Research Associate for the Project “DFG Humanities Centre for Advanced Studies Futures of Sustainability” – University of Hamburg

Responsibilities

Duties include academic services in the project named above. Research associates may also pursue independent research and further academic qualifications.

The Humanities Centre for Advanced Studies “Futures of Sustainability” is a space of engaged international debate in which doctoral and postdoctoral researchers and international fellows from various disciplines in the social sciences and humanities come together to advance joint research and academic as well as public discourse. The focus in the second four-year funding phase is on social conflicts around ecological sustainability, imagined futures in the face of crises and catastrophes, and different social relations with nature (see https://www.zukuenfte-nachhaltigkeit.uni-hamburg.de/). The Centre is led by Prof. Dr. Frank Adloff, Prof. Dr. Christine Hentschel and Prof. Dr. Stefan C. Aykut.

The postdoctoral researcher will work independently within the overarching thematic framework of the Centre and contribute to the analysis of struggles about sustainable futures in various social arenas. The tasks include regular and active participation in the activities of the Centre, such as publications, workshops and conferences (as well as the independent organization of the same) and the implementation of an individual theoretical or empirical research project that shows a strong relation to the Centre’s main topics.