Dear Friends of Tang Studies,
Michael Hoeckelmann suggested that scholars associated with the T'ang Studies Society might be interested in the following opportunity at the University of Edinburgh. The original post came from Curie Virág.
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Best,
Tony
Anthony DeBlasi
Secretary-Treasurer
T'ang Studies Society
Message Post:
Dear Listserv members,
We are seeking to appoint a Research Fellow who specialises in Chinese
intellectual and/or cultural history, with background in the history
of education and classicising learning in the Tang/Song period. The
Research Fellow should have strong interest in exploring and employing
cross-cultural approaches to the history of education and empire
studies. This post is part of a comparative research project focusing
on the Byzantine and middle period Chinese (Tang/Song) empires, titled
?Classicising learning in medieval imperial systems: Cross-cultural
approaches to Byzantine paideia and Tang/Song xue? (PAIXUE), which is
funded by the European Research Council (ERC CoG 726371, 2017?2022)
and co-directed by Niels Gaul and Curie Virág. It is therefore
essential that the postholder be genuinely interested in engaging with
Byzantine learned culture and practices from a comparative vantage
point, and willing to develop the requisite skills and methodologies.
Research interests in performance studies, social performances (of
learning), and medieval ritualised communication, or willingness to
engage with these, would be an advantage. The postholder will pursue
his/her own research in close cooperation with the project team, and
is expected to present the results of his/her work in a scholarly
monograph written with a comparative angle and to co-author at least
cross-disciplinary article with a Byzantinist team member.
The Research Fellow will become a core member of the small PAIXUE
project team that will consist of two Byzantinists and two Sinologists
(including the project directors). PAIXUE constitutes the first
attempt to study classicising learning and its social, political, and
intellectual ramifications systematically and in-depth across two
medieval imperial systems, the Byzantine and Tang/Song empires.
This post is full time fixed-term for 28 months starting on 1st April
2019, and may be renewable for another 12 months depending on the
availability of funding at the end of financial year 2020/21.
Salary: £33,199 - £39, 609 (per annum)
Closing date: 12th February 2019 at 5pm (GMT)
The full job posting can be found here:
[ https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/BPM902/research-fellow | https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/BPM902/research-fellow ]
Any questions can be directed to [ mailto:curie.virag@ed.ac.uk | curie.virag(a)ed.ac.uk ] .
Please spread the word!
Thank you,
Curie Virág
