<div dir="ltr"><div><div>Hi Linganthers,<br>Please pass this message on to any aspiring PhD students you may know.<br><br>The <a href="http://www.shh.mpg.de/94549/The-Mint" target="_blank">Minds and Traditions research group</a> (“the Mint”), an Independent Max Planck Research Group at the <a href="http://www.shh.mpg.de/en" target="_blank">Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History</a>
in Jena (Germany) is offering two grants for two doctoral projects
focusing on “cognitive science and cultural evolution of visual culture
and graphic codes“. <br><br><br><img style="margin-right: 0px;" src="https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?ui=2&ik=c9df422afb&view=fimg&th=153117b0ddcd48b5&attid=0.0.1&disp=emb&realattid=ii_il0bdltr0_15311706bf7a5f74&attbid=ANGjdJ-J0YUAiea25fiBneaB10fztNUwkR6E53loz8JXk63vHcYTrWht3Q4XZC13KhsUnAnD4_TTq0Dm8iKXVPG6Vh69Y-WO3EYZu-S_1BQNlTm3Zwf6jDXIAma99i0&sz=s0-l75&ats=1456287190721&rm=153117b0ddcd48b5&zw" height="168" width="267"><br><br>Funding is available for four years (three years renewable twice for six months), starting in September 2016. <br><br>The
PhD students will be expected to take part in a research project
investigating the evolution of graphic codes and the rise of writing. <br><br>If interested, please send a motivation letter (maximum two
pages) to the group’s principal investigator, Olivier Morin
(<a href="mailto:morin@shh.mpg.de" target="_blank">morin@shh.mpg.de</a>) by March the 21st, 2016.<br><br></div>Full details can be downloaded <a href="http://www.shh.mpg.de/150117/Mint-PhD-call.pdf">here</a> (pdf).<br><br></div>Piers Kelly<br></div>