[ecrea] Call for applications / four to eight postdoctoral agreements

*french acronym : Labex « CAP »*

*Call for applications / four to eight postdoctoral agreements --
recruitment by competitive examination 2011-2012*

The Laboratory of Excellence « Creations, Arts and Heritages » (French
acronym « Labex CAP ») of PRES héSam, advertise the recruitment by
competitive examination of four to eight researcher worker (postdoctoral
level) for one year period, renewable one time.

Personal research projects submitted by the applicants will be in the
line of Labex CAP general theme, which concerns contemporary challenges
of creation and heritage in a context marked by strong and rapid
transformation of societies : on one hand, especially as regards to
globalization of economic life, communications and cultures ; and, on an
other hand, as regards to digital tools and cultures development.
Applicants will have to make allowance for attempts at rapprochement and
cooperation wish, between University research and Institutions, which
conserve and present to the public, heritage collections ; it is the
founding principle of Labex CAP.

*_Conditions of membership_*

§ Ph.D. graduated after 01/09/2007

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*_Schedule of recruitment_*

§ Closing date of call for applications *: 2 January 2012*

§ Qualifying period : *27 January 2012*

§ Acceptance period (auditions) : *3 and 4 February 2012*

*_Application file_*

Complete application file must be sent the *2 January 2012 at 16h00
(4.00 PM) *at the latest, at the following address :
(labex.creations.patrimoines /at/ gmail.com)
<mailto:(labex.creations.patrimoines /at/ gmail.com)>**

Dossier shall include :

§ a/curriculum vitae/  and a list of publications / realisations

§ Ph.D. degree

§ report of discussion

§ research project : title, accepting research Unit, project outline,
drawn up in French (a maximum of 10 000 characters)

    * a letter of motivation

§ a meaningful publication (PdF)

§ two letters of recommendation, drawn up by researchers and prominent
personalities from the arts and creation world.

*_Recruitment period and at what point mentoring should begin (starting
date of employment)_*

    * The contracts on offer are contracts for one year period,
      renewable one time.
    * Posts are open in the second half of 2011-2012 University year.
      However, applicants can submit, together with their dossier, a
      request for a deferral of the taking office at the beginning of
      the 2012-2013 academic year.

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*_Services obligations and involvement of the laboratory works_*

In addition to the research project for which they were selected,
researchers will take part in Labex activities. Amounting to 2/5e of
their working time, they will especially contribute to organization and
realization of "enhancement actions" such as : workshops, meetings,
study days. They will also contribute to

enrichment of communication supports (web site, presentation leaflets,
presentation documents) and to the unit / laboratory / host department
's life. They will take part in Labex seminar sessions, which make it
possible for them to present and discuss collectively their research 's
progress, on a monthly basis.

*_Payment system_*

Recruitments are fixed-term contracts. The growth amount of the monthly
remuneration is 2361.45 euros. On their request and according to
collective projects developed in the Labex, researchers may benefit from
specific financial supports, in the context of missions related to their
researches and their participations in scientific events.

*_Selection criteria_*

Contracts offered aim at young researchers. Applicants must have a Ph.D.
degree and be able to present first achievements in the field of research.

Criteria taken into account by the selection committee are :

§ Research project quality, originality, adequacy to the Labex themes

§ Characteristics and abilities of the candidate (scientific
competences, knowledge in the field of research, publications)

§ International character of scientific researches (study periods,
publications, linguistic skills)

*thematic axes of Labex*

The general program of Labex CAP has five components, which can be
questioned in their cross-cutting :

a) /Creation and heritages in their dealings -- Interactions between
creation and heritage/

This axe proposes to examine, with a long term approach, the steps lead
from creation to heritage and feedback effects of public appropriation
on creation, in different areas relevant to the sponsors culture and to
their part in conception of exhibits ; to the formation of heritages
identities and to the choice of "purposes of consensus" ; finally, from
the point of view of the public space -- through the cultural
institutions and their "place of definition" of the community.

The issue will be studied, taking into account three questions, which
are especially indicative of the present profound changes : the "new
face" of the "universal artist" and the "global" logic of loans,
exchanges, blends, interactions that induces between arts and their
publics ; the global process of items and practices selection or sites
of great significance/new ("cultural") value selection, which are
"provided" to the collective and individual identification ; the new
dynamics in term of creation and reception of music organs and plastic arts.

b)/Creation and creative processes/

In the way of a trans-disciplinary study on creation and its social and
cognitive processes, the research will involve interaction between
processes study (case study and theoretical contemplation) and
historical critical thinking on the legacy of the tradition about that
issue. Status of artist will be studied, on the long term dynamic,
dealing with profession and professionalisation ; the borders
continually redrawn between "art" and "craft" ; the question of
political and symbolic functions and powers "assigned" to the artist ;
the extension, in the Europe of the XIXe century, of the concept of
creation, beyond the area of arts (in the traditional sense) to the
industrial arts.

Maintaining a constant dialogue with those historical works, the
"laboratory" will establish the assumption that, beyond their items,
technical procedures and social status diversity, Arts are implementing
a specific cognitive, "agentive" and emotive register, which will be
studied by the assistance of esthetic works, historic and
anthropological vision of art, and, furthermore, by the mental
philosophy and with researches on cognition and emotions.

c)/Heritage and public appropriation/

The history and the definitions of heritage will be studied, according
to the location and the period, in the context of a large comparative
thinking. Researches will be based on conservation sciences status
clarification and their epistemology. By confrontation of the various
actors of restoration, by thinking of conservation issues, both
technically and symbolically, by considering and appreciate new
technologies, the "know-how" will be questioned as well as the validity
of inherent practices related to conservation. This research will be
assisted by an anthropologic inquiry of archives, conceived as a common
denominator for all forms of heritage. The program will also include an
important historic axe dedicated to representative sources of History of
Art teaching in France in the XIXe century, as well as historical
recognition of crafts, knowledge and techniques, with the aim of making
a historical cartography of architecture learning spaces in the XIXe and
XXe centuries. A detailed study of present faces of heritage will be
started too, in the field of contemporary art and architecture.

d)/Present issues : creation and heritage/

The development of digital technologies and the transformation of global
economy and cultural practices give rise to changes, still not well
understood but which have nevertheless major consequences. Dynamic
connection between creation, heritage and Information/Communication
technologies (French acronym : TIC) will be covered in different axes :
collaborations between museums and computer science ; development of
applications and experiments ; the use of "TIC" for creative and
participative conception new methods ; immaterial status, and especially
software. At the same time, present mutations of artistic creation in
contemporary art, cinema, music, architecture area, and, in the field of
narrative creation and literature, will be questioned.

e)/Prospective/

Situation in France is characterized, for a very long time, by a
separation between museums and libraries areas, working in the field of
heritage conservation, the research and higher education sphere and
creation area. In order to exceed this gap, Labex CAP proposes to
introduce new working methods, taking care to support the emergence of a
new economic model for the artist and for the subject, thinking about
new dissemination knowledge and artistic practices methods, which
attract new audiences. Labex CAP proposes to realize an online
"encyclopedia of creation" too. More generally, the "way to promote" of
job-creating innovations (for businesses, institutions and organizations
in the broad sense), will be questioned, because many present sectors of
activity are based on artistic creation, social sciences or scientific
research.

*Contact :*

Zinaïda Polimenova, administrative manager of Labex CAP :
(zinaida.polimenova /at/ univ-paris1.fr)  <mailto:(zinaida.polimenova /at/ univ-paris1.fr)>

Alexandra Liarsou, executive project manager of Labex CAP :
(labex.creations.patrimoines /at/ gmail.com)
<mailto:(labex.creations.patrimoines /at/ gmail.com)>