Arabic-L:GEN:Princeton U Global Fellows Program

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1) Subject:Princeton U Global Fellows Program

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Date: 03 Jul 2012
From:forwarded by Kirk Belnap <belnap at byu.edu>
Subject:Princeton U Global Fellows Program

Each year, the Fung Global Fellows Program will select six scholars
from around the world to be in residence at Princeton for one academic
year and to engage in research, writing, and collaboration around a
common theme. The program includes a public seminar series where the
fellows will present their work to the University community.
Fellowships will be awarded through a competitive application process
to scholars employed outside the United States who have demonstrated
outstanding scholarly achievement, exhibit unusual intellectual
promise, and are still early in their careers.

Languages and Authority

In 2013–14, the program’s inaugural year, the fellows and the
accompanying seminar series will focus on how languages interact with
political, social, economic, and cultural authority.  Languages can be
powerful tools for expressing and asserting authority.  Yet they also
constitute forms of authority in and of themselves (such as in the
standardization and uniformity that they impose). Languages as forms
of authority are also contested, and language communities have often
formed a basis for resisting authority. Possible topics for this cycle
include the ways in which languages and language use interact with
globalization, empire, decolonization, nation-state formation,
nationalism, language policy, language ideology, social
stratification, migration, commerce and trade, social and religious
movements, and the sociology of knowledge production.

The application deadline for the 2013–14 Fung Global Fellows Program
is November 1, 2012.  Interested scholars whose research engages with
the theme “Languages and Authority” and who meet the eligibility
criteria as outlined below are invited to submit their application
online by November 1, 2012.

For more information on eligibility requirements and the application
process itself, see the Program's website at
https://www.princeton.edu/funggfp/

[They welcome applicants from the Arab World.]

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