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2012 GETTY RESEARCH EXCHANGE FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM FOR THE MEDITERRANEAN BASIN AND MIDDLE EAST Announcement [.pdf ] THE FELLOWSHIPS: This program of research fellowships and seminars will serve to build cooperative networks among scholars from Afghanistan, Algeria, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Egypt, Greece, Italy, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Morocco, Palestine, Tunisia, Turkey, and Yemen whose research and professional interests focus on art history. The program will draw on the resources, facilities, and contacts of American overseas research centers located in Algeria and Turkey to enable the recipients to further their research and to build professional networks in and among the host countries. 2012 Seminars: Art and Archaeology of the Sacred | Oran, Algeria | 9 June – 16 July 2012 Fellows should plan to arrive in Oran no later than 9 June 2012 and depart no earlier than 16 July 2012. The fellowship tenure is comprised of three sections:
Vision and Visual Culture in Byzantium | Istanbul, Turkey | 9 June – 16 July 2012 Byzantium was a profoundly visual culture, which has left us some of the singular monuments from the history of art and architecture, such as Hagia Sophia or the Chora Monastery. The purpose of the seminar is to investigate ways of looking and ways of seeing Byzantine art and architecture – that is, learning to “read” the monuments with the same nuance and insight a philologist would apply to a text. This may encompass several approaches, such as recreating the cultural context in which the monument or image was constructed or experienced; understanding the dynamic relationship of a painted or mosaic program and its architectural setting; interrogating the science of vision itself, as the Byzantines understood it; or contemplating the relationship of the cognitive visual process to spiritual understanding. Directed by Professor Robert Ousterhout, University of Pennsylvania ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS: The fellowships are intended to serve scholars who are citizens of participating countries* and who have already obtained a Ph.D. or have professional experience in the in the field of art history and who wish to undertake a specific research project in Algeria or Turkey related to the seminar theme: Art and Archaeology of the Sacred in Algeria or Vision and Visual Culture in Byzantium in Turkey. Approximately ten fellows total will be selected – five to conduct research in Algeria and five to conduct research in Turkey. * Participating countries include: Afghanistan, Algeria, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Egypt, Greece, Italy, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Morocco, Palestine, Tunisia, Turkey, and Yemen. Please note: Algerian scholars may apply only for the fellowship in Turkey and Turkish scholars may apply only for the fellowship in Algeria. AWARDS: Getty Research Exchange Fellows will receive a travel and living expense stipend of $7,500. The fellowship tenure will be June 9 to July 16, 2012, including an opening and closing seminar. A final report in English is due no later than September 17, 2012. Notification of fellowship status will be made available to each applicant via email by April 16, 2012. APPLICATION PROCEDURE: An application is not considered complete until ARIT receives all documents:
Please submit the application form, project description, and curriculum vitae in MS Word format via email to the ARIT center in Ankara or Istanbul (addresses below). Please have your letter of recommendation sent directly from the letter writer to ARIT via email. Documents, scanned with signature, in PDF format are preferred, to the same location where you submitted the application documents. Applicants are responsible for assuring that the American Research Institute in Turkey (ARIT) receives all documents by the deadline date, January 6, 2012.
NOTIFICATION: Notification of fellowship status will be made available to each applicant via email by April 16, 2012.
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