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Apr 12Freitag, 12. April 2024 11:11
The doctoral program in Ancient Heritage of the Universities of Venice, Udine and Trieste, is one of the largest of its kind in Italy.
It offers this year (start: September/October 2024; application deadline: May 23rd, 2024) 11 fully funded PhD positions:
- 10 are aimed at candidates with proposals falling into one or more of our three main areas of research - broadly speaking: Greek and Latin philology, literature and linguistics, papyrology, palaeography etc. // ancient history of the Mediterranean, including Greece, Rome and the Ancient Near East, as well as epigraphy, history of religions, numismatics etc. // pre- and proto-historic, Near Eastern, Greek, Roman, Italic, and Medieval archaeology;
- 1 belongs to the ERC project "Communication in Ancient Anatolia" run by Annick Payne (Univ. of Venice), and concerns the topic "Acculturation Processes" (knowledge of ancient Eastern languages and/or Greek and Latin is here required).
Prospective candidates must have obtained their first degree no more than 10 years before applying.
The admission procedure is two-step:
- first, a written exam to be taken in person in Venice on June 10th, 2024 (translation from Greek or Latin for those applying for the philology curriculum; an essay on a given historical or archaeological topic for those applying for the respective areas, or for the ERC position);
- candidates with a score of at least 24/35 in the written test will then be admitted to an oral interview (to be held, either in person or via Zoom, on June 17-19, 2024) focusing on their research proposal and previous experience.
Both the written and the oral exams may be taken in English. The PhD program, however, is run and taught in Italian; proficiency in English is required at B2 level, and knowledge of one further European language is mandatory.
PhD students will have plenty of time to study; their mobility during their doctoral training is strongly encouraged (and supported); they will take part in the "doctoral weeks" organised every year by each of the three universities, as well as in a number of other activities.
All the details can be found at the following links (see esp. p. 34 of the call):
Italian: https://www.unive.it/web/it/259/<https://www.unive.it/web/it/259/bando-annuale>
English: https://www.unive.it/web/en/2161<https://www.unive.it/web/en/2161/annual-call>/
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Nov 19Sonntag, 19. November 2023 11:33
University of Bologna, Campus of Ravenna
The Department of Cultural Heritage at the University of Bologna, campus of Ravenna, seeks to appoint one 24-month PostDoctoral Researcher (Assegno di Ricerca, approx. € 22,000/year) working on “Performance of power and audience response in ancient Greece”, as part of the Research Unit of Ravenna of the PRIN 2022 PNRR project “Performing power: political communication, consensus and audience in the ancient cities”, grant number J53D23017640001.
The Researcher will work under the supervision of Dr Matteo Zaccarini and within the broader framework of the PRIN, which aims to investigate, in a comparative perspective, the forms and ways of ancient political communication through a number of meaningful case studies: rhetorical strategies, individual-group dynamics, role of emotions, deliberative and decision-making processes, leadership and negotiation.
The Researcher will design and carry out their own project, working on ancient Greece in a broad sense, up to and including the Imperial period. Possible areas of research are leadership and speaker-audience interactions; non-verbal expressions of power and command; the ways of response by the general audience and/or specific social groups; challenge and contestation (violent or non-violent) of power; satire and criticism of authority; further relevant topics are possible, and applicants are invited to propose their own project within the PRIN framework. The Researcher’s project will contribute to understanding how power is established, exercised, received, supported, challenged, mocked, etc., through the study of documents and literary texts concerning the civil, political, and/or military spheres, in a period between the 5th century BCE and the 2nd century CE. The Researcher will also contribute to the PRIN activities (organisation of workshops and conferences, outreach activities, etc.).
Remote working is possible to a certain extent.
The post is available from 1 February 2024. The starting date is negotiable, but it shall be no later than 28 March 2024.
Applications must be submitted online, by the deadline of 1 December 2023, at: https://concorsi.unibo.it
The shortlist of candidates selected for the interview will be published on 11 December at: https://bandi.unibo.it/ricerca/assegni-ricerca
Interviews (in person or via MS Teams) will be held on 12 December.
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