[INDOLOGY] Positions within the LMU Cross-Cultural Philology Cluster

[Stefan Baums]

Forwarded on behalf of Vincent Tournier.

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Dear Colleagues, 

As some of you may know, LMU will establish, starting January
2026 and through 2032 the Excellence Cluster “Cross-Cultural
Philology. New Perspectives on Premodern Textualities”, thanks
to funding received through the Excellence Strategy of the
German federal and state governments. The new website of the
cluster has just been launched (with a few imprecisions and
errors which will be fixed soon):
https://www.lmu.de/crossculturalphilology/en/.

Both disciplines of Indology and Tibetology are represented in
the said Cluster, with Jörg Heimbel and myself serving as PIs,
and several other colleagues involved as Key Researchers. For
the first phase of the projects (3 years and a half, starting
January), our disciplines are especially represented in two
subprojects, for which positions are being created:

1. “Inscribing Piety: Patronage and Epigraphic Practices Across
the Indian and Tibetan Cultural Worlds”
- One 100% position (TVL-E13) for a postdoc to support the
subproject “Layers of Inscribed Meaning: Toward a Typology and
Digital Corpus of Inscriptions in Tibetan Buddhist Sacred Art”.
- One 65% position (TVL-E13) for a part-time postdoc to support
the subproject “Monuments of Faith: Patronage and Institution in
the Early Inscriptions of the Deccan”.

2. “Medieval and Early Modern Courts as Hubs of Textual Migration” 
- One 65% position (TVL-E13) for a doctoral candidate focusing
on the Tanjavur court culture in South India (this subproject
being led by Elisa Ganser)

On top of these, there is a further call for application for 4
“open topic” postdoctoral positions. Applicants from all the
disciplines
(https://www.lmu.de/crossculturalphilology/en/structure/participating-disciplines/)
represented in the Cluster will compete for these positions, and
it is essential that postdoctoral projects be linked to one of
the five research areas
(https://www.lmu.de/crossculturalphilology/en/research/research-areas/)
represented in the cluster, and be tied to a particular PI.

Applications should be submitted through an online application
tool by 21 October. For questions regarding the applications,
please contact calls-ccphil at lrz.uni-muenchen.de.

You may also find the general call for applications in the
following page:
https://job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/b1cb15657a6e8a65131a6b613555abe3aa4c1cd40?ref=homepage.

I would be grateful if you could circulate this announcement to
potential applicants.

With best wishes, 

Vincent Tournier

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Prof. Dr. Vincent Tournier
Professor of Classical Indology 
LMU Munich — Department for Asian Studies
Institut für Indologie und Tibetologie
Geschwister-Scholl-Platz 1 | 80539 München | Deutschland
Tel.: +49 (0)89 2180-5501

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Stefan Baums, Ph.D.
Institut für Indologie und Tibetologie
Ludwig‐Maximilians‐Universität München