TURIN HUMANITIES PROGRAMME
6th CALL FOR APPLICATIONS – 2025
2026-2028 RESEARCH CYCLE
“After the Enlightenment: Histories, Debates, and Reinterpretations”
Fondazione 1563 per l’Arte e la Cultura (hereinafter “Fondazione 1563”) has since 2013 supported research and advanced training in the field of the humanities.
In a wider effort to pursue this goal, in 2020 Fondazione 1563 has launched the Turin Humanities Programme, a research initiative that allows junior scholars to work on interrelated research projects under the guidance of especially appointed Senior Fellows.
THP aims at promoting two-year research projects about relevant global history topics.
Under THP in 2020 Fondazione 1563 launched a first call for application for research on the Enlightenmnent legacy: the rights of man in a global perspective, in 2021 a second call for application for research on Political Thought and the Body: Europe and East Asia, ca. 1100-1650, in 2022 a third call for application for research on Slavery, ethnicity and race in the Mediterranean. Ideas and attitudes from Homer to Columbus, in 2023 a fourth call for application for research on Slavery and Serfdom in Europe and the New World: Debates in the Early Modern Period, and in 2024 a fifth call for application for research on Rethinking the Origins of Political Economy in the European World: Needs, Justice, and the Wealth of Nations.
Fondazione 1563 is now pleased to launch the sixth call for applications to award up to 4 two year fellowships for advanced studies on After the Enlightenment: Histories, Debates, and Reinterpretations.
The Director of Studies for this programme (2026-2028) will be Elisabeth Décultot, the Director of the IZEA Interdisciplinary Centre for research on the European Enlightenment studies and Humboldt Professor for modern written culture and European knowledge transfer at the Institute of German Literature, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg.
For information and questions please email: info@fondazione1563.it
Applicants are invited to submit research projects of a maximum of 3000 words, plus bibliography. Projects are expected to engage with one or more aspects of the general research framework After the Enlightenment: Histories, Debates, and Reinterpretations.
Candidates are invited to propose projects examining how the concept of the Enlightenment has been constructed, adapted, contested and (re)appropriated in the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries—that is, after the historical period conventionally associated with it.
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