Submitted by benjamin de cleen on Mon, 16/02/2009 - 21:05.
The Research Institute for Cosmopolitan Cultures (RICC), part of the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Manchester, invites applications from highly qualified postgraduate students for six three-year PhD bursaries of £ 3,370 p.a. (towards fees and/or maintenance) to enable them to research and write doctoral dissertations on any aspect of one of the following broadly defined themes:
* Living Cosmopolitanism: Cities, Transnationalities and Migration
* Injustice, Inequality and Violence: Rethinking Materialities
* Mediating Cosmopolitanism: Film, Technology and Fantasy
* Imagining Otherness, Embodying Difference: Gender and Postcolonialism
* Genealogies of Cosmopolitanism: History, Literature and Memory
* Belonging and Exclusion: Exile, Diaspora and Cultures of Citizenship