20.3339, Support: Ling & Lit, Interdisciplinary Research: PhD Student, Freie U.

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Date: 02-Oct-2009
From: Christiane Wotschack < Christiane.Wotschack at fu-berlin.de >
Subject: Ling & Literature, Interdisciplinary Research: PhD Student, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
 

	
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Date: Fri, 02 Oct 2009 17:21:21
From: Christiane Wotschack [Christiane.Wotschack at fu-berlin.de]
Subject: Ling & Literature, Interdisciplinary Research: PhD Student, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany

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Institution/Organization: Freie Universität Berlin 
Department: Cluster Languages of Emotion 
Web Address: http://www.languages-of-emotion.de/en/graduate-program.html 

Level: PhD 

Duties: Research
 
Specialty Areas: General Linguistics; Ling & Literature 
Interdisciplinary Research 

Description:

Funded within the Excellence Initiative of the German Research Foundation 
(DFG), the Graduate School of the Cluster "Languages of Emotion" has as its 
aim the supervision of exceptional dissertation projects pertinent to the 
research of the Cluster. The graduate school offers intensive and individual 
supervision of the thesis as well as a structured course of studies. 
The research of the cluster is dedicated to the complex interrelations between 
the use of signs/symbols, the transfer of emotions, aesthetic practices, 
mental dispositions and affective modes of constructing both personal and 
social identities the cluster. The graduate school focuses on the following 
research areas: 
- the relations between affective phenomena and various representational 
media (language, sound, image); 
- the artistic practices and poetics of (re)presenting/ shaping emotion;
- correlations between emotional and linguistic competencies (and their 
disorders) 
- modes of emotion modelling at the level of cultural codes and patterns of 
social behavior and identity.

Applicants interested in pursuing a doctorate with an emphasis in one of the 
cluster´s research areas must have a completed degree (M.A. or the 
equivalent) with above average marks by mid-April in one of the disciplines: 
Anthropology, Biology, Dance Studies, Film Studies, Japanese Studies, History 
of Art, Linguistics, Literary History and Criticism (Comparative Literature, 
Classical Greek and Latin Studies, English and American Studies, German 
Studies, Romance Languages and Literatures, Slavic Studies) Musicology, Near 
Eastern Studies, Neuropsychiatry, Philosophy, Political Science, Psychology, 
Religious Studies, Sociology, and Theater Studies.

The Graduate School will award 10 Scholarships per year. In the course of the 
selection process, the selection committee will decide upon these 
scholarships. Scholarships are awarded for three years; however, continuation 
of the degree course as well as the extension of the scholarship is subject to 
a favourable evaluation of the student's progress at the end of each 
academic year. 

Applications should be submitted by January 31st, 2010. The program of 
study will begin in October 2010. 

All obligatory application materials - completed application form, statement 
of purpose (max. 3 pages), outline of dissertation project of 8-10 pages, 
overview of experiences and skills relevant to the chosen field of studies 
(table form), attested copies of earned degrees, proof of language skills (in 
case that these languages are not mother tongue: German level DSH2; 
TestDaF4/4; English level B2 of the Common European Framework of 
Reference for Languages (CEFR) or equal) - as well as additional materials (2 
letters of reference, writing sample) must be received at the address shown below. 

Application Deadline: 31-Jan-2010 

Mailing Address for Applications:
	Attn: Dr. Markus Edler 
	Freie Universität Berlin, Graduate School Languages of Emotion 
	Habelschwerdter Allee 45 
	Berlin 14195 
	Germany 	
	
Contact Information: 
	Dr. Markus Edler 
	M.Edler at fu-berlin.de  



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