Two-year Post.doc. position - ‘Bag Sejlet’ (‘Behind the sail’)

Opportunity summary

Official occupation: Post doc., naturvidenskab og teknik. Employment conditions: Almindelige vilkår. Employer CVR: 22139118. Primary career market: Transport, Logistics & Maritime (employer and organisation context). This is an exciting opportunity for a highly skilled and motivated post.doc to join the National Museum’s emerging centre for Viking Age Research funded by A.P. Møller. About the position In connection with a planned Viking-Age exhibition ‘Bag Sejlet’, the selected candidate will take lead in designing and executing a research project which will have synergies with the developing exhibition. The exact research themes and questions are to be designed by the selected candidate, but the proposed postdoctoral project is expected to relate to one of the following themes: The organization and dynamics of textile-production (e.g. explore intersections between textile work and gender, links to coerced labour, or technical expertise) The multispecies and entangled worlds of the Viking Age (e.g. wool economy and sheep-human relationships, and/or plant fibre technologies; wood-human intra-actions); Other social groups and phenomena that existed ‘behind the sail’ and in the shadow of conventional Viking narratives, e.g. everyday life, childhood and life-course, social inequality in households and beyond1 …

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