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Paul Celan Fellowship für Übersetzer*innen

Kategorie(n)

Aufenthaltsstipendium

Beschreibung

Paul Celan Visiting Fellows are invited to spend three months between September 2024 and June 2025 at the Institute for Human Sciences (IWM) in Vienna to pursue their translation projects.
Fellows receive a monthly stipend in the amount of EUR 3,000 to cover all expenses related to their stay in Vienna. In addition, the IWM provides the fellows with an office including access to internet, in-house research and administrative facilities, as well as other services free of charge. Generally, fellowships start on the first day of the month and end on the last day of the month.

Bewerbungsvoraussetzungen

The aim of the Paul Celan Fellowship Program is to overcome deficits and asymmetries in the exchange of ideas and the reception of scholarly literature that result from the division of Europe in the twentieth century. Therefore, the program supports translations of canonical texts and contemporary key works in the humanities, social sciences, and cultural studies from Eastern to Western, Western to Eastern, or between two Eastern European languages. Special emphasis is put on translations of relevant works written by East European authors and/or by female scholars. A thematic relation to one of the research fields of the IWM is likewise welcomed.

Please note that fiction and poetry will not be accepted.

Bewerbungsmodalitäten

Application materials consist of the following:

a brief letter of motivation that addresses how the project would benefit from time at the IWM, the connection to the IWM’s mission and research, and concrete research/writing goals during the fellowship a project description (max. 550 characters) a project proposal (max. 7,500 characters incl. spaces) containing a description of the project’s a) objectives, b) the state of the art, c) methods, and d) a work plan a curriculum vitae with a bibliography of translations and other relevant publications a contract or a letter of intent from a publisher proof that the translator/publisher holds the rights to the translation and its publication (or has an option on them)

All application materials should be in English..

Bewerbungsfrist

15. Januar 2025

Eigenbewerbung möglich?

Ja

Ausschreibungsturnus

 

Kontakt

Institut für die Wissenschaft vom Menschen
Spittelauer Lände 3
A – 1090 Wien

Tel.: 0043-1-313 58-0
Fax: 0043-1-313 58-30

E-Mail: fellowships@iwm.at

https://www.iwm.at/program/paul-celan-fellowship-for-translators

Stand

6. Januar 2024

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