Tue 16 Mar 2021

EXTENDED DEADLINE: Call for Applications: MECAM Fellowships for IFG II & III (Sep–Dec 2021)

MECAM Fellowships for its Interdisciplinary Fellow Groups II “Inequality & Mobility” & III “Memory & Justice” (September-December 2021)

 

1) Interdisciplinary Fellow Group (IFG) »Inequality & Mobility« – MECAM invites applications for six short-term fellowships for early career researchers in the social sciences from September to December 2021

The Merian Centre for Advanced Studies in the Maghreb (MECAM) has recently been established at the Université de Tunis/Tunisia to strengthen cooperation in the Humanities and Social Sciences in and across the Maghreb, the Middle East, and Europe. The overall theme “Imagining Futures: Dealing with Disparity” guides MECAM’s research agenda on questions of Aesthetics & Cultural Practice, Inequality & Mobility, Memory & Justice, Resources & Sustainability, and Identities & Beliefs. These constitute the core issues of MECAM’s five thematic research clusters and Interdisciplinary Fellow Groups (IFGs). For its second Interdisciplinary Fellow Group (IFG), »Inequality & Mobility«,MECAM invites applications for six short-term fellowships for early career researchers in the social sciences from September to December 2021. This call for applications is open to researchers from all countries, including Tunisia.

Deadline: 31 March 2021; 23.59 CEST.

Call for Applications (PDF)

FAQ (PDF)

Apply here

2) Interdisciplinary Fellow Group (IFG) »Memory & Justice« – MECAM invites applications for five short-term fellowships for researchers at different career stages for the period from September to December 2021

The Merian Centre for Advanced Studies in the Maghreb (MECAM) has recently been established at the Université de Tunis/Tunisia to strengthen cooperation in the Humanities and Social Sciences in and across the Maghreb, the Middle East, and Europe. The overall theme “Imagining Futures: Dealing with Disparity” guides MECAM’s research agenda on questions of Aesthetics & Cultural Practice, Inequality & Mobility, Memory & Justice, Resources & Sustainability, and Identities & Beliefs. These constitute the core issues of MECAM’s five thematic research clusters and Interdisciplinary Fellow Groups (IFG). For its third Interdisciplinary Fellow Group (IFG),»Memory & Justice«, MECAM invites applications for five short-term fellowships for researchers at different career stages for the period from September to December 2021. This call for applications is open to researchers from all countries including Tunisia.

Deadline: 31 March 2021; 23.59 CEST.

Call for Applications (PDF)

FAQ (PDF)

Apply here

The Merian Centre for Advanced Studies in the Maghreb (MECAM), based in Tunis, is a new institutional framework for interdisciplinary, transregional, and intergenerational research. It focuses on complex social and political processes and issues that divide and connect the Maghreb, the Middle East and Europe historically and in our time – e.g. beliefs, distribution of resources, migration, rule of law, socio-economic conflicts, and (transitional) justice. MECAM aims to construct and strengthen scholarly networks between Tunisia and Germany, across the Maghreb, the Middle East, and Europe. From a vantage point in the Maghreb, MECAM’s guiding theme "Imagining Futures - Dealing with Disparity" addresses the complex processes of (re-)negotiating societal experiences into ideas for the future ('imagining futures’) within the context of different forms and scales of disparity and unequal conditions ('disparity'). It explores the connection between multidimensional disparity and the possibilities of building and negotiating futures through five thematic clusters, each of which is developed in an International Fellow Group: “Aesthetics & Cultural Practice”, “Inequality & Mobility”, “Memory & Justice”, “Resources & Sustainability”, and “Identities & Beliefs”.

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