[Ffss] Call for a postdoctoral fellowship on Iceland

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 ********** 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-postdoctoral-fellowships-2026>. 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@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-2026-vigdis-international-centre>. 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@hi.is<mailto:zahova@hi.is> Beinn sími / Direct tel.: +354 525 5988 Farsími / Mobile: +354 620 94 38 https://vigdiscentre.hi.is/ [cid:838047eb-2d70-467d-9df5-88915cf45179] [cid:68644771-1095-4881-b7ec-fdbb688d2f57] ................... 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> [cid:0ef605b5-9ef6-4be2-8eac-b579aad48e60]