Tag: Germany

Bonn International Centre for Conflict Studies: PhD Studentships in Lived Experience of Violence and Coerced Livelihoods in Translocal Spaces of Conflict (Germany)

“Studentships“

Lived Experience of Violence and Coerced Livelihoods in Translocal Spaces of Conflict PhD Studentships, Bonn International Centre for Conflict Studies, Bonn, Germany. Deadline: 17 May 2026.

The Doctoral Researcher position is part of the research group “Lived Experiences of Violence and Coerced Livelihoods in Translocal Spaces of Conflict” (VIOLET), led by Dr. Benjamin Etzold, funded by the German Research Foundation under Germany’s Excellence Strategy – Cluster of Excellence Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies (BCDSS) at the University of Bonn. The BCDSS offers excellent opportunities for interdisciplinary and comparative research of different forms of Strong Asymmetrical Dependencies (SADs) across time periods and world regions. In its second funding phase (2026–2032), the BCDSS will investigate the underlying causes and mechanisms that contribute to the persistence of SADs across historical and contemporary contexts.

Within the BCDSS, the research group VIOLET will investigate the entanglements of violence, labour exploitation and livelihood precarity in translocal settings of armed conflict and displacement. It seeks to answer how livelihoods and dependencies evolve under violent conditions, and which traces lived experiences of violence leave within societies. The PhD research shall contribute to this research group, bicc’s research on the conditions, dynamics and consequences of violent conflicts and to the BCDSS’s research Area “Power, Violence and Trauma”. The successful candidate will participate in BCDSS’s Doctoral Program that offers thorough preparation and support during doctoral dissertation work, including academic course work, additional skills training, and close supervision.

Details: Two part time positions to be filled (65% each). Salary according to German public sector tariff (TV-L) EG 13 and previous working experience. The position may be filled as of 1.10.2026 for a fixed term of 48 month until 30.09.2030.

Max Planck Institute for Political & Social Science: Postdoc for 2026 (Germany)

PostdocsPostdoctoral fellow, Max Planck Institute for Political and Social Science, Göttingen, Germany. Deadline: 3 May 2026.

The Max Planck Institute for Political and Social Science in Göttingen conducts interdisciplinary research into pressing issues of social and political change, with a particular focus on conflict, inequality, the erosion of democracy and processes of social transformation. At the Institute, the Department of Political Institutions and Conflict is inviting applications for the position of Postdoctoral Fellow (m/f/d) in Political Science (full-time for three years, start day September 1, 2026 or earlier).

The newly established department “Political Institutions and Conflict” (led by Ursula Daxecker) studies the relationship between political institutions and conflict, broadly construed. Research in the department centers on three themes, (1) institutions and political violence, (2) democratic politics in transformation, and (3) the political economy of electoral integrity. The department’s empirical focus is on the Global South and combines advanced quantitative methods, such as survey-based and observational causal inference designs, with qualitative approaches, such as fieldwork and interviews. Through this research, the department aims to develop novel insights for important challenges in contemporary society, including the rise of extreme strategies and violence, threats to electoral integrity, and democratic erosion.

U Hamburg: Research Associate for “Linguistic Diversity and Social Participation Across the Lifespan” (Germany)

“JobResearch Associate for the Project “Linguistic diversity and social participation across the lifespan,” University of Hamburg, Germany. Deadline: 8 April 2026.

The Faculty of Education at the University of Hamburg is a leader in conducting innovative and future-oriented research related to the educational and social consequences of diversity resulting from migration and globalization. This strength is now further expanded through the award of a Humboldt Professorship to Distinguished Professor Ingrid Piller as part of the faculty research center “Literacy in Diversity Settings (LiDS).”

The Humboldt Professorship is devoted to “Linguistic Diversity and Social Participation across the Lifespan” and is closely integrated with the activities of the Language on the Move platform. The research focus will be on migrant language socialization, language learning, and settlement across the lifespan and outside of institutions of formal education. This includes digital spaces as well as language brokering and other forms of informal language assistance that often undergird institutional communications in linguistically diverse societies. Your responsibilities: Duties primarily include teaching and research. Research associates may also pursue further academic qualifications outside of their work responsibilities.

This is a unique opportunity to become part of an education-focused research center that aims to make major contributions to social cohesion in linguistically diverse societies. Together, participants will pursue a 5-pronged work strategy of:

  • original research through a series of interconnected sociolinguistic ethnographies
  • methodological innovation in multilingual qualitative data-sharing
  • capacity building in open digital research related to linguistic diversity, language development, and language learning in social life
  • industry transfer through the co-design and delivery of professional development programs that make institutions more accessible to linguistically diverse populations
  • knowledge dissemination to contribute positively to public debates and policy discourses about linguistic diversity, multilingualism, and language learning

Goethe-Institut: Co-creation of New Heritage Narratives in Southern Africa (Germany)

Grants

Call for proposals: Co-creation of New Heritage Narratives, Goethe-Institut, Germany. Deadline: 13 February 2026.

This Call for Proposals seeks to select at least 8 non-profit, non-governmental organisations in Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho, Zimbabwe, Namibia and South Africa to lead “Narrative Clusters,” collaborating with interdisciplinary groups of artists/creatives to develop innovative stories that increase the visibility and contemporary relevance of their heritage. Selected organisations will receive grants of up to €55,000 to manage these clusters, fund co-productions, and present new narratives to local audiences over a 15-month period.

This initiative, funded by the European Union, aims to strengthen cultural cooperation within Southern Africa as well as between Southern Africa and Europe, to enhance regional cultural production capacities, and promote intercultural dialogue through the co-creation of new narratives around tangible and intangible cultural heritage.

The Goethe Institut offers many other grant and residency opportunities. For example, Translators in Residence, Litrix.de’s Translation Grant, Culture Moves Europe Individual Mobility Action, or Relocation Stays for Artists and Cultural Practitioners. Each program has its own deadline.

Humboldt Research Fellowships (& Postdocs) 2026 (Germany)

FellowshipsHumboldt Research Fellowships, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany. Deadline: Selection committee meets March, July, and November each year, and you should apply well in advance. Applications are usually processed within four to eight months.

The Humboldt Research Fellowship is available to researchers of all nationalities and research areas, at either the postdoctoral or experienced researcher level, to conduct research in Germany. Through the Humboldt Research Fellowship, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation sponsors researchers with above-average qualifications from across the globe. The fellowship enables you to conduct your own research at various stages of your career in collaboration with a host at a German research institution of your choice. Hosts may apply for a subsidy towards research costs. The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation aims to achieve a good balance between genders and a high level of diversity among its fellows in all areas. They therefore expressly invite female scientists and members of underrepresented groups to apply. They welcome all applications, regardless of ethnic, cultural or social background, gender identity, age, religion, worldview, disability or sexual orientation.

Postdocs

Benefit from research sponsorship in Germany at the beginning of your academic career. The Humboldt Research Fellowship for postdocs enables you to conduct research in Germany. The monthly fellowship amount is €3,000 plus addtional benefits. Fellowships may last from 6 to 24 months and can be divided into up to three stays within three years.

Experienced researchers

You can still apply for research sponsorship in Germany even if you are already well advanced in your academic career. The Humboldt Research Fellowship for experienced researchers enables you to conduct research in Germany. The fellowship amount is €3,170. Fellowships may last from 6 to 18 months and can be divided into up to three stays within three years.

CFP Navigating Afro Knowledges: Exploring Practices and Theories in Digital Diaspora Studies (Germany)

ConferencesCall for papers: Navigating Afro Knowledges: Exploring Practices and Theories in Digital Diaspora Studies, University of Bremen, Germany, 17-19 June 2026. Deadline: 31 October 2025.

In recent years, Digital Diaspora Studies have emerged as a vibrant interdisciplinary field at the crossroads of media studies, migration studies, and postcolonial studies, exploring the complex interplay between technology, communication, arts, culture, and identity within diasporic communities. As diasporic individuals and communities navigate the digital landscape, they engage in practices that not only reshape their identities and the dynamics of belonging1, but also contribute to the circulation of knowledges that have been ignored in mainstream spaces due to systems of domination and hegemonic power relations. However, the internet is also a space shaped by ‘race’ and racialization.

This conference invites participants to explore, challenge and reframe the theoretical and methodological tools currently used in the study of digital diasporas. It foregrounds the lived practices, creative expressions, and activist interventions that emerge from Afrodiasporic cyberspaces, positioning them not at the margins, but at the centre of digital cultural production and critique, with particular focus on Romance-speaking countries.

From Recognition to Inclusion – Rethinking European Languages in Education (Germany or Online)

EventsOpen Conversation: From Recognition to Inclusion – Rethinking European Languages in Education, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany, 26 Sept 2025. Deadline: 11 September for on-site participation; 24 September for online participation.

Across Europe, educational systems tend to focus on hegemonial national languages—German in Germany, French in France, and so on—as legitimate means for classroom interaction. It is also these languages that are associated with European nation-states, understood as “modern languages” for educational curricula, and targeted as desirable competences in “European languages” by multilingualism policies.

However, the linguistic reality of Europe is far more diverse. Languages such as Turkish, Arabic, Russian, Kurdish, and Romani are spoken daily by large communities in Europe, and in this sense they are European languages, yet they are rarely treated as valuable cultural or educational resources.

This open conversation explores how educational systems might move beyond narrow definitions of “European languages” and “multilingualism” towards practices of genuine linguistic inclusion—where all students’ languages are made visible, valued, and meaningfully integrated into educational life.

Organisers: Heike Wiese, İrem Duman Çakır, Annika Labrenz

Wissenschaftskolleg Fellowships 2026-7 (Germany)

Fellowships

Early Career Call for Humanities and Social Sciences Fellowships, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, Germany. Deadline: 1 September 2025.

At the heart of the Wissenschaftskolleg is the idea that Fellows must have the freedom to choose their own research project. The Fellows’ only obligations are to reside at the Wissenschaftskolleg for 10 months (mid-September to mid-July), and to meet once a day for a meal and each Tuesday for the weekly Colloquium.
Such an intellectually heterogeneous atmosphere often creates a productive friction that leads Fellows to reconsider their approaches, and may lead to unexpected innovation.

The Wissenschaftskolleg invites applications from researchers in an early career stage in the humanities and social sciences for fellowships starting in the following academic year.

Circle U: From Recognition to Inclusion: Rethinking European Languages in Education (Germany and Online)

EventsFrom recognition to inclusion: Rethinking European languages in education, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany, and online, 26 September 2025, 10:00–17:30 CET.

Across Europe, educational systems tend to focus on hegemonial national languages—German in Germany, French in France, and so on—as legitimate means for classroom interaction. It is also these languages that are associated with European nation-states, understood as “modern languages” for educational curricula, and targeted as desirable competences in “European languages” by multilingualism policies.

However, the linguistic reality of Europe is far more diverse. Languages such as Turkish, Arabic, Russian, Kurdish, and Romani are spoken daily by large communities in Europe, and in this sense they are European languages, yet they are rarely treated as valuable cultural or educational resources.

Held on the occasion of the European Day of Languages, this open conversation explores how educational systems might move beyond narrow definitions of “European languages” and “multilingualism” towards practices of genuine linguistic inclusion—where all students’ languages are made visible, valued, and meaningfully integrated into educational life.

The programme features a keynote by Christoph Schroeder (University of Potsdam), followed by a panel discussion and a commentary from Elizabeth Beloe (German Federal Association of Networks of Migrant Organisations) on broader societal power dynamics, as well as roundtable sessions on educational policy and school culture & belonging. The panel brings together researchers, students, and practitioners who will share insights from research and practice.

This is a Circle U Open Conversation. Circle U is made up of nine European universities creating international opportunities. Other Circle U activities can be found here.

 

Munich School of Philosophy: Ethics of Intercultural Dialogue Certificate (Germany)

Graduate StudyEthics of Intercultural Dialogue Programme
at the Munich School of Philosophy (HFPH), Munich, Germany. Application deadline: 15 July 2025.

What is right and wrong in a globalised world? Which values matter in culturally diverse societies? The part-time certificate programme Ethics of Intercultural Dialogue focuses on the ethical challenges professionals encounter in today’s interconnected world. Entirely online and taught in English, this graduate-level programme offers a solid ethical foundation, political-philosophical insight, and practice-oriented knowledge – ideal for professionals looking to deepen their skills and reflect critically on their work in international and intercultural contexts. What makes this programme truly unique is its embodiment of interculturality, bringing together individuals from various countries, religions, and cultures to engage in meaningful dialogue and shared learning experiences.

📌 Key Facts
Offered by: Munich School of Philosophy & Jesuit Worldwide Learning
Programme type: Graduate certificate (36 ECTS), fully online, in English
Start: October 2025
Application deadline: 15 July 2025 (if places remain, late applications will be accepted in September)
Tuition fees: €2,880 + approx. €240 per semester in administrative fees
Scholarships: Four full scholarships available (details at hfph.de/eid)

🔗 Learn more and apply: hfph.de/eid
📩 Contact the programme team