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[Commlist] Postdoctoral Position: The Sociability of Sleep: Careful Design for Collective Conditions
Fri May 28 18:03:07 GMT 2021
____Call for Applications – Postdoctoral Fellowship____
“The Sociability of Sleep: Careful Design for Collective Conditions”
Université de Montréal and McGill University, Montreal, Canada
DEADLINE: June 15, 2021
https://bricolab.org/2021/05/25/sleep-postdoc/
<https://bricolab.org/2021/05/25/sleep-postdoc/>
We are seeking a postdoctoral fellow for a 10-month position to work on
the new interdisciplinary research-creation project “The Sociability of
Sleep.” The candidate will work directly with Professors Aleksandra
Kaminska (Director of the Bricolab, Université de Montréal,
Communications) and Alanna Thain (Director of the Moving Image Research
Lab, McGill University, English) and have the opportunity to work
with project collaborators. These include researchers and practitioners
from communication and media studies, media arts, cinema and
performance, psychiatry, psychology, and clinical medicine across
Montreal’s universities.
The Sociability of Sleep is funded through a special initiative to
support interdisciplinary, experimental, and intensive projects. We
explore exceptional and everyday experiences of sleep and its problems
to generate new knowledge and empathies for sleep conditions, defined as
a disordered and debilitating relation between sleep and
wakefulness (including, but not limited to somnambulism, insomnia,
narcolepsy, parasomnias, dreams and nightmares, sleep apnea,
chronodiversity, etc.). Through collaboration between artists,
scientists, and media studies scholars, we aim to generate novel sleep
situations that make perceptible, and thus actionable, our key
intuition: that sleep is much more social than it might seem. In
sleep, we become radically vulnerable in a way that requires social
forms of care: individuals are experts of their somatic experience, and
yet access to the sleeping self relies on the perception of human and
technological others. How might exploring a sleeper subjectivity—the
quotidian ways we navigate time, space, ourselves, and others—help us
rethink and reanimate the sociability of sleep itself?
We engage these questions by working on 1) developing interdisciplinary
approaches to sleep research taking advantage of the tools, methods, and
insights of arts, humanities and social sciences; 2) thinking critically
and historically about technologies of sleep, including biometrics and
sleep tracking apps; and 3) identifying, analysing, and producing
artistic interventions into sleep in design, media, and performance, to
see how they might enrich normative treatment of sleep conditions.
Our approach is rooted in art-science experimentation, collaboration,
prototyping, and various forms of “critical making” that integrate and
engage with qualitative or quantitative research data. Over the two
years of the project, we have planned a series of experimental events,
including Sleep Salons, maker labs and prototyping workshops, artist
residencies, pedagogical videos, a summer school, and a final exhibition.
We are looking for a critical and engaged researcher with an established
interest and expertise in sleep. We are open to a variety of
(inter)disciplinary backgrounds, including: media
studies, communications, cinema studies, performance studies, science
and technology studies, media arts, visual and sound arts, disability
studies, design, urban planning, architecture, Indigenous studies,
gender, feminist and sexuality studies, critical race studies,
visual and material culture, information science, history of science,
neuroscience, psychology, psychiatry, sociology, research-creation,
curation, critical making, etc.
The fellow’s primary responsibilities will be to facilitate the
collaborative activities across the team, while also developing their
own research within the project. They will have the opportunity to be
implicated in all aspects of the project with specific responsibilities
to be determined according to their particular interests and profile.
These may include curation, programming, medical or public
outreach, publishing collaborations, workshop design, prototyping,
exhibition design, etc. The position is best suited for someone with
strong organizational and communication skills, experience working
collaboratively, and an enthusiastic approach to interdisciplinary teams
and research.
The fellow will have a workspace and access to equipment, mentoring, and
support through the project headquarters at the Bricolab and the MIRL,
as well as the opportunity to access partner resources and expertise,
including the Topological Media Lab (Concordia), the Visualisation
Laboratory and Screen (UdeM), Artefact Lab (UdeM), Hexagram, GRAFIM, the
Dream & Nightmare Laboratory within the Center for Advanced Research in
Sleep Medicine (UdeM, Hôpital du Sacré-Coeur), and the Sleep Lab (McGill
Health University Centre), among others.
Eligibility: Candidates must have received a PhD within the past 5
years, or have a doctoral defence scheduled prior to Sept. 15,
2021. Regardless of field or discpline, they must have demonstrated
expertise in a relevant area of sleep-related research. The fellowship
is open to both national and international scholars. Fluency in English
is essential; working knowledge of French is an asset.
We welcome and encourage applications from racialized persons/visible
minorities, women, Indigenous persons, persons with disabilities, ethnic
minorities, and persons of minority sexual orientations and gender
identities, as well as from all qualified candidates with the skills and
knowledge to engage productively with diverse communities.
Start date and duration: The position is from Sept. 1, 2021 to June
2022, with the possibility of a renewal for a second 10-month term (July
2023-April 2023).
Salary: The salary is $35,000 CAD for 10 months, plus 17% in benefits.
The fellow will also have access to a research stipend for materials and
research dissemination.
* * TO APPLY * *
Documents required: 1) a current CV, 2) a cover letter describing your
training, relevant research interests and a brief description of the
work you would like to pursue in relation to the project including, if
relevant, any anticipated material needs (max 2 pages), and 3) contact
information for 2 referees.
Please send your application as a single PDF file to both
(a.kaminska /at/ umontreal.ca) <mailto:(a.kaminska /at/ umontreal.ca)> and
(alanna.thain /at/ mcgill.ca) <mailto:(alanna.thain /at/ mcgill.ca)>. Zoom interviews
for shortlisted candidates will be held on June 17-18.
Deadline: June 15, 2021**
https://bricolab.org/2021/05/25/sleep-postdoc/
<https://bricolab.org/2021/05/25/sleep-postdoc/>
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