Destruction, vandalism, censorship, fear and suppression of images and art - looking for MSCA candidates

9 Feb 2024
Job Information

Organisation/Company

Universitat Pompeu Fabra

Department

Humanities

Research Field

Other

Researcher Profile

First Stage Researcher (R1)
Recognised Researcher (R2)

Country

Spain

Application Deadline

10 Mar 2024 - 23:59 (Europe/Andorra)

Type of Contract

Temporary

Job Status

Full-time

Is the job funded through the EU Research Framework Programme?

HE / MSCA

Is the Job related to staff position within a Research Infrastructure?

No

Offer Description

• Are you thinking about spending one or two years as a postdoc in a very active and international research environment?
• Are you a highly motivated and enthusiastic researcher looking for a competitive project?

Dr. Nausikaä El-Mecky , established at the Department of Humanities of the Universitat Pompeu Fabra  (Barcelona), is looking for candidates interested in submitting a proposal for the MSCA-PF in the destruction, vandalism, censorship, fear and suppression of images and art from prehistory until today.

The Marie Sklodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowships scheme (MSCA-PF) is a prestigious European funding programme that supports mobility, career development, and training within and beyond Europe. The scheme offers highly competitive salary and research costs. 

About us

NAUSIKAÄ EL-MECKY is Tenure Track professor in History of Art & Visual Culture at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona. She is an art historian who is passionate about interdisciplanary and cooperative research which uses both academic and creative methods. Outreach is an essential part of her work and she is keen on working with and learning from non-academic groups and voices.

Her area of expertise are dangerous images in any context, from the stone-age until today, in any geographical context. As such, she is interested in supervising postdoctoral researchers that are either explicitly related to this topic (e.g. censorship, vandalism, iconoclasm) as well as more broadly on art in public space, the relation between art and morality, and art and politics. Furthermore, she is interested in supervising theses on the following periods and topics: Reformation, French Revolution, Nazi Germany, Generative AI and Digital Art History, Social media and art, monuments and counter-monuments and eco-fasicsm and far-rigth aesthetics.

The Department of Humanities has been very successful in obtaining MSCA-PF projects: since 2015, 22 researchers have joined the Department with such contracts.

Requirements

Research Field

Cultural studies

Education Level

PhD or equivalent

Additional Information
Eligibility criteria

MSCA-PF are for Postdoctoral Researchers of up to 8 years after the PhD. Applicants from any country may apply, but must not have resided or carried out their main activity (work, studies, etc.) in Spain for more than 12 months in the 3 years immediately prior to the submission deadline to the European Commission (11/09/2024). 

Selection process

Applicants should check that they fulfil all the eligibility criteria and then send an expression of interest consisting of a CV, a summary presentation of the research proposal (c. 2 pages) and the contact information of at least two referees.

Expressions of interest must be submitted by email by March 10, 2024. The title of the e-mail must be "MSCA application – Prof. María Morrás – your name and surname"

Proposals will be preselected on the basis of internal evaluation.

Work Location(s)

Number of offers available

2

Company/Institute

Humanities Department

Country

Spain

City

Barcelona

Geofield

Where to apply

E-mail

[email protected]

Contact

City

Barcelona

Website

http://www.upf.edu/

Street

Ramon Trias Fargas, 27

Postal Code

08005

E-Mail

[email protected]

STATUS: EXPIRED