deadline 18-6-2020 Lund University, Centre for Languages and Literature Lund University was founded in 1666 and is repeatedly ranked among the world’s top 100 universities. The University has 40 000 students and more than 8 000 staff based in Lund, Helsingborg and Malmö. We are united in our efforts to understand, explain and improve our world and the human condition. The Joint Faculties of the Humanities and Theology have eight departments and carries out large and varied work within research and education with the purpose to understand people as cultural and social beings. The faculties have some 700 employees and around 4000 students. The Centre for Languages and Literature at Lund University (SOL) is Sweden’s largest university department for languages, linguistics, literature and area studies. SOL provides a wide range of freestanding courses complemented with an increasing number of first and second cycle degree programmes. Housing 33 subjects and roughly the same number of PhD programmes, SOL is a solid foundation for broad and deep education and research, characterised by national and international visibility. SOL is managed by a board chaired by the Head of Department. The management also includes two assistant heads of department with special areas of responsibility. More than 250 people are employed and around 3 000 students, including around 100 PhD students, conduct their studies at SOL. Full title: Postdoc in Central and Eastern European Studies focusing on memory cultures in Central Europe after the Cold War. Research environment The subject Central and Eastern European Studies has developed extensive collaborations with researchers in similar fields of research in Scandinavia, the EU, other European countries (Russia, Ukraine) and outside Europe (USA, Australia, Japan). The subject regularly hosts visiting researchers from abroad for short or long stays in Lund. Central and Eastern European Studies brings together researchers from different disciplines: history, political science, cultural sciences, ethnology and philology. They are involved in interdisciplinary research both within their own projects and different international projects. The research environment shares a common interest for a broadly defined research area of cultural memory studies, which includes historical culture research, use of history, politics of memory and other aspects linked to memory and identity. Duties The successful candidate is expected to participate in our research concerning current historical cultures and memory cultures in East and Central Europe. He or she will focus...