Locatie: Amsterdam Amsterdam
Max uren per week: 27,00
Max salaris: 5.929
Duur overeenkomst: 36 maanden
Solliciteer t/m: 01-07-2024
Information The ERC project MAKEBELIEF: The Religious Politics of Theme Parks investigates how in the 21st century, immersive media are mobilized to ‘imagineer’ religion, heritage and national identity. In order to do so, the project provides a comparative analysis of religious theme parks in the Netherlands, China, Turkey and the United States. The Meertens Institute offers a position within this project for a
Postdoctoral Reseacher (0.7 fte, three years)What you will be doing You will work as postdoctoral researcher in an interdisciplinary team of researchers. Your research will focus on the use of immersive media to imagineer religion, heritage and national identity in Turkey. You will engage in sustained ethnographic fieldwork in Turkey as well as particpate in collaborative research endeavours with other team members. You will be able to co-supervise PhD students and assist in management tasks in the project.
What we are offering You will be working the Meertens Institute, a research institute of the Humanities Cluster of the Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences. The Meertens Institute studies how collective identities are constructed, and how these processes are shaped through embodiment and cognition. In both societal and academic debates on these topics the Meertens Institute aims to play a leading role.
During the project you will be able to further develop your research interests and receive further training in working in interdisciplinary research teams. You will consolidate your expertise in contemporary challenges involving religion, heritage and polarisation as well as the importance of media.
Application procedure Please submit a CV, cover letter that includes a motivation on why you want to work on this project and a 1-page research statement in which you outline how you foresee your contribution to the project, both in terms of our own research as well as how your research and expertise would contribute to the project in its entirety.
Your workplace Our offices are located in a historical building in downtown Amsterdam. Researchers work together in projects and a shared office space and can choose to work part of their time at home.
For more information Please contact:
Dr. Ernst van den Hemel, principal investigator of MAKEBELIEF and senior researcher at the Meertens Institute / NL Lab.
Over Meertens Het
Meertens Instituut is een onderzoeksinstituut van de KNAW. Dit instituut houdt zich bezig met de bestudering en documentatie van Nederlandse taal en cultuur. Centraal staan de verschijnselen die het alledaagse leven in onze samenleving vormgeven. De collecties van het Meertens Instituut vormen een belangrijk onderdeel van de nationale geesteswetenschappelijke infrastructuur.