This two-year position aims at providing a wider context to the processes and results of microscopic observation in the form of drawings, printed images, and other art media. This postdoctoral project will go beyond the uses of images only, and will compare two-dimensional representations to objects as in for example taxidermy, herbaria, life-casts and nature prints, as well as scale models. In this way we hope to frame discussions about images in a wider context of ad vivum, abstraction, and objectivity.

We are looking for someone:

• Who has finished their PhD in a related topic (at the start of the appointment);
• Who has a good knowledge of English; at least passive knowledge of Dutch, and at least one other modern European language;
• Who has a background in (technical) art history and/or history of knowledge;
• Who is both a team player and an independent thinker and researcher;
• You are registered in the Netherlands at the start and during employment.
• Who can think outside-the-box

Fixed-term contract: 2 jaar.

Huygens

The Huygens Institute aims to enrich, broaden, renew and make widely accessible the research on history and culture of the Netherlands. We do this by digitally opening up historical and literary data and texts from various collections and sources, connecting them and analysing them in innovative ways - across the centuries and beyond Europe's borders.