CALL FOR APPLICANTS: Three Junior and three Senior Postdoc fellowships in Global History and Governance (Naples, Scuola Superiore Meridionale (DEADLINE: 30 June 2020)

(Source: HSozKult)

Via HSozKult, we learned of a call for three 1-year (renewable up to 3 years) junior postdoc fellowships and three 1-year (renewable up to 3 years) senior postdoc fellowships. Here the call:

“Successful appointees will engage full-time in independent research within the Global History and Governance research program. The program concentrates on the comparisons, connections, and processes of globalization that have characterized different areas of the world since the first era of global imperialism. It does so by focusing on the relational dimension of historical processes, legal regimes and the organization of power; on the interconnections between economic, political, legal, cultural and social factors; and on circulation, exchange and interconnection of ideas, persons, institutions, legal cultures, political models, concepts, rights, and goods on a global scale.

The areas and themes on which applicants may develop their projects are: European empires of the modern and contemporary age; States, wars and violence in the 19th and 20th centuries; History of slavery and forced labor; The legal heritage of Europe and its integration; Religions and the sacred in the modern and

contemporary world; Conceptions and practices of citizenship; States, nations, languages, peoples, classes; Globalization of law. […]”

The full call can be found here