Job alert: Research Assistant, The Socialist Anthropocene in the Visual Arts

Applications are accepted until 19 November 2023 for the part-time position of Research Assistant at the UCL Institute of Advanced Studies (IAS) within the framework of The Socialist Anthropocene in the Visual Arts (SAVA), a project funded by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) under the UK government’s Horizon Europe funding guarantee.

The Socialist Anthropocene in the Visual Arts (SAVA) sets out to radically transform current debates on the Anthropocene, addressing the major lacuna in existing accounts by establishing the Socialist Anthropocene as a novel conceptual framework that asserts the constitutive role of the twentieth century environmental histories of socialism in the formation of the new geological age. It is the first large-scale interdisciplinary research project that institutes the Socialist Anthropocene as a new field of study within the critical corpus concerned with challenging and decentring the West-centric discourses of the Anthropocene. The approach of the project is to reconstruct the histories of the Socialist Anthropocene through visual arts led interdisciplinary research, which entails analysing historical artworks and engaging with contemporary art practices that act as a catalyst to integrate the insights of multiple disciplines and as a critical agent to pose ambitious and expansive questions, challenging assumptions and engendering new cross-disciplinary paradigms to illuminate the specificities of the Socialist Anthropocene. The Research Assistant will provide assistance to the Principal Investigator of the SAVA project and support the media strategy of the project. The position is contracted for 45 months, beginning on 1 December 2023, at 0.2 FTE, and  will be based in the Postsocialist Art Centre at the UCL Institute of Advanced Studies.

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