.mbali at uct.ac.za (Mandisa Mbali) Date: Mon, 2 Sep 2019 09:08:54 +0000 Subject: [SAHS] PG Scholarships and Post-doc Fellowships: UCT Historical Studies In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Dear All, I hope you are well. Please see attached and below for more on History Access PG scholarships and postdoctoral fellowships. We'd be most appreciative if you could please circulate this widely in your networks. Kind Regards Mandisa ________________________________ From: Alicia Ernstzen Sent: Monday, 02 September 2019 10:04 To: History Access Subject: Opportunities at UCT Historical Studies Dear friends, The Department of Historical Studies at the University of Cape Town hosts an innovative five-year programme, History Access, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Under this programme, we particularly encourage original research using southern African vernacular sources and/ or innovative (new media) articulations of original research. For the academic year 2020, we are pleased to announce: 3 one-year Postdoctoral Fellowships 3 three-year PhD Scholarships 3 two-year Master?s Scholarships 4 one-year Honours Scholarships and 5 Publication Support Awards for Young Researchers The deadline for all applications is 30 September 2019. For details, please find the attached posters. Kindly write to History.Access at uct.ac.za if you need any further clarification. Warmly, Alicia [cid:image002.jpg at 01CF9052.479663B0] Alicia Ernstzen Department of Historical Studies Room 245 | Beattie Building | Upper Campus Email: alicia.ernstzen at uct.ac.za Telephone: +27 (0) 21 650 2955 Website: www.historicalstudies.uct.ac.za Disclaimer - University of Cape Town This email is subject to UCT policies and email disclaimer published on our website at http://www.uct.ac.za/main/email-disclaimer or obtainable from +27 21 650 9111. If this email is not related to the business of UCT, it is sent by the sender in an individual capacity. Please report security incidents or abuse via https://csirt.uct.ac.za/page/report-an-incident.php. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image002.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 2747 bytes Desc: image002.jpg URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Name: History Access Publication Support for Young Researchers Poster.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 142599 bytes Desc: History Access Publication Support for Young Researchers Poster.pdf URL: From mandisa.mbali at uct.ac.za Mon Sep 2 11:14:03 2019 From: mandisa.mbali at uct.ac.za (Mandisa Mbali) Date: Mon, 2 Sep 2019 09:14:03 +0000 Subject: [SAHS] More Info: Deadline 30 September: UCT History Access Postdoc Fellowships In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Dear All, Please also see below and attached with more information on the History Access post-doctoral fellowships. Kind Regards Mandisa ________________________________ From: Nabowayah Kafaar Sent: Monday, 02 September 2019 10:16 To: hum-everyone-l at lists.uct.ac.za Subject: [Hum-everyone-l] Deadline 30 September: History Access Postdoctoral Fellowship [cid:image005.jpg at 01D56177.110E73E0] Department of Historical Studies, University of Cape Town History Access Postdoctoral Fellowships The Department of Historical Studies at the University of Cape Town has entered a new phase of curriculum innovation and knowledge production, expressed in an innovative five-year programme, History Access, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Aimed at training a new generation of South African historians who are conceptually multilingual, technically competent, and academically rigorous, the projected key outcomes of this programme include the production of a critical multilingual conceptual lexicon, journal articles/ book chapters, innovative (new media) articulations of original research, and increased interface with public lives of the historical discipline. Applications are invited from suitably qualified candidates for two Postdoctoral Fellowships at the Department of Historical Studies. The History Access Postdoctoral Fellowships will enable two outstanding doctoral graduates to obtain experience of research and innovation at a higher education institution under the mentorship of established researchers. We particularly encourage applications from scholars pursuing innovative research in any field of intellectual, cultural, political, economic and social history of modern Africa; and connected and comparative histories of colonial and postcolonial global south. Candidates would be expected to have strong empirical grounding in their fields of specialization, a collaborative spirit, theoretical fluency, and ability and willingness to (i) work with African vernacular language sources, and/ or (ii) develop innovative (new media) articulations of original research. The questions of equity, redress, diversity and inclusion are absolutely central to both intellectual and operational aspects of the History Access programme. We particularly encourage applications from woman and black (and especially African) South African students. Main Conditions of Award: * Eligible candidates must have achieved their doctoral degree in History or a cognate discipline within the past five years, and may not have held prior full-time permanent academic or professional posts. * The successful candidates will be required to conduct innovative research and participate in all activities of the History Access programme. * The successful candidates are expected to produce at least two (2) single-authored peer-reviewed publications in ISI-rated journals in the year of the fellowship. * The successful candidates will be required to register and reside as postdoctoral research fellow at the Department of Historical Studies, UCT and to comply with relevant policies, procedures and practices at the University of Cape Town. They are required to be based in Cape Town and spend at least 80% of their postdoctoral period at the UCT. * The successful candidates may not hold full-time salaried employment during the fellowship. Value and Tenure: * The value of each Fellowship is ZAR 200,000 per annum. * Each fellowship is available for a period of one year, with the possibility of renewal for up to two years on evidence of satisfactory academic progress. Application Procedure: Suitable candidates are required to email the following documents by 30 September 2019 to History.Access at uct.ac.za * A cover letter of no more than 2 single-spaced pages, which includes a brief description of past and current research and an outline of future research plans. * One writing sample of no less than 8000 words. * A complete and up-to-date curriculum vitae, including a list of publications/scholarly output and the names and e-mail addresses of three academic referees. * Full transcripts of academic record and copy of doctoral degree certificate * Copy of ID document (or copy of passport in the case of foreign applicants) Application deadline: 30 September 2019 Commencement of fellowship: 1 January 2020 For more information please contact History.Access at uct.ac.za or call (+27) 021 650 5527. Department of Historical Studies, University of Cape Town, Private Bag, Rondebosch, 7701 The University of Cape Town reserves the right to disqualify ineligible, incomplete or inappropriate applications. The University of Cape Town reserves the right to change the conditions of the award or to make no awards at all. [Description: C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Local Settings\Temp\XPgrpwise\IMAGE.gif] Nabowayah Kafaar [Description: C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Local Settings\Temp\XPgrpwise\IMAGE.BMP] DEPARTMENT OF HISTORICAL STUDIES HISTORY ACCESS Humanities Faculty Room 243 | Beattie Building | Upper Campus Email: nabowayah.kafaar at uct.ac.za Telephone: +27 (0)21 650 5527 Disclaimer - University of Cape Town This email is subject to UCT policies and email disclaimer published on our website at http://www.uct.ac.za/main/email-disclaimer or obtainable from +27 21 650 9111. 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Nevertheless, mid-twentieth-century developmentalism initially positioned development as an a-religious, secular and technocratic alternative to religious charity. Yet this apparent contrast has softened considerably since. For the last couple of decades, development experts have endorsed so-called ?faith-based organisations? as a means for the delivery of development interventions. Muslim and Christian organisations, as well as some practitioners of traditional religion, have in their turn positioned their activities as developmental. This includes not only medical or educational services, but also claims to creating ?developmental? mentalities centred on self-improvement. Technocratic developmentalism, in its turn, has become vulnerable to dismissal as a na?ve substitute religion as its initial optimism faltered. Moreover, there are unstable differences between different religious congregations. For example, Christian missionary organisations are easily positioned as the ?charitable arm? of colonialism, whereas Muslim networks are often seen as having kept an uneasy distance from it. But missionaries, too, were conflicted about the pursuit of ?this-worldly? progress, while Muslim congregations elaborated their own visions of material and cultural advancement. Meanwhile, development experts? assumptions about the social role of religious congregations can be more prescriptive than descriptive, obscuring the social processes and motivations involved. Ultimately, the promises of religious proselytisers were never only about the next world, nor those of development experts entirely about the present one. The dynamics and implications of interaction between religious congregations and development intervention, then, are far from clear. The proposed workshop aims to examine them. The questions to be asked include, but are not limited to: * How did missionary, Muslim and indigenous religious institutions actually position themselves towards the rhetoric and practice of development in its heyday? * If religious practitioners ?ceded territory? to development experts, how have their recent successors claimed it back in the course of the turn towards ?faith-based organisations?? * Given that the growth of the book religions in Africa continued unabated in the presence of the a-religious promises of development, how did believers square their developmental and their religious hopes? * Why was the mid-twentieth century, in hindsight, such a high-water mark of secularism, and how was developmentalism implicated in enabling it? * How secular or crypto-religious was and is developmentalism in its concrete manifestations? To apply, please send a title and abstract of no more than 300 words, CV and institutional affiliation. 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