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International Diversity Guest Professorships

To strengthen and promote diverse, inclusive research in international scholarly exchange at the University of Bamberg, international guest professorships focusing on diversity-related research will be funded in 2025, financed by the Bavarian State Ministry of Science and the Arts.

Call for Proposals

As part of the program, international scholars are invited to Bamberg for a diversity-related research and teaching stay of one month. The program is meant to foster international research collaborations on diversity-related issues, and to increase the diversity of research and teaching at the University of Bamberg.

By emphasizing the significance of diversity in academic research, the University of Bam-berg heeds the concepts of diversity as defined by internationally recognized research in-stitutions. Subjects of diversity research are the dimensions of diversity and their intersectionality, including age groups, socio-economic, cultural, and geographical backgrounds, physical and mental abilities, genders, sexual orientations, religions and ideologies (https://www.charta-der-vielfalt.de/en/for-employers/diversity-dimensions/). Conceptually, the various facets of diversity in research are best described by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and the DFG / German Research Council:

During their stay at the University of Bamberg, the international guest professor should collaborate with their Bamberg host on a diversity-related research project and present aspects of this research to members of the university (i.e. in the form of a guest lecture); they are highly welcome to participate actively in seminars or lectures on diversity-related issues; and they should meet with junior faculty or Ph.D. students to discuss questions of diversity-related research. The overall and most important goal is to foster sustainable international research collaborations on questions of diversity. This entails possible future visits of Bamberg scholars, including junior scholars, to the international guest’s home university to facilitate diversity-related research synergies on all levels.

The guest professor will receive an honorarium of � 3,000 (remuneration including travel expenses, accommodation, and all other expenses). The stay ought to take place within the calendar year 2025.

International scholars with physical and mobility impairments are expressly invited to participate in the guest professorship program. In such cases, courses, lectures, and research collaborations can take place remotely.

Application

The proposal should be submitted by the prospective host at the University of Bamberg, after it has been agreed upon by their international colleague. Bamberg scholars are kindly asked to submit the proposal (in German or English; comprised in a single PDF file) to the Vice President for Diversity and International Affairs at vp.div-int(at)uni-bamberg.deby 27 January 2025. Questions regarding the call for proposals may also be directed to the Vice President.

The following documents are asked for:

  1. Curriculum vitae and list of publications of the potential visiting professor
  2. Information on the planned period of the research and teaching stay (by December 2025 at the latest)
  3. Short statement on the planned work program during the stay (max. 800 words)
  4. Information on the long-term impact of the stay with regard to existing and prospective cooperations between the guest professor and the Bamberg host; information on the strategic value for the University of Bamberg, e.g. concerning university partnerships, cooperative study programs, graduate schools, or PhD programs (max. 800 words)
  5. Information on the visiting scholar’s planned contributions to teaching (embedded in one or more courses where students can earn ECTS points)

Among all submitted proposals, a selection committee appointed by the university’s board of management will make the final decision. It will take into account the range of disciplines of the applications granted.

The current call for proposals is also available as a PDF(228.3 KB).

2023 Diversity Guest Professors and Their Joint Projects with Bamberg Scholars

 

Dr. Guillermo Aguirre Martínez - Romance Studies and Translation, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain

Research topic: The Spanish Poet Manuel ?lvarez Ortega. From Inner Exile during Dictatorship to the Margins of the Literary Industry in Times of Democracy - with Prof. Dr. Enrique Rodrigues-Moura (Hispanic Studies)

 

Dr. Noran Amin - English Language and Literature, Cairo University, Egypt

Research topic: Who Am I? A Cultural Exploration of the Construction, Deconstruction, and Reconstruction of the Self across Media - with Prof. Dr. Lale Behzadi (Arabic Studies)

 

Prof. Fiona Ellis - Philosophy, University of Roehampton, UK

Research topic: Unity of Nature and Diversity of Spirit - with J.-Prof. Dr. Silvia Jonas (Philosophy)

 

Dr. Kaye Mitchell - English/American Studies and Creative Writing, University of Manchester, UK

Research topic: Writing Shame: Negative Affect at the Intersection of Gender, Sexuality and Disability in Anglophone Literature and Autobiographical Life Storying - with Prof. Dr. Katrin R?der (English Literature)

 

Dr. Elisabeth Punzi - Critical Heritage Studies, Gothenburg University, Sweden

Research topic: Autobiographical Narratives and Life Storying at the Intersection of Gender, Ethnicity, Disability and Mental Distress - with Prof. Dr. Katrin R?der (English Literature)

 

Prof. Dr. Trinidad Rico - Heritage Conservation, University of Southern California, USA

Research topic: Diversity and Cultural Heritage. Methods, Loci, Practices. - with Prof. Dr. Gerhard Vinken (Heritage Conservation)

 

Dr. Wouter Vleugels - Management, Deakin University, Australia

Research topic: The Dark Side of Person-Organisation Fit - with Prof. Dr. Maike Andresen (Human Resource Management and Organisational Behaviour)

2022 Diversity Guest Professors and Their Joint Projects with Bamberg Scholars

 

Prof. Dr. Antonella Ghersetti

Ca’Foscari University of Venice, Italy

Arabic Language and Literature

Research topic: Discourses of Alterity in the Classical Arabic adab Tradition with Special Reference to Language Ideology with Prof. Dr. Lale Behzadi (Arabic Studies)

 

Prof. Dr. Don E. Walicek

University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras

Linguistics

Research topic: Diversification of the International Corpus of English with Prof. Dr. Manfred Krug (English Linguistics)

 

Prof. Dr. David D. Kim

University of California, LA, USA

European Languages and Transcultural Studies

Research topic: Hannah Arendt - Exile and Diversity with Prof. Dr. Friedhelm Marx (Modern German Literary Studies)

 

Prof. Daniel Mayerhoffer

University of Amsterdam, Netherlands

Computational Social Science

Research topic: Modelling intra- and inter-generational network effects on life courses of marginalised groups mediated by value change in society with Prof. Dr. Johannes Marx (Political Theory)

 

Prof. Dr. Nancy Kendall

University of Wisconsin – Madison, USA

Educational Policy Studies

Research topic: Gender Issues in International Education Research with Dr. Susanne Ress (General Pedagogy)

 

Dr. Mervi Kaukko

Tampere University, Finland

Education

Research topic: Expertise in Innovative Research with Refugee Children and Youth with Prof. Dr. Annette Scheunpflug (General Pedagogy)

 

Dr. Yariv Feniger

Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel

Education

Research topic: From Research to Education Policy in Israel with Prof. Dr. Steffen Schindler (Sociology with Focus on Education and Work in the Life Course)

 

Dr. Laura Swift

Open University, UK

Classical Studies

Research topic: Dramatic Discourses on Diversity in the Bacchae of Euripides with Prof. Dr. Sabine Vogt (Classical Philology with a focus on Greek Studies)

 

Prof. Dr. Dr. Dion A. Forster

University of Stellenbosch, South Africa

Systematic Theology and Ecclesiology

Research topic: Social Coherence and Mechanisms of Othering during the Corona Pandemic in South Africa and Germany with Prof. Dr. Thomas Wabel (Systematic Theology)

2021 Diversity Guest Professors and Their Joint Projects with Bamberg Scholars

 

Dr. Anna Nedoluzhko

Charles University Prague, Czech Republic

Formal and Applied Linguistics

Research topic: Modeling Language Learner Diversity with Prof. Dr. Sandra Birzer (Slavic Linguistics)

 

Prof. Dr. Sophia Labadi

University of Kent, England

Heritage Studies

Research topic: Diversity, Gender, Women, and Heritage with Prof. Dr. Mona Hess (Digital Technologies in Heritage Conservation)

 

Pravdoliub Ivanov, PhD

National Academy of Fine Arts, Sofia, Bulgaria

Psychology of Art, Art Education, and General Education

Research topic: Collective Aesthetic Situations in Theory and Practice with Dr. Notburga Karl (Didactics of Fine Arts)

 

Dr. Ella Peltonen

University of Oulu, Finland

Ubiquitous Computing

Research topic: Encouraging Young Female Engineers by Citizen Science and Crowd Sensing for Smart Cities with Prof. Dr. Daniela Nicklas (Mobile Systems)

 

Dr hab. Maria Nowak

University of Warsaw, Poland

Roman Law and the Law of Antiquity

Research topic: Diversity in Roman Law with Prof. Dr. Dr. Dr. Peter Riedlberger (Late Antique History and Culture)

 

Prof. Dr. Alexander Yao Cobbinah

Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil

Linguistics

Research topic: West-African Heritage in Colonial Brazil: Language, Culture, and Resistance in Minas Gerais with Prof. Dr. Enrique Rodrigues-Moura (Romance Literary Studies / Hispanic Literatures)