Call for Applications: MECAM Long-Term Fellowships 2023–2026

The Merian Centre for Advanced Studies in the Maghreb (MECAM) invites applications for three long-term fellowships for postdoctoral researchers in the humanities and social sciences for the period from September 2023 to August 2026. Under the overall theme “Imagining Futures: Dealing with Disparity”, MECAM offers applicants a choice of five interdisciplinary and interrelated ‘Interdisciplinary Research Fields’ (IRFs): 

• Aesthetics and Cultural Practice

• Inequality and Mobility

• Memory and Justice

• Resources and Sustainability

• Identities and Beliefs (under GIGA's coordination)

Applications should be related to at least one of the IRFs. This call for applications is open to researchers from all countries, including Tunisia. 

Please apply by 31 May 2023 | 12:30 p.m. CEST

More information at the MECAM website and at the Forum Transregionale Studien.

MECAM has been established at the Université de Tunis/Tunisia in October 2020 to strengthen internationalisation, free academic research and cooperation in the humanities and social sciences in, with and across the Maghreb, and other regions of the world. The German Institute for Global and Area Studies is a partner within the MECAM consortium, along with the University of Marburg, the University of Leipzig and the Forum Transregional Studies in Berlin. In addition to the Université de Tunis, the regional partners are the University of Sfax and the Institut Tunisien des Études Stratégiques (ITES) in Tunisia, as well as other partners from Morocco and Lebanon.