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SciencesPo: Political Science (France)

“JobAssistant Professor in Political Science, SciencesPo, Paris, France. Deadline: 15 February 2025.

The Centre for International Studies at SciencesPo, Paris, seeks a candidate working on the political and ecological issues of the oceans, seas and coasts, in an innovative way. The environmental issues specific to these areas are at the heart of many situations of violence and conflict, linked to the predation of resources and their entry into trade circuits, which raises both economic and political issues. Possible research topics include, but are not limited to, practices conceptualised as ‘blue grabbing’ to indicate the dispossession of local communities of resources linked to the sea, the struggles and conflicts between protection,
conservation, exploitation and grabbing of maritime and coastal spaces, the politicisation and judicialisation of pollution and contamination issues, as well as the claims and practices of ‘blue justice’, involving a variety of actors: local communities, multinationals, NGOs, national and international public actors and institutions, as well as groups involved in piracy practices.

In methodological terms, the research programme is expected to be based on an expertise in one or more fields (particularly in the global South) as a starting point for comparative reflection. In terms of discipline, the profile is open-ended: in addition to the sub-disciplines of political science (particularly comparative politics and international relations), other social science disciplines inclined to dialogue with political science are welcome, such as anthropology, geography, sociology and history. An interest in interdisciplinary openness towards maritime environmental science disciplines will be considered an asset.

U Notre Dame: Visiting Research Fellowships 2025-26 (USA)

FellowshipsVisiting Research Fellowships, Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, Keough School of Global Affairs, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, USA. Deadline: 31 January 2025.

Each year, the Kroc Institute’s Visiting Research Fellows Program brings outstanding scholars focused on peace research to the University of Notre Dame for a semester or a full academic year. For the academic year 2025-26, they invite research proposals that focus on one or more of the following themes:

  • Climate Change and Environmental Justice.
  • Intersection of Gender, Race, Class and Peacebuilding.
  • International Mediation.
  • Media, Technology and Peacebuilding.
  • Peace Accords Matrix (PAM).
  • Peacebuilding and the Arts.

Northeastern U: Postdoc at Center for Transformative Media (USA)

Postdocs

Postdoctoral Research Associate, Center for Transformative Media, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA. Deadline: Open until filled; posted 6 January 2025.

The Center for Communication, Media Innovation and Social Change within the College of Arts, Media, and Design at Northeastern University invites applications for a fully funded Postdoctoral Research Associate. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to engage in a series of research projects at the intersection of networked urban mobilities and mobile communication, with a particular focus on understanding how marginalized communities creatively appropriate media technologies.

Projects include:

  • Mobile Networked Creativity: An investigation of how marginalized communities around the world creatively engage with networked technologies. The project includes mapping/visualizing how these creative practices occur around the Globe.
  • Retro Mobile Gaming Database: A mobile gaming database of historic mobile games and artifacts to aid researchers in games studies.
    Retro Mobile Gaming Collection: Producing a media art show on the history of mobile communication and mobile games, and contributing to the growth of the retro mobile gaming collection housed in the Center.
  • Micromobilities Justice: Analyzing networked urban mobilities in Global South urban spaces as they relate to mobility justice and social inclusion.

This is a full time position for one year, with potential for renewal based on performance and funding availability.

Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order 2025

AwardsThe Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order is given to those who have taken on issues of world importance and presented viewpoints that could lead to a more just and peaceful world. Each idea supports one noble cause: to inspire us all to work together for the common good. Award: $100,000. Deadline: 31 January 2025.

Submissions will be judged according to originality, feasibility and potential impact, not by the cumulative record of the nominee. They may address a wide range of global concerns including foreign policy and its formation; the conduct of international relations or world politics; global economic issues, such as world trade and investment; resolution of regional, ethnic or racial conflicts; the proliferation of destructive technologies; global cooperation on environmental protection or other important issues; international law and organization; any combination or particular aspects of these, or any other suitable idea which could at least incrementally lead to a more just and peaceful world order.

Stimson Center: Junior Fellows, South Asia Program 2025 (USA)

Fellowships

Junior Fellows, South Asia Program, Henry L. Stimson Center, Washington, D.C., USA. Deadline: 31 January 2025.

The Henry L. Stimson Center’s South Asia Program welcomes applications from highly motivated graduating seniors or individuals who have completed their undergraduate or master’s degree in the past year for its 2025-2026 cohort of Junior Fellows. The one-year, full-time fellowship will provide individuals with a unique opportunity to expand their knowledge of security issues in the subcontinent, engage with the South Asia policy community in Washington and the region, and experience working at a dynamic think tank that provides close interaction with senior staff and researchers…

Junior Fellows will support the Stimson South Asia Program’s efforts to research, analyze, and inform policymakers about the evolving dynamics of deterrence, conflict risks, military modernization, and great-power competition in Southern Asia. Fellows will support research, publications, and programmatic efforts (including South Asian Voices, Strategic Learning, and public events and workshops). They will receive professional development opportunities to engage with leading scholars and practitioners in the field; to represent Stimson at scholarly and policy convenings; to hone technical and analytical skills; and to conduct, present, and publish their own research.

The Stimson Center is rated as “Least Biased” based on mostly neutral reporting on security, and “High” for factual reporting due to proper sourcing and a clean fact check record by Media Bias/Fact Check. Other positions currently available at the Stimson Center are listed here.

Yang Guest Post: The Evolving Field of Multilingual Studies

Guest Posts
The evolving field of multilingual studies. Guest post by Mimi Yang.

The evolving field of Multilingual Studies integrates intercultural and interdisciplinary studies missed in traditional scholarship. Most people are multilingual or interlingual (that is, bilingual, trilingual, or simply polyglots), who cross linguistic frontiers as part of daily life or at times mix different linguistic codes as a second nature, usually to a receptively multilingual audience. Linguistic code switching (moving between languages or dialects in a single conversation) in itself brings cultures together in speech and dialogue, which, in return, stimulate further code-switching. Some of us are multilingual by training and others were born into an intercultural and interlingual environment. Multiple dimensions of multilingualism weave intercultural dialogues inherently and intimately.

Download the entire guest post as a PDF.

Northeastern U: Global Media (USA)

“JobOpen-Rank Teaching Professor in Global Media, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA. Deadline: open until filled; posted 4 December 2024.

The Department of Communication Studies in the College of Arts, Media and Design (CAMD) of Northeastern University invites applications for a full-time, non-tenure track Teaching Professor (open rank) position in Global Media. Candidates will have expertise across regions, with expertise in at least one non-English speaking region, ideally outside the Global North. We are particularly interested in candidates with expertise in the analysis and creation of media and media technologies with a theoretical focus on at least one of the following areas: representation, identity and industry. They encourage applicants with an interdisciplinary perspective that connects to other CAMD degrees in the creative arts and media industry, for example content creation in the technology industry.

Oxfam: Advisor in Intercultural Dialogue with Bolivian Indigenous Peoples (Bolivia)

“JobAdvisor in Intercultural dialogue with Bolivian indigenous peoples, Oxfam Quebec (to serve in Bolivia). Deadline: 1 March 2025.

This is a 1-2 month mandate, based mainly in Machareti, Chuquisaca (in the Bolivian Chaco), Bolivia, with travel to the Bolivian Amazon. The mandate stems from the Equality in Action Voluntary Cooperation Program (PCV), which is being rolled out in 12 countries and 3 regions over an eight-year period (2020-2028). The PCV aims to increase the involvement of local partner organizations in countries of intervention in inclusive, innovative and sustainable initiatives that will advance gender equality. Oxfam’s role is to support these organizations, working with the most vulnerable and marginalized people, to claim and exercise their rights. Oxfam puts the rights of women, girls and vulnerable and marginalized people at the heart of everything they do.

Here’s what your daily life will look like:

  • In close collaboration with the partner organization ”Institute for Rural Development in South America” (IPDRS) and Oxfam team members in the country, your mandate will consist of:
  • Share experiences on processes of struggle for the exercise of the rights of indigenous peoples from the global north and south, in spaces of dialogue with leaders of indigenous populations.

For this mandate you must:

  • Be a Canadian citizen or have permanent resident status in Canada;
  • Have university degree in social sciences, law, political sciences or other relevant field;
  • Have at least 5 years’ professional experience relevant to the mandate (in intercultural dialogues with indigenous people);
  • Have good knowledge of indigenous people’s rights;
  • Master spoken and written Spanish (mandatory);
  • Master the Office suite.

Birkbeck, U of London: Postdoc on Impact of Immigration on Brazilian Society (UK)

Postdocs

Postdoctoral Researcher on the Impact of Immigration on Brazilian Society, Birkbeck, University of London, UK. Deadline: 2 February 2025.

Birkbeck, University of London, is seeking a Postdoctoral Researcher to join an international and interdisciplinary team working on a project looking at the transformative impact of immigration on Brazilian society. Funded by the British Academy, the research project ‘Globalisation from below: livelihoods, trade and transnationalism in Brazil’s informal economy’, is a collaboration between Birkbeck and the Federal University of Minas Gerais (Belo Horizonte, Brazil). The project focuses on the informal economy in Belo Horizonte with an emphasis on the role of Chinese immigrants and the everyday cross-cultural and economic practices that produce globalisation from below.

Through three key strands, the research explores:

  • Economic interactions and conflicts between Chinese migrants, Brazilian workers and local street vendors
  • Emerging social relations and forms of belonging, and
  • Socio-cultural and economic transformations in urban spaces

Plus, a collaborative methodology will engage participants in an artistic-cultural process creating spaces for dialogue and cooperation.

The project will produce an exhibition and a Transnational Informal Economy Atlas revealing the ways in which globalisation from below connects and transforms urban livelihoods, spaces and societies with a focus on Brazil-China relations.

CFP Nordic Journal of Media Studies: Media and the Past: Mediating the Past

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Call for a special issue of the Nordic Journal of Media Studies on Media and the Past, Mediating the Past. Deadline for abstracts: 1 February 2025; deadline for full papers: 15 August 2025.

Issue editors: Kirsten Frandsen (Aarhus University) and Manuel Menke (University of Copenhagen).

Nordic Journal of Media Studies invites contributions to the 2026 issue exploring the relationship between media, communication, and the past, focusing on international as well as Nordic perspectives. The issue aims to delve into the intersection of the uses of the past with media content, discourses, events, practices, and technologies, including but not limited to the mediated communication of the past and collective memory in areas such as politics, journalism, popular culture, film and television, and sports…

The past in media extends beyond mere representation. It is used to compose cultural narratives, it contributes to identity formation, and it influences social cohesion. Media serve as powerful mediators between the past, the present, and the future, thereby taking a significant position in whose pasts get (no) recognition at present and (no) consideration for the future. Investigating these dynamics allows for a nuanced exploration of how media contribute to the construction of shared pasts and the negotiation of diverse cultural identities. The past is not only being renegotiated and contested in the Nordic context but also everywhere else, where progressive cultural and societal ambitions are intertwined with both rich historical traditions and conflicts rooted in colonial pasts. Consequently, examining how media contribute to the construction, preservation, reinterpretation, or even revision of narratives about the past becomes imperative to understanding where regions, nations, and communities might be heading.