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-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/
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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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