Postdoctoral Position in Japanese Art History — Universität Zürich
- Location
- Zurich
- Contract
- full-time
- Posted
- 3 days ago
Role overview
The University of Zurich, Switzerland's largest university, offers a range of attractive positions in various subject areas and professional fields.
With around 10,000 employees and currently 12 professional apprenticeship streams the University offers an inspiring working environment on cutting-edge research and top-class education.
Put your talent and skills to work with us.
- The University of Zurich, Switzerland's largest university, offers a range of attractive positions in various subject areas and professional fields.
- With around 10,000 employees and currently 12 professional apprenticeship streams the University offers an inspiring working environment on cutting-edge research and top-class education.
- Our employees benefit from a wide range of attractive offers.
- Find out more: https://www.uzh.ch/de/explore/work.html.
What the company offers
- Our employees benefit from a wide range of attractive offers.
- Find out more: https://www.uzh.ch/de/explore/work.html.
- The successful candidate will become an active member of the Chair and benefit from its scholarly expertise, visiting researchers, research initiatives, museum partnerships and collaborations across Switzerland, Europe and Asia.
Application process
- Develop and conduct an independent postdoctoral research project in Japanese Art History leading to further academic qualification (including publications, conference presentations and competitive grant applications).
- Actively contribute to the Chair's research, teaching, and academic administration, with particular responsibility for Japanese Art History and Digital Art History.
- Teach 2-4 semester hours per week (SWS; one SWS equals 45 minutes), normally corresponding to one or two courses per semester.
- Teaching may include theoretical, methodological and object-based formats developed in collaboration with museums and collections.
- Contribute to the integration of digital methods into art-historical research and teaching, including the development of suitable learning formats and research resources.
- Practical experience in the application of digital methods relevant to humanities or art-historical research.
- This should be demonstrated through completed research projects (incl. datasets, code), publications, teaching or other scholarly activities.
- Relevant approaches may include digital image analysis and computer vision, GIS and spatial analysis, network analysis, semantic modelling and linked data; corpus construction from digital repositories.
Company and context
- Participate actively in the intellectual and organizational life of the Chair and the Department of Art History including research projects, workshops, exhibitions, public events and international collaborations. Anforderungen:
- A PhD in Japanese Art History or a closely related discipline, with a clearly identifiable specialization in Japanese Art History, completed or in the final stages of completion by the start date.
- A defined and original postdoctoral research project in Japanese Art History.
- A strong record of high-quality research demonstrating the potential to achieve international scholarly recognition, evidenced by publications and conference presentations appropriate to the candidate's career stage.
- A demonstrable interest in integrating digital approaches into art-historical research and teaching, evidenced through relevant experience, training, and clearly articulated plans for their use in the proposed research project and future teaching.
- Japanese-language proficiency sufficient for research with relevant primary sources.
- Excellent spoken and written English. Desirable qualifications
- Experience of university-level teaching.
Additional details
- Find out more about UZH as an employer!
- Participate actively in the intellectual and organizational life of the Chair and the Department of Art History including research projects, workshops, exhibitions, public events and international collaborations.
- Excellent spoken and written English. Desirable qualifications
Notes and original content
- Anforderungen:
- Excellent spoken and written English.
- Desirable qualifications
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Questions about this listing
What salary does Universität Zürich offer for this role?
Universität Zürich lists CHF 91'500 - 128'000 gross per year for this position in Zurich. This is the salary published in the original listing (or, when the employer omits a figure, a realistic estimate for the role and sector) — the calculator on this site converts it to your actual net take-home once cross-border tax and social contributions are applied.
Is this a full-time role, and what type of contract does Universität Zürich offer?
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