The Heinz Heinen Kolleg is part of the Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies (BCDSS) that hosts the Cluster of Excellence "Beyond Slavery and Freedom. Asymmetric Dependencies in Pre-modern Societies" funded by the German Excellence Strategy. The BCDSS approaches asymmetrical dependencies from antiquity to the present and across many regions in five different Research Areas. These form five different thematic and methodological angles. Each of these Research Areas draws on specific conceptual debates and approaches of the humanities and puts them to the test in order to arrive at a new social history of asymmetrical dependencies. For the academic year of 2022/2023 the Cluster will put a thematic emphasis on Research Area D “Labor and Spatiality”. Research Area D no longer adopts European free wage labor as the standard labor relation of modernity. Instead of this approach it takes all forms of labor into account in equal measure: "free" and "unfree" forms of labor, productive and reproductive labor, capitalist and non-capitalist labor relations – in both Western and non-Western societies, from within and beyond European (colonial) history.
We are calling for applications for 10 scholarships:
• two Junior Postdoctoral Fellows (max. 6 months after PhD) for up to 12 months;
• two Postdoctoral Fellows (postdocs, assistant and associate professors) for up to 12 months;
• two Senior Fellows (full professors) for up to 12 months;
• two Doctoral Fellows (about to finish their PhD) for up to 6 months;
• two Short Term Fellows for up to 2 months.
Even though the thematic focus of the academic year 2022/2023 at BCDSS will be on the topics of Research Area D, applications for the Heinz Heinen Fellowships connected to and touching on one of the other Research Areas are also welcome.