Two positions as Doctoral Research Fellows (SKO 1017) in "Symbolic nation-building in Eastern Europe" are available at the Department of Literature, Area Studies and European Languages, University of Oslo.

Doctoral research projects must be based on analysis of material in a Slavic language, preferably Russian, Polish, Czech, Ukrainian or Bosnian / Croatian / Serbian.

Project descriptions should focus on state-building and nation-building in a historical / contemporary political perspective. In Eastern Europe, the concept of "nation" has traditionally been detached from the concept of "state", partly because "nations" (language groups and nationalities) achieved separate (nation) states only relatively recently. Not even in the Eastern European states that may prove to have existed for centuries (Poland, Russia), the nation was / is conceived as a unitary or fixed entity. Since the disintegrations of Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia and until 2014, state borders in Europe remained unchanged. At the same time, people may experience the "national" community to cross state boundaries.

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