DIAS Assistant Professor in Political History and/or Digital History
DIAS Assistant Professor in Political History and/or Digital History
The Danish Institute for Advanced Study (DIAS) seeks an outstanding candidate to fill a position at the Assistant Professor level in the field of Political History and/or Digital History of the modern period (19th to 21st Century).
The position is sponsored by the Department of History and starting September 1, 2021 or as soon as possible thereafter. The department is located at University of Southern Denmark (SDU) in Odense.
The appointment is for four years with the possibility for a subsequent two years of employment as an Associate Professor. Note that teaching obligations will be reduced in this position compared to a regular Assistant Professor position at SDU. [read more]
PHD Sciences Po : The 2021 admissions campaign are open
Actualité Sciences Po
The Sciences Po Doctoral School offers five PhD programmes: law, econmics, history, poltical science, and sociology.
You can apply until:
- January 21st, 2021 at 12am for an admission decision by the end of February 2021
- May 19th, 2021 at 12a for an admission decision first half of July 2021
Sciences Po / King's College London
King's College and Sciences Po Libraries
King's College London and Sciences Po have expanded their historic partnership by initiating a joint Graduate Programme in Global and International History. Spanning a wide range of topics, this selective programme will train students to acquire a solid background in Global and International History, comprising theory, methodology, historiography and inquiry and research processes at both universities.
Students will benefit from the numerous opportunities, networks and services offered on both sides of the Channel [read more]
Photo on the left: The famous reading room at the Maughan Library, the biggest library of King's College London, June 2015. From Fil Brit, CC BY-SA 4.0,
Photo on the right: Carrel de la bibliothèque décoré par l'artiste J. Saget en 2018 (Study area of the library decorated by the artist J. Saget in 2018) Caroline Maufroid, Sciences Po.
Layers and Connections of the Political
Association for Political History
Layers and Connections of the Political
Call for Panels and Papers
APH 2020-2021Conference
23-25 June 2021 - LUISS Guido Carli University, Rome
Politics has changed a lot, in the last half-century – and so has political history. The boundaries of the political have been redrawn. The large social and political bodies of the mid-twentieth century have grown weaker or have dissolved. Public institutions have become both less insulated from society and less effective in controlling and guiding it. Therefore, defining what is political has become more difficult. Political historians have confronted this challenge, and in the process have gained a deeper understanding of their object of study, have enlarged their scope and refined their methodologies, and have entered into closer dialogue with the “other” histories and the social sciences.
The fragmentation of the political and the increasing uncertainty of its boundaries have made political historians more acutely aware that politics does not exist only “high up” and on the macro level, but reaches
deep into private lives, shapes people’s identities and perceptions, interferes with their thoughts and emotions, regulates and modifies their behaviour. Actions and reactions performed on the micro level can in
turn not only determine how initiatives from the top are received, reinterpreted and remoulded, but also
condition, constrain and change the institutions and subjects that act on the macro level.
For its 2020-2021 conference (23-25 June 2021 – LUISS Guido Carli University, Rome), the Association for Political History (www.associationforpoliticalhistory.org) invites proposals for panels and papers that consider, in a historical perspective, examples of how the multiple layers of the political have connected and interacted with each other during the last three centuries. We welcome senior researchers, but also encourage PhD candidates and young scholars to submit proposals and participate in the conference.
Proposals must be sent by the 31st of January 2021 to the email address of the APH 2020-2021
Organizing Committee (aph2020@luiss.it). Proposals must include:
• the description of the panel (1000 words maximum)
• the abstracts of the individual papers (200 words each)
• the short biographic notes of the participants (100 words each)
Panels will be composed of maximum of four participants and one discussant.
Proposals will be selected by the end of February 2021 and participation must be confirmed by March 14.
The deadline for registration and fees is April 30. The individual participation fee is 100 euros for senior
scholars and 50 euros for PhD students and scholars belonging to departments attached to the Association
for Political History. The fee is to be paid via credit card to the LUISS School of Government. Besides
participation in the conference, the fee covers the social dinner on the evening of June 23 and the lunch on
June 24. It does not include the accommodation, for which participants must provide autonomously.
The Decolonising Madness project is hiring its first post-doctoral fellow
Decolonising madness?
Postdoc position
The Department of English, Germanic and Romance studies (ENGEROM), University of Copenhagen (UCPH), invites applications for a 30-month post-doctoral researcher position in the history of colonial and post-colonial psychiatry.
The position is funded by the ERC project ‘Decolonising Madness: Transcultural Psychiatry, International Order and the Birth of a “Global Psyche” in the aftermath of the Second World War’ (DECOLMAD). Starting date: 1 February 2021.
This is an exciting opportunity to join an innovative and inter-disciplinary research project, which aims to explore the emergence and historical development of the discipline of transcultural psychiatry after WWII and in the midst of decolonisation, and to unpick the complex intellectual and logistical relationships between colonialism and post-colonial ‘psy’ disciplines.
The successful candidate will work closely with the project’s PI Ana Antic and will join a dynamic international research team, based at the Department of, ENglish, German and Romance (ENGEROM).
