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Specifications – (explanation)
Location : Amsterdam
Function types : Postdoc positions
Scientific fields : Language and Culture
Hours : 38.0 hours per week
Salary : € 3357 – € 3597
Education : Doctorate
Job number : 15-390
Translations : en
About employer : University of Amsterdam (UvA)
Short link : www.academictransfer.com/30438

Job description
The Amsterdam School for Culture ans History (ASCH) of the Faculty of Humanities currently has a vacant postdoctoral position as part of the NWO-funded Imagining a territory. Constructions and representations of late medieval Brabant, led by dr. Mario Damen.

This NWO funded project analyses how the interaction between prince, nobles and urban elites influenced the construction, perception, and representation of a territory. The test case will be the late medieval Duchy of Brabant, which still has historical and territorial significance for many people in present-day Belgium and the Netherlands. To underscore the fluidity and multiplicity of the concept of territory, this project sets out to disentangle the divergent, though sometimes overlapping, conceptions of what exactly Brabant was (or should be) in the eyes of different political actors, in this time before the availability of reliable scale maps. To answer the main research question the project takes a twofold approach. The postdoctoral researcher will explicate in a subproject entitled Representations of territory in late medieval Brabant, how the concept of territory was communicated to a wider audience. How did princes, nobles and urban elites use architecture, heraldry, historiography, and performances, to envisage and visualize territory? In four case studies these different media will be analyzed. In a second subproject entitled The multiplicity of territory in late medieval Brabant a PhD candidate will define ducal, noble, and urban conceptions of Brabant mainly through administrative sources, particularly those of the fourteenth century that reflect a turning point in the capturing of territory. The two subprojects will provide a completely new perspective on the concept of territory before cartography and state formation turned boundaries and territories into more fixed (but still changeable) geographical entities.

Tasks:

• Doing research in archival and library collections;
• submitting research results for three publications in international peer-reviewed academic journals;
• writing an article for a volume of conference papers;
• (co-)organization of an international conference (Amsterdam, January 2018);
• presentations of intermediate research results at workshops and conferences preparing HIS-GIS application for the project (2018);
• writing contributions to a project blog;
• actively participating in project discussions and working as a peer reviewer for the team.

Requirements

The successful applicant must have:

• MA and PhD degree in History or a closely related field such as Medieval Studies, Art History or Literary Studies,
• high level of active and passive command of Dutch and English and a passive command of French and Latin;
• demonstrable interest in the history of the late Middle Ages;
• demonstrable command of paleographical skills;
• experience in working with diverse primary (archival, iconographical, literary) sources;
• willingness to utilize theoretical and comparative frameworks;
• ability to work both independently and as part of a research team.

Conditions of employment
The candidate will be appointed at the Department of History, European Studies & Religious Studies of the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Amsterdam. The research will be carried out under the aegis of ASCH. The appointment, 38 hours per week, is for a period of three years. The intended starting date of the contract is 1 February 2016. The gross monthly salary (on full-time basis) will be €3.357 during the first year to €3.597 during the third year, in accordance with the Collective Labour Agreement for Dutch Universities.

Organisation

University of Amsterdam
With over 5,000 employees, 30,000 students and a budget of more than 600 million euros, the University of Amsterdam (UvA) is an intellectual hub within the Netherlands. Teaching and research at the UvA are conducted within seven faculties: Humanities, Social and Behavioural Sciences, Economics and Business, Law, Science, Medicine and Dentistry. Housed on four city campuses in or near the heart of Amsterdam, where disciplines come together and interact, the faculties have close links with thousands of researchers and hundreds of institutions at home and abroad.

The UvA’s students and employees are independent thinkers, competent rebels who dare to question dogmas and aren’t satisfied with easy answers and standard solutions. To work at the UvA is to work in an independent, creative, innovative and international climate characterised by an open atmosphere and a genuine engagement with the city of Amsterdam and society.
Department

Faculty of Humanities
The Amsterdam School for Culture ans History (ASCH) of the Faculty of Humanities currently has a vacant postdoctoral position as part of the NWO-funded Imagining a territory. Constructions and representations of late medieval Brabant, led by dr. Mario Damen. ASCH is one of the six research schools of the Amsterdam Institute for Humanities Research (AIHR). Established in 2014, ASCH brings together more than 300 academics, who participate in ca. 35 research groups. Its members study the historical dimension of culture and the cultural dimension of history.
Additional information

For further information, please contact:

Dr. M.J.M. Damen
T: +31 (0)20 525 8896

Source : Academic Transfer

The UCLA Library Special Collections Short-Term Library Research Fellowship Program supports the use of special collections materials by visiting scholars and UCLA graduate students. Collections that are administered by UCLA Library Special Collections and available for fellowship-supported research include materials in the humanities and social sciences, medicine, life and physical sciences, visual and performing arts, and UCLA history.

The fellowships

James and Sylvia Thayer Short-Term Research Fellowships

Thayer fellowships provide support for research in any collections administered by UCLA Library Special Collections. Stipends range from $500 to $2,500 and vary yearly; grants in 2014 averaged $1,530 and in 2015 averaged $1,300. Awards are funded by an endowment established by longtime UCLA benefactors James and Sylvia Thayer.

Barbara Rootenberg Library Research Fellowship in the History of Medicine and the Life Sciences

Rootenberg fellowships promotes the use of materials in History & Special Collections for the Sciences in UCLA Library Special Collections. One annual fellowship is awarded in the amount of $1,000. The award is named for Barbara Rootenberg, an alumna of the UCLA School of Library Science and an internationally-renowned antiquarian bookseller.

Ahmanson Research Fellowships for the Study of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts and Books

Ahmanson Fellowships support the use of medieval and Renaissance monographic and manuscript holdings in UCLA Library Special Collections: the Ahmanson-Murphy Collection of the Aldine Press; the Ahmanson-Murphy Collection of Early Italian Printing; the Elmer Belt Library of Vinciana; the Orsini Family Papers; the Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts Collection; the Richard and Mary Rouse Collection of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts and Early Printed Books; and the Medieval and Renaissance Arabic and Persian Medical Manuscripts. The fellowships provide $2,500 per month for up to three months. Administered by the UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, this program requires an application separate from that for Thayer and Rootenberg fellowships; information is available on the Center for Medieval Renaissance Studies website.

Eligibility

Thayer and Rootenberg Fellowships: United States citizens and permanent residents with the legal right to work in the U.S. who are engaged in graduate-level, post-doctoral, or independent research are invited to apply. Research residencies may last up to three months between February 1 and December 11, 2016.

Ahmanson Fellowships: United States and international graduate students or scholars holding a PhD (or the foreign equivalent) who are engaged in graduate-level, postdoctoral, or independent research are invited to apply. Research residencies may last up to three months between July 1, 2016 and June 30, 2017.

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Source : The Medieval Academy Blog