Call for Applications: Two NOMIS Fellowships

The fellowships will allow outstanding scholars and scientists to pursue their research free from teaching and administrative obligations. Fellows are expected to be in residence at eikones in Basel and to participate in select institutional events.

Since 2005, eikones has served as a center for graduate and postgraduate research on images. The center is dedicated to the interdisciplinary study of images as instruments of human knowledge and cultural practices. It investigates the functions and effects of images throughout history and in our contemporary society from analytical and empirical perspectives.

• Applicants must possess a doctoral degree.

• Applicants must have previously have published either a monograph (e.g. their dissertation) OR three articles in journals or collected volumes.

• Applicants from all academic fields whose research relates to images as models are invited to apply.

• Applications may be submitted in either German or English.