Call for Participants: Social Sciences Research Methodology Training Workshop for North African Scholars

[Jacob Mundy]

The Centre d’Études Maghrébines en Algérie (CEMA) and the Centre d’Études Maghrébines à Tunis (CEMAT) are pleased to announce the 2016 Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation (HGF) Methodological and Proposal Development Training Workshop series for North African Scholars.

Organized at CEMAT in Tunis, the two three-day workshops will bring together 12 young Algerian, Libyan, Moroccan and Tunisian scholars researching the relationship between violence and a various areas of scholarly inquiry including social change, political action, and economic development. Selected participants will work with international experts to hone the research design on a project in its early stages of development.

The first three-day workshop will introduce new Anglophone approaches, methodologies, and techniques for studying violence in society and politics. Participants will receive a short, pre-circulated reading list to prepare them for the seminar. Those works, as well as the research of the expert-mentors, will be discussed in the seminar, following expert-mentor lectures. Each participant will be allotted twenty minutes to present their own research project (which will be pre-circulated to all expert-mentors and participants), followed by a twenty-minute plenary discussion, led by their respective expert-mentor, in which all participants will have the opportunity to constructively comment on the presented research project.

The second three-day workshop, organized in late August or early September 2016, will focus on re-tooling research proposals, with the goal of producing competitive applications for the 2016 Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation’s African Scholars Small Grant Competition.

Algerian, Libyan, Moroccan and Tunisian scholars under the age of 40 working on how violence broadly intersects with the themes discussed above are strongly encouraged to apply. The workshop will be held in English.

The first workshop will take place in Tunis from June 3rd to 5th. All expenses related to travel; accommodation and catering will be covered by CEMAT for selected participants

Candidate Application Deadline: April 25th, 2016

Candidate applications should include the following:

1. 1)  Research proposal: Proposals should describe the relationship between violence and a specific area of inquiry. It should highlight a research question or set of questions to be investigated. The proposal should include a brief literature review as well as research strategy to be employed in answering the question. The research proposal should be between 5-10 pages, double-spaced.

2. 2)  Completed Application Form (see below)

3. 3)  Up-to-Date Curriculum Vitae

4. 4)  Scannedpassport/nationalidentitycard(thatincludesfullname,photo,and

   date of birth)

5. 5)  LetterofRecommendationfromanacademicmentor

All documents should be written in English. Only complete applications will be considered. Please send your complete application to:

rou...@aimsnorthafrica.org

Selection Notifications: May 10th, 2016