Call for Pre-Proposals for Postdoctoral Junior Fellowships for African Researchers on "Resources, their Dynamics and Sustainability - Capacity Development in Comparative and Integrated Approaches"

Deadline: 15 December 2009

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Taking good care of our scholarship holders and alumni is important to us here at DAAD. To this end, we are expanding the range of services we offer to take even better care of your needs.

This is why all DAAD scholarship holders and alumni are now being offered their own free web-based DAAD e-mail account. This e-mail account is intended to make it easier for current and past scholarship holders to communicate with each other, and to be the main way for the DAAD to keep you updated with news and information. You can also use this e-mail account for all of your other electronic communication needs.

The benefits at a glance:
- Be contactable throughout your time as a scholarship holder (for example to receive invitations to meetings for scholarship holders)
- Be contactable after your time as a scholarship holder (for example for invitations to alumni events and regular information about the DAAD alumni network)
- Receive the DAAD’s electronic newsletter
- Information about job opportunities
- Regular information about the DAAD alumni network
- All DAAD scholarship holders and alumni share the same mail domain (@daad-alumni.de)
- Redirect function, spam filter and antivirus filter
- A mailbox with 1 gigabyte of storage space

The new e-mail service is free of charge and also allows you to redirect incoming e-mails to your existing e-mail account. To use the e-mail service, please register on

http://webmail.daad-alumni.de/reg/index.php

with your DAAD registration number (PKZ, please refer to your award letter) and your date of birth. Hints and tips on using the service are displayed on the site immediately after registration, or can be found in the helpdesk section using the top menu bar in your e-mail account.

If you have any technical questions or suggestions, please feel free to contact one of our e-mail service support staff (support@daad-alumni.de).

Have you discovered the DAAD alumni forum yet? On www.daad.de/alumni you can find more information on what the DAAD offers its alumni, update your personal data online, make contacts.

The Department of English at the Free University of Berlin is a vibrant department of one of the foremost arts and humanities universities in Europe (listed at place 3 among European faculties after Oxford and Cambridge in the 2008 THES ranking).
The teaching members of the English Department research across the full range of the historical periods, from medieval studies to contemporary cultural studies.
Under the tutelage of Prof. Russ West-Pavlov, an engaged team of postcolonial studies are working on African, Australian, Canadian and Caribbean literatures.
We are particularly interested in postcolonial film and visial studies, postcolonial historiography, and the semiotics of colonial and postcolonial spaces. We are currently have or are forging exchanges with universities around the world, with particularly strong links to partner researchers in Australia and Africa.

We welcome proposals for masters or doctoral research in the area of postcolonial studies, in particular under the aegis of the DAAD African PhD scholarships programme (closing date for applications in September of each year).

You may contact Russell West-Pavlov at westpav@zedat.fu-berlin.de