JOB: MDW - University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, Postdoctoral Researcher (full-time)

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The Department of Musicology and Performance Studies (IMI) of the mdw – University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna is offering the position of a

Postdoctoral Researcher: full-time, 1.5 years fixed-term contract with the possibility of up to 6 months contract extension (or part-time equivalent)

Starting Date: 1 September 2023; Research Area: History of Emotions and related fields (details see below)

Application Deadline: 29 March 2023

Salary: Monthly cross-pay € 4.351,90 (14 times per year) according to the Austrian collective agreement

Job description:
The Postdoctoral Researcher will conduct independent research within the European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant Project “GOING VIRAL. Music and Emotions during Pandemics (1679-1919)”.

GOING VIRAL is the first study to provide a comparative history of the imbrication of music in the emotional experiences of pandemics. Its major research aims are

• to develop an innovative conceptualisation and methodology for studying music and emotions, particularly during health crises, across history;
• to generate ground-breaking historical knowledge about music’s emotional dimensions in three major pandemics beginning in the 17th century – the Bubonic Plague (1679/80 and 1713/14), the Cholera pandemic (1831/32) and the Spanish Flu (1918/19) –, highlighting both difference and continuity;
• to provide a solid conceptual, methodological and historical foundation for comparative studies on music, emotions and pandemics in musicology, history and across a wide range of other disciplines.

With this research agenda, GOING VIRAL’s results will not only be applicable in related historical settings but also enable a meaningful interdisciplinary discourse with the Social and Natural Sciences about music and emotions in pandemics, including Covid-19.

For more details on the position, please visit https://goingviral.hypotheses.org/open-positions