PhD Position in Sociology of Post-Imperial Islamic Legal Cultures (MINARET) University of Zurich in Switzerland

KU Leuven is advertising two PhD researcher positions and one postdoctoral position in a new project on interreligious dialogue , led by Nadia Fadil together with Marianne Moyaert . The project examines how interreligious dialogue (IRD) develops historically, how it is discursively framed, and how it is implemented locally across Western Europe (Belgium) and North Africa (Morocco) . PhD Project 1 focuses on inter-religious dialogue in the classroom in Flemish schools. It studies how IDL, now a m...

University of Padova, Italy is advertising a 2-year postdoc in the PersoNa project on climate litigation and the credibility of personal narratives as evidence. The project asks: when do personal narratives become credible evidence in climate litigation? The research design includes ethnographic fieldwork across 10 global cases , a podcast series , and thematic modeling of court rulings . This opportunity is especially relevant for researchers in anthropology , law , and adjacent social-science ...

PhD Position in Law and/or Political Science: Governance of Climate Extremes at the University of Bern (UniBE), Switzerland. This PhD is embedded in NCCR CLIM+ , a newly established SNSF-funded National Center of Competence and Switzerland-wide interdisciplinary climate research community focused on climate extremes and actionable adaptation/mitigation responses. The project sits in Workpackage 3 and examines governance and justice around the regulation of climate extremes such as droughts, floo...

PhD position in Social Anthropology at the University of Zurich (Department of Social Anthropology and Cultural Studies, ISEK) in the research project “Bildung: Ethnographies of Boundaries and Experiential Epistemologies in Philosophical Practice” . The project uses ethnographic and theoretically informed approaches to study how ideals of Bildung , self-cultivation, and the “good life” shape the training and practice of philosophical practitioners . It also examines epistemic boundaries between ...

PhD opportunity at the University of Melbourne on “Prison worlds across borders” . This research degree project examines how prisons develop hybrid systems of governance that combine formal rules with informal traditions, norms, and behavioural expectations. The project focuses on carceral order and penal subjectivities across the Global North, Global South, and Global East , with attention to power , gender , legitimacy , and broader transformations in state governance. The opportunity is offer...