The Centre for Aesthetics, Religion and Contemporary Culture and the Haas Library at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra are pleased to announce a call for applications for two individual fellowships, permitting the successful applicants to carry out original artistic and/or research projects at the Haas Library for a period of three months.
We welcome scholarly and/or artistic submissions from any disciplinary background or perspective, though candidates must show the specific link between their proposal and any aspect or theme of the Haas Library collection.
In 2020, these fellowships, previously known as Haas Fellowships, were renamed as Javier & Marta Villavecchia Fellowships, so that they paid homage to their original benefactors and to the ongoing trust and generosity of the whole Villavecchia family.
2023 Javier & Marta Villavecchia Fellowships
The Centre for Aesthetics, Religion and Contemporary Culture and the Haas Library at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra are pleased to announce the new call for applications for two individual J&M Villavecchia Fellowships for 2022-2023. This call is open to both artists and postdoctoral researchers with original and innovative proposals that make use of the themes and materials of the Haas Library.
Fellowships are for a period of three months. One fellowship will be granted for the winter semester (from September to February), and another for the spring semester (from February to July).
Call for Applications
Application Form
The Application Form is to be sent to [email protected] together with a letter of introduction and motivation (1 page), a CV (2 pages), and a detailed proposal of the project to be carried out as fellow, putting emphasis on its adjustment to the aims of the scholarship (3 pages).
Applications deadline: March 1st, 2022
Fellows
Cesc Gelabert
In the exceptional context of 2020, and in collaboration with the scholars of the Centre for Aesthetics, Religion and Contemporary Culture, Gelabert, one of the most reputed dancers and choreographers of today, together with Amador Vega, have developed a performance project around a piece by playwright Valère Novarina, known as "Excerpts: A Lecture in Dance and Theology." The performance in fieri touches the boundaries of expression and reflection through Novarina's words and silences and Gelabert's stillness and movements, in intimate relation with a number of spiritual practices of the East and the West, and in line with the scholarly neverending endeavour of comprehension of the mystery within human existence.
Martín Bonadeo
Martín José Bonadeo is a visual artist and lecturer at various universities of Argentina (UCA, Austral and Di Tella). His project is involved with the images and graphic representations of the Haas collection, which are to serve as the symbolic basis for a research around contemporary Art and spirituality.
Artistic collaboration: Ensayos para una Cruz del Sur en el Norte (March, 2020)
Nesrin Karavar
Nesrin Karavar is a postdoctoral researcher in the Universitat de Barcelona, and holds a PhD in Construction and Representation of Cultural Identity by the same university. Her project is an important contribution to the comparative knowledge of Spanish and Turkish mystical traditions, specifically about St. Teresa de Jesús (1515-1582) and Adile Sultan (1826-1899), with the aim of pointing out the most characteristic aspects of feminine mystical literature in the East and the West.
Seminar: La poesía de corte místico de la princesa turco-otomana Adile Sultan (1826-1899)
Sebastián Moro Tornese
Sebastián Moro is an expertised Violoncellist and holds a PhD in Philosophy at the Royal Holloway College (University of London). His project explores the connection between Aesthetics, Cosmology and Mystical Philosophy and focuses on the symbol of the scala naturae, represented as a a musical scale and as a cosmical monochord. He works on the Neoplatonic heritage in authors like Llull, Fludd and Kircher, and emphasizes both the visual and auditive symbolism of their figures.
Seminar: La Musica Speculativa: la música como espejo de la realidad en la recepción del Neoplatonismo en Fludd y Kircher (VIII Haas Lectures)
Sylvain Camilleri
Sylvain Camilleri is Assistant Professor at the Catholic University of Louvain. His project deals with the 18th century German Glaubensphilosophie. He explores its relationship with the Gefühlsphilosophie or the early Sturm und Drang movement. He addresses the problematic notion of Glaube, that simultaneously means "belief" and "faith", for faith is to be thought of as a very peculiar extension of belief leading a certain form of sui generis knowledge, which is of no less theoretical and practical value when it comes to our being-in-the-world.
Seminar: Faith’s Knowledge in Johann Georg Hamann. On the Genesis and Topicality of XVIIIth Century Glaubensphilosophie (VIII Haas Lectures)
David W. Johnson
David Johnson is Associate Professor (with tenure) at the Boston College. His project, Watsuji’s Philosophy of Nature: Thinking Between Heidegger and Gadamer, raises an intercultural dialogue between different philosophical traditions and their contribution to a deeper understanding of the philosophy practiced in East Asia.
Seminar: Nature, Culture, and Lifeworld. Some Ontological Considerations
Elizabeth Sarah Coles
Elizabeth Sarah Coles is a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, where she works on contemporary literary-critical cultures, forms, and media. She studied at the University of Cambridge (MA, MPhil) and Queen Mary, University of London (PhD), and has taught and published on literary criticism and theory, psychoanalysis and contemporary Anglophone poetry. She is co-editor and co-author of the forthcoming book, Wild Analysis: From the Couch to Cultural and Political Life, New Library of Psychoanalysis (London and New York: Routledge, 2021), and is completing a monograph on the Canadian poet and essayist, Anne Carson.
Communication: Creación/decreación: apuntes hacia una lectura de la poética contemporánea (VII Haas Lectures)