Doctoral scholarship holder cultural mediation, Latin American studies, and international and contemporary history

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Doctoral scholarship holder cultural mediation, Latin American studies, and international and contemporary history

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The Department of Applied Linguistics, Translation and Interpreting Studies in the Faculty of Arts is looking for a full-time (100%) doctoral scholarship holder in the fields of cultural mediation, Latin American studies, and international and contemporary history. The successful candidate will carry out a research project on the role and trajectories of two Latin American cultural mediators through archival research and fieldwork conducted abroad (Chile and Cuba).

Position

• You will actively contribute to the preparation and successful defense of a PhD thesis on the processes and transformations of cultural mediation in the twentieth century, with particular attention to both South-South and South-North dynamics. The selected candidate will conduct extensive archival research based on primary sources to produce an empirically grounded historical study of the trajectories of two Latin American writers who also acted as influential cultural mediators within interconnected South-South and South-North networks of cultural transfer. Fieldwork will be carried out in Santiago (Chile) and Havana (Cuba), where the principal archival collections relating to the projec’s case studies are held. The research will focus on Gabriela Mistral (1889-1957) and Alejo Carpentier (1904-1980), whose multifaceted careers as writers, intellectuals, diplomats, and cultural mediators provide an exceptional opportunity to examine regional and global configurations of cultural transfer, as well as the circulation of ideas, representations, and cultural practices across national, cultural, and linguistic boundaries.
• The project will also analyze these trajectories to illuminate the complex interplay between culture and politics throughout the twentieth century and to historicize the formation of transnational and global cultural networks. Combining extensive archival research, data collection, and open-data processing through network-mapping tools and databases, the dissertation will lay the foundations for a pioneering study of the mechanisms and factors shaping cultural transfers across diverse cultural spaces, encompassing both South-South and South-North exchanges.
• You will be based in Belgium and will independently conduct your doctoral research while reporting regularly on its progress to your supervisors from the Department of Applied Linguistics, Translation and Interpreting Studies and the TricS research group. You will work in close collaboration with your supervisory team throughout the project.
• You will draw up a research plan and corresponding research methods in consultation with your supervisor and undertake the necessary administration for a smooth PhD process.
• You will conduct the research efficiently and to an appropriate standard, and compete for funding for general or specific costs.
• You will report progress to your supervisor and committees, and