“Strong academic communities attract strong international applicants, and with this year's grants, close to 40 postdoctoral fellows have come to us through this programme. These are numbers we can be proud of, and I would like to thank everyone who has contributed,” says Helland.
From the Arctic to Brunei
This year's MSCA researchers will study oil, the environment and national identity in Brunei, Arctic sleep patterns, intentional fallowing in European agriculture, the history of traditions in modern Egypt and Syria, geography, statehood and civil society at the turn of the last century, and Iraqi cinema.
These are the researchers joining HF in 2022:
Department of Archaeology, Conservation and History (IAKH)
- Pelle Valentin Olsen / Mentor: Toufoul Abou-Hodeib
Project: Iraqi Cinema Beyond the Screen - Johannes Mattes / Mentor: Ulrike Spring
Project: Poles and People: Geographical Societies, Statehood, and Civil Society in Transnational Perspective (1870-1925)
Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas (IFIKK)
- İdil Çetin / Mentor: Pasi Väliaho
Project: Histories of Reception of Photography in the Ottoman Empire
Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages (IKOS)
- Mary Elston / Mentor: Einar Wigen
Project: A Conceptual History of 'Tradition' in the Modern Arab World: Egypt and Greater Syria in the 19th and 20th Centuries - Anna-Katharina Laboissière / Mentor: Hugo Reinert
Project: Generative idleness and gestures of reparation: the resurgence and promises of intentional fallowing practices in European regenerative agriculture - Kristin Hussey / Mentor: Hugo Reinert
Project: Polar Night/Midnight Sun: A history of sleep and time in the Arctic, 1800-1900
Department of Linguistics and Scandinavian Studies (ILN)
- Rinni Haji Amran / Mentor: Sissel Furuseth
Project: Petro-Ambiguity: Oil, Environment and National Identity in the Bruneian Imaginary