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ASCA currently has a vacant Postdoc researcher position as part of the broader field Cultural Heritage and Identity. Within this field the focus is on material and immaterial heritage (including digital heritage), and on cultural Heritage and societal changes. The Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA) is one of the five Research Schools within the
Amsterdam Institute for Humanities Research.
What are you going to do?This postdoc will mobilize the methods, theories and practices of Artistic Research for the interdisciplinary research field of Critical Heritage Studies, specifically in the area of contested heritage. The postdoc will primarily contribute to the Artistic Research Research Group (ARRG) at the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA). ARRG sees Artistic Research as a new approach to tackling research questions and aims at promoting the exchange of ideas between artists and scholars from a wide range of fields and disciplines (art history, cultural studies/cultural analysis, literary studies, media studies, philosophy, theater studies, musicology). Artistic Research develops a discursive form of producing and communicating research results in parallel with a non-discursive, artistic practice. By bringing academia and the art world together, artistic forms of research change the social status of both and introduce a potential array of practice-oriented methodologies that challenge institutionalized forms of knowledge production.
We are looking for a postdoc who will use Artistic Research to reflect critically upon contested heritage, material or immaterial, where artistic research is used to gain a better understanding of what is at stake in present-day debates about contested heritage, as they are conducted in the public sphere, but also in cultural institutions and popular culture. We are particularly interested in projects that would look at the transnational dimensions of such debates and at how these debates hinder or foster societal change by (re)producing representations of the past that feed into particular visions of the future. We expect the postdoc to set up collaborations with societal partners to actively bridge the gap between science/scholarship and art, and to make the results of their research accessible to non-academic publics.
Your tasks and responsibilities:
- conducting research, presenting intermediate research results at workshops and conferences and publishing at least two peer reviewed articles;
- participating in activities of the research school, department and relevant research priority area(s);
- co-organising knowledge dissemination activities;
- optional: contributing to teaching courses.