Postdoc fellowship in the study of East Asian colonial history
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The Linnaeus University Centre for Concurrences in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies is a leading centre for Colonial and Postcolonial Studies in Europe and the major research environment for global and non-European history in Scandinavia. As part of an effort to develop its research and post-graduate training, the Centre is now looking for a postdoctoral researcher in the field of East Asian colonial history. The researcher will also be expected to aid LNUC Concurrences in developing its relationship to global humanities.
The primary focus of the researcher will be East Asian colonial history. The Centre is particularly interested in projects that study the colonization of this region during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century by non-European actors. While the role that French, British, Portuguese and Dutch colonialism played in the region has been well researched, non-European colonial ventures have not been thoroughly mapped. A focus on East Asian colonial ventures has the potential to further explain how colonial practices, discourses and methods travelled between European and non-European actors and how they operated outside of the West vs the East or the West vs the global south dichotomy.
The researcher will also be expected to aid the Centre in developing a relationship to the emerging field of global humanities. This field can be said to take on several of the challenges that result from the intensified global contacts and cultural encounters in the course of the recent and modern history of the world. Global humanities includes (but is not limited to) studies of global interaction in history, world literature, cultural and religious encounters and non-European (including Indigenous) cultures and civilizations. Global humanities looks beyond the predominant Eurocentric perspective in the Humanities and thus stimulates the dialogue between European humanistic scholarship and the study of traditions that have developed mainly outside the Western world, or as a result of the interaction between different civilizations, particularly in colonial and postcolonial contexts.
Field of subject for the position: History, East Asian colonial history
Placement: Växjö
Extent and period: Full-time for eight months
Context of position:
The Centre is announcing one postdoctoral position open for scholars in the field East Asian colonial history. The position is to be in History.
The position includes 75 per cent of fulltime research in the field of East Asian colonial history. The remaining 25 per cent of the workload is to be used for work at the department and the Centre. Besides teaching, the tasks could be such as developing the field of global humanities at the Centre. This may include, but is not limited to, conducting and presenting surveys of the current international state of the field, organizing seminars and workshops, building institutional networks and contribute to the development of a post-graduate training program in the field of global humanities. In addition, the postdoctoral fellow is expected to contribute to the development of the Centre through publications and to participate in conferences, workshops, seminars and other activities organized by the Centre and to collaborate with other scholars and graduate students within the center. The holder of the position will be required to take up residence in Sweden and to be present at the Centre during regular office hours.
Qualifications
Qualified for appointment is anyone who holds a PhD, or a degree that is the equivalent to a PhD, in history and who has completed his or her degree no more than two years before the application deadline (excluding deductible time due to sick or parental leave or compulsory military or civil defense service).
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Please apply by clicking on the "Apply" button at the bottom of the ad. Your application should be designed according to the Template for application which can be found in the Guide to Appointment procedures under important documents below the ad. The credentials you invoke must be verified with certification and they must be attached digitally in your application. Other documents, including various types of scientific works, must be submitted digitally along with the application. The application and other documents to be marked with the reference number. All documents cited must be received by the University no later than 24.00 (Local time in Sweden) on the closing day.
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Publiceringsdatum2018-03-19ErsättningIndividuell lön
Så ansöker duSista dag att ansöka är 2018-03-30
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AdressLinnéuniversitetet
Linnéuniversitetet
35195 Växjö
KontorsadressLinnéuniversitetet
Jobbnummer 4030482
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