1 PhD POSITION in EUROPEAN ETHNOLOGY / SOCIAL or CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY AT THE DEPARTMENT FOR EUROPEAN ETHNOLOGY / THE COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH UNIT 640, PROJECT No. C4, HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY BERLIN
Deadline: 17 JULY 2008
The Department of European Ethnology and the Collaborative Research Unit 640, "Changing Representations of Social Order: Intertemporal and Intercultural Comparisons" at Humboldt-University Berlin offer a PhD position within the research project "Kinship as Representation of Social Order and Practice: Knowledge, Performativity and Legal-Ethical Regulation" (Project C4, Stefan Beck and Michi Knecht) This project seeks to understand how notions and practices of kinship / affinity / togetherness are changing in relation to the appropriation of assisting
reproductive technologies and adoption in Berlin and Istanbul/Izmir, with a particular focus on the emergent transnational scapes of reproductive medicine. The position is for 4 years, open as soon as possible, ending June 30th, 2012.
The PhD position will contribute to the Turkish and transnational part of the project directed by Prof. Stefan Beck and Dr. Michi Knecht. The focus will be on women, couples and kinship networks, who are using – or have used – reproductive technologies or adoption in order to start, to enlarge or complete families. Important sites of fieldwork in Istanbul, Izmir and Berlin will be self-help groups and other concerned groups within the reproductive health sector, infertility clinics, adoption agencies, ethic committees and governmental staff and experts engaged in redefining kinship and kinship law. Most importantly, interviews and
participant observation will take place within the everyday life of families who are involved in our long term study.
Applicants are expected to develop, define and carry through their own PhD research project within the research field of our project (assisting reproductive technologies in Turkey and the emergent transnational scapes of reproductive medicine, kinship and citizenship, concerned groups / self help groups in the field of infertility treatment, adoption, bioethics and regulation in the field of reproductive technologies in Turkey) Applicants for this PhD position should have a
background in social / cultural anthropology, european ethnology or STS. Place of work will be the Humboldt University Berlin, with long intermittent periods of fieldwork in Istanbul/Izmir. For further information on the research project see
http://www.repraese ntationen. de/site/lang_ _en-US/3868/ default.aspx
Applicants must have obtained a Master’s degree with excellent results or complete a Master’s course before starting at HU. They should have a very good written and oral Turkish and English and a good knowledge of German.
Further requirements:
· knowledge in one or more of the following fields: new anthropology of kinship, anthropology of knowledge, ethnographies of assisting reproductive technologies, Anthropology of Turkey and the Mediterranean, social studies of science and technology, transnationalisatio n, methodologies of complex comparisons.
· Ethnographic fieldwork experience
· Ability to work in a team, excellent organisation and communication skills
Applicants are kindly asked to send a letter of application with a concise statement of their interest, a cv and up to three examples of their academic writing (including unpublished thesis material), and official transcripts or certified copies of University certificates.
The successful applicant must participate in and complete the PhD programme of the collaborative research unit 640 at Humboldt University Berlin.
The position is payed according to BAT IIa-O, 50 % The PhD students will also receive an additional stipend for time abroad and funding for travel and accommodation for the time spent in fieldwork.
Applications should be sent by post with the reference Nr. DR06408 to
Prof. Dr. Stefan Beck / Dr. Michi Knecht, Department of European Ethnology, Humboldt-University Berlin, Mohrenstrasse 41, D – 10117 Berlin, Germany. Or per mail
Stefan.beck @ rz.hu-berlin. de;
michi.knecht @ rz.hu-berlin. de.
Deadline is July 17th 2008.
For further information potential applicants are encouraged to contact their prospective part-project leader and main supervisor Prof. Stefan Beck and Michi Knecht informally, by email in the first instance.
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