[ecrea] 4 PhD positions and 1 Postdoc

The University of Amsterdam is currently looking for four PhD students 
and one postdoc in the field of Asian cultural studies. It concerns a 
project funded by the European Research Council (ERC), ChinaCreative, on 
creativity and creative cultures in China.

Details of these positions can be found here:

PhD positions 
[http://www.uva.nl/over-de-uva/werken-bij-de-uva/vacatures/item/14-231.html]

Postdoc position 
[http://www.uva.nl/over-de-uva/werken-bij-de-uva/vacatures/item/14-230.html]

Application deadline is August 15.

ChinaCreative explores the histories, meanings and implications of 
creativity in the context of China. With its emergence as a global 
power, China aspires to move from a “made in China” to a “created in 
China” country. Creativity and culture have become a crucial source for 
innovation and financial growth, but are also mobilised to promote a new 
and open China to both the citizenry and the outside world. They are 
part of what is termed China’s “soft power”. This project aims to 
analyse claims of creativity in different cultural practices, and to 
analyse how emerging creativities in China are part of tactics of 
governmentality and disable or enable possibilities of criticality. 
Using a comparative, multi-disciplinary, multi-method and multi-sited 
research design, four PhD subprojects analyse (PhD 1) contemporary art, 
(PhD 2) calligraphy, (PhD 3) independent documentary cinema (all in 
Beijing), (PhD 4) Hunan Satellite Television (in Changsha). In addition, 
one postdoc project studies  “fake” (shanzhai) art (in Shenzhen). 
Methods involve a combination of visual and aesthetic analysis, 
ethnography, mobile methods and cultural mapping. The candidates will be 
based in Amsterdam and conduct at least ten months of fieldwork in China.

Further details of the project can be read here 
[http://acgs.uva.nl/news-and-events/news/item/erc-grant-for-chinacreative.html]

With best regards,

Jeroen de Kloet



www.jeroendekloet.nl







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