RESIDENTIAL RESEARCH GROUP FELLOWSHIP FALL 2011
“Vocal Matters: Technologies of Self and the Materiality of Voice”
Group residency quarter: Fall 2011 (application deadline: January 3)
The voice plays a vital role in human ecology. Simultaneously tied to
our bodies and entwined with the external environment, the voice
exists in a complex braid with multiple physical and socio-cultural
formations: voices relate to one another and to their physical
environs; they adapt to and are altered by technologies. Because the
voice is central to the formation of subjects, rethinking technologies
of self through the sonorous, material, and technological components
of vocal acts should lead to new insights about the voice's role in
self-constitution, artistic expression, and everyday life. This
rethinking should also help us describe the mutual constitution of
self and the cultural, social, historical, technological and political
as specific registers of the material conditions of subject formation.
Rereading embodiment through the material voice, the research group
seeks to intervene in current critiques of the construction and
perpetuation of identities and differences. We also aim to contribute
to the development of perspectives and vocabularies on the
epistemologies and ideologies of voice that can aid in cross-
disciplinary understanding and research. We wish to convene a group of
scholars who understand the voice as a conjuncture of corporeality and
technology, a sounding of power and a strategy of control. The
research group ultimately seeks to intercede in vocal politics by
working toward new analytical frameworks for taking account of the
ways in which voices co-implicate and destabilize the categories of
nature, culture and society. By engaging in an interdisciplinary
critique of the videocentrism of Western thinking, and in a
consideration of the voice on its own aural and multi-sensory terms,
the research project will ideally contribute to a subtle but
significant shift in the paradigms of knowledge production within the
humanities.
Application Guidelines Deadline: January 3, 2011.
Who Can Apply: UC Faculty, Post-Docs, Graduate Students and non-UC
faculty.
Level of Award: Replacement for faculty and stipend for non-faculty.
Funding Source: UCHRI
Residential Research Groups
Residential research groups (RRGs) are at the heart of UCHRI's
activities, convening key scholars to work in collaboration on
interdisciplinary topics of special significance.UCHRI promotes new
scholarship in the humanities by fostering collaborativeinquiry
outside institutional and disciplinary structures. RRGs are in essence
teams of researchers, often unknown to each other before residency,
andassembled to work on a commonly defined research agenda. They are
composed of arange of UC faculty, visiting scholars (including UC
postdoctoral scholars), UC doctoral students, and non-UC faculty as
resources allow.
RRGs are developed through a two-stage process. First, research topics
for RRGs are determined by open competition or by UCHRI in
consultation with its Advisory Board and UC leaders in the humanities.
Through a competitive review process, RRG fellows are then selected
based on their ability to contribute to the research agenda of the
group. Collaboration may take many forms. In communicating across
disciplines, there are challenges of language, terminology, and
methodology for all RRGs. The organizing premise of the residential
research program is that when those challenges are surmounted,
breakthroughs in knowledge are possible.
Expected outcomes of an RRG include edited or co-edited volumes, key
word texts, multimedia websites, significant extramural proposals,
substantial curriculum plans, or other such significant projects
arising from research pursued at UCHRI.
UCHRI's facilities forparticipating scholars include private offices
with e-mail/Internet access, seminar and conference rooms, a multi-
media room, and a reference library. Furnished apartments are provided
free of charge to fellows by the Institute for use on an as-needed
basis during their residencies, resources permitting.
Awards will be announced no later than March 2011.
How to Apply:
Applications are accepted exclusively online viaUCHRI's FASTAPPS system.
Required documents include:
Fellowship Project abstract (200 words max.)
Biographical abstract (100 words max.)
Proposal narrative (2000 words max.)
Curriculum vitae (2 pages max.)
For program-related questions, please contact Suedine Nakano, Program
Administrator, at [log in to unmask]
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UCHRI:
http://www.uchri.org/page-no-cat.php?page_id=1410
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