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