[INDOLOGY] Re: Professor-researcher recruitment campaign EPHE

[Jean-Luc Chevillard]

«Canada is also home to many indigenous languages. Taken together, these 
are spoken by less than one percent of the population. About 0.6% 
Canadians (or 200,725 people) report an Indigenous language as their 
mother tongue»


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_Canada

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On 18/02/2021 23:53, Jan E.M. Houben wrote:
> sans accepter la diversité régionale, culturelle et linguistique, la 
> science et l'érudition perdraient pourtant une grande partie de la 
> richesse qui leur appartenait traditionnellement ...
> (= without accepting regional, cultural and linguistic diversity, 
> science and scholarship would nevertheless lose much of the richness 
> which has been traditionally theirs ...)
> 
> On Thu, 18 Feb 2021 at 17:54, Dominik Wujastyk <wujastyk at gmail.com 
> <mailto:wujastyk at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
>     On Mon, 15 Feb 2021 at 04:49, Jan E.M. Houben <jemhouben at gmail.com
>     <mailto:jemhouben at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>         Dear All,
>         The professor-researcher recruitment campaign 2021 at the École
>         Pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE) is open.
>         This time, none of the open positions are directly "indological"
>         but some of the positions in Sciences historiques et
>         philologiques or Sciences religieuses *could* in theory
>         accommodate indological (indological-linguistic) or
>         buddhological applications.
>         Please explore at
>         https://www.ephe.psl.eu/actualites/recrutement-des-seignants-chercheurs-2021
>         <https://www.ephe.psl.eu/actualites/recrutement-des-seignants-chercheurs-2021>
>         A good active mastery of French is of course a prerequisite.
> 
> 
>     "of course"?  No, this is not obvious or normal.  Many countries
>     hire professors on the understanding that if they don't know the
>     indigenous language they will commit to learning it within the first
>     two years of tenure.  As far as I am aware, that is normal
>     international practice.
> 
>     Best,
>     Dominik
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> 
> *Jan E.M. Houben*
> 
> Directeur d'Études, Professor of South Asian History and Philology
> 
> /Sources et histoire de la tradition sanskrite/
> 
> École Pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE, Paris Sciences et Lettres)
> 
> /*Sciences historiques et philologiques */
> 
> Groupe de recherches en études indiennes (EA 2120)
> 
> /johannes.houben [at] ephe.psl.eu <mailto:johannes.houben at ephe.psl.eu>/
> 
> /https://ephe-sorbonne.academia.edu/JanEMHouben 
> <https://ephe-sorbonne.academia.edu/JanEMHouben>/
> 
> /https://www.classicalindia.info/ <https://www.classicalindia.info>
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> LabEx Hastec OS 2021 -- /L'Inde Classique/augmentée: construction, 
> transmission
> 
> et transformations d'un savoir scientifique
> 
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