Dear colleagues in the Swedish network of Holocaust scholars,
I hope this e-mail finds you well!
Our Icelandic colleague Sofiya Zahova asked us to share a call for a postdoctoral fellowship on Iceland. Find more information below, as well as contact information to Sofiya.
Best regards
Karin
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Dear colleagues,
Please share this call for expressions of interest with any potential applicants within your networks.
The Vigdís International Centre for Multilingualism and Intercultural Understanding<https://vigdiscentre.hi.is/is/> <https://vigdiscentre.hi.is/is/> is inviting candidates for MSCA postdoctoral fellowships to join our research team. More about the current MSCA PFs call can be read here<https://marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/funding/msca-postdoctor…>.
We are an interdisciplinary research centre with the status of UNESCO category 2 institution at the School of Humanities, University of Iceland. The centre currently has three main thematic programmes:
Multilingualism and linguistic diversity.
Romani written heritage, language and culture.
Minority, Indigenous language and language contact in the Arctic, West Nordic and the Nordic-Baltic area.
We invite expressions of interest for postdoctoral fellowships aligned with our thematic programmes, in fields including: Multilingualism and language learning; Heritage and minority languages; Sociolinguistics, including historical sociolinguistics; Language policy and planning; Translation studies and interpreting; Intercultural communication; Linguistic human rights; Digital humanities and language technologies; Discourse studies and narrative analysis; Migration, mobility, and language; Endangered languages and language revitalisation; Romani studies; Indigenous studies and Arctic humanities; Media and representation of linguistic and cultural minorities.
The postdoctoral candidates can be of any nationality and shall have a maximum of 8 years of postdoctoral research experience and must not have resided or carried out their main activities in Iceland for more than 12 months in the 3 years immediately prior to 9 September 2026.
An expression of interest shall be sent by email to Sofiya Zahova, zahova(a)hi.is<mailto:zahova@hi.is>, by 27 April 2026.
For more details about this announcement please visit the EURAXESS website<https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/hosting/msca-postdoctoral-fellowship-202…>.
I am available for further information.
Thank you and with best regards,
Sofiya
Sofiya Zahova, PhD
Forstöðumaður / Director
Vigdísarstofnun / Vigdís International Centre
Háskóli Íslands / University of Iceland
Veröld – hús Vigdísar, Brynjólfsgötu 1
zahova(a)hi.is<mailto:zahova@hi.is>
Beinn sími / Direct tel.: +354 525 5988
Farsími / Mobile: +354 620 94 38
https://vigdiscentre.hi.is/
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Karin Kvist Geverts
Docent i historia och föreståndare/Associate professor and Director
Svenska institutet för Förintelseforskning
The Institute for Holocaust Research in Sweden (IHRS)
Phone: +46708990014
E-mail: karin.kvist.geverts(a)ihrs.se
Website: www.ihrs.se<http://www.ihrs.se>
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Hej alla,
Vidarebefordrar en kallelse från Michaela Küchler. Ansökning är nu öppen till ett seminarium i flera delar (okt 26-jan 27) om Förintelseforskning för juniora forskare i början av karriären. Erbjuds forskare och doktorander från IHRA:s medlems-, observatörs- och sambandsländer. Relevanta akademiska discipliner inkluderar bl.a. historia, sociologi, antropologi, arkeologi, statsvetenskap, områdes- eller regionalstudier, kultur-, film-, musik- och bildkonststudier samt litteratur.
Deadline 15 april.
Se endan, (länk i mejlet).
Vänligen,
Britta
Britta Z Geschwind
FoU-koordinator, Sveriges museum om Förintelsen
R&D-coordinator, the Swedish Holocaust Museum
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Från: Michaela Küchler <SG(a)holocaustremembrance.com<mailto:SG@holocaustremembrance.com>>
Skickat: den 6 mars 2026 10:15
Ämne: Please help to disseminate: Applications now open for Early-career Holocaust Research Seminar
From: Steering Committee for Early-career Holocaust Research Seminar
To: All IHRA Delegates
Dear Colleagues,
I am pleased to announce that applications are now open for an early-career Holocaust research seminar<https://holocaustremembrance.com/news/apply-to-early-career-holocaust-resea…>, offered by Israel's 2025 IHRA Presidency, Yad Vashem and the USC Shoah Foundation.
I would be grateful if you could forward this call to academic and universities in your country working on Holocaust issues. Relevant academic disciplines include but are not limited to history, sociology, anthropology, archaeology, political science, area or regional studies, cultural, film, music and visual art studies, and literature.
Apply to early-career Holocaust research seminar - IHRA<https://holocaustremembrance.com/news/apply-to-early-career-holocaust-resea…>
This free seminar is designed for PhD students and early-career researchers to deepen their subject expertise, strengthen research and teaching skills, and build an international professional network.
The four-part programme runs from October 2026 to January 2027 and includes online guest lectures, self-paced online learning, and in-person exchange and study at POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews<https://www.linkedin.com/company/polinmuseum/> in Warsaw. Travel and accommodation for the in-person seminar will be covered.
Participants will engage with internationally respected experts and explore key themes including antisemitism and Nazi ideology, historiography and methodology, primary sources, and the transnational history of the Holocaust.
The deadline to apply is 15 April, and successful applicants will be notified by 15 June. More details are available at the link above.
Kind regards
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Michaela Küchler
Secretary General
Email: sg(a)holocaustremembrance.com<mailto:sg@holocaustremembrance.com>
Tel: +49 1523 4613042
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