Collaborative Research Seminar:
Problems of Faith: Belief and Promise in Medieval and Early Modern Europe

The Townsend Center is accepting faculty applications for participation in the 2012-13 CRS on Problems of Faith: Belief and Promise in Medieval and Early Modern Europe.  The primary conveners will be Ethan Shagan (History) and Albert Ascoli (Italian Studies). The Townsend Center seeks applications for faculty to participate in the CRS as “co-conveners,” sharing in the responsibility for development of the curriculum, facilitation of the seminar, and direction of student research in relation to the course. The seminar will meet weekly during the spring 2013 semester.

Full Seminar description

Eligibility

All ladder-rank faculty are eligible to apply for participation in the CRS in Stage 2 (see below).

Grant Provision

Departments whose faculty will co-teach the seminars will count participation as the equivalent of one graduate level course. (They may do this by assigning the faculty member to a 298, 299, or other suitable course number, according to departmental and decanal policies.)

The seminar will meet weekly during the spring 2013 semester. The seminars themselves will be team-taught by a group of six faculty, including the two conveners. Enrollment will be open to graduate students in the third year of study or beyond, to form a total seminar of approximately eighteen participants, faculty and students combined. Student enrollments will be apportioned to the departments of participating faculty, or to their home departments in the case that their department is not represented among the faculty team.

Deadlines

March 1, 2012 – received by 5:00pm

Application Materials

Download the 2012-13 Collaborative Research Seminar, Stage 2 guidelines and application:
PDF
Microsoft Word

For questions about the program, please contact The Townsend Center Fellowships Administrator at townsend_fellowships@berkeley.edu or 510-643-8082.