Postdoctoral Researcher in the HERA-Project 'Encounters with the Orient'

The Amsterdam School for Culture and History (ASCH) and the Department of History, European Studies and Religious Studies are looking for a postdoctoral researcher in the History Arabic and Islamic Studies as part of the collaborative research project ‘Encounters with the Orient in Early Modern Europe’, of which the Amsterdam part is supervised by Prof. dr. Gerard Wiegers.

The successful candidate will have the following main tasks:

• preparing and coordinating an exhibition at the Special Collection of the Amsterdam University Library on The Presence of Arabic Speaking Christians, Jews and Muslims in Northern Europe at the Special Collections, University of Amsterdam, and collaborating in writing the catalogue and organising public lectures;
• writing two peer-reviewed articles on a topic relevant to the HERA project.

Further details about the position and application procedures can be found under

http://www.uva.nl/over-de-uva/werken-bij-de-uva/vacatures/item/14-358.html