Networks is pleased to announce a call for application for 2 doctoral research fellows (third party funding) at Humboldt University Berlin for 36 months, starting at the earliest opportunity.
Networks. Textile Arts and Textility in a Transcultural Perspective (4th-17th Centuries)”, directed by Prof. Dr. Gerhard Wolf, is a new research project situated at the Department of Art and Visual History at Humboldt University Berlin. Funded by the German research Foundation (DFG), “Networks” is part of a joint research project with the University of Zurich (“An Iconology of the Textile in Art and Architecture”, directed by Prof. Dr. Tristan Weddigen). Its aim is to study the migration of textiles, including raw materials, techniques and patterns, as well as their representation in other media, from China to the Mediterranean, from Late Antiquity to the early modern period.
The project which can draw on the excellent collections in Berlin seeks to reconstruct the role of textiles as agents of cultural interaction and the transmission of knowledge: easily transported and of high esteem in Asian and Mediterranean societies, textiles were a privileged field for the elaboration of cross-cultural artistic languages The project will study textiles in regard to materiality, ornaments and figuration, including notions of framing, fragmentation and seriality, as well as performativity or motility. It will concentrate on the intertwining of aesthetic dimensions with religious, political or domestic functions of textiles, wrapping bodies and articulating spaces.
Apart from writing his/her dissertation, the appointee will be expected to contribute to the project, its publications and events in content, conception and organization.
2 doctoral research fellows
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2013-11-03, 00:00
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2025-09-29, 17:01
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Ioana Dinescu
