Call for applications:Funen Art Academy seeks professorApplication deadline: 19 August 2013
Funen Art Academy is looking for a visual artist to fill a professorial position. The applicant can work in any type of media, but needs the ability to relate to and be interested in a variety of contemporary artistic positions.
We are looking for:â— An active visual artist with solid international experience and a widespread international network â— Teaching experience and an ambitious and visionary approach to arts education â— The interest in and willingness to contribute to the continued development of the artistic and educational profile of Funen Art Academy in close cooperation with students and the faculty â— The ability to teach in English â— Flexibility and a collaborative spirit
Job description: â— Planning and carrying out teaching in the form of workshops and studio visits (these forms are flexible and the formats are to be defined by each professor) â— Guidance and tutorial of a wide spectrum of students â— Participation in monthly staff and planning meetings, study trips, admission and evaluations
The teaching is primarily carried out in English, thus knowledge of Danish is not necessary.
Organisation:Funen Art Academy is an independent and internationally recognised art school offering a 5-year education in contemporary artistic practices at a highly specialised level. The school is intimate in size ranging from 60-70 students and is located approximately an hour’s train ride from Copenhagen. We are internationally oriented and put great emphasis on an experimental approach to arts teaching and on maintaining a close-knit and non-hierarchical community of students and teachers. We strive to provide students with the best foundation possible for the development of a professional and critical artistic practice in a globalised world. Funen Art Academy does not have departments, and encourages collaboration crossing media boundaries and study years. Funen Art Academy is not part of the bologna process. We do not charge a tuition fee and students are entitled to receive SU (a study grant from the Danish State Education Grant and Loan Scheme).
Conditions of employment:The position is available for a six-year period from 1 February 2014 until 31 January 2020, and is awarded with 238.140 DKK annually (salary regulated on an annual basis). This equals 15 hours of teaching, guidance, and preparation on a weekly basis throughout the study year, which goes from 1 October until 15 June. We offer great flexibility as to how and when teaching can be planned. Funen Art Academy encourages diversity and welcomes all applicants to apply.
Application:Applications should consist of a motivated statement containing a description of previous teaching experience and a statement of your approach to art education. Furthermore an outline for two proposed workshops, a portfolio, and curriculum vitae with contact details of two references (preferably submitted as one pdf) is to be sent by e-mail before Tuesday 19 August, 2013, 12 o’clock local Danish time to recruitment@detfynskekunstakademi.dk with the subject: “professorâ€.
Candidates called for an interview will be contacted via email or telephone as soon as possible.
Interview date: 9 September 2013
If certain material needs to be submitted by post please make contact beforehand.
We suggest that all applicants read our Study Plan, which is available for download on our website:
www.funenartacademy.dk
For further information please contact:
Rector Stine Hebert Phone +45 61680972 E-mail: sh@detfynskekunstakademi.dk
Funen Art AcademyBrandts Passage 25000 Odense Cwww.funenartacademy.dk
Â
Call for applications: Funen Art Academy (Denmark)Source:http://videoart-poland.blogspot.com/2013/06/call-for-applications-funen-art-academy_21.html
Call for applications: Funen Art Academy (Denmark) Images
Call for applications: Funen Art Academy seeks professor | Art ...
(615 x 412 - 254.54 KB - jpeg)
Funen Art Academy: Call for Applications
(300 x 150 - 47.92 KB - jpeg)
the funen art academy is looking for a teacher funen art academy
(342 x 309 - 24.33 KB - jpeg)
Call for applications: Professorship at The Royal Danish Academy of ...
(615 x 410 - 176.03 KB - jpeg)
Ermin SinanovicThis course is meant to provide students who had little or no background on the Muslim world with a basic understanding of its contemporary history, its geopolitics, its diverse cultures, languages and ethnic groups. Also, the course introduces the key issues and developments that framed the relationship between the world of Islam and the West, such as the colonial encounter, the capitalist expansion of the West, the emergence of the nation-state and its institutions, the discovery of oil in the Middle East and its implications, the communication revolution and contemporary globalization and their impact on cultures, values and life styles; and finally the US foreign policy towards the Muslim world and its implications. This course will be covered in twelve hours. Instructor: Professor Ermin Sinanovic, US Naval Academy, Maryland.According to his bio, Ermin Sinanovic is: …an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, USA. He studied for an MA and a PhD in Political Science at the Maxwell School of Syracuse University. Prof. Sinanovic obtained two BAs (one in Qur’an and Sunnah Studies, the other in Political Science) and an MA (Islamic Civilization) from the International Islamic University Malaysia. His research interests include transnational Islamic revival, Southeast Asian politics, Islamic movements, Middle East politics, Islamic political thought, and Islam and politics in general. At the Naval Academy, Prof. Sinanovic teaches courses on Southeast Asian politics, Middle East politics, and Islam and politics. He speaks Bosnian, English, Arabic, and Malay. “One of the other instructors at the IIIT summer program will be US Muslim Brotherhood leader Louay Safi, identified in the announcement as affiliated with the College of Islamic Studies of the Qatar Foundation. In 2009 Louay Safi, also an official at the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), was at the center of a controversy when it was learned that the US Defense Department brought him to Fort Hood as an instructor and that he had been lecturing on Islam to troops in Fort Hood who were about to deploy to Afghanistan. In February 2010, the activities and lectures of Dr. Safi on all military bases were suspended pending a criminal inquiry by the U.S. military. A shooting took place at Fort Hood near Killeen, Texas on November 5, 2009 in which a single gunman killed 13 people and over 30 people were injured in the worst shooting ever to take place on an American military base. The only suspect in the shooting is Nidal Malik Hasan, a 39-year-old U.S. Army major serving as a psychiatrist. Dr. Safi has also been recently identified as a leading member of the Syrian National Council, a Syrian opposition group dominated by the Muslim Brotherhood. Another instructor at the program will be Jasser Aouda (aka Jasser Auda), also identified as affiliated with the College of Islamic Studies of the Qatar Foundation. Dr Auda is best known as a a key advisor to Imamn Feisal Rauf, in turn known for his attempts to build an Islamic center two blocks away from the site of the 911 attacks. Dr. Auda is also a member of the IIIT Academic Council and a founding member of the International Union for Muslim Scholars (IUMS), headed by Global Muslim Brotherhood leader Youssef Qaradawi and whose board of directors is comprised of many leaders of the Global Brotherhood. Dr. Auda is currently the Deputy Director of the Research Center for Islamic Legislation and Ethics, headed by Global Muslim Brotherhood leader Tariq Ramadan, the grandson of the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood and a Global Muslim Brotherhood leader in his own right....RSS 2.0: http://blogname.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?alt=rss
