Byzantine News, Issue 8: June 2018

Visiting Fellowships 2019-20, All Souls College, Oxford
Closing date: Friday, 24 August 2018, 4pm (UK time).

Applications may now be made for Visiting Fellowships tenable for one or more terms during the academic year 2019-20.
See the Further Particulars and the Online Application Form.

Call for Applications: Fully funded four year PhD Position in Ancient Studies

The Institute of Ancient Studies at the University of Bern invites applications for a four year fully funded PhD position. The position is scheduled to start on November 1, 2018. The PhD candidate will be a member of the project „Plundering, Reusing and Transforming the Past: Grave Robbing and Reuse of Funerary Material in Late Antiquity” funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation.

http://www.hist.unibe.ch/forschung/forschungsprojekte/plundering_reusing_and_transforming_the_past/index_ger.html

In close exchange with the methods of the project (i.e. digital visualizations, spatial turn theories and field surveys in Italy and Turkey) the successful candidate is expected to write his thesis focusing on the transformation and urban embedding of water features and related buildings (especially nymphaea and fountains) in the late imperial world.

Qualifications:

Applicants for this position must hold a Master’s or equivalent degree within ancient studies (preferably Classical Archaeology, Late Antique or Byzantine Studies or Ancient History). The candidate should have good knowledge of Italian and English and preferably also German and French. Latinum or Graecum or equivalent level in one of the languages is required.

We offer:

-       a four year fully funded (100%) PhD position according to SNF salary requirements
-       the University of Bern/Swiss National Science Foundation sponsors travel expenses
-       strong national and international networking
-       survey participation in Italy and Turkey
-       co-organisation of an international conference and workshop
-       furthermore, a 3 months stay at the University of Oxford and an 8 month stay in Rome is intended

Application:

Please send your application written in English or German as a single PDF file to the following email address: cristina.murer@hist.unibe.ch by June 26, 2018.

The application should include a CV, transcript of records and language certificates (copies), one reference letter, a writing example (max. 20 pages preferably from the MA thesis or a significant seminar paper).

https://firmenwhitelabel.publisherconnect.ch/firmenwhitelabel/addetail/job/index.htm?adId=10393228&locale=de

The Fitzwilliam Museum is pleased to invite expressions of interest from suitably qualified researchers who wish to apply for a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship to be held within the Museum focusing on the disciplines of Mediterranean island identity and insularity.

This is a 2-year research project based in the Antiquities Department, Fitzwilliam Museum, supported by international collaborations. The project will culminate with a large exhibition at the Fitzwilliam Museum, planned between October 2021 and January 2022, as well as a programme of public-engaging activities, seminars and workshops centred around the theme of insular cultural identity in the Mediterranean and other European regions (for example, Britain’s own -perceive or not- island identity).

This project will explore how insularity affects and shapes cultural identity in the examples of Cyprus, Crete and Sardinia. In addition, it will provide a platform to debate cultural evolution in the islands as opposed to their surrounding mainland. The cultural history of the large Mediterranean islands, from Antiquity to the present day, is very complex and can narrate – as well as explain – many complex social phenomena. Islands such as Cyprus, Crete and Sardinia demonstrate through their art and material culture production a continuous battle (or influence and assimilation) between indigenous forms and representations with patterns, art techniques and forms travelling from their surrounding mainland regions. These large Mediterranean islands have not just been a place with expansive contacts by sea, but also loci for the transmission of many products and ideas across a variety of people from the Near East and the rest of the Mediterranean.

We are looking for enthusiastic researchers with a specialism in either the fields of Mediterranean/Island Archaeology or Greek and Roman Archaeology (with a diachronic perspective). Previous Museum experience is desirable, but not necessary, as the Museum considers this post as a training opportunity for young professionals considering a Museum career. Knowledge of either Greek and/or Italian is desirable as well, as the project entails extensive communication with the Greek, Cypriot and Italian archaeological authorities and relevant research organisations.

To apply, you must have either a doctoral degree or at least 4 years’ full-time equivalent research experience. Fellows may come from any country except the UK, or if the Fellow is already in the UK, have been resident for less than 12 months in the 3 years immediately prior to the submission deadline.
Applicants are expected to have significant research recognition and be able to demonstrate evidence of independence/leadership potential.

To be considered for this opportunity, you will need to submit a CV and 1-2 page summary of your project by June 20, 2018 to researchfacilitator@fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk We will let you know whether you have been selected by mid-July. Our Research Facilitator will support you to complete your application by the Marie Skłodowska-Curie deadline of 12 September 2018.

If you would like more information, contact researchfacilitator@fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk

Research Associate (Greek Hagiography) on Project The Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity, Oxford University, UK (Full time for 6 months from July, 2018).
Deadline: 1200 (noon BST) on 21st June, 2018.
For further information, please click here.

Senior and Junior Fellowships in the research areas BRAIN, EARTH, ENERGY and SOCIETY.
The Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg (HWK) in Delmenhorst, Germany, is an Institute for Advanced Study in the Northwest of Germany. Its Fellowship program offers outstanding scholars the opportunity to focus on research without the distraction of everyday routines in academia, to interact with colleagues from other disciplines, and to benefit from the wide range of academic traditions represented at the institute. The HWK awards Fellowships to highly qualified scholars of all career levels, from postdoctoral researchers to senior scientists.
The HWK is pleased to announce its annual call for applications for Senior and Junior Fellowships in the research areas BRAIN, EARTH, ENERGY and SOCIETY. Excellent researchers with a PhD from all disciplines and from all parts of the world (except northwestern Germany) are welcome to apply. We also accept applications involving experimental and lab research; in these cases confirmation of access to research infrastructure at a near-by institution is required.
Fellowship duration ranges from 3 to 10 months. Residence at HWK is obligatory. Financial conditions are to be negotiated on an individual basis. Detailed information on Fellowship terms and on the application procedure is available at: www.h-w-k.de/en/fellows/how-to-become-a-fellow.html
Written applications are required. Please download, read and follow our guide “How to apply and financial conditions” carefully. If you have further questions please contact the Head of Program responsible for your research area.
The deadline is July 16, 2018, 24:00 (CEST – Central European Summer Time); late applications will not be considered.
Contact:
Dr. Susanne Fuchs
Society - Interdisciplinary Postdoc-Program - NetIAS - EURIAS-Fellowship-Program
Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg (Institute for Advanced Study)
Lehmkuhlenbusch 4
27753 Delmenhorst, Germany
+49 (0) 4221 9160-123
sfuchs@h-w-.de
http://www.h-w-k.de

Digital and Public Humanities in Venice

The Department of Humanities (DSU) of Ca’ Foscari University of Venice has just been declared a department of excellence in research by the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research (MIUR), and awarded 7.5 million Euro for the development of a Centre of Excellence in Digital and Public Humanities.
In order to build the new Centre of Excellence, strengthen its departmental structure, enhance its teaching, develop its research and arrange financing proposal in the field of Digital and Public Humanities, DSU is seeking expressions of interest for four (4) new faculty positions in the field of Digital and Public Humanities:

• associate professor (Professore Associato, II fascia) in Digital and/or public humanities and Ancient Studies (Classics and Ancient Civilizations) - 10D (recruiting field-Science of Antiquity)

• associate professor (Professore Associato, II fascia) in Digital and/or public humanities and Italian Studies and Comparative Literatures - 10F (recruiting field- Italian Studies and Comparative Literatures)

• tenure track assistant professor (Ricercatore “lettera b” - RTDb) in Digital and/or public humanities and History - 11A (recruiting field-History)

• tenure track assistant professor (Ricercatore “lettera b” - RTDb) in Digital and/or public humanities and Art History - 10B (recruiting field-Art History)

The successful candidates will have knowledge and skills essential to digital and public humanities, including -but not limited to- one or more of the following areas:

• digital scholarly editing; / digital textual editions and annotated corpora;

• computational linguistics, lexicology, semantics and narratology;

• phylogenetic methods;

• electronic texts and textuality;

• text theory, textual mark-up and/or mark-up theory;

• digital paleography and/or codicology and/or epigraphy and/or papyrology;

• intertextuality and text reuse;

• historical data modelling and structuring;

• digital history methods;

• mining textual, visual or oral data;

• spatial and social network analysis;

• cultural heritage digitization (digital libraries / archives / museums);

• visual mapping and /or georeferencing of cultural heritage;

• virtual exhibitions and /or online galleries;

• public history.

The annual salary for each post depends on academic position and qualification, and according to the standards established by the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research (MIUR). Further details about academic positions and academic career in Italy can be found at http://www.unive.it/pag/28008/.
The posts will be advertised shortly with a likely start date of October 2018. For further details see https://www.researchgate.net/job/909364_4_faculty_positions_2_associate_professors_2_tenure_track_assistant_professors_in_the_field_of_Digital_and_Public_Humanities.

Die Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen
Edition und Bearbeitung byzantinischer Rechtsquellen
DEADLINE: 15. 07.2018

Die Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen sucht für die Arbeitsstelle „Edition und Bearbeitung byzantinischer Rechtsquellen“ an der Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main eine wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin/einen wissenschaftlichen Mitarbeiter für eine volle Stelle (100%) der Vergütungsgruppe TV-L E 13. Die Stelle ist befristet (bis zum 31.12. 2020) und soll zum schnellstmöglichen Zeitpunkt besetzt werden (die Bewerbungsfrist endet am 15. 7.).
Grundvoraussetzungen sind ein abgeschlossenes Studium (möglichst Jura), Promotion und Fähigkeit und Bereitschaft zu der von den Aufgaben (zur Zeit Edition mittelbyzantinischer Rechtsbücher und kanonistischer Texte) geforderten Verbindung von philologisch-gräzistischer und juristisch-rechtshistorischer Arbeit.
Dienstort ist Frankfurt am Main.
Weitere Informationen zum Vorhaben unter https://adw-goe.de/forschung/forschungsprojekte-akademienprogramm/byzantinische-rechtsquellen/ .
Die Akademie strebt in den Bereichen, in denen Frauen unterrepräsentiert sind, eine Erhöhung des Frauenanteils an und fordert daher qualifizierte Frauen ausdrücklich zur Bewerbung auf. Sie versteht sich zudem als familienfreundlich und fördert die Vereinbarkeit von Wissenschaft/Beruf und Familie. Schwerbehinderte Menschen werden bei entsprechender Eignung besonders berücksichtigt.
Bewerbungen sind zu richten in digitaler Form an den Leiter der Arbeitsstelle Prof. Dr. Bernard Stolte b.h.stolte@rug.nl. Bewerbungs-und Reisekosten können nicht erstattet werden.

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