The Association of Friends of the Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte, Munich (CONIVNCTA FLORESCIT), offers an annual award for early career research in the field of the history of architecture. The purpose of this award, named after the architect Theodor Fischer (1862-1938), is to encourage younger scholars to bring the results of their work to the attention of a broader public.
Award for Early Career Research in the Graphic Arts.
The Wolfgang Ratjen Award is an annual award for early career research in the field of graphic arts. The prize, funded by the Foundation Wolfgang Ratjen, is curated and presented by CONIVNCTA FLORESCIT Friends of the Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte.
The purpose of this award, which honours the memory of the collector Wolfgang Ratjen (1943-1997), is to encourage younger scholars to address neglected topics and to bring the results of their work to the attention of a broader public.
The Willibald Sauerländer Award honours and supports early career research in the history of art history. The prize, funded by CONIVNCTA FLORESCIT Friends of the Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte, honours the memory of Willibald Sauerländer (1924–2018), from 1970 to 1989 director of the Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte and an honorary professor at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich.
The Jutta Held Award honours and supports early career research in art history with a socio-political focus.
The prize, funded by Stiftung Kritische Kunst- und Kulturwissenschaften, honours the memory of Jutta Held (1933–2007), one of the first female professors of art history. The award is made in recognition of her commitment to social issues and gender studies in art and cultural history, and aims to promote such critical approaches in early-career scholarship.
The Creative Space Fellowship, funded by the Association of Friends of the Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte CONIVNCTA FLORESCIT e.V., gives freelance curators and art historians employed in museums the opportunity of pursuing research in connection with a collection or an exhibition. The fellowship is meant to create a “creative scientific space” in order to reflect on collections and exhibitions and to develop ideas and concepts. Fellows are expected to partake in the activities of the ZI and to present the fellowship project.
This one-year residential research fellowship supports a scholar who will use the George Champion Papers to publish a peer-reviewed journal article or academic book directly relevant to the collection. The fellow’s research project may make use of other collections in the Patricia D. Klingenstein Library but it must primarily utilize the George Champion Papers and should focus on topics related to the collection such as banking, economics, business history, or New York City urban development in the 20th century. There is no restriction relating to academic status of applicants.
The Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis currently has a vacant Postdoc researcher position as part of the European Research Council Consolidator Grant project Entangled Freedoms: Decolonial Modernisms as Transnational Relations of Resistance, 1940s-1980s, led by the Principal Investigator, Dr. Sanjukta Sunderason. ASCA is one of the five Research Schools within the Amsterdam Institute for Humanities Research (AIHR).
Are you looking for an inspiring academic position within an enthusiastic and professional research team? Would you like the rare opportunity to combine media research with a love of nature and outdoor activities? The Amsterdam School for Heritage, Memory and Material Culture opens two positions for Postdoctoral Researchers as part of the ERC-funded project ‘Emotions and bodies in fact-based media production: Integrating affective and embodied knowledge into journalism and documentary filmmaking’, led by Dr. Johana Kotišová.
How do firms create unequal careers, and how is this linked to workers’ health?
The Department of Sociology has an opening for a postdoctoral researcher who will contribute to the ERC-funded research project FIRMS – Firms and Careers: How the Workplace Structures Career Inequality.