The Amsterdam School of Historical Studies (ASH) currently has a vacant PhD position as part of the NWO VIDI-project Lived Time: Using and Experiencing Time in Late-Antique Egypt, led by principal investigator Dr. Sofie Remijsen, Assistant Professor of Ancient History. The position is tenable from 1 September 2022.

The VIDI-project Lived Time examines the uses and experiences of time in daily life as responses to the shifting social norms from ca. 50 to 750 CE. In this period, Egypt underwent profound political, economic and religious changes. Reactions to temporal norms and the synchronization of activities shows how people in all layers of societies lived together with others and helped shape societal change.

As a member of the project team, you will analyse Greek primary sources (literary texts as well as papyrological and epigraphic documents) and add relevant data from these sources to the shared project database. Your individual research goal is to describe and explain the transformation of the festival calendar from pagan to Christian (300-600 CE), studying not only the effects of Christianization but also the influence of changing ruler structures, under the guidance of your supervisors. In the course of the project, you will regularly present your research to academic and non-academic audiences.