Vacancy: Postdoctoral fellowship in
Missionary Linguistics
Starting from January
2018, one postdoctoral fellowship (min. 2000 per month) will be available at
the Center for the Historiography of Linguistics at University of Leuven for up
to two years. The
successful candidate will be a team member in the ongoing research project
Evolving views on the world's languages in a globalizing world (1540-1840):
information growth, conceptual shifts, scholarly networks in the circulation of
linguistic knowledge, funded by the KU Leuven Research Council (2015-2019),
and supervised by Toon Van Hal, Pierre Swiggers, Werner Thomas & Lieve
Behiels (KU Leuven).
The project aims at offering a
comprehensive linguistic-historiographical and cultural-historical analysis of
the context, the contents, and the impact of the study of exotic languages as
an integrative component of the development of linguistic thinking and practice
in Western Europe. It investigates the following questions: (1) How did the
circuits of information on languages in the Americas and Asia function? (2)
What are the recurrent models of language description? (3) What was the
empirical and theoretical impact of Early Modern Language descriptions?
The postdoctoral will conduct a research project that
fits in with the general aims of the project. She/he will also be involved in
the finalization of an ongoing database project, international joint
applications and in the organization of an international conference that will
be organized in 2019.
Applicants are requested to submit, before the 20th of
October,
(a) a
curriculum vitae
(b)
an electronic version of the PhD-dissertation and up to three relevant articles
(c) a
short project proposal (of ca. 1500 words) that fits in with the general aims of
the project.
Information on the project can be found on
c-h-l.be/news
For more information, please contact
toon.vanhal@kuleuven.be (history of linguistics)
pierre.swiggers@kuleuven.be (history of linguistics)
werner.thomas@kuleuven.be (early modern history)
lieve.behiels@kuleuven.be
(historical translation
studies)
_______________________________________________Dear List,on behalf of my colleagues from the University of Louvain - Leuven (especially Toon Van Hal, with whom I currently work on J.E. Hanxleden's Sanskrit and Malayalam works), I attach here the description of a postdoctoral fellowship offered within their "Missionary Linguistics" joint-project: Evolving views on the world's languages in a globalizing world (1540-1840): information growth, conceptual shifts, scholarly networks in the circulation of linguistic knowledge. Research projects on the first Western descriptions of Indian languages (Sanskrit or vernacular) will be of course considered.Best wishes,Christophe Vielle
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