U Oslo: PHD Research Fellowship in Political Science (Norway)

“Studentships“Ph.D. Research Fellowship in Political Science, 3-4 years, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway. Deadline: 1 September 2026.

The Department of Political Science is offering one PhD position with specialisation in either comparative politics, or political data science. The successful applicant will be part of the research project “Authoritarian Threats to Scientific Knowledge” (AutoKnow), which is funded by the European Research Council. The PhD fellowship period is three years and devoted to carrying out research and pursuing a PhD in the context of the AutoKnow project. The position may also include other career-enhancing activities: depending on the candidate’s competence and the teaching needs of the department, the fellowship period can be extended up to four years for qualification work consisting of e.g. teaching duties.

The primary aims of AutoKnow are to investigate how the production of scientific knowledge is affected by authoritarian regimes and politics. The project will look at how authoritarian rule affects the contents and research trajectories of scientific fields, and which fields are targeted for repression and co-optation by authoritarian rulers and movements. It will use computational text analysis to measure content-dimensions of published science and collect different data on attacks on academic freedom. It will study how authoritarian rule affects scientific progress, topic choice, political bias, idea novelty and other dimensions.

CFP: Possibilities (Book Series with Peter Lang)

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Call for Submissions: for book series Possibilities, published by Peter Lang. Deadline: Open.

Series editors: Bernadette Marie Calafell (University of Oregon) and Shane T. Moreman (California State University, Fresno)

Possibilities brings Indigenous, Race, and Ethnic Studies together with Communication and Media Studies, centering how cultural communities use, resist, and remake the forms that represent them. The series takes up the activist impulse that sparked the founding of Ethnic Studies through the labor of Indigenous, Black, Latina/o/x/e, and Asian American communities, and carries that charge into Communication and Media Studies, energizing the series to be critical, reflexive, and dynamic.

Foregrounding U.S. racial and ethnic formations and performances in relation to imperialism, settler colonialism, and the enduring and recurring traumas of genocide, slavery, anti-Blackness, and internment, Possibilities also follows diasporic, transnational, and border-crossing realities manifested through texts, institutions, and lived experiences. Editors invite work that takes empirical risks while remaining humble about what it can claim, and that engages communities in imagining what comes next.

Possibilities deepens long-standing questions of race and ethnicity across sex, gender, ability, class, nationality, locality, and the like, all with the desire for intellectual growth. They encourage scholars to cultivate new methods and representational forms, and to let transdisciplinary questions motivate that work rather than merely frame it. Possibilities takes its name from its advocacy: a tending toward resourceful visioning, sustainable offerings, and critical hope.

Editors welcome proposals for monographs and edited collections, and encourage informal conversations with anyone thinking through a project at any stage.

(The series was previously published under the name Critical Intercultural Communication Studies through volume 33.)

Ikeda Center for Peace, Learning, & Dialogue Education Fellowships 2027 (USA)

FellowshipsIkeda Center for Peace, Learning, & Dialogue Education (doctoral) Fellowships, Cambridge, MA. Deadline: 1 September 2026.

The Education Fellows Program was established by the Ikeda Center for Peace, Learning, and Dialogue in 2007. The program honors the educational legacy of global peace builder and Center founder, Daisaku Ikeda, and aims to advance research and scholarship on the internationally growing field of Ikeda/Soka studies in education.

The Ikeda Center Education Fellows Program supports doctoral dissertations in the field of Ikeda/Soka studies in education, including its relation to the philosophy and practice of education more generally. Up to three Ikeda Center Education Fellows will be selected by an Advisory Council of leading education scholars each application period. Fellows will be eligible for two years of funding at $10,000 per year, with the second year contingent on proof of progress.

CID Poster 11: Language and Intercultural Communication Translated into Catalan

CID PostersSeveral years ago, Brandon Peña created CID Poster 11: Language and Intercultural Communication, illustrating a quote related to KC78: Language and Intercultural Communication by Jane Jackson.

Here we present the Catalan translation, CID Poster 11: Llenguatge I Comunicació Intercultural. This new version of the poster exists thanks to the translation by Neus Crous-Costa, and additional graphic design work by Yan Qiu.

CID Poster 11 translated into Catalan

Just in case anyone wants to cite this poster, the following would be the recommended format:

Center for Intercultural Dialogue. (2026). CID Poster 11: Llenguatge I Comunicació Intercultural [N. Crous-Costa, trans.]. CID Posters, 11. Available from: https://centerforinterculturaldialogue.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/cid-poster-11-language-intercultural-communcation-catalan.png

As with other series, CID Posters are available for free on the site; just click on the thumbnail to download a printable version. They may be downloaded, printed, and shared as is, without changes, without cost, so long as there is acknowledgment of the source.

As with other CID Publications, if you wish to prepare an original contribution, please send an email before starting any work to receive approval, to minimize inadvertent duplication, and to learn about technical requirements. As is the case any series, posters should be created initially in English. If you want to volunteer to translate a poster into a language in which you are fluent, send in a note before starting, to receive approval and to confirm no one else is working on the same one.

Wendy Leeds-Hurwitz
Director, Center for Intercultural Dialogue
intercult.dialogue AT gmail.com

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U Kent: Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in International Conflict Analysis (UK)

“Job Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in International Conflict Analysis, University of Kent, England, UK. Deadline: 12 August 2026.

On the 1 August 2026, The University of Greenwich and the University of Kent will form a pioneering new multi-university group called London and South- East (LASE) University Group. Should you join them, you will be employed by LASE and within this, you will be closely connected to and work across one of the academic divisions (University of Greenwich or University of Kent), contributing to its distinct strengths, community and identity. Combining these strengths, LASE brings scale, resilience and shared ambition to deliver outstanding education, impactful research, and meaningful regional and global impact.

Do you have the expertise to shape teaching and research that helps us better understand conflict, security and peace in a changing world? If so they would welcome your application.

They are looking for a Lecturer or Senior Lecturer in International Conflict Analysis to join the School of Economics, Politics and International Relations on an Education and Research contract. You’ll contribute to innovative teaching, undertake high-quality research, and support the School’s work in Peace and Conflict Studies, International Security and International Relations. Teaching capacity in quantitative methods and/or the theory and practice of negotiations may be an advantage.

The role is suited to candidates with a strong research record and trajectory, with the ability to produce high-quality outputs, build external relationships and enhance the University’s research profile. Appointment at Senior Lecturer level will require evidence of a higher standard of achievement, including research leadership, external funding success and contribution to the strategic development of teaching, research and/or knowledge exchange activity.

Geneva Graduate Institute: Assistant Professor of International Law (Switzerland)

“JobAssistant Professor of International Law, Geneva Graduate Institute, Switzerland. Deadline: 16 August 2026.

The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva, Switzerland is seeking to hire an outstanding colleague with the potential for research leadership in international law and with a demonstrated interest in issues related to global health. Candidates must hold a doctoral degree in law prior to the start of their contract and show excellence in research through completed projects and a promising research agenda. Postdoctoral research experience is not required but considered an asset. Applications from candidates already holding a position of Assistant Professor in another institution are also welcome.

The successful candidate will be affiliated to the Department of International Law. They will teach postgraduate courses and supervise master’s dissertations and PhD theses in the Department of International Law. They will also be called upon to teach classes and supervise master’s dissertations in the interdisciplinary programme and may be asked to contribute to executive education programmes. In light of the interdisciplinary character of the Graduate Institute, the selected candidate should be interested in interdisciplinary dialogue, teaching and research.

The teaching language is either English or French. Prior knowledge of French is not required, but the successful candidate is expected to acquire at least a passive knowledge of it within two years of being hired.

UNESCO Harnessing Intercultural Competencies for Peacebuilding

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Harnessing intercultural competencies for peace building, UNESCO, Paris, France, 2023.

 

Harnessing intercultural competencies for peacebuildingTo explore the potential of intercultural competencies to serve as an enabler for peace in fragile, conflict-affected and post-conflict contexts, the UNESCO Series of Regional Expert Consultations on Intercultural Competencies for Peacebuilding was organized by the Social and Human Sciences Sector in June-September 2023.

 

Numerous recommendations were presented by the experts answering three main questions:

  1. What are the key elements of intercultural competencies in the context of peacebuilding?
  2. Why do we need intercultural competencies for conflict prevention, resolution and post-conflict reconciliation and healing?
  3. How to develop intercultural competencies, especially in fragile, conflict-affected and post-conflict contexts?

CFP: Crossings: Journal of Migration and Culture

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Call for Submissions: for journal Crossings: Journal of Migration and Culture special issue: Forms, limits, and future directions of storytelling in migration research. Deadline: 30 September 2026.

Issue editors: Lena Englund (University of Eastern Finland) and Kaiju Harinen (Migration Institute of Finland, University of Turku)

Much of migration research in the social sciences and humanities has been centred on bringing to light the experiences and stories of individuals and groups who have been marginalized, misrepresented or sometimes outright ignored in official discourse and dominant narratives. Stories can both reinforce existing societal discourses as well as function as a counterforce. That makes stories and storytelling a tool with which to perform political work in terms of how migration is debated and portrayed. Studies in the humanities build on storytelling in relation to the material examined, people interviewed or otherwise engaged with, and in the published research itself. Storytelling is here understood in a broad sense of the term, used for personal self-understanding, meaning making and communication, but also in politicized contexts, for example relating to how migration and migrants are addressed and depicted in the media. Migration is understood broadly as the movement of people in both voluntary and involuntary contexts, and limits are not to be seen as boundaries that may not be traversed, but also as a chance to probe further, to test new theoretical frameworks and to bring together case studies in novel ways.

This special issue offers the opportunity to think further about what defines, restrains and generates storytelling in migration research in the humanities. Papers are invited from scholars as widely as possible, encouraging inter- and multidisciplinary approaches to storytelling in migration research about the challenges and limits involved with for example textual approaches, participatory methods and activist research. Theoretical engagements with storytelling in various contexts are welcome, as are studies relating to methodological concerns. Case studies of cultural expressions (e.g. fiction or nonfiction, films, the media) relating to the theme of the special issue are also much appreciated.

Charles U: Researcher in Comparative Area Studies, Focus on Africa (Czech Republic)

Postdocs

Postdoctoral researcher in Comparative Area Studies, with a Focus on Africa, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic. Deadline: 14 September 2026.

The Faculty of Arts, Charles University (Prague, Czech Republic) is seeking a postdoctoral researcher in comparative area studies, with a focus on Sub-Saharan Africa. As part of the project funded by Horizon Europe (ERA Chair in Multidisciplinary Area Studies, ERA-AREAS), this post holder will participate in the international research group under the newly established Center for Multidisciplinary Area Studies (CenMAS). The applicant will work closely with the ERA Chair Holder, Prof Mariana Llanos, and the research group leader, Dr. Mahmoud Farag.

The Faculty of Arts belongs among the largest and longest-established centers for area studies research and instruction in Central and Eastern Europe, covering all global regions in its research. By engaging in the ERA-AREAS project, the Faculty seeks to strengthen its area studies programs focused on non-European global regions and Eastern Europe. They invite applications from scholars within area studies whose research demonstrates strong regional expertise and a commitment to addressing globally significant issues through a social science lens. The ideal candidate will employ comparative methodologies and actively engage in disciplinary debates within area studies on critical current events from a comparative perspective. While the specific disciplinary focus of the applicants is secondary (gravitating towards the loosely defined core of sociology, political science, economics, contemporary history or anthropology), the researcher is expected to engage in research of the causes and consequences of contemporary crises in Sub-Saharan Africa which include, in particular, political crises, economic shocks, coups, democratic breakdowns, social protests, early government terminations, threats to democracies, and outbursts of political violence.

Aarhus Institute for Advanced Studies: Visiting Fellowships 2027 (Denmark)

FellowshipsVisiting Fellowships for researchers on sabbaticals, Aarhus Institute for Advanced Studies, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark. Deadline: 6 October 2026 for fellowships February-August 2027.

Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies at Aarhus University offers a number of visiting fellowships to outstanding researchers from abroad who are looking for an opportunity to engage in the international and interdisciplinary research community of AIAS and to collaborate with the research environments at Aarhus University (AU).

Visiting fellows will have their daily office space at AIAS, and will have the opportunity to participate in the activities at AIAS and at the relevant research environments at AU. AIAS offers optimal office facilities, and a thriving international and interdisciplinary community with joint social and academic activities.

Applicants must have a PhD and a minimum of four years of postdoctoral research experience at the time of the application deadline. AIAS Visiting Fellowships are without salary, and it is therefore expected that successful applicants will bring their salary with them from their home institution. Applicants should have active collaborations with Aarhus University and have established contact with a researcher or research community at Aarhus University. An open-minded approach and a curiosity to other academic disciplines than your own is a great advantage.