7-13 September | Groningen

After Hiroshima: Cultural Responses to the Atomic Bomb – a cultural week around the thematics of the atomic bomb. How did artists, writers, film makers, and activists respond to the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and their aftermath, and how do they relate to nuclear issues today? After Hiroshima highlights some of the different responses to these questions by bringing together film screenings, performances, lectures, visual art, and even a ‘nuclear game.’ The event takes place across the city center of Groningen from 7-13 September 2019.

Full programme available here.

(Post)colonial foodways: creating, negotiating, and resisting transnational food systems

registration is now open for the sixth edition of the Amsterdam Symposium on the History of Food

Friday, 15 November – Saturday 16 November 2019

Venue: Aula of the University of Amsterdam, Singel 411, 1012 XM Amsterdam.
Symposium fee is €90 (until 15 September €75)
reduced fee €45 (students, Friends of the Special Collections UvA)
Since places are allotted on a first-come, first-serve basis, please register as early as possible.

We are particularly delighted to announce that the Keynote lecture at this year’s ASHF will be delivered by Katarzyna Cwiertka, Professor of Modern Japan Studies at Leiden University, author of Modern Japanese Cuisine: Food, Power and National Identity (Reaktion Books 2006), Cuisine, Colonialism and Cold War: Food in Twentieth Century Korea (Reaktion Books 2012) and Himerareta washokushi (Shinsensha 2016).

For more information on the symposium please follow this link: http://bijzonderecollectiesuva.nl/foodhistory/amsterdam-symposium-on-the-history-of-food/

To register please visit: https://www.ashf.nl/subscribe

The Amsterdam Symposium on the History of Food is supported by the Amsterdam School for Historical Studies – University of Amsterdam, Bibliotheken Eemland, Carrera Culinair, Cormet, De l’Europe, Fontaine Uitgeverij, Huizinga Instituut, Nijgh Cuisine, Stichting Gastronomische Bibliotheek, Terra, Rural & Environmental History Group – Wageningen University & Research and Allard Pierson |Collections of the University of Amsterdam.

24th -25th October 2019
Tilburg University, the Netherlands

Until now little attention has been paid to the boundaries between life writing for adults on the one hand and life writing for young readers on the other. Beyond Boundaries will explore this aspect of life writing. This conference will consider how and why studying the reception and audiences of life writing for both adults and young readers is important.

Another issue that has not received much attention in life writing research is the boundary between life writing by adult authors and life narratives by young people. How do young life writers relate to narratives by adults? How similar or different are the ways in which adult and young writers engage in modes of self-representation? And what is the influence of social media on life writing by young people?

Beyond Boundaries will consider these and other related aspects of life writing.

Keynote lectures will be given by:

Anna Poletti, co-editor of Life Narratives and Youth Culture: Representation, Agency and Participation (with Kate Douglas, 2016) and Identity Technologies: Constructing the Self Online (with Julie Rak, 2014);

Julia Lajta-Novak, editor of Experiments in Life-Writing: Intersections of Auto/Biography and Fiction (2017). Julia is a member of the editorial board of the European Journal of Life Writing.

We are pleased to announce that registration is now open on our website: beyond-boundaries

Professor Helma van Leirop-Debrauwer (Tilburg University), Dr Monica Soeting (European Journal of Life Writing), Dr Jane McVeigh (University of Roehampton).

University of Helsinki | Vacancy

The University of Helsinki is an international scientific community of 40,000 students and researchers. It is one of the leading multidisciplinary research universities and ranks among the top 100 international universities in the world.

We are an equal opportunity employer and offer an attractive and diverse workplace in an inspiring environment with a variety of development opportunities and benefits.

The Faculty of Arts (https://www.helsinki.fi/en/faculty-of-arts) of the University of Helsinki is Finland’s oldest institution for teaching and research in the humanities and the largest in terms of the structure and range of disciplines. It is also a significant international community fostering research, education and cultural interaction.

The Faculty of Arts invites applications for the position of 

PROFESSOR OR ASSISTANT/ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF COMPARATIVE LITERATURE 

The successful applicant may be appointed to a permanent professorship or a fixed-term associate/assistant professorship (tenure track system), depending on his or her qualifications and career stage.

The field of the position is fiction and its history across genre, language and cultural boundaries. The focus areas of the discipline include both the theories and methods of comparative literature as well as literature’s relationship with other arts and society. The appointee is expected to consolidate and promote research and instruction in the discipline as well as public engagement. The appointee must provide instruction related to their research topics, supervise final theses, master’s theses, research conducted by postgraduate and postdoctoral researchers, lead research projects and promote the social impact of research results in their field. The applicant’s wide-ranging theoretical, historical and geographical expertise is considered an asset, as are diverse language skills. The position emphasises the interaction between literature, arts and cultures. 

The professor or assistant/associate professor will work at the Department of Philosophy, History, Culture and Art Studies of the University of Helsinki. The group of disciplines includes comparative literature, aesthetics, musicology and theatre research.

QUALIFICATIONS

An appointee to the position of assistant/associate professor within the tenure track system shall hold a doctoral degree, have the ability to conduct independent scholarly work and have the teaching skills necessary for the position. In addition, applicants for assistant/associate professorships shall demonstrate their capability and motivation as regards an academic career through publications and other means.

An appointee to a full professorship shall hold a doctoral degree and possess top-level scholarly qualifications and experience in the supervision of scientific research, along with the ability to provide top-level research-based teaching as well as to supervise theses and dissertations. In addition, the appointee shall present documentation of international cooperation in the field of research that he or she represents. Holders of professorships shall also have the skills necessary to serve as academic leaders.

When assessing the qualifications of each applicant, attention will be paid to both scholarly and teaching qualifications. Scholarly qualifications include scientific publications and other research results of scientific value, success in obtaining external research funding, international research experience as well as international elected positions. When considering the teaching qualifications of each applicant, attention will be focused on teaching experience and pedagogical training, the ability to produce learning material, other teaching merits and, if necessary, a demonstration of teaching skills as well as participation in doctoral education. The applicant’s leadership and interaction skills as well as activity in the academic community will also be taken into account.

To successfully attend to the duties of the position, the appointee must have good English skills. If the appointee is not proficient in Finnish or Swedish, he/she is expected to acquire moderate proficiency within a reasonable time after the appointment. Support for language studies is offered. 

SALARY

The salary for the position will be based on levels 8−10 (professor) and 7 (assistant/associate professor) of the requirement scheme for teaching and research positions in the salary system of Finnish universities. In addition, a salary component based on personal performance will be paid. Annual gross salary for a full professor varies between 64,000 and 96,000 euros, and for an assistant/associate between 50,000 and 68,500 euros, depending on the appointee’s qualifications and experience. Standard Finnish pension benefits and occupational health care are provided for University employees.

HOW TO APPLY

Applicants are requested to enclose with their applications a single PDF file that includes the following documents in English:

1) A curriculum vitae
2) A report (max. 5 pages) on pedagogical expertise
3) A report (max. 5 pages) on the applicant’s research activities (including activities in scientific communities, the acquisition of research funding and international scholarly work)
4) A report (max. 2 pages) on how the applicant intends to develop his or her research and focus his or her activities, if appointed
5) A numbered list of publications.

For instructions see https://www.helsinki.fi/en/faculty-of-arts/faculty/instructions-to-appli…. 

Applicants are kindly asked to prepare for the situation in which, after the closing of the application period, the Faculty may request them to submit up to 10 publications of their choice to be sent to the assessors.

Please submit your application through the University of Helsinki Recruitment System via the link below. Applicants who are employees of the University of Helsinki are requested to leave their application via the SAP HR portal https://saphr.it.helsinki.fi/irj/portal.

FURTHER INFORMATION

Further information on the position and the working environment may be obtained from Paavo Pylkkänen, Head of Department of Philosophy, History, Culture and Art Studies, paavo.pylkkanen(at)helsinki.fi. Further information on the recruitment process may be obtained from Hanna Lotti, HR Specialist, hanna.lotti(at)helsinki.fi.

For information on the University of Helsinki as an employer and a description of the tenure track system please see https://www.helsinki.fi/en/university/working-at-the-university .

In case you need support with the recruitment system, please contact recruitment(at)helsinki.fi.

Due date

03.07.2019 23:59 EEST

Amsterdam School for Heritage, Memory and Material Culture
12-14 December 2019, University of Amsterdam

Artists tend to work across disciplines and “art cannot be disciplined” (Hito Steyerl). Taking the case of W.G. Sebald’s interdisciplinary word and image practice on memory and presences of (migratory) lives as touchstone for our discussions, this conference seeks to foster academic, professional, artistic and public scholarship by exploring cutting-edge interdisciplinary research, findings, techniques, practices and theoretical advances in the areas of memory, word and image. Which role do art and literature play in this regard? The conference turns to a fascinating author, whose work resonates with questions of memory, interdisciplinarity and related artistic practice. Sebald was engaged with the “enigmatic difference” between material truth and historic truth that Jacques Derrida notes in Archive Fever. His literary prose, which exists in the interspace of poetry, novel, essay, (auto)biography, Shoah memorial and travelogue, contains meticulous reflections on non-human entities and natural phenomena. Sebald’s writing generates peculiar relationships between the world of words, objects and the world of images, manifested in his specific practice of embedding images into the tissue of the text. It is not surprising that artists have been among his most prolific interpreters. Sebald’s work serves as a model for current “writing with images” (Elkins) and interdisciplinary projects on the present-day aftermath of wars, as well as today’s plight of migrants and refugees. Exhibitions gathering Sebald’s artistic legacies multiply issues of memory and heritage relevant to this conference theme.

The conference invites scholars, artists and other practitioners with a stake in these questions to present papers, posters or workshops, which critically analyze these issues and especially consider the role of interdisciplinarity in their case studies. Topics include, but are not limited to considering memory and interdisciplinarity in relation to:

• art’s responses to literature
• politics of memory, identity and cultural imagination
• writing with images
• migration and borders
• museums and (literary) exhibitions
• politics of intervention and resistance narratives
• artistic, writerly and scholarly strategies to deal with post-war realities
• non-human witnesses of trauma
• crossing disciplines to slow down reception

As keynote speakers are confirmed:

• Prof.Dr. James Elkins (Chicago)
• Prof.Dr. Hilde Van Gelder (Leuven)

Tacita Dean’s work on Sebald will be screened.

Convened by:

• Prof.Dr. Christa-Maria Lerm Hayes, AHM / Art History, University of Amsterdam
• Prof.Dr. Leonida Kovač, Academy of Fine Art, University of Zagreb. 
• Dr. Ihab Saloul, AHM, University of Amsterdam
• Dr. Ilse van Rijn, UvA, Sandberg Instituut, A’dam

This is the first in a series of AHM conferences on Memory and Interdisciplinarity. www.ahm.uva.nl

Please send abstracts (250 words max), including a short bio (150 words max), by 20 June 2019 to AHMsebaldconference2019@gmail.com. Registration/coffee: 50 Euro; students 25 Euro