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 is inviting candidates for MSCA postdoctoral fellowships to join our research team. More about the current MSCA PFs call can be read here.

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, by 27 April 2026.

For more details about this announcement please visit the EURAXESS website.

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

Beinn sími / Direct tel.: +354 525 5988