Vacancy: Postdoc position 'Heritages of Hunger: Famine Legacies in Ukraine and Russia' (including the significant impact of famine legacies in education and heritage practices of European immigrant communities across the globe)
A postdoctoral researcher in the field of history or memory studies to investigate the politicisation of famine legacies in Ukraine and Russia. You will work as part of a team on the NWO-funded NWA-ORC project Heritages of Hunger: Societal Reflections on Past European Famines in Education, Commemoration and Musealisation (NWA.1160.18.197). This project is conducted by researchers at Wageningen University, Radboud University Nijmegen, 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 are connected to episodes of war (Belgium and Germany during and after WWI; the Netherlands, Russia and Greece during WWII, Germany after WWII); neglect...