We welcome applications from highly qualified graduates from the fields of: Ancient History, History of Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages; Ancient Oriental Languages; Ancient Philology: Greek (with Byzantine); Latin (Classical Latin, Middle and Modern Latin); Egyptology (with Coptology); Iranian Studies; Jewish Studies; Protestant Theology (with Old Testament, New Testament, Church History), Religious Studies; Roman Law.

Applicants must hold an outstanding Master's degree (MA, MSt, or MSc) or equivalent in one of the aforementioned disciplines or be very close to completion.

Objectives of the program "Ancient Languages and Texts":

The doctoral program Ancient Languages and Texts (ALT) focuses on the written heritage of ancient cultures which includes literary works as well as documentary texts like inscriptions and papyri. Also, research is carried out into phenomena of mediality such as the interaction between texts and pictorial representations. In this line of inquiry, traditional philological methods are being combined with historical and cultural issues. In addition to that, particular emphasis is placed on theories and approaches of modern literary studies and linguistics. Topics and methods in the digital humanities and computer philology also belong to the program ALT. Thus, the program is characterized by a plurality of methods and a wide understanding of the concept of 'a text'. Doctoral researchers are expected to participate in Digital Humanities training offered by BerGSAS.

Applicants are be expected to have sufficient command of the relevant ancient languages for their dissertation project. Since the language of instruction is predominantly English, your active language skills should be good enough to participate in discussions and to be able to write academic texts and papers.

Who can apply?

- The call is open ONLY to applicants who are not German citizens,
- Applicants may not have been continuously in Germany longer than since 1 December 2022,
- Your MA degree must not have been completed before 1 March 2018,
- Applicants must not have completed a PhD previously.

Duration of scholarship and funding:

The scholarship is available from October 2024 (Winter semester 2024/25) for four years, subject to a satisfactory annual progress review. In accordance with DAAD guidelines, doctoral scholarship holders receive a stipend of 1,200 Euros a month, a travel allowance, a combined health, accident and liability insurance policy, allowances for study and research (rent and family allowances, where applicable), financial support for a pre-sessional German language course. Plus, material resources and supervision allowance of 1,000 Euros per year, managed through the academic supervisor’s institute.

Application process:

Applications must be submitted electronically via the BerGSAS portal by 1 November 2023, 00:00 CEST, quoting the reference 2024-BerGSAS-GSSP. Late or incomplete applications will not be considered.

The application procedure takes place in two stages:

1st stage:

Please register at the BerGSAS application portal: https://application.berliner-antike-kolleg.org/bergsas

After you have created a personal account, you can begin to fill in the application form and you can upload your documents. It is possible to save the application form temporarily and continue with the data entry at a later date. Applications must be submitted by 1 November 2023, 00:00 CET.

BerGSAS will invite shortlisted candidates to an online interview within two months of the application deadline.

2nd stage:

BerGSAS will nominate the candidates selected for a scholarship to the DAAD. The DAAD will make the final decision and will inform you. Please note that admission to doctoral studies and the receipt of a scholarship is subject to assessment by the host university (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin or Freie Universität Berlin) and by the DAAD.

Application documents:

Your application documents:

If registered at BerGSAS application portal, you will find at the bottom of the form the list documents required. This includes among other things copies of various documents (which do not have to be officially certified!).

Certificate of a language examination in English e.g., IELTS Academic or TOEFL, at least B2 level. Please note: At the Freie Universität, a C1 certificate is required

Certificates of any academic degree (B.A. and M.A.) or advanced qualifications indicating grades and explaining the grading system of your home university

Two letters of reference:

Two letters of reference from university professors are required, one of which must be from a professor at your home university! The letters are confidential documents and should be sent as a PDF file by the university professors directly to: carmen.marcks-jacobs@berliner-antike-kolleg.org

It is mandatory that the professors use the DAAD template for their letter of recommendation! The template can be found at: https://www.daad.de/medien/deutschland/stipendien/formulare/recommendation.pdf

https://www.daad.de/medien/deutschland/stipendien/formulare/recommendation.doc

Application deadline:

The deadline for applications is 1 November 2023 at 00:00 CET. The selection committee will not consider incomplete or late applications.

For further inquiries please contact the coordinator of the doctoral program:

Dr. Carmen Marcks-Jacobs, carmen. marcks-jacobs@berliner-antike-kolleg.org

We welcome applications from highly qualified graduates from the fields of: Ancient Philosophy, Classics, History of Ancient Science, Ancient Near Eastern Studies, Arabic Philosophy and Science, Jewish Philosophy and Aesthetics

Applicants must hold an outstanding Master's degree (MA, MSt, or MSc) or equivalent in one of the aforementioned disciplines or be very close to completion.

Objectives of the doctoral program "Ancient Philosophy and History of Ancient Science"

The doctoral program Ancient Philosophy and History of Ancient Science is dedicated to ancient philosophy and the special sciences that developed in the ancient Mediterranean and ancient Near East, their interrelationship, their historical context as well as their later impact in the Arabic speaking world and the modern era. The main sources are scientific and philosophical texts, but also scientific instruments and other forms of material evidence. The program is divided into two curricular paths, which are selected before the beginning of the doctoral program.

For the Ancient Philosophy path, we particularly welcome dissertation proposals, which are concerned with ancient philosophy in the stricter sense and with the more general, intellectual and theoretical aspects of the ancient sciences (including mathematics, medicine, and other disciplines that we might not today consider special sciences, such as grammar or divination).

For the History of Ancient Science path, we welcome (but not exclusively) dissertation proposals that consider philological, historical, social and cultural aspects of the ancient scientific theories and practices in their social and cultural contexts, in the Graeco-Roman world as well as in the ancient Near Eastern, Early Christian and Islamic worlds.

Applicants are be expected to have sufficient command of the relevant ancient languages for their dissertation project. Since the language of instruction is predominantly English, your active language skills should be good enough to participate in discussions and to be able to write academic texts and papers.

Doctoral researchers are expected to participate in Digital Humanities training offered as part of BerGSAS.

Who can apply?

- The call is open ONLY to applicants who are not German citizens,
- Applicants may not have been continuously in Germany longer than since 1 December 2022,
- Your MA degree must not have been completed before 1 March 2018,
- Applicants must not have completed a PhD previously.

Duration of scholarship and funding:

The scholarship is available from October 2024 (Winter semester 2024/25) for four years, subject to a satisfactory annual progress review. In accordance with DAAD guidelines, doctoral scholarship holders receive a stipend of 1,200 Euros a month, a travel allowance, a combined health, accident and liability insurance policy, allowances for study and research (rent and family allowances, where applicable), financial support for a pre-sessional German language course. Plus, material resources and supervision allowance of 1,000 Euros per year, managed through the academic supervisor’s institute.

Application process:

Applications must be submitted electronically via the BerGSAS portal by 1 November 2023, 00:00 CEST, quoting the reference 2024-BerGSAS-GSSP. Late or incomplete applications will not be considered.

The application procedure takes place in two stages:

1st stage:

Please register at the BerGSAS application portal: https://application.berliner-antike-kolleg.org/bergsas

After you have created a personal account, you can begin to fill in the application form and you can upload your documents. It is possible to save the application form temporarily and continue with the data entry at a later date. Applications must be submitted by 1 November 2023, 00:00 CET.

BerGSAS will invite shortlisted candidates to an online interview within two months of the application deadline.

2nd stage:

BerGSAS will nominate the candidates selected for a scholarship to the DAAD. The DAAD will make the final decision and will inform you. Please note that admission to doctoral studies and the receipt of a scholarship is subject to assessment by the host university (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin or Freie Universität Berlin) and by the DAAD.

Application documents:

Your application documents:

If registered at BerGSAS application portal, you will find at the bottom of the form the list documents required. This includes among other things copies of various documents (which do not have to be officially certified!).

Certificate of a language examination in English e.g., IELTS Academic or TOEFL, at least B2 level. Please note: At the Freie Universität, a C1 certificate is required

Certificates of any academic degree (B.A. and M.A.) or advanced qualifications indicating grades and explaining the grading system of your home university

Two letters of reference:

Two letters of reference from university professors are required, one of which must be from a professor at your home university! The letters are confidential documents and should be sent as a PDF file by the university professors directly to: carmen.marcks-jacobs@berliner-antike-kolleg.org

It is mandatory that the professors use the DAAD template for their letter of recommendation! The template can be found at: https://www.daad.de/medien/deutschland/stipendien/formulare/recommendation.pdf

https://www.daad.de/medien/deutschland/stipendien/formulare/recommendation.doc

Application deadline:

The deadline for applications is 1 November 2023 at 00:00 CET. The selection committee will not consider incomplete or late applications.

For further inquiries please contact the coordinator of the doctoral program:

Dr. Carmen Marcks-Jacobs, carmen. marcks-jacobs@berliner-antike-kolleg.org

Applicants must have an outstanding Master's degree (MA, MSt or MSc) in the subject Iranian studies, Near Eastern Archaeology, Prehistoric Archaeology, or East Asian Art and Archaeology, or be close to graduation. Doctoral researchers are expected to participate in Digital Humanities training offered as part of BerGSAS curriculum.

The doctoral program Languages and Cultures of the Silk Road covers Asia since prehistoric times and Central Asia. It concentrates mainly on the range of attested languages and literatures of Buddhist, Manichaean, Zoroastrian, and Christian communities. The Turfan Collection in Berlin provides a unique opportunity to study original materials. A wealth of recently excavated archaeological sites and find materials in Central and Eastern Asia allow new approaches to a number of old questions concerning the complex cultural history along the Silk Roads. Applicants are free to choose their topic, and it is important to remember that artifacts and texts that have already been published often have a lot more to reveal than has already been discovered. The following is an indication of the kind of topics possible and is not intended to exhaust or limit the possibilities.

PhD proposals in the field of Iranian studies: The focus is of Iranian languages and literatures until Late Antiquity and about the main religious streams current in the Iranian area, including Zoroastrianism, its origins, evolution and spread in Central Asia. Welcome are linguistic topics, e.g., studies of the verbal system and a detailed analysis of its use in Middle Persian or Parthian texts, the transition between Middle Persian and New Persian, Studies of the Sogdian Buddhist and Christian text tradition, problems of dialectological variation relating to religious communities, scribal conventions. Also welcome are studies on Avestan linguistics. Literary studies could be e.g., the composition of Manichaean Parthian hymn-cycles or the analysis of the constitution of the Middle Persian Zoroastrian literature and its relationship to the Manichaean one, etc. The composition of the Avestan corpus in Central Asia or Eastern Iran and the reasons and processes leading to its spreading in Western Iran are also of central interest. Religious subjects, especially concerning the multifarious relationships between the Manichaean and the Zoroastrian doctrines and with other communities would provide many interesting research topics as do also other problems of Zoroastrianism and its relationship to other Iranian religions (like the Bactrian religious system). Pre-knowledge of the textual body to be studied and a good working knowledge of relevant research languages are indispensable.

PhD proposals in the field of archaeology and art history: Technical and statistical analyses of excavated finds, detailed in-depth studies of particular object groups or materials, archaeobotanical and zooarchaeological studies related to environmental and climate change and societal transformations are welcome. In processing the source material, a holistic view of the entire living environment from which the material originates and an understanding of a broad transregional interconnectedness of phenomena is expected. We encourage discussions on current issues of the interdependence of archaeology, art, cultural history and colonial history, decolonization, indigenous concerns and viewpoints, restitution.

Who can apply?

- The call is open ONLY to applicants who are not German citizens,
- Applicants may not have been continuously in Germany longer than since 1 December 2022,
- Your MA degree must not have been completed before 1 March 2018,
- Applicants must not have completed a PhD previously.

Duration of scholarship and funding:

The scholarship is available from October 2024 (Winter semester 2024/25) for four years, subject to a satisfactory annual progress review. In accordance with DAAD guidelines, doctoral scholarship holders receive a stipend of 1,200 Euros a month, a travel allowance, a combined health, accident and liability insurance policy, allowances for study and research (rent and family allowances, where applicable), financial support for a pre-sessional German language course. Plus, material resources and supervision allowance of 1,000 Euros per year, managed through the academic supervisor’s institute.

Application process:

Applications must be submitted electronically via the BerGSAS portal by 1 November 2023, 00:00 CEST, quoting the reference 2024-BerGSAS-GSSP. Late or incomplete applications will not be considered.

The application procedure takes place in two stages:

1st stage:

Please register at the BerGSAS application portal: https://application.berliner-antike-kolleg.org/bergsas

After you have created a personal account, you can begin to fill in the application form and you can upload your documents. It is possible to save the application form temporarily and continue with the data entry at a later date. Applications must be submitted by 1 November 2023, 00:00 CET.

BerGSAS will invite shortlisted candidates to an online interview within two months of the application deadline.

2nd stage:

BerGSAS will nominate the candidates selected for a scholarship to the DAAD. The DAAD will make the final decision and will inform you. Please note that admission to doctoral studies and the receipt of a scholarship is subject to assessment by the host university (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin or Freie Universität Berlin) and by the DAAD.

Application documents:

Your application documents:

If registered at BerGSAS application portal, you will find at the bottom of the form the list documents required. This includes among other things copies of various documents (which do not have to be officially certified!).

Certificate of a language examination in English e.g., IELTS Academic or TOEFL, at least B2 level. Please note: At the Freie Universität, a C1 certificate is required

Certificates of any academic degree (B.A. and M.A.) or advanced qualifications indicating grades and explaining the grading system of your home university

Two letters of reference:

Two letters of reference from university professors are required, one of which must be from a professor at your home university! The letters are confidential documents and should be sent as a PDF file by the university professors directly to: carmen.marcks-jacobs@berliner-antike-kolleg.org

It is mandatory that the professors use the DAAD template for their letter of recommendation! The template can be found at: https://www.daad.de/medien/deutschland/stipendien/formulare/recommendation.pdf

https://www.daad.de/medien/deutschland/stipendien/formulare/recommendation.doc

Application deadline:

The deadline for applications is 1 November 2023 at 00:00 CET. The selection committee will not consider incomplete or late applications.

For further inquiries please contact the coordinator of the doctoral program:

Dr. Regina Attula, regina.attula@berliner-antike-kolleg.org