- Call for one doctoral candidate in History or Political Science for research on the topic "The Baltic Sea Area and Its History in the Mediterranean Mind" (Stockholm)
The doctoral candidate will be employed within the research project "Spaces of Expectation: Mental Mapping and Historical Imagination in the Baltic Sea and Mediterranean Region", a multi-disciplinary bilateral project based at the Institute of Contemporary History at Södertörn University in Stockholm and at Ca' Foscari University in Venice, with funding from the Foundation for Baltic and East European Studies 2014-2018. The project analyses the meaning attached to the Baltic and the Mediterranean in selected case studies, investigates the mental maps correlated to historical representation, compares the imagination of the two regions, and studies their entanglement. - FONDAZIONE LEMMERMANN 2014 AWARD for RESEARCH in ROME (Italy)
The Lemmermann Foundation offers scholarships to masters and doctoral students in the classical studies and humanities. Fields of study include but are not limited to Archaeology, History, History of Art, Italian, Latin, Musicology, Philosophy, and Philology. Applicants must provide evidence for their need to study and carry out research in Rome. Topic of research must be related to Rome or the Roman culture from the Pre-Roman period to the present day.