Research Fellow in Periodicals and Print Culture, Nottingham Trent University (Closing date: 22/02/2021)

Job reference: 008413

Location: Clifton Campus

Closing date: 22/02/2021

Salary : Grade G (£28,331 – £32,817 pro rata)

Employment type: Fixed-term contract

Department: Academic Schools

School/Section : School of Arts & Humanities

Additional Information: This is a part time role of 0.5FTE and is a fixed-term contract for 3 years.

This post is for a Research Fellow to support the AHRC/DFG funded project on Spaces of Translations: European Magazine Cultures, c.1945-65. This is a joint research project between NTU and JGU, Mainz (Germany).

The post holder will contribute to the development and implementation of the research project on Spaces of Translation (SpaTrEM), based in the Periodicals and Print Culture Research Group at NTU, which is led by Prof Andrew Thacker and Dr Catherine Clay, and based in the School of Arts and Humanities. The main subject areas of this specific role will be in modern periodical culture, translation studies, and comparative literature.

Closing Date: 22nd February 2021

Interview Date: TBC

If you have any queries about this role, please contact Professor Andrew Thacker via email andrew.thacker@ntu.ac.uk.

Originally published on Nottingham Trent University

RUDN Univeristy Conference AFNSIR 2021: Development Cooperation with Africa in the Post-Covid Era (Zoom-format, Deadline 15 February 2021)

AFNSIR 2021 will focus on the topic of Development Cooperation with Africa in the Post-Covid Era.
In 2020, Africa, as the rest of the world, experienced a crisis associated with a pandemic, its consequences for health care, economy, education and political unity of the countries. To discuss the challenges of a new era for Africa, we would like to invite our friends and colleagues, the participants of the conference 2020, to become our experts this year.
In 2021, taking into account new realities, we are holding an online conference on the zoom platform with simultaneous translation. The conference will be held in two days:
Day 1. 25 February 2021
Panel session 1: Summits of great powers on cooperation with Africa
Round table: African views on post-COVID recovery & African Agency
Panel session 2: Healthcare cooperation (COVAX, WHO and regional iniatives in Africa)
Day 2. 26 February 2021
Panel session 3: Transformation of education cooperation within the Continent (new vectors of growth)
Round table: African digitalization & cyber-security
Panel session 4: Conflicts & Political Process despite COVID Pandemics
All important dates and schedule are available at the website: http://africa.rudn.ru/schedule
For registration please fill in the form: http://africa.rudn.ru/involve