How did visual artists in decolonizing African nations visualize, entangle, and transform ideas of freedom via socialist thought, both within their own locational contexts and those of the socialist Second word? What new formations of African socialist aesthetics emerged thereby? With a postdoctoral project profile on "Visual Art and Socialist Thought in 20th-Century African Liberation Movements," you will be joining the "EntangledFreedoms" Project Team that has 2 PhDs and will welcome 3 Postdoctoral scholars. Alongside Pan-Africanism and African Socialism, you are free to bring in specialisation in at least one or any two of the following contexts between 1950s-80s: Senegal (west Africa), Tanzania (east Africa), Angola and Mozambique (Southern Africa).
How did visual artists in decolonizing African nations visualize, entangle, and transform ideas of freedom via socialist thought, both within their own locational contexts and those of the socialist Second word? What new formations of African socialist aesthetics emerged thereby? With a postdoctoral project profile on "Visual Art and Socialist Thought in 20th-Century African Liberation Movements," you will be joining the "EntangledFreedoms" Project Team that has 2 PhDs and will welcome 3 Postdoctoral scholars. Alongside Pan-Africanism and African Socialism, you are free to bring in specialisation in at least one or any two of the following contexts between 1950s-80s: Senegal (west Africa), Tanzania (east Africa), Angola and Mozambique (Southern Africa).
"Entangled Freedoms" foregrounds visual art and artistic discourse from the Global South as archives to understand plural, contesting ideas of freedom that could be found between 1940s-1980s, as retreating European colonial empires intersected with new Cold War geopolitics. Such ideas of freedom included, for instance, western ‘First World’ ideas of universalism and freedom from ideology; Socialist ‘Second World’ visions of freedom as utopian horizons of continued, revolutionary class struggles; and emerging ‘Third World’ visions of anti-colonial, anti-imperial liberation. Studying entanglements of such ideas via artistic forms and thought in the decolonizing worlds can generate new intellectual histories of 20th-century decolonization. As a member of the EntangledFreedoms Project Team, you will be working with 20th-century (visual) art from the Global South with a particular alertness to locational/vernacular archives (of art and cultural imagination), wider transnational cultural and intellectual discourses, and formations of political thought and cultural resistance.
While the two PhDs scholars in the Project Team are working with hitherto-disconnected artistic/cultural archives of Pakistan (West and East until 1971) and East Pakistan/Bangladesh between 1940s-1980s, the three Postdoc scholars will study imaginaries of freedom via artistic internationalisms from Middle Eastern, African, and (Southeast) Asian contexts. This particular call is for the Postdoctoral Fellow 2 who will study archives of visual art and African socialism during 20th-century African liberation movements.
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"Entangled Freedoms" foregrounds visual art and artistic discourse from the Global South as archives to understand plural, contesting ideas of freedom that could be found between 1940s-1980s, as retreating European colonial empires intersected with new Cold War geopolitics. Such ideas of freedom included, for instance, western ‘First World’ ideas of universalism and freedom from ideology; Socialist ‘Second World’ visions of freedom as utopian horizons of continued, revolutionary class struggles; and emerging ‘Third World’ visions of anti-colonial, anti-imperial liberation. Studying entanglements of such ideas via artistic forms and thought in the decolonizing worlds can generate new intellectual histories of 20th-century decolonization. As a member of the EntangledFreedoms Project Team, you will be working with 20th-century (visual) art from the Global South with a particular alertness to locational/vernacular archives (of art and cultural imagination), wider transnational cultural and intellectual discourses, and formations of political thought and cultural resistance.
While the two PhDs scholars in the Project Team are working with hitherto-disconnected artistic/cultural archives of Pakistan (West and East until 1971) and East Pakistan/Bangladesh between 1940s-1980s, the three Postdoc scholars will study imaginaries of freedom via artistic internationalisms from Middle Eastern, African, and (Southeast) Asian contexts. This particular call is for the Postdoctoral Fellow 2 who will study archives of visual art and African socialism during 20th-century African liberation movements.
Your tasks:
Required:
Optional:
You will be joining the Amsterdam School of Cultural Analysis, one of the five Research Schools within the Amsterdam Institute for Humanities Research (AIHR).
The University of Amsterdam is the largest university in the Netherlands, with the broadest spectrum of degree programmes. It is an intellectual hub with 42,000 students, 6,000 employees and 3,000 doctoral students who are all committed to a culture of inquiring minds.
The Faculty of Humanities provides education and conducts research with a strong international profile in a large number of disciplines in de field of language and culture. Located in the heart of Amsterdam, the faculty maintains close ties with many cultural institutes in the capital city. Research and teaching staff focus on interdisciplinary collaboration and are active in several teaching programmes.
You will be joining the Amsterdam School of Cultural Analysis, one of the five Research Schools within the Amsterdam Institute for Humanities Research (AIHR).
The University of Amsterdam is the largest university in the Netherlands, with the broadest spectrum of degree programmes. It is an intellectual hub with 42,000 students, 6,000 employees and 3,000 doctoral students who are all committed to a culture of inquiring minds.
The Faculty of Humanities provides education and conducts research with a strong international profile in a large number of disciplines in de field of language and culture. Located in the heart of Amsterdam, the faculty maintains close ties with many cultural institutes in the capital city. Research and teaching staff focus on interdisciplinary collaboration and are active in several teaching programmes.
If you feel the profile fits you, and you are interested in the job, we look forward to receiving your application. You can apply online via the red button. We will accept applications until May 15th, 2025. Your application should include the following information:
For questions about this position you can email Sanjukta Sunderason [email protected].
If you feel the profile fits you, and you are interested in the job, we look forward to receiving your application. You can apply online via the red button. We will accept applications until May 15th, 2025. Your application should include the following information:
For questions about this position you can email Sanjukta Sunderason [email protected].
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