The Institute for Comparative Literature and Society maintains a variety of special programs aimed at enhancing the range of its pedagogical offerings, and extending the language communities with which it engages. At present, the ICLS operates a Postdoctoral Fellowship, the African Consortium, and a program for visiting fellows.
The Institute for Comparative Literature and Society invites
applications for its exchange program with the University
of Ghana, Legon. The
exchange, which is open both to undergraduates and graduates, offers Columbia students an opportunity to visit Ghana and work directly with scholars at the University of Ghana. Students will also have opportunities to attend conferences and
workshops both within the University and at other institutions in Ghana.
The exchange will introduce students to the academic culture of Ghana and allow
them to build professional contacts while pursuing work on new research projects
or on work they have already begun. The exchange will be open again for
the 2008/2009 academic year, offering students the opportunity to return to continue
research already begun. We will be
accepting one-page proposals and transcripts submitted by January 15th,
2008.
Decisions will be made known before the end of the Spring 2008
semester. As of now, we are able to entertain proposals from all of our
affiliated departments (Anthropology, Architecture, Art History and
Archaeology, Classics, East Asian Languages and Cultures, English, French and
Romance Philology, Germanic Languages, History, Italian, Middle
East and Asian Languages and Cultures, Music, Philosophy, Political
Science, Religion, Slavic Languages, and Spanish and Portuguese). Applicants
should be aware that, regrettably, homosexuality is illegal in Ghana. For further
information send email to Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Director of the Institute
for Comparative Literature and Society, at icls@columbia.edu.
