ICAS:MP advertises fellowships for the academic year July 2025 to June 2026
08/17/2024The M.S. Merian – R. Tagore International Centre of Advanced Studies "Metamorphoses of the Political" (ICAS:MP) advertises multiple fellowships for the academic year July 2025 to June 2026. The Chair of International Relations and European Studies has been participating in ICAS:MP since 2016.
The M.S. Merian – R. Tagore International Centre of Advanced Studies “Metamorphoses of the Political: Comparative Perspectives on the Long Twentieth Century” (ICAS:MP), a project under the aegis of the Max Weber Stiftung India Branch Office, is seeking to award multiple fellowships for the academic year July 2025– June 2026.
ICAS:MP is funded by the German Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and has its main location in New Delhi, India, though the research conducted at the centre is not restricted to India and South Asia. It offers fellowships for researchers (Postdoc and Senior) who work on at least one of the ICAS:MP research themes. The Chair of International Relations and European Studies has been participating in ICAS:MP since 2016. Dr. Philipp Gieg, Postdoc at the Chair, is member of the Committe of ICAS:MP Thematic Consolidation Group (TCG) ‘The Challenge of Gender’.
The TCG ‘The Challenge of Gender’ (2024–2027) is inviting applications from Fellows interested in exploring themes broadly related to how questions of gender animate political, economic, and social relations, structures and practices in both India and Germany. In this phase, the program seeks research proposals that explore the gender dimensions of heterodox/popular and organized/orthodox religiosities, the technologies and economics of reproduction, a comparative framing of regional feminisms and their vocabularies, and gendered aspects of international relations. The TCG will also build upon research questions addressed by TM 5 in the main phase of ICAS:MP (2017–2024), including (1) Care economies and migration within and between India/Germany (2) Gender and life cycles with a focus on ageing (3) Trans *identities (4) Masculinity, particularly as it structures the sphere of religion (5) global gender norms and international organizations. Applicants with research interests in these areas are encouraged to apply.
All application details and fellowship terms and conditions can be found in the Call for Applications.
