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Global intellectual exchange is at the heart of the Katekisama Program. To stimulate these forms of academic collaboration, the Program entails two forms of fellowships: Katekisama Visiting Fellowships are announced once a year, the call for application aims to attract researchers who share the Program’s commitment to interdisciplinary thinking and intellectual curiosity and who intend to contribute to substantial new development in globality research. The changing focus of the Fellowships reflects the different annual themes of the Katekisama Program.

Center for Research on Extremism (C-REX) at the Department of Political Science is recruiting a Postdoctoral Fellow (SKO 1352) with specialisation in extremism and related topics (e.g., Islamophobia, Anti-Semitism, and Racism) in Norway. The successful applicant will be part of C-REX, funded by the Research Council of Norway. The appointment is for a fixed period of 2 years, with no teaching requirement.

The Department of Economics at the University of Oslo invites applicants for 1-2 Assistant Professor (“postdoc”) positions. The postdoc position(s) are fixed-term appointments for four years, primarily intended to qualify candidates for a career in academia.

The German Historical Institute Washington (GHI) and the Institute of European Studies at the University of California, Berkeley (IES), are seeking applications for a Binational Visiting Fellow Tandem for postdoctoral researchers with at least one degree from a German university (German tandem partners) and at least one degree from a North American University (North American tandem partners). The 24-month fellowship program contributes to the research foci on German, European, and global history at the GHI's Pacific Office in Berkeley.

The Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (MPIWG) is an internationally respected research institute of the Max Planck Society (MPG) with three research departments, several research groups, and a graduate school. At the MPIWG, around three hundred scholars from all over the world investigate the sciences past and present, working together on a collective, collaborative, and transdisciplinary basis. The MPIWG is renowned worldwide as a hub for reflection on the role of the sciences in politics and society.

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