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Call for Applications

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Application Deadline: 10 December 2021

The Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies (MCAS) at Universität Hamburg would like to invite researchers to apply for its junior and senior fellowship programme for the academic year 1 October 2022 to 30 September 2023.

The Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies is a Humanities Research Institute at Universität Hamburg which is led by Prof. Dr Giuseppe Veltri and funded by the German Research Foundation. MCAS’s central aim is to explore and research scepticism in Judaism in its dual manifestation as both a purely philosophical tradition and a more general expression of sceptical strategies, concepts, and attitudes in the cultural field.

Topic: Limits of Faith, Limits of Scepticism (2022/23)

In the academic year 2022/23, MCAS will examine the role of scepticism in limitations of faith and then turn the question inside out and examine what happens when scepticism becomes its own object: Can scepticism be upheld as a tenable position? Questions pursued in this year will include (but are by no means confined to): What strategies do Jewish Enlightenment thinkers pursue in order to defend God’s (alleged) justice and goodness and divine providence from assaults from critical thought? Is the problem of (Jewish) theodicy—especially in light of the Holocaust—(also) a sceptical problem? Is doubting one’s religion an instance of scepticism? What are the possibilities and scope of the misuse/abuse of sceptical argumentation (particularly in religious and political contexts, where debates about fake news and alternative facts have become significant)? To what extent do faith and scepticism intersect in the context of contemporary concerns (such as climate change, Covid-19, the refugee crisis, and the new authoritarianism, to name but a few)?

These questions can be addressed from the point of view of several disciplines, such as Jewish studies, philosophy, history, literature, the arts, and cultural anthropology. The successful candidate’s project should resonate productively with the annual topic as described. Priority will be given to projects dealing with the (early) modern period.

For more information, including how to apply: https://www.maimonides-centre.uni-hamburg.de/news-container/research-and-publications/2021-cfa-fellowships-2022-23.html

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Yoav Meyrav, Phd