Summer program with the AlUla Inscriptions Corpus Analysis Project (AICAP)

Call for applications: Summer program with the AlUla Inscriptions Corpus Analysis Project (AICAP) in June 2026

We are pleased to announce that AICAP is offering a summer program for four Saudi students to work on the epigraphic material from AlUla County at Ghent University. The two-week program will take place in Ghent, Belgium, from 22 June until 3 July, 2026.

The program

During these two weeks the students will be offered an introduction to the epigraphic material that AICAP is working on. Depending on the students’ individual skills and interests they will contribute to the project’s database under the supervision of the project’s researchers. Specific assignments can range from creating site descriptions based on the project’s documentation to creating inscription entries for the database. This way the students will gain hands-on experience working with the epigraphic data from AlUla County and with the database that AICAP is developing. All their contributions to records will be credited in the online database.

Who we are?

The AlUla Inscriptions Corpus Analysis Project (AICAP) is a four-year collaboration between Ghent University and the Royal Commission for AlUla (RCU), which runs until May 2028. The project will develop an online, accessible, long-term database of the inscriptions documented in the AlUla County, in Saudi Arabia, by the RCU. The inscriptions include texts from as early as the 6th century BC up to modern Arabic graffiti.

Conditions:

  • Accommodation and travel to Ghent, Belgium will be provided
  • Cost of meals will be covered by the project
  • For the duration of the program, students will be housed in a hotel in Ghent with max. 2 students per room (strictly gender segregated).

Requirements:

  • Applicants must have at least a BA or undergraduate degree in History, Archaeology, linguistics or a related field.
  • Sufficient English to work in an academic context is highly recommended, as this is the main working language of the team

How to apply:

Please send an email with the following information to: aicap@ugent.be

  • Your CV
  • A letter of motivation

Application deadline: 20 April 2026

For more on the project and team members see:

https://research.flw.ugent.be/en/projects/aicap-alula-inscriptions-corpus-analysis-project

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