[INDOLOGY] Re: Professor-researcher recruitment campaign EPHE

[Richard Mahoney]

Dear colleagues,

All of this makes me wonder. Is this all that common any more? An
English
speaking scholar, in France, writing in French:

Ruegg, David Seyfort, Contributions à l'histoire de la philosophie
linguistique
indienne. (Paris: De Boccard, 1959)

-----  La théorie du Tathāgatagarbha et du Gotra :  études sur la
sotériologie
et la gnoséologie du buddhisme. (Paris: École française D'Extrême-
Orient, 1969)



Best, Richard




-----Original Message-----
From: Lyne Bansat-Boudon <Lyne.Bansat-Boudon at ephe.psl.eu>
To: Jan HOUBEN <jemhouben at gmail.com>
Cc: Dominik Wujastyk <wujastyk at gmail.com>, Indology <
indology at list.indology.info>
Subject: [INDOLOGY] Re: Professor-researcher recruitment campaign EPHE
Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2021 19:18:18 +0000
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Dear colleagues,




Allow me to be in the discussion. I find it quite legitimate that the
EPHE, as a French « Grand Etablissement », on the model of the «
 Collège de France », considers as a prerequisite a « good active
mastery
 of French language ». University is not meant for the comfort of the
Professors but that of the students. In France, a French speaking
country, if I have to recall what is sheer obviousness, classes are
delivered in French. 





On the basis of their outstanding skills and talents, the EPHE gladly
welcomes scholars who are not native French speakers, but a minimal
mastery of French is expected, which is meant to serve also the
comfort
 of the teachers themselves. Matthew Kapstein and Jan Houben, both
Directeurs d’études in the EPHE,  would certainly agree with my
assertion, as well as the many Italian researchers working in
different French academic institutions, including the EPHE.





And shall I remind you that some countries, if they do not officially
require a good mastery of their own language (which is not very
difficult for many of them, since both the applicant and the members
 of the election committee are English speakers), do apply the rule of
« National Preference » (as is the case in Canada, for instance),
which is
not at all in use in French Universities, which consistently
 privilege scientific excellence, whatever the nationality?





Best wishes,





Lyne Bansat-Boudon








 






> Le 18 févr. 2021 à 23:53, Jan E.M. Houben <jemhouben at gmail.com> a
> écrit :
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> 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 ...
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> (= without accepting regional, cultural and linguistic diversity,
> science and scholarship would nevertheless lose much of the richness
> which has been traditionally theirs ...)
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> On Thu, 18 Feb 2021 at 17:54, Dominik Wujastyk <wujastyk at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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> > On Mon, 15 Feb 2021 at 04:49, Jan E.M. Houben <jemhouben at gmail.com
> > > wrote:
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> > 
> > > 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
> > > 
> > > 
> > > A good active mastery of French is of course a prerequisite. 
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> > "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.   
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> > Best,
> > Dominik
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> 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
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> https://ephe-sorbonne.academia.edu/JanEMHouben
> https://www.classicalindia.info
> LabEx Hastec OS 2021 --
> L'Inde Classique augmentée: construction, transmission 
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