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As a PhD Candidate you will work as part of a team on the NWO-funded NWA project ‘Heritages of Hunger: Societal Reflections on Past European Famines in Education, Commemoration and Musealisation’. This project is conducted by researchers at Radboud University, Wageningen University of Research and the NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies in Amsterdam. Heritages of Hunger investigates how educational practices (at schools, heritage sites, museums, surrounding commemorative practices) can create awareness of famines as heritages of shared experiences and past solidarity among European communities. The case studies to be examined through a comparative approach concern episodes of war (Belgium and Germany during and after WWI; the Netherlands, Russia and Greece during WWII, Germany after WWII); neglect and ecological crisis (nineteenth-century Ireland, Finland) and oppression (interbellum Spain, Ukraine). Furthermore, the project addresses the significant impact on famine legacies in education and heritage practices of European immigrant communities across the globe.
Subproject 4: Teaching European Famines in Museums and Heritage Centres
Your PhD research, which is to result in a dissertation, will examine past and present educational practices surrounding the heritages of the Ukrainian Holodomor, nineteenth-century Finnish famines and the Greek famine that occurred during the triple occupation by the Axis powers. You will analyse how museums and heritage institutions in Ukraine, Finland and Greece, as well as the US and Canada, educate visitors about these famine legacies: through exhibition spaces, workshops, educational projects and involvement in commemorations. The role played by diasporic communities in the transmission of these famine heritages will also be an important point of focus.
Furthermore, you will contribute to the educational resources (MOOC, repository) which the project will develop. You are also expected to actively participate in the project's programme of meetings (e.g. expert meetings, conferences, public events).
Fixed-term contract: You will be appointed for an initial period of 18 months, after which your performance will be evaluated. If the evaluation is positive, the contract will be extended by 2.5 years.
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