Applications are invited for the post of Research Associate in the Department of Slavonic Studies at University of Cambridge working with Dr Alexander Etkind. This vacancy has arisen as a result of an award from the Newton Trust (Cambridge UK) for the collaborative research project “Memory at War: Cultural Dynamics in Poland, Russia and Ukraine”. Deadline for applications: May 18, 2010.

The German Studies Association is searching for an editor for its flagship journal, the German Studies Review, the world's leading journal of interdisciplinary German Studies. The new editor will succeed Professor Diethelm Prowe, who will retire at the end of 2011. The editor will be chiefly responsible for the content of the GSR and, with help from the editorial board, will make final determinations about that content. Deadline for application: April 1, 2010.

Zum 1. Oktober 2010 vergibt das International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture (GCSC) der Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen 1 Postdoc-Stipendium. Das Postdoc-Stipendium ist auf 2 Jahre begrenzt. Bewerbungsschluss ist der 1. März 2010.

Zum 1. Oktober 2010 vergibt das International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture (GCSC) der Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen bis zu 9 Doktoranden/-innen-Stipendien. Die Dauer der Doktoranden/-innen-Stipendien beträgt zunächst 1 Jahr mit der Möglichkeit zweier Verlängerungen um jeweils ein weiteres Jahr. Bewerbungsschluss ist der 1. März 2010.

Das von der DFG geförderte Graduiertenkolleg Transnationale Medienereignisse von der Frühen Neuzeit bis zur Gegenwart (Gießen) vergibt zum 1.4.2010 sowie zum 1.5/1.7.2010 sechs Doktorandenstipendien. Bewerbungsschluss ist der 1. Februar 2010.

Funded within the Excellence Initiative of the German Research Foundation (DFG), the Graduate School of the Cluster "Languages of Emotion" of the Freie Universität Berlin has as its aim the supervision of exceptional dissertation projects pertinent to the research of the Cluster. The graduate school offers intensive and individual supervision of the thesis as well as a structured course of studies. Deadline for applications: January 31, 2010.

The Max Planck Institute is offering six positions (post-doctoral or PhD grants) in the Siberian Studies Centre. Deadline for application: November 20, 2009.

10 DFG-funded doctoral research studentships are offered by the International Research Training Group "Baltic Borderlands: Shifting Boundaries of Mind and Culture in the Borderlands of the Baltic Sea Region" with the starting date on 1st January 2010 (subject to approval from the DFG). Value of the studentship: € 13,236 p.a. (consisting of monthly: € 1,000 maintenance grant plus a € 103 grant for books and other materials). Application deadline: November 4, 2009.