2000, 2001 (13.évfolyam) január

A 2000 kulturális ajánlata CALL FOR APPLICATIONS Paul Celan Fellowships for Translators January-June and July-December 2002 Objective The Institute for Human Sciences (Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen or IWM) is an independent, international, and interdisciplinary center for advanced study. IWM regularly invites academics to translate important works in the humanities or the social sciences from an Eastern into a Western European language, vice versa or from one Eastern European language into another. To date over 50 translators from 15 countries have been invited to work at the Institute. The purpose of IWM's Translation Program is to help fill the gaps in the relevant literature in these fields, thus promoting an exchange of ideas between the East and the West or within Central and Eastern Europe. The program bears the name of the poet and translator, Paul Celan, whose work - perhaps more than any other's in this century - thrives on the diversity of European cultures and also mediates between them. A jury of experts meets each year to evaluate applications and select finalists. The Program is supported by the European Cultural Foundation, Amsterdam, and the City of Vienna, in the past, it was also sponsored by the Central and East European Publishing Project, Oxford (1987-1994), the Getty Grant Program (1994-1996) and the Ford Foundation. Conditions As a rule, finalists are invited to spend six months (January—June or July-December) at IWM as Visiting Fellows in order to complete their projects. IWM places a stipend of ATS 160,000 at their disposal which covers the expenses of their stay in Vienna and provides them whit an office, a PC, and access to IWM's inhouse as well as other relevant Viennese research facilities. Application Procedure The applications should include the following materials: - a curriculum vitae with a bibliography of translations and other publications, if applicable, - the author and work to be translated (from the original language) and an explanation for the choice thereof, - exact number of pages, - a contract with a publisher for the publication of the translation or a letter of intent from a publisher; proof that the translator/publisher holds the rights to the translation and its publication (or has an option for them); planned date of publication, - information on the program of the publishing house. Works which are tematically related to IWM's fields of research and ongoing projects will receive preferential treatment: - Political Philosophy of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries - Gender Studies - The philosophy of Jan Patocka - History of Political and Economic Ideas in Central and Eastern Europe Applications for Paul Celan Fellowships for Translators for the year 2001 must be submitted in English or German before January 31, 2001. They should be addressed to IWM, Paul Celan Fellowships for Translators, attn: Ms Iris Strohschein. Applicants will be notefied on the status their applications by the end of April 2001. For more information please visit IWM's website: www.univie.ac.at/iwm/ Institute for Human Sciences Spittelauer Lande 3 A - 1090 Vienna Tel. (+431)313 58-0 Fax (+431) 313 58-30 e-mail: iwm@iwm.at

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