[ecrea] Positions available ERC project 'Digital Crossings in Europe'

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  There are 3 Phd positions available and one Postdoc position available
  within the project ‘/Digital Crossings in Europe: Gender, Diaspora and
  Belonging’ (CONNECTINGEUROPE)/. This project is funded by the European
  Research Council (ERC), by way of a Consolidator Grant awarded to the
  principal investigator (PI) Prof. dr. Sandra Ponzanesi (Professor of
  Gender and Postcolonial Studies, Utrecht University, the Netherlands)
  and will be running at Utrecht University, the Netherlands from 
2016-2021.


  3 PhD positions 'Digital Crossings in Europe. Gender, Diaspora and
  Belonging'(1,0 fte each)


  Postdoc 'Digital Crossings in Europe. Gender, Diaspora and Belonging'
  (0,8 FTE)


  The project aims to investigate the relation between migration and
  digital technologies, in particular the way in which the ‘connected
  migrant’ contributes to new forms of European integration and
  cosmopolitan citizenship. The project explores digital diasporas in
  relation to issues of gender, ethnicity and affective belonging,
  focusing on how new technologies enhance new forms of connectivity
  between the homeland and destination countries, bus also across
  diasporas. The project pioneers a new interdisciplinary method that
  combines media studies, postcolonial theories, digital humanities and
  gender studies, drawing from the humanities and social science. It
  proposes a comparative approach, based on qualitative digital methods,
  that focuses on Somali, Romanian and Turkish women migrants who have
  settled in some of Europe’s main cities (London – PhD1, Amsterdam –
  PhD2 and Rome – PhD3) and the way in which they keep digitally and
  emotionally connected to their homeland cities (Mogadishu, Bucharest,
  Istanbul – Postdoc). The project will chart how different forms of
  migration (labour, postcolonial and post socialist) impact on the new
  European order at the local and transnational levels.

  Within the project, three PhD positions and a postdoc position
  (advertised separately) will be available for the following projects:

  1. PhD1 - Digital Diasporas: London.

  2. PhD2 - Digital Diasporas: Amsterdam.

  3. PhD3 - Digital Diasporas: Rome.

  4. Postdoc: The Politics of Home

  The three PhDs will have to conduct fieldwork across the three migrant
  groups (Turkish, Somali, Romanian) in the proposed city (London,
  Amsterdam or Rome). The interaction, collaboration and sharing of data
  with the other PhDs and the postdoc is expected. The PhD and Postdoc
  candidates will of course have the opportunity to fill in the details
  of these projects or expand on them, based on their expertise, the
  data they gather and their own research ideas, all in consultation
  with the principal investigator.


  If you are interested, please contact the project director, Prof. dr.
  Sandra Ponzanesi ((s.ponzanesi /at/ uu.nl) <mailto:(s.ponzanesi /at/ uu.nl)>) for
  more information. For a short description of the project please click
  the following link: www.digitaleurope.nl/ <http://www.digitaleurope.nl/>.



  To apply for the positions please go to:


Postdoc: https://www.academictransfer.com/employer/UU/vacancy/30039/lang/en/

PhD positions:
https://www.academictransfer.com/employer/UU/vacancy/30040/lang/en/











*Prof. Dr. Sandra Ponzanesi *
Head of Humanities**| University College Utrecht (UCU) | Campusplein 1
| 3483 ED Utrecht NL | T. + 31 (0)30 2539980| Office: Voltaire Hh

Professor  Gender and Postcolonial Studies | Department of Media and
Culture Studies | Utrecht University | Munstraat 2A 3512 EV NL | room
0.05 | T. + 31 (0)30 253 7844 |

*/Just published:/**//*“On the Waterfront
<http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1369801X.2015.1079501>.Truth and 

Fiction in Postcolonial Cinema from the South of Europe.”
/Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, /2015.




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