Posted in Jobs, tagged Enlightenment, Job Opportunity, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Politics, Politics of the Enlightenment on July 15, 2025| Leave a Comment »
Five PhD positions for researchers from all humanities disciplines are available in the DFG-funded Research Training Group (GK) “Politics of the Enlightenment”, based at Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg.
Deadline: October 27, 2025.
More information: https://polight.uni-halle.de/en/five-positions-as-research-associates-m-f-d-for-doctoral-studies-available-2/
Posted in Jobs, tagged Criticism, Eighteenth Century, Enlightenment, History, Job offer, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century on June 2, 2025| Leave a Comment »
The Research Focus Group ‘Enlightenment – Religion – Knowledge‘ based at the Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg is offering a 1-year postdoctoral fellowship under the title “Kritik im Widerstreit” (criticism in contest), beginning on October 1, 2025.
The research focus group is dedicated to the historical Enlightenment and its continued legacy up to the present. This includes, not least, the concept of “criticism,” which was first emphatically formulated during the Enlightenment and is currently again the subject of intense debate—particularly with regard to its political implications.
Where does criticism stand today, what is it still capable of, and how must we rethink it? What forms of practice are associated with it, what does it mean in different fields—politics, art, the public sphere—how is it shifting under new media conditions, and what political significance does it have in each case?
Today, criticism itself is under criticism: it is said to be elitist, exhausted, and outdated, to defend particular interests, and to serve self-promotion more than its apparent cause. Particularly disturbing is the fact that critical arguments seem to be easily appropriated by their opponents: Today, prohibitions on thinking are proclaimed in the name of “freedom”; exclusions in the name of “equality”; and questionable dogmas in the name of “criticism”. What remains of criticism if one does not want to abandon it entirely but has given up belief in a “critique of critical criticism” (Marx)?
The scholarship is intended to serve as a means of investigating and discussing political figurations of criticism between appropriation and dismissal together with other scholars involved in research focus group. Applicants should propose an academic project (aimed at publishing an academic article) and, within this framework, organize and host an academic event; accompanying formats such as readings, panel discussions, exhibitions, guided tours, etc. are also conceivable and can be financed with ARW funds.
Deadline for applications is 27 June, 2025.
More information on the fellowship and application procedure can be found here.
Posted in Jobs, tagged Enlightenment, Future, History, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Opportunity, Religion, Transformation on July 28, 2024| Leave a Comment »
A call for applications for a new 1-year postdoctoral fellowship program in the context of the Research Group “Aufklärung – Religion – Wissen” of the Martin-Luther-University of Halle-Wittenberg has just been published. It’s deadline is August 18, 2024.
For more information on the project, titled “sites of futurity” (Zukunftsorte) and on the application process, see here.
Posted in Presentation, tagged Artificial Intelligence, Aufklärung - Religion - Wissen, Halle (Saale), Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, neues theater, Panel Discussion on December 21, 2023| Leave a Comment »
Together with my colleagues Till Kössler and Robert Buch, I’ve organized a panel discussion on the cultural, political, social and philosophical implications of recent developments in the field of Artificial Intelligence. Under the title “Künstliche Intelligenz und das Ende des Menschen?” / “Artificial Intelligence and the End of Humanity?” we have invited
to reflect on the broader significance of this technological shift, which is too often discussed only in terms of euphoric optimism or apocalyptic worries. How does our perspective on ‘humanity’ change against the background of the increasing prevalence of self-thinking machines? The discussion brings different voices
from culture and science into conversation with one another to develop a sharper perspective on what the future co-existence of man and machine might entail.
The discussion is organized in partnership between the Landeszentrale für politische Bildung Sachsen-Anhalt and the Landesforschungsschwerpunkt Aufklärung – Religion – Wissen. Moreover, it is part of the “Transformationslabor Hochschule” which is funded by the Stifterverband der deutschen Wissenschaft e.V.
The event will take place in the neue theater Halle on January 18, 2024 from 7:30 pm. Attendance is free and all are very welcome.
Posted in Jobs, tagged Europe, History, Job, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Nineteenth Century on July 26, 2022| Leave a Comment »
I’m offering a PhD position in modern European history (3y, with a possible 1y extension) for any project on the ‘long’ 19th century at the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg.
Deadline: 22 October, 2022.
Details in German and English may be found here.
Posted in Jobs, tagged Albert-Ludwig-University Freiburg, Chair of Modern History, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg on June 28, 2022| Leave a Comment »
I’m very happy to announce that from July 1, 2022, I will be heading the Chair of Modern History (Professur für Neuere und Neueste Geschichte) at Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg. I had already been active in this position since April 1 in the capacity of a ‘substitute professor’, but I’m glad that everything is official now.
I’m immensely grateful to the MLU and to my new colleagues at the History Department for giving me the opportunity to further develop my research and teaching in this exciting new role.
A short introduction about me in the university magazine can be found here.
Theo Jung 