[spectre] JOB: Research Fellowship, Central European Modernism, University of Birmingham

[Andreas Broeckmann]

From: Matthew Rampley <m.j.rampley at bham.ac.uk>
Date: Jun 26, 2018
Subject: JOB: Research Fellowship, Central European Modernism, 
University of Birmingham

Application deadline: Jul 23, 2018

5-Year Research Fellowship Central European Modernism (Job Ref: 59533)

The University of Birmingham is seeking a postdoctoral researcher to 
join the team for the project Continuity or Rupture? Art and 
Architecture in Central Europe, 1918-1939 (CRAACE). Funded by the 
European Research Council, the project will start on 1 September 2018 
and last until 31 August 2023. The University is seeking applicants able 
to start on or as soon as possible after 1 September 2018.

The post is part of a research team including two other Research Fellows 
and the Primary Investigator, Professor Matthew Rampley.

The project is concerned with the legacy of the Habsburg Empire in the 
visual arts after 1918. Specifically, it asks: When new political elites 
and social structures emerge out of a historical rupture, how are art 
and architecture affected? Through comparative analysis of the visual 
arts in 3 states built on the ruins of the Habsburg Empire (Austria, 
Hungary and [former] Czechoslovakia), this project examines how such 
political discontinuity affected art and architecture between 1918 and 
1939. The project is organised into 4 themes:

1. Vernacular modernisms, nostalgia and the avant-garde 2. Presenting 
the state: world fairs and exhibitionary cultures 3. Piety, reaction and 
renewal 4. Contested histories: monuments, memory and representations of 
the historical past

The project team will be based in the Department of Art History, 
Curating and Visual Studies.

The successful candidate will be an excellent researcher, holding a PhD 
or equivalent qualifications and with extensive research experience and 
scholarship within the required subject specialism, plus a track record 
of working in areas of linguistic and disciplinary complexity.

The language of the project is English, but in addition, candidates will 
have advanced knowledge of at least one of German, Hungarian, Czech / 
Slovak.

Those seeking further information regarding the project and the position 
should contact Matthew Rampley (m.j.rampley at bham.ac.uk).

Further details are available at: www.birmingham.ac.uk/jobs

Reference / Quellennachweis:
JOB: Research Fellowship, Central European Modernism, University of 
Birmingham. In: ArtHist.net, Jun 26, 2018. 
<https://arthist.net/archive/18487>.

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