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28 Feb Call for Applications: KUDAR – SRII Joint Fellowship

Posted at 11:35h in Calls

Koç University Mustafa V. Koç Maritime Archaeology Research Center (KUDAR) and The Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul (SRII) offer a short-term fellowship focusing on connections between the Byzantine and Nordic worlds Applications, including include a cover letter, curriculum vitae with list of publications and other scholarly work, and the names of two referees, should be submitted to sriiapplication@gmail.com by the 15th of March 2023. The expected starting date is in April 2023.

28 Feb Call for Papers: The Language of Violence

Posted at 11:13h in Calls

The KOINet pleased to announce the workshop The Language of Violence, which will take place from the 10th till the 12th of April 2024 in Visby (Gotland/Sweden). Papers from humanities and sciences that can provide example of expressing, experiencing or witnessing violence are welcome. Send the lecture title, a 250-word abstract in English and additional discussion-relevant reading material of a maximum of 12 pages (primary sources only) with key questions for reading as well as a short CV to koinet@aegyp.fak12.uni-muenchen.de by the 15th of April 2023.

15 Mar Call for Papers: Narrative and Narratology in Pre-modern Historiography

Posted at 11:06h in Calls, Workshops

Aske Damtoft Poulsen, Matthew Kinloch and Ingela Nilsson are organizing a workshop aimed to bring together PhD students and early career scholars who work with issues of narrative and narratology in pre-modern historiography. The workshop will be held at the Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul, 3-4 November 2022. Please send an abstract (max 500 words) and CV to Matthew Kinloch or Aske Damtoft Poulsen by 30th April 2022.

More information below.

26 Oct Call for Applications: Multi-lingual Summer School

Posted at 08:33h in Calls, Connections, Summer schools

Call for Applications for the Multi-lingual Summer School Medieval literature Across Languages, to be held online on May 17-28, 2021, organised by the Retracing Connections programme and the Center for Medieval Literature (SDU, York), is open till December 15, 2020.
See all the details below or here.

07 Sep Call for applications – Funded PhD position at Uppsala University

Posted at 12:17h in Announcements, Calls, Connections

Uppsala University, Department of Linguistics and Philology offers a four-year fully funded PhD position in Greek and Byzantine Studies, primarilly to candidates interested in joining the work of the Retracing Connections: Byzantine Storyworlds in Greek, Arabic, Georgian, and Old Slavonic (c. 950–c. 1100) research programme.

DEADLINE: September 24, 2020
STARTING DATE: January 1, 2021
Details and requirements here.
Email for more information.