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Postdoctoral Fellowships “Urban Anthropology or Urban Sociology”, Germany

Post-docs will undertake two months of project training in Germany before residing in the respective project city for the duration of the project, will undertake site visits to all Globaldivercities project sites, and will participate in a final international conference in Germany. Prof. Vertovec will manage the project through site visits, team meetings in various locations and video-conferences. The entire team will have input towards film-making, and all project members will be encouraged and supported to develop their own publications as well as to contribute to collective publications.

Applicants should hold a PhD in Anthropology or Sociology and have a track record of fieldwork (and ideally publication) in urban research. In addition to English, language competence in a relevant language (i.e., likely to be spoken among some immigrants in the given location) will be an advantage, as will knowledge and experience of one of the project cities. Annual salary range €37,122-€41,175 (US$49,950-US$55,404.

Scholarship Application Deadline:25 February 2011

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2011 IRP Fellowships in International Journalism, USA

In the fall of 2011, the International Reporting Project (IRP) will offer up to 10 IRP Fellowships to U.S. journalists to carry out a project reporting from any country in the world outside the United States. The fellowships are open to all U.S. journalists with at least five years of professional experience in any medium.
– Four IRP Fellowships will be reserved for journalists proposing reporting projects on topics of international religion. Applicants for these fellowships should check the box on the application form to indicate they are applying for one of these fellowships.
– One IRP/Stanley Foundation Fellowship will be reserved for journalists proposing reporting projects on topics dealing with peace building or prevention of atrocities or genocide. Applicants for this fellowship should check the box on the application form for this fellowship.
– Other Fellowships will be awarded to journalists proposing any international reporting project. Applicants should check the box on the application form indicating they are applying for a general IRP Fellowship.

Scholarship Application Deadline: 1 April 2011

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Roskilde International Doctoral Summer School, Denmark: Education, Migration, Literature, Technologies

The aims of the Roskilde Summer School are threefold:
– to help students grasp and critically engage with the notions of identity and intercul-turality and see how they are related
– to get to know various research methods that can help students to work within cul-tural and social complexity
– to discuss their own research topics and to get to test various research tools that can help them to move on in/improve their research
The Summer School is meant to be transdisciplinary, and the target group is PhD students from all disciplinary backgrounds who are especially interested in methodologies related to this field of study.

Scholarship Application Deadline: 28 February 2011

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