진학프로석·박사 채용 접수 플랫폼

The position is associated with the European Research Council-funded Consolidator project ECOART – An Ecological History of Eurasian Art: Natural Resources, Aesthetic Practices, and Early Modern Globalization, which will consist of a team of one Principal Investigator, three doctoral research fellows and two post-doctoral research fellows. The project investigates the artistic use and visual representation of geographical, geological, botanical, zoological, and climatic resources in Eurasia, a space dominated by European and Chinese economic spheres of influence, in an era of early modern globalization from 1500 to 1800. Funding for fieldwork, archival research, conference attendance and publications will be available to all members of the project.

While climatic resources such as the interplay between hot temperatures and humidity allow for the cultivation of and creative engagement with certain artistic materials, they discourage others. Furthermore, artistic concepts of climatic resources have been articulated through symbolic depictions of the forces of wind, water, and sunlight during a period that has also been called the Little Ice Age (ca. 1550–1850) due to cooling in some (though not all) regions of the world. Asia’s monsoon climate has a profound impact on the region and its life-threatening powers have been depicted in representations of flooding and shipwrecks and in allegorical and symbolic ways. Artists and artisans across Eurasia have also articulated the agency of certain sites over humans, for example in the case of sacred sites, while contributing to period conceptualizations and visualizations of land- and seascapes as objects of knowledge. The person filling in this position will investigate the impact climatic and/or geographic resources had on art during the early modern period with a special focus on the Philippines. His/her methodology will be informed by geoaesthetics, a critical frame to analyze artistic and artisanal practices as shaped by human interaction with climatic and/or geographic formations and, for example, engage with how the forces of wind and water during the wet season were conceptualized in art and artisanship. Potential case studies include representations of particular bodies of water and/or symbolic representations of the forces of water; anthropomorphic representations of wind in imagery of aerial deities; artistic depictions of the impact of the monsoon season on seafaring; the impact of specific sites on (landscape) painting.

For more information and how to apply: https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/284675/postdoctoral-research-fellowship-associated-with-the-erc-funded-project-ecoart