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Call for fellowships (2nd Year) : Memory and Memorialization
Institutions : CNRS (France), New York University (USA), Memorial de Caen
(France), National Memorial & Museum September 11 (USA)
Reference Lab : UMI (International French American Lab) "Transitions",
Washington Square, 4th (see http://www.cnrsnyu.com)
Program Leaders : Edward Berenson (NYU) and Denis Peschanski (CNRS)
Our fellowships provide round-trip transportation and one or two months of
lodging in either New York, Paris, or Caen.
Please note that the funding we have received requires us to limit these
fellowships to students studying in France or in the US. Students studying in France will be invited to New York ; students studying in the US to Paris and/or Caen.
Fellows will play an integral role in our research project, "Memory and
Memorialization : Representing Trauma and War." This project brings together many of the world’s leading academic experts and researchers on memory (in its historical, socio-cultural and neurological manifestations) with top museum professionals and other "memory workers" whose charge is the development and operation of contemporary memorial museums. In doing so, we combine theory and practice both to study questions of memory and memorialization and to place those questions before the public at large. The partnership will create a formal, ongoing platform for exchanges across national, professional and disciplinary boundaries, and it will play a major role in training graduate students working in these areas.
The program focuses on four prominent issues. 1) the perception and
representation of historical events ; 2) the complex relationships between
history and memory ; 3) the workings of trauma and resilience ; 4) the
cognitive and neurobiological dimensions of memory. This original,
innovative and interdisciplinary program is unique in its scope and
contemporary relevance : it involves two major research institutions (NYU and the CNRS) ; two major memorial museums (Caen and September 11) ; and cuts across a variety of disciplines in the humanities, social sciences and cognitive sciences.
Fellows are expected to participate in the seminars that take place while they are in residence. They are also asked to submit a 20-page research paper by the end of the summer following their research stay. A selection of the papers will be published in a volume edited by Denis Peschanski and
Edward Berenson.
Fellowship application :
1.. A 1,000-word (4-page) description of the candidate’s research
project.
2.. One letter of recommendation
3.. Deadline : June 25, 2010
4.. Send applications (in English ou en français) to edward.berenson@nyu.edu and denis.peschanski@univ-paris1.fr