Postdoctoral Researcher within the project “Museum Lab”
Offer DescriptionThe Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society (LUCAS) invites applications for aPostdoctoral Researcher within the project “Museum Lab” (1.0 fte from 1st of August 2024 to 31st of October, 2025)
The Postdoc will work on a series of collaborations with Leiden faculty, museum curators, and students to develop and contribute to a robust laboratory of programs consisting of enquiry-based learning workshops, student and professional conferences on museum histories and their futures, and the publication of an edited volume on museums of modern art in the Netherlands. The Postdoc will also undertake some teaching of museum studies courses. The project is directed by Dr. Laurie Kalb Cosmo (University Lecturer in Art History and Museum Studies at Leiden University).Museum Lab project
This project is intended to raise core conceptual questions about the ongoing value of museums in contemporary society. Through a robust range of projects, including enquiry-based (hands-on) learning workshops, an international conference entitled “Legacies: Why Museum Histories Matter,” and the publication of an edited volume on the Rise of museums of modern art in the Netherlands, the Museum Lab is designed to foster active learning practices for students and advance complex museological questions in innovative educational settings. With lively student workshops with curators, intellectual exchange at professional conferences, and the preparation of an edited book on museum histories and their futures, the “Museum Lab” presents an applied academic platform for deepened and engaged debate about current challenges facing museums, addressing such topics as nuanced solutions for restitution and decolonization, the ethical value of digital methods in museum display, links between academic research, artistic production, and museum stakeholders, and exhibition display. The “Museum Lab” provides an outstanding opportunity for a postdoc with interests in museum history and theory to work on projects that contribute to innovative and engaged debate about core conceptual questions regarding museum formations and histories and their practices.Key responsibilities
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The Faculty of Humanities at Leiden University is a unique international centre for the advanced study of languages, cultures, arts, and societies worldwide, in their historical contexts from prehistory to the present. Our faculty is home to more than 6,000 students and 800 staff members. For more information see: . The Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society (LUCAS) is one of the seven Academic Institutes of the Faculty of Humanities. The institute hosts a range of academic disciplines, clustered around a key research theme: the relationships between the arts and society. Our members study cultural production over the course of two millennia, from classical antiquity to our contemporary world, and teach in programmes ranging from Classics and Book History to Modern Literature, International Studies and Art History. Strengthened by our diversity, LUCAS members are uniquely placed to study the broad concept of the arts, with its rapidly changing ideas, aesthetics, and theories of cultural production. Through research, teaching and outreach, the Institute aims to deepen our understanding, both inside and outside academia, of the cognitive, historical, cultural, creative, and social aspects of human life. As an academic community, we strive to create an open and welcoming atmosphere, stimulating everyone to get involved and contribute, and connecting scholars from different fields and backgrounds.
(Online) interviews will take place in the first half of July 2024.Enquiries from agencies are not appreciatedRequirementsAdditional InformationWebsite for additional job detailsWork Location(s)Number of offers available 1 Company/Institute Universiteit Leiden Country Netherlands City Leiden Postal Code 2311EZ Street Rapenburg 70 GeofieldWhere to apply WebsiteContact CityLeiden WebsiteStreetRapenburg 70 Postal Code2311 EZSTATUS: EXPIRED
Leiden, Zuid-Holland
Thu, 16 May 2024 05:28:25 GMT
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