Postdoctoral Researcher: Heritages of Hunger, subproject 7

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As a postdoctoral researcher you will work as part of a team on the NWO-funded NWA project ‘Heritages of Hunger: Societal Reflections on Past European Famines in Education, Commemoration and Musealisation’. This project is conducted by researchers at Radboud University, Wageningen University of Research and the NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust, and Genocide Studies in Amsterdam.

Heritages of Hunger investigates how educational practices (at schools, heritage sites, museums, or surrounding commemorative practices) can create awareness of famines as heritages of shared experiences and past solidarity among European communities. The case studies to be examined through a comparative approach concern episodes of war (Belgium and Germany during and after WWI; the Netherlands, Russia and Greece during WWII, Germany after WWII); neglect and ecological crisis (nineteenth-century Ireland, Finland) and oppression (interbellum Spain, Ukraine). Furthermore, the project addresses the significant impact on famine legacies in education and heritage practices of European immigrant communities across the globe.

Subproject 7: Spain's Años del Hambre: Formal and Informal Educational Practices. Your research project investigates legacies of Spain's famine during the Civil War and under Franco's regime, a historical episode still surrounded by trauma and recently emerging in public memory, and focuses on questions such as: How have past and present teaching practices in schools, but also educational programmes offered by museums and heritage institutes, given shape to this troubled history? How do they respond to old and new historiographies (oral and written)? In what respects do these educational practices embed themselves in larger European narratives of oppression, hunger and war?

You will conduct your research at Radboud University in Nijmegen and NIOD in Amsterdam, interacting with researchers at both institutes.

Your research is to result in at least 4 peer-reviewed international articles. Furthermore, you will actively assist the project team in developing educational resources (MOOC, repository, recommendations). You will also be expected to actively contribute to the project's programme of meetings in terms of content as well as organisationally (at least 4 expert meetings, 2 conferences, 4 public events).

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