The University of Birmingham invites early-career scholars based in an African institution to apply for the Cadbury Research Fellowship for the academic year 2020.
The program particularly encourages applications from researchers who work on a specific source or corpus of sources in an African language (including Arabic and other languages used in Africa) and who intend to carry out a critical semantic analysis of the meanings, interpretations and uses of this material.
In addition, they should have completed a PhD within the last four years, or now be close to completing one and they must demonstrate that their research is relevant to the theme; Making Sense: Language, Text and Interpretation in African Studies'.
Successful fellows will benefit from a fully-funded residential fellowship of up to four weeks at the University of Birmingham where they will have time to use the University’s excellent library resources, discuss their work with academic staff and postgraduate students at the Department of African Studies and Anthropology (DASA), and contribute to the intellectual life of the department by participating in the numerous events that will be organized there during the period of the fellowships.
The fellowship programme is expected to begin on or after 27 April 2020 and finish between 24 May and 6 June 2020. The three-day international conference is scheduled for 21, 22 and 23 May 2020.
Interested candidates should apply by 7th February 2020.
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Article by Jedidah Mwangi
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