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NORD Universitet

Apply here: https://www.jobbnorge.no/jobseeker/#/application/apply/237420

About the position

The Faculty of Social Sciences at Nord University invites applications for a temporary full-time position as postdoctoral fellow at campus Bodø. The candidate will join the project Words and Violence. Literary intellectuals between democracy and dictatorship 1933-1952, funded by the Norwegian Research Council and by Nord University as a large-scale Interdisciplinary Researcher Project.

The period of employment is two years with no teaching obligations. The hire is expected to reside in the Bodø area. In addition to pursuing individual research, (s)he will be expected to participate in the research environment at Nord university, and will join the project team in the collection of data and the analysis, interpretation and publication thereof.

About the project 

The Words and Violence project aims to analyze the democratic resilience and vulnerability of cultural life in the 1930s and ’40s, using both statistical and qualitative approaches. The Norwegian experience is compared with that of other countries under fascist occupation during World War II, notably France. Researchers examine why writers, translators, and intellectuals made the choices they did, faced with censorship and terror, and with a new kind of public investment in culture, orchestrated by the dictatorship. The aim is to produce solid knowledge about historical issues that are hotly debated and of obvious contemporary relevance, but that have not been researched in a systematic way. Problems of memory politics and public history are emphasized. The project’s consortium consists of academic experts from a range of universities and research institutions, and is led by professor Kjetil Ansgar Jakobsen.

About the proposal

For this call, we invite applicants to submit a personal project proposal relevant to the research project. The sketch could be about individual authors, translators, critics or artists of the period, or it could pose questions concerning cultural life in other countries under occupation or dictatorship. Projects could examine the controversies of the interwar and war years concerning "culture wars", national identity, censorship, fake news, or conspiracy theory, in the light of similar discourses today. Particularly welcome are projects relating to the history of the freedom of expression. Theoretically sophisticated projects are welcome.

Qualification requirements 

• The successful candidate is expected to have finished a ph.d. in social science or the humanities
  
• A good command of written and oral English is required for this position
  

Qualified candidates will be ranked by

• Submitted project sketch and professional profile, interest in the project and the quality of publications and submitted written work
  
• Personal suitability 
  
• The applicant's motivation to apply for the position
  
• Mastery of languages of relevance to the project, notably Scandinavian, will be taken into account
  

We offer

 The salary for the position is in accordance with the Norwegian government’s regulations, kode 1352 postdoc. - ltr 24, NOK 534.400-574.700. For specially qualified applicants - salary by agreement.  A mandatory salary deduction is made to the Norwegian Public Service Pension Fund.

• Good loan, insurance, and pension plan in the Norwegian Public Service Pension Fund
  
• Creative and collegial working environment
  
• A continually evolving workplace
  
• Flexible working hours
  
• Wide range of sports and leisure activities for university employees.
  
• An interesting urban environment in a scenic landscape. Bodø is European Capital of Culture 2024.  
  

General information

The successful applicant must abide by the relevant laws, agreements and instructions that apply to the position. We reserve the right to make changes to the responsibilities and area of work associated with the position that may result from future organizational development and reorganization at Nord University.

The government labour force shall reflect the diversity of the population whenever possible. Nord University therefore encourages qualified candidates with disabilities, gaps in their CVs, immigrant backgrounds or alternative educational, work and life experiences to apply. The university has a moderate gender quota policy in accordance with the local adjustment agreement which falls under the Basic Agreement for the Norwegian Civil Service.

Any information about impaired functional abilities or gaps in CVs may be used for anonymised registration purposes.

Contact

For further information about the position, please contact:

Dean Elisabet Ljunggren, tlf. +47 75 51 75 73,  epost: elisabet.c.ljunggren@nord.no 

Project leader/professor Kjetil Ansgar Jakobsen, tlf. +47 75 51 73 69, epost: kjetil.jakobsen@nord.no

Application

Applications must be submitted electronically before  28.02.2023

All documentation that is to be considered must be uploaded as attachments to the application.

The electronic application must include:

• An application letter containing a description of your reasons for applying for the position
  
• A full CV (education, work and teaching experience and overview of any scientific publications).
  
• Certified copies of grade transcripts, diplomas and relevant certificates.
  
• Complete copies of a selection of up three of the most relevant publications and an overview of these
  
• The doctoral thesis must be enclosed as one of these works. Applicants are asked to prioritise the three most important works and to provide a justification for the prioritisation.
  
• A concise project sketch must be attached to the application. Max three pages.
  
• Documentation of other activities considered relevant to the position and which the applicant would like to be considered in the assessment.
  
• Contact details for two or three references (names, relationship to the applicant, telephone numbers, e-mail address).
  
• Signed form for permission to obtain assessment of foreign education (if relevant)
  
• Applicants with a doctorate outside the EU/EEA or Britain should attach a statement from NOKUT
  

Complete electronic documentation must be submitted by the application deadline.

Applicants will be evaluated by an internal expert committee. Relevant applicants will be called for an interview or other presentations.

Referanse: 30168988

Nord University

Through research, education and social engagement, Nord University contributes to the creation of a sustainable future.

In cooperation with society, business and industry in Northern and Central Norway, our 12,000 students and 1,400 staff promote innovative solutions and knowledge-based practice, both locally and internationally.

The four strategic focus areas at Nord University are; firstly blue and green growth, secondly sustainable innovation and entrepreneurship, thirdly social security, and finally health, welfare and education.

The Faculty of Social Sciences (FSV) educates social scientists and professionals who meet society’s need for innovation in welfare, development and communication. The Faculty offers a PhD in Sociology. The Faculty of Social Sciences has 1,800 students and 100 employees. The professional community is organised into the following divisions: Welfare and Social Relations; History, Culture and Media; Management and Innovation; and International Relations, the Circumpolar North and Environment.

Read more: www.nord.no/fsv

Nordic Journal of Media Studies, Vol. 6 (2024)

Deadline: April 3, 2023

Find the full call on Nordicom’s website: https://www.nordicom.gu.se/en/publications/nordic-journal-media-studies/calls-for-papers

In the years following the #metoo movement, which upended many of the conventional ideas about Scandinavia as a gender-equal utopia, we have seen heated and rapidly shifting public conversations around gender in the Nordic countries. With this issue of Nordic Journal of Media Studies, we invite scholars to explore the following questions: What new ideas, discussions, concepts, and methods are emerging in studies at the intersection of media and gender in the Nordic countries and beyond?

Editors

Tina Askanius, Malmö University, tina.askanius@mau.se 

Jill Walker Rettberg, University of Bergen, jill.walker.rettberg@uib.no 

Eli Skogerbø, University of Oslo, eli.skogerbo@media.uio.no 

Important dates

  *   Deadline for extended abstracts: 3 April 2023

  *   Deadline for full submissions: 1 September 2023

  *   Peer review: October 2023–December 2023

  *   Expected publication: Spring 2024

Procedure

Those with an interest in contributing should write an extended abstract (max. 750 words) where the main theme (or argument) of the intended article is described. The abstract should contain the preliminary title, five keywords, and a rationale for how the article fits within the overall aim of the issue – to critically reflect on recent developments and trends in research on media and gender drawing on new ideas, conceptual discussions, perspectives, and methods emerging at the intersection of these fields in the Nordic countries and beyond. 

Send your extended abstract to tina.askanius@mau.se by 3 april 2023.

March 30-31, 2023

Timişoara (Romania)/online conference

Deadline: March 1, 2023

13th International conference on professional communication and translation studies

The 13th edition of the international conference Professional Communication and Translation Studies (PCTS) organized by the Department of Communication and Foreign Languages at Politehnica University of Timisoara, Romania will be hosted onsite in Timisoara and online on Zoom on March 30-31, 2023. In the context of Timisoara being a European Capital of Culture, this edition of PCTS focuses on “Digital culture, communication and translation”. Conference tracks: Communication and public relations; Linguistics; Translation studies; Foreign language teaching. 

Abstract submission deadline: March 1, 2023.

More details and registration form are available on https://sc.upt.ro/ro/pcts13-2023

March 16-17,  2023

Framer Framed (Amsterdam)

Register for Symposium

Dear reader,

We're pleased to announce that registration for Inward Outward is now open! 

The symposium Inward Outward investigates the status of moving image and sound archives as they intertwine with questions of coloniality, identity and race. Here, the archive is understood as resting in both physical structures (e.g. national, regional, local or personal) and less tangible ‘cultural archives’ (e.g. beliefs, knowledge, collective memories). Through the symposium, we bring theory and practise into dialogue by drawing together people from different professional and creative backgrounds.

The third Inward Outward takes place March 16 & 17, 2023 at Framer Framed (Amsterdam) as a series of three lecture/conversation sessions and a workshop. This iteration of the symposium will focus on Witnessing/Care, with these two terms articulated in tandem. We mobilize Witnessing/Care together, as complementary practices, calling to each other as tools to move through the archive, but that may also be wielded in tension. These two words are deployed as verbs to highlight a form of implication, a refusal to conceive of archival work as a passive performance.

For the Full Programme, Practical Info & Accessibility visit HERE

Register for the symposium!

Looking forward to seeing you all!

The Inward Outward Team

Palgrave PIVOT edited collection

Deadline: Febraury 17, 2023

CALL FOR SHORT CHAPTERS

We are securing additional chapters for the current book (In progress) Drones in Society: New Visual Aesthetics due for publication in 2023. 

In the form of an edited collection, it will extend and innovate current theoretical understandings of and approaches to digital art, visual media, new technologies, digital culture and society. It will do so by exploring the implementation of drones from different socio-cultural perspectives. 

The content of this book is organised into four thematic areas entitled:

1) Drones in cinema, films and storytelling,

2) Drone aesthetics, sensing and mapping,

3) Drone art and creative practices, and

4) Drone uses and new practices.

Currently, we have 10 accepted chapters in relation to these themes but are seeking to extend the contributions (shorts chapters between 2000 and 5000 words). 

If you have original research that fits into the category of ‘drone art and creative practices’, please send your abstract (250 words) to Elisa Serafinelli (e.serafinelli@sheffield.ac.uk) by the 17th of February 2023.

Dear Sir/Madam,

Ethics International Press are pleased to invite proposals for academic books and edited collections. We specialise in scholarly books for the academic market. You can download a Book Proposal Form and view our Notes of Guidance for Authors here.

Ethics International Press published almost fifty new books in 2022, and you can see these, and a selection of our forthcoming titles, in our Bookshop.  

We aim to be broad in scope, inclusive and welcoming of diverse voices and approaches, and aim for friendly and unpretentious service to our authors and editors. We aim to build Ethics International Press into the world’s leading specialist academic publisher in ethics and related fields.

Scope

We are taking a deliberately broad approach to the topic of ethics. so are happy to consider English language proposals in fields including, but not limited to:

Business, Management, Economics, and Finance

Climate Change, Sustainability, and the Environment

Education and Research

Equality, Diversity, Inclusion

Ethics in the Arts, Society, History, and Culture

Law and Justice

Philosophy, Ethics and Morals

Psychology and Psychiatry

Religion and Faith

We are pleased to consider adapted Doctoral Theses, and Edited Collections, including adaptations from conferences and symposia. We also have a number of open Calls for Chapters, here.

Ethics International Press was founded in Cambridge, UK, in 1993. You can find detailed guidelines for authors, information on our Open Calls for contributions and proposals, and a list of our Advisory Board members, on our website. Please note that we make no charges to publish. All proposals are independently reviewed.

We look forward to hearing from you.

With best wishes

Sarah Palmer

Publisher

Ethics International Press

September 14-15, 2023

Almada Negreiros College - ICNOVA Lisbon

Deadline: February 28, 2023

The Association of Historians of Communication invites researchers to participate in the XVIII Congress of AsHiscom, which will take place on the 14th and 15th of September in Lisbon, organized by the Communication Institute of the Universidade Nova de Lisboa.

The main theme is Communication, History and Memory, and all works that contribute to debating the production and communication of collective memory in Ibero-American space and promoting the search and analysis of fair memory policies are welcome. 

The call for papers is open until February 28th. 

See the complete information and access the submission platform through xviiiashiscom2023.fcsh.unl.pt/pt/chamada-de-trabalhos/

July 9-13, 2023

Lyon, France

Deadline: February 9, 2023

https://iamcr.org/lyon2023/cfp-flow34

The International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) calls for academic audio and/or visual work to be presented at Flow34 at the IAMCR 2023 Lyon Conference. The deadline for submission is 9 February 2023, at 23.59 UTC.

The selected works will be presented online from 25 June until 9 September and during the conference in Lyon from 9-13 July.

With this call, IAMCR aims to stimulate the use of a broader range of modes for the communication of academic knowledge, complementing conference papers and oral presentations with audio/visual work. In particular, we seek videos and podcasts that integrate academic and aesthetic dimensions, and that use sound and/or image creatively to communicate academic knowledge. This implies that we will not select audio/visual work that merely consists of recorded lectures.

We call for audio/visual work with a maximum duration of 30 minutes, but shorter contributions are welcomed. 

Guidelines for abstracts

Proposals for the presentation of audio/visual work will consist of one abstract, which will have two parts: 1/ an academic description of the work and 2/ a (basic) script of the audio/visual work. The academic description describes the research communicated by the audio/visual work (its research question, theoretical framework, methodology, research design and corpus etc.), while the script provides a chronological description of the form of the audio/visual work. 

The abstract (with its two parts) has a maximum length of 750 words. The abstract should be submitted online by 9 February 2023 at 23h59 UTC.

The Flow34 evaluation team will review the submitted proposals, and announce their decisions in March 2023. The audio/visual work itself will then need to be submitted by 5 June 2023.

For further information about Flow34 Virtual cinema and podcasts, please contact Mazlum Kemal Dagdelen <mazlum@iamcr.org>.

University of Passau

The University of Passau owes its strong visibility and good repute to excellent research, innovative teaching and its tight-knit international academic networks. Some 12,000 students from 100 countries and more than 1,300 staff study and work on our University campus, which is located a stone’s throw from the historical Old Town of Passau and combines state-of-the- art technical infrastructure with award-winning architecture. Internationally successful high- tech companies and a vibrant start-up scene, coupled with a rich culture and Lower Bavarian traditions, give Passau and the surrounding area a special appeal that makes it a great place to live and work.

The Chair of Science Communication (Professor Hannah Schmid-Petri) and the Research and Training Group “Digital Platform Ecosystems” (DPE) at the University of Passau invites applications for the position of

Doctoral Researcher (Ph.D. candidate)

in the area of political discourses that form around regulatory initiatives of the platform ecosystem

to start at the earliest convenience.

This is a fully-funded part-time position (75%), based on a fixed-term contract valid for a period of three years, with the option of renewal. Remuneration is in accordance with pay grade E13 of the German public-sector collective agreement, TV-L; the salary step depends on your qualifications and experience.

What we seek

• You are a highly motivated master’s graduate with an excellent degree in communication science or a related field of study. You can also apply if you are expecting to finish your degree soon. Preliminary part-time employment up to 0.5 full- time equivalent in line with pay grade E12 TV-L may be arranged temporarily for candidates who have not yet completed their master’s thesis. Please contact us for details.

• Very good analytical skills and most importantly a keen interest in the regulation of digital platform ecosystems and the digital economy.

• Methodological skills especially in the field of quantitative methods (e.g., quantitative content analysis, survey research, computational methods) and in the field of data analysis.

• Ability to work in a multi-disciplinary team, open-mindedness, and the motivation to work on a research project independently and diligently.

• Excellent spoken and written English language skills. Knowledge of German is not a requirement.

What we offer

• The opportunity to pursue a doctoral study at a renowned German university, and as part of a particularly strong research team.

• Membership in the interdisciplinary Research Training Group 2720 Digital Platform Ecosystems (see https://dpe.uni-passau.de/en for details and activities) funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG).

• Own research budget for conference visits and hiring student workers to assist with research.

• No formal teaching obligation, but possibility to participate in and contribute to the Chair’s teaching portfolio.

• A tailored and structured doctoral programme at the graduate school DPE; a fully funded research visit abroad, external course programme (summer schools, workshops); co-supervision by international scholars and much more. The research and training programme is designed such that students are enabled to complete their Ph.D. degree within three years.

• You will participate regularly in international conferences, become integrated into an international research network and contribute to the national and international political discourse on the regulation of the digital economy.

• Excellent infrastructure on one of the most beautiful university campuses in Germany.

The University of Passau wishes to increase the proportion of its female staff and expresslyencourages women to apply for the position.

This position is suitable for candidates with disabilities. Those who are registered disabled are given preference over non-disabled applicants who do not otherwise have statutory preferential status if their overall personal aptitudes, skills and qualifications are equal.

If you have any further questions about this position, please contact Professor Hannah Schmid-Petri by e-mail (hannah.schmid-petri@uni-passau.de)

To apply, please send your full application (including motivation letter and school/university, training and work certificates) as a single pdf file to dpe@uni-passau.de. Application details can be found at: www.dpe.uni-passau.de/en/application. This position is for Research Area C.3 under the primary supervision of Prof. Hannah Schmid-Petri. You can apply at any time, as we will be accepting applications until the position is filled. We will start reviewing received applications on 15 March 2023

E-mailed applications are kept on file for up to six months after the conclusion of the appointment procedure, whereupon they are deleted from our systems.

Please visit www.uni-passau.de/en/university/current-vacancies for our data privacy statement.

International Journal of Games and Social Impact Vol. 1 No. 2

Deadline: June 1, 2023

Guest Editor: Micael Sousa (CITTA, Departamento de Engenharia Civil, Universidade de Coimbra)

The idea of playing is older than culture itself, presenting a function that transcends physiological phenomena, to support human beings in the construction of interpretations and meanings (Huizinga, 1944/1980). Board games, in particular, have proven to be more than a form of escape from everyday life, but rather a mode of reproduction of its complex problems (Lorenzo, 2017), which can support important critical reflections. Moreover, and unlike a significant part of digital game communities, the board game community tends to be particularly inclusive, valuing diversity, associated with an industry receptive to feedback from those who play (Booth, 2021).

For the second issue of the first volume of IJGSI, we are accepting talk proposals that are related, not exclusively, with one or more of the following aspects:

• The potential social impact of board games
  
• Board games in community development
  
• Board games as a tool for social inclusion
  
• Sustainable proposals for board games design and modding
  
• Board games as a tool or strategy to promote change
  
• Learning through board games
  
• The accessibility of board games
  
• Diversity and representation in the board games industry and community
  
• New spaces and contexts for play
  
• 'Serious' applications for commercial board games
  
• Hybrid games or other mixed approaches
  

Full papers must be sent to glow@ulusofona.pt, respecting the guidelines establishing in the Information for Authors section.

The submission deadline is the 1st of June 2023.

This special issue results from a partnership between the magazine and the event LeiriaTalks at LeiriaCon 2023. More information HERE.