The Max Weber Centre for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies (Max-Weber-Kolleg) at the University of Erfurt invites applications for up to 5 doctoral positions for Ph.D. projects (f/m/d) (pay category E 13 TV-L, 65 %) in the fields of Classics, Music Didactics, North American and Modern History, Early Christianity, Religious Studies and Sociology as well as related subjects within the framework of the International Graduate School (IGS) “Resonant Self–World Relations in Ancient and Modern Socio-Religious Practices” directed by Prof. Dr. Jörg Rüpke and Prof. Dr. Hartmut Rosa (Erfurt) and Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Spickermann and Prof. Dr. Irmtraud Fischer (Graz), funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) and the Austrian Research Foundation (FWF).
The project is a cooperation between the Max-Weber-Kolleg at the University of Erfurt and the University of Graz. Participants are required to spend the second year of their participation in the programme at the cooperating university.
As an International Research Training Group, the programme’s primary language is English.
Requirements
- excellent degree in one of the above named or related disciplines
- knowledge of English, German (at least reading skills, candidates without knowledge of German are requested to take courses) and other relevant lan-guages
- willingness to cooperate with colleagues within the interdisciplinary research envi-ronment of the Max-Weber-Kolleg, in particular the IGS, and the University of Graz
- willingness to take part in the joint study programme and to move to the Univer-sity of Graz for one academic year
- willingness to pursue a doctorate at the University of Erfurt
Core research fields and project suggestions in the framework of the IGS are outlined on the programme’s website https://www.uni-erfurt.de/max-weber-kolleg/for-schung/forschungsgruppen-und-stellen/forschungsgruppen/igs-resonant-self-world-relations (cf. “Suggested Projects”). Further proposals developed by applicants for re-search projects that fit the framework of “Resonant Self–World Relations” in the above named disciplines are welcome.