Stillingstittel:
Doctoral research fellowship in "Symbolic nation-building in Eastern Europe"

Stillingsbeskrivelse:
The University of Oslo is Norway’s largest institution of research and education with 28 000 students and 7000 employees. Its broad range of academic disciplines and internationally esteemed research communities make UiO an important contributor to society.(two positions)

Two positions as Doctoral Research Fellows (SKO 1017) in "Symbolic nation-building in Eastern Europe" are available at the Department of Literature, Area Studies and European Languages, University of Oslo. For further information on the research milieu “Slavic and Eastern European Studies”, please see Research topic: Eastern Europe. The doctoral research fellows will be part of the research milieu focusing on symbolic nation-building in Eastern Europe, including Russia.

Doctoral research projects must be based on analysis of material in a Slavic language, preferably Russian, Polish, Czech, Ukrainian or Bosnian / Croatian / Serbian.

Project descriptions should focus on state-building and nation-building in a historical / contemporary political perspective. In Eastern Europe, the concept of "nation" has traditionally been detached from the concept of "state", partly because "nations" (language groups and nationalities) achieved separate (nation) states only relatively recently. Not even in the Eastern European states that may prove to have existed for centuries (Poland, Russia), the nation was / is conceived as a unitary or fixed entity. Since the disintegrations of Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia and until 2014, state borders in Europe remained unchanged. At the same time, people may experience the "national" community to cross state boundaries.

Research projects should problematize and examine the interface between "nation" and "state", as expressed and created in discursive practices, and examine how actors seek to ground the state in specific historical epochs. The projects may also examine discursive practices that depict the state as something original and pre-modern, that exist before society and nation.

The persons appointed will be affiliated with the Faculty's organized research training. The academic work is to result in a doctoral thesis that will be defended at the Faculty with a view to obtaining the degree of PhD. The successful candidate is expected to join the existing research milieu and contribute to its development. Read more about the doctoral degree.

The appointment is for a duration of three years. All PhD Candidates who submit their doctoral dissertation for assessment with a written recommendation from their supervisor within 3 years or 3 ½ years after the start of their P

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Arbeidsgiver Navn: Universitetet i Oslo, Department of Lite

Arbeidsgiver adresse: 0313 OSLO

Job kort beskrivelse: University and higher education teachers

Land: Norge

Region: Oslo

Kilde til jobbtilbud: NAV, Offentlige arbeidsformidlinger, Norge

Lønn valuta: NOK

Lønn periode: Pr. år