Call for Applications for Doctoral Scholarships Centre for African Studies, University of Cape Town

Applications are invited from PhD candidates for two doctoral scholarships at the Centre for African Studies,
University of Cape Town, South Africa. Supported by a grant from the Harry Oppenheimer Institute, each scholarship is
worth R80,000 a year, renewable for another year upon submission of a satisfactory progress report.

- One of the scholarships is meant to support a doctoral candidate working on aspects of Heritage and Public Culture in Africa and the other is earmarked for a candidate working in the area of Literary and Cultural Studies in Africa.
- Particular topics of interest in Heritage and Public Culture include: questions of archive and practices of curation; questions of memory and the formation of communities of memory; and work which contests prevailing heritage discourses and imaginaries.
- Topics of interest for the Literary and Cultural Studies in Africa award include: modernity, (post)colonialism, cultural translation; critiques of disciplinary practices and paradigms of knowledge production; power and
subjectivity; genre and ideology; orality, nation, nationalism and diaspora.

Requirements
- Applications should include a CV, and two-page outline of the proposed research.
- Shortlisted applicants will be required to submit a full research proposal.
- Applicants not registered at the University of Cape Town at the time of application will be required to register at
the university to take up the award.
- Please note that these awards are only tenable for study at the Centre for African Studies, University of Cape Town.
- Applications should be addressed to Ms Lilian Jacobs, Centre for African Studies, University of Cape Town,
Rondebosch 7701, Cape Town, South Africa, and sent by email to lilian.jacobs@uct.ac.za.

Application Deadline: 20 February 2011.

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27.01.2011 | by nadinesiegert