You will be working at the department of Arts and Culture, more specifically at the
Musicology division, which comprises various chair groups responsible for the Bachelor's in Musicology/Muziekwetenschap and the MA Arts and Culture. The Master's programme consists of various programmes, including the MA Music Studies and a Master's programme in teaching. You can find the full curriculum here:
https://studiegids.uva.nl/xmlpages/page/2022-2023-en/search-programme/programme/6968.
What are you going to do?Our lecturer in Cultural Musicology will act as a replacement for a member of our staff on medical leave. We expect candidates for this position to have experience with and an interest in:
- postcolonial and decolonial studies, ideally with focus topics that relate to the Global South
- ethnographical methods in music studies;
- music archiving, including its history and cultural politics;
- a pronounced interest in current theory formation in cultural musicology, including, for instance, questions of immaterial heritage and restitution.
The UvA's Special collections holds, among others, the famous Jaap Kunst collection, initiated by one of the founders of the field of ethnomusicology. This collection comes with a great responsibility to today's scholars that is explored by numerous research projects, and it contains materials with which our students and, in particular, the lecturer in Cultural Musicology can engage. We also host a
gamelan semar pegulingan on which students from various courses can try out their skills under the guidance of expert musicians.
You will be teaching within the Cultural Musicology curriculum at the Bachelor's and Master's programmes in Musicology and Music Studies. Your educational duties will also include supervising theses.
Tasks and responsibilitiesYou will be teaching at the Musicology division of the Department of Arts and Culture, which will include teaching in the field of Cultural Musicology, as well as teaching more general subjects, and include the following tasks:
- teaching lectures, seminars and tutorials;
- supervising Bachelor's and Master's theses and providing other individual supervision to students (mentoring, coaching and supervising internships).
- attending meetings and lectures, preparing for teaching, updating and translating course materials or assignments and selecting teaching methods, in consultation with colleagues;
- marking (final) assignments, theses and papers, providing input on tests and test questions and entering marks;
- coordinating practical matters around your own teaching working group (such as handling administrative matters and communicating with students);