The
International Research Group
“Bilderfahrzeuge:
Aby Warburg’s Legacy
and
the Future of Iconology”
supported
by the German Bundesministerium
für Bildung und Forschung
invites applications for several full-time research posts (in
principle post-doctoral) based at the Warburg Institute in London,
the Warburg-Haus in Hamburg and at the Humboldt Universität zu
Berlin for up to five years from July 2018 or as soon as possible
thereafter.
The
objective of this project is to explore the migration of images,
objects, and ideas in a broad historical and geographical
perspective. In particular, it seeks to provide a contribution to the
history of images which is based on Aby Warburg’s approach and
method, rethinking them in the light of new interdisciplinary,
international scholarship. The project will reconstruct and develop a
rich scholarly approach which addresses the distinctiveness of images
while also studying the language in which ideas about transfers
between cultures and ideas about images are expressed. A focus also
lies on the political impact of global visual culture.
Research
staff in London, Berlin and Hamburg will conduct their own research,
while contributing to the collective work and larger projects. We are
particularly interested in applicants with a high level of research
skills in art history, transfer phenomena between Europe, Asia,
Africa and the Americas, in anthropology, the history of science and
comparative literature. Applicants will be expected to have a good
knowledge of the languages relevant to their field of study and a
good speaking and reading knowledge of English and a second language,
preferably German.
Post-holders
in London will be employed by the Max Weber-Stiftung, at the
Warburg-Haus by the University of Hamburg, in Berlin by the Humboldt
Universität zu Berlin and the Max-Planck-Institut. Salaries are
calculated based on the German
government research scale and determined by skills and experience.
All
participating institutions are committed to increasing the number of
women in academic posts and would therefore particularly welcome
applications from women. Where there is a choice between equally
qualified male and female applicants, a female applicant will be
chosen.
Applications
should indicate the
alphabetic character of the respective post, include a letter of
application with a specific research proposal and indicating
candidates’ interests in and suitability for the projects of the
research group, a curriculum vitae and publications list, the names
of three referees and a writing sample of around 5,000 words of
published or unpublished research. Completed applications (electronic
submissions only) must be submitted by Monday 30th
April 2018.
Interviews
will be held in Berlin and London in June or July 2018.
Please
send your application to:
Andreas
Beyer, Speaker Forschungsverbund “Bilderfahrzeuge”
Cooperating
partners:
The
Warburg Institute, Max Weber-Stiftung, Institut für Kunst- und
Bildgeschichte, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Kunstgeschichtliches
Seminar/Warburg-Haus, Universität Hamburg, Kunsthistorisches
Institut Florenz/Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Kunsthistorisches Seminar
Universität Basel.
The
directors of the project are:
Andreas
Beyer/Basel (Speaker), Horst Bredekamp/Berlin, Uwe Fleckner/Hamburg,
Bill Shermann/London, Gerhard Wolf/Florence. Permanent members of the
board : Charlotte Klonk/Berlin, Michaela Marek/Berlin and Hubert
Locher/Marburg.
Positions:
A:
Research position in art history/comparative literature: The
formation of Aby Warburg’s language and its impact his sources and
his neologisms. Workplace: London.
B:
Research position in art history/history of science/anthropology:
Warburgs interest in Psychology – investigating his writings and
his library. Workplace:
London.
C:
Research
position in pre-Columbian art history with a focus on the migration
of images across time, space and across media in and between
pre-Columbian cultures and up to the early colonial period.
Workplace:
Berlin.
D:
Research position in Chinese or South East Asian art histories and
languages with a focus on migration, transformation and relocation of
images and artefacts across time, space and media. Workplace:
Berlin.
E:
Research position in comparative literature, ethnology or art history
regarding mobile / transcultural dynamics of memory with a focus on
narratives, material culture and / or images (for example
photography). Workplace:
London.
F:
Research position in art history with a focus on Western or global
political or religio-political iconology / agency of political images
(early modern times to contemporary). Workplace:
Hamburg.
G:
Research position in art history with a focus on global
migration/provenance of art objects (early modern times to
contemporary). Workplace:
Hamburg
H:
Research position in art history with a focus on Western or global
political or religio-political iconology / agency of political images
(early modern times to contemporary). Workplace:
London.
I:
Research
Position in art history with a focus on political iconology /
agency of political images in the contemporary context based on a
historical perspective. Workplace: Berlin.
agency of political images in the contemporary context based on a
historical perspective. Workplace: Berlin.
J:
Research position in art history focusing on the question of the
shaping of a British canon – Arts Council; British Council; Royal
and Government Collections. Workplace:
London.
K:
Research position in art history focusing on “The Englishness of
English Art” through non-English eyes – Contributions to a
national definition of British art by those coming to it from
outside. Workplace:
London.
L:
Research position in art history, focusing on collections/reception
of Western/European art in Non-Western countries. Workplace:
Berlin.
This
advertisement is subject to the definite approval of the project by
the German Bundesministerium
für Bildung und Forschung
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