Scientific researcher grade 3 (CS3) “Transregional remembrance of dictatorships: restoring human dignity through artistic practices in South America and Eastern Europe” (Contract TE, 138/2018 (2018-2020), PN-III-P1-1.1-TE-2016-0346
Scientific researcher grade 3 (CS3) for the Project TE, 138/2018 (2018-2020), PN-III-P1-1.1-TE-2016-0346, director of the contract Lector Dr Caterina Preda.
Job offering: Scientific researcher grade 3 (Cercetător științific 3) fixed term PolArt.
Period of employment: 01.10. 2019 – 09.10.2020, Contract 138/2018.
Scientific researcher grade 3 (CS3) for the Project TE, 138/2018 (2018-2020), PN-III-P1-1.1-TE-2016-0346, director of the contract Lector Dr Caterina Preda.
Job offering: Scientific researcher grade 3 (Cercetător științific 3) fixed term PolArt.
Period of employment: 01.10. 2019 – 09.10.2020, Contract 138/2018.
- Conditions for the job offer
- Doctor in social sciences or humanities.
- Experience in research as part of other research projects
- Scientific publications in journals or volumes
- Aged less or equal to 40 years old.
- Knowledge of foreign languages: English/French/Spanish
Topic of research: the study of the memory of communism in South-Eastern Europe
- Job description
- Coordinates the research and administrative activities in the research project.
- Develops research activities in the research projects to which (s)he participates to
- Applies specific methods of research in archives and bibliographic research.
- Participates to the activities of research of the Interdisciplinary Center of Research Politics, Arts, Memory, Society (PolArt)
- Participates to the elaboration of the scientific articles and the research reports.
- Disseminates the research activities’ results.
- Applies and respects the norms, procedures and internal regulations, as well as the law dispositions concerning accidents.
- Topic of the contest
The Project “Transregional remembrance of dictatorships: restoring human dignity through artistic practices in South America and Eastern Europe” (Contract TE, 138/2018 (2018-2020), PN-III-P1-1.1-TE-2016-0346) proposes to create a framework of comparative analysis of the phenomena that follow dictatorships through artistic examples that help document the transregional similarities and differences in what regards dealing with the past that artists are sensible to. The results of the project will be disseminated through the participation of the members of the research team to international conferences such as ECPR, LASA, SCOPE and through the organization of two workshops in 2019 (University of Bucharest) and 2020 (University of Prague). Furthermore, the members of the research team will publish scientific articles in journals which are indexed by ERIH+/Thomson Reuters Arts and Humanities/ Thomson Reuters Social Sciences.
PolArt launches a call for applications for a doctor in social sciences or the humanities to integrate the research team of the project “Transregional remembrance of dictatorships: restoring human dignity through artistic practices in South America and Eastern Europe”. The candidates must comply with the requirements of point A. The main results expected from the scientific researcher grade 3 (CS3) are: bibliographic research and the participation to the workshops organized in the framework of the project, as well as to the accomplishment of all the duties found in the description of the position specified at point B.
- Competition: required documents and interview. The required documents are: updated Curriculum Vitae, Letter of motivation explaining why the candidate wants to hold this position, the abstract of one scientific article to be published.
- Place of the competition:
PolArt, UNIVERSITATEA DIN BUCUREŞTI Facultatea de Ştiinţe Politice Str. Spiru Haret, nr. 8, 010175 Bucureşti România
- Bibliography
- Atencio, Rebecca J. and Nancy Gates-Madsen, “Art and Transitional Justice,” in Encyclopedia of Transitional Justice, eds. Lavinia Stan and Nadya Nedelsky (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013), 1:117-123.
- Bahun, Sanja, ‘Transitional Justice and the Arts: Reflections on the Field’ in Claudio Corradetti, Nir Eisikovits and Jack Volpe Rotondi (eds), Theorizing Transitional Justice (Ashgate, 2015).
- Barahona de Brito, Alexandra, “Transitional Justice and Memory: Exploring Perspectives”, South European Society and Politics 15:3 (2010): 359-376.
- Bilbija, Ksenija, Jo Ellen Fair, Cynthia Milton, and Leigh Payne (eds.), The Art of Truth-Telling about Authoritarian Rule, (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2005).
- Erll, Astrid, “Literature, Film and the Mediality of Cultural Memory,” in Cultural memory studies. An international and interdisciplinary handbook, eds. Astrid Erll and Ansgar Nunning (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2008), 389-398.
- Golebiewski, Daniel, “The Arts as Healing Power in Transitional Justice,” E-International Relations, 19 February 2014, available at: http://www.e-ir.info/2014/02/19/the-arts-as-healing-power-in-transitional-justice/, accessed on 1 May 2016;
- Huyssen, Andreas, Present Pasts, Urban Palimpsests and the Politics of Memory (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2003); Milton Cynthia (ed.), Art from a fractured past: Memory and truth-telling in post-Shining Path Peru (Durham: Duke University Press, 2014).
- Ricoeur, Paul, La mémoire, l’histoire, l’oubli (Paris: Seuil, 2000).
- Rothberg, Michael, Multidirectional Memory Remembering the Holocaust in the Age of Decolonization (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2009).
- Commission of the competition:
President: Lector Dr. Caterina Preda
Member: Conf. Dr. Raluca Alexandrescu
Member: Dr. Alina Popescu
Member: Codruta Pohrib
Secretary: Dr. Irina Matei