DÁ FALA

Applications are invited from PhD candidates for two doctoral scholarships at the Centre for African Studies,
University of Cape Town, South Africa. Supported by a grant from the Harry Oppenheimer Institute, each scholarship is
worth R80,000 a year, renewable for another year upon submission of a satisfactory progress report.

- One of the scholarships is meant to support a doctoral candidate working on aspects of Heritage and Public Culture in Africa and the other is earmarked for a candidate working in the area of Literary and Cultural Studies in Africa.
- Particular topics of interest in Heritage and Public Culture include: questions of archive and practices of curation; questions of memory and the formation of communities of memory; and work which contests prevailing heritage discourses and imaginaries.
- Topics of interest for the Literary and Cultural Studies in Africa award include: modernity, (post)colonialism, cultural translation; critiques of disciplinary practices and paradigms of knowledge production; power and
subjectivity; genre and ideology; orality, nation, nationalism and diaspora.

Requirements
- Applications should include a CV, and two-page outline of the proposed research.
- Shortlisted applicants will be required to submit a full research proposal.
- Applicants not registered at the University of Cape Town at the time of application will be required to register at
the university to take up the award.
- Please note that these awards are only tenable for study at the Centre for African Studies, University of Cape Town.
- Applications should be addressed to Ms Lilian Jacobs, Centre for African Studies, University of Cape Town,
Rondebosch 7701, Cape Town, South Africa, and sent by email to lilian.jacobs@uct.ac.za.

Application Deadline: 20 February 2011.

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