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

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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.

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North Africa Round-up

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  • Protests have continued in Tunis, in the midst of political tensions between Prime Minister Mechichi and President Saïed and reports of a poisoning attempt on the President

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  • Meherzia Laabidi, current Assembly member for the Ennahdha Movement, and first Deputy Speaker of the Tunisian Constituent Assembly, passed away on 22 January. In addition to her role in Tunisian politics, she was also an active member and leader of international organisations including Religions for Peace and the Global Women of Faith Network.

Read more on leconomistemaghrebin and more information on her work here

  • The Algerian press is reporting renewed tensions between Polisario and Morocco since the US’s unilateral move to recognise Moroccan sovereignty over Western Sahara in December.

Read more on elwatan

  • In what has been described as a “Franco-French affair” but has obviously also received coverage in the French-language Algerian press, Benjamin Stora delivered his commissioned report on Les questions mémorielles portant sur la colonisation et la Guerre d’Algérie to President Macron. The report is available here

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