Joining us

Membership & Fellowships

We encourage all academics having an interest in our center’s activities to become members. Members are scholars involved in one or several of the center’s research programs and belonging to any institution of higher education or research organization. CNRS Researchers should seek a direct assignment from the Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences, after having contacted us.

The Center welcomes also Phd students, postdocs and scholars to participate in its activities by hosting them either in New York or in France in one of the CNRS's lab, through fellowships. All applications for these fellowships should be mailed to valerie.dubois@nyu.edu. They will be examined by our advisory board.

Call for fellowships: Memory and Memorialization :

Deadline: June 25, 2011

Institutions: CNRS (France), New York University (USA), Memorial de Caen
(France), National September 11 Memorial and Museum (USA)

Program Leaders: Edward Berenson (NYU--edward.berenson@nyu.edu) and Denis
Peschanski (CNRS--denis.peschanski@univ-paris1.fr)

We are offering 8 short-term fellowships for advanced doctoral candidates
and post-docs who have earned the Ph.D. within the past three years.
Fellowships provide round-trip transportation and one or two months of
lodging in either New York (NYU), Paris (ENS Cachan), or Caen. 

There is no cash stipend.

Our funding source requires us to limit these fellowships to doctoral
candidates and post-doctoral scholars studying or working in France or the
US.  Those residing in France will be invited to New York; those residing in
the US to Paris and/or Caen.  Research topics need not relate to either the
United States or France, and candidates from all disciplines are encouraged
to apply.

Fellowships will be timed to coincide with our research seminars taking
place in New York and Paris from October 2011 to May 2012. All fellowship
applications should indicate the month or months when you would like to be
in either New York or Paris.

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, 2011
4.. Send  applications (in English ou en français) to
edward.berenson@nyu.edu and
denis.peschanski@univ-paris1.fr

Fellowships for NYU faculty

NYU faculty (not older than 65 years old) involved in our programs can apply to a three months position as a CNRS “chercheur invite” in one of the CNRS research center in France. All applications should be sent through our site before February 5th, 2011. This fellowship includes a monthly salary but does not cover travel expenses. All applications for fellowships are examined by our advisory board but the final decision is taken by NYU’s Faculty of Arts and Science and the CNRS’ Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences.

• Candidates must be working on one of the Center’s topics.

• The fellowship covers accommodation only. Travel expenses will be covered only as an exception.

• A full report of activities and / or published results must be sent to the Center within two months of the Research stay. No fellowship will be renewed or pursued if this condition is not fulfilled.

• The Center must be cited in all publications resulting from the Research fellowship.

Request

You may address your request by writing a message to the following e-mail address:

valerie.dubois@nyu.edu

We will answer you as soon as possible.

If you are a NYU faculty applying for a 3 months CNRS Research Fellowship in France ("Chercheurs associés) (and you have not reached 65 years old), you need to indicate by email to valerie.dubois@nyu.edu :

1. your complete name
2. your current position
3. your field
4. your date of enrollment
5. the title of your research project
6. the UMI program your project is related to
7. the exact date your research project in France should start (DD/MM/YYYY)
8. the complete name of the CNRS lab in France that is prepared to host you (Code, Name, Location)
9. the name of its director
10. your personal contact in the CNRS hosting lab
11. the program of the CNRS hosting lab your project is related to

Please send also by email:

1. a copy of your PhD diploma
2. a copy of your passport (with photograph)
3. a letter of agreement signed by the director of the CNRS hosting lab
4. a brief summary of your project (not exceeding 10 lines)
5. a research statement and study plans, indicating the ways in which participation in the center's programs will be important to those plans. The statement ought not to exceed three pages.
6. a curriculum vitae
7. a recent publication

We would like to remind you that you'll have to apply personally to a European visa (called "Schengen") at the French Consulate BEFORE leaving the United States. To learn more, click here...