The Institut français d’archéologie orientale (Ifao) and the Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology, University of Warsaw (PCMA) invite applications for a 24-months Post-Doctoral Fellowship, starting 1st May 2025 until 30th April 2027.
The Post-Doctoral Fellow will organize an international two-day conference on a subject in relation with Ancient and Medieval Northeastern Africa (Egypt and/or Nubia). The application must outline the state of the art in the proposed subject and clearly present an added value to the studies of past societies. We encourage cross-disciplinary proposals offering a wider, comparative perspective of the area under study.
The conference will take place in Cairo in fall 2025. Following the conference, the Post-Doctoral Fellow will be in charge of the edition of the proceedings and will submit the manuscript for approval by the joint IFAO-PCMA editorial committee.
During the entire course of the appointment, the Fellow will take part in the scientific activities of IFAO and PCMA and carry out his/her own research. In this context, the Fellow will organize a series of at least four scientific meetings in 2026, two in PCMA and two in IFAO (open lectures, seminars or workshops inviting specialists working in Egypt). The events should be related to the main subject of the Fellowship. All four meetings will take place after the two-day conference mentioned above. The application must present the idea behind the series.
The Fellow will be also strongly encouraged to prepare and submit his/her own paper in one of the scientific journals related to their field of work.
The Fellow is expected to stay in Cairo during the Fellowship and divide his/her time equally between the PCMA and IFAO. There is no accommodation provided in the program. The position is a grant, not an employment position, according to Polish and French regulations. The stipend for the entire period of the Fellowship is 48 000,00 Euros in total, paid on a monthly basis.
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