Dear list members,

 

The Center for Religious Studies at Ruhr-Universität Bochum has announced 2 Research Associate positions to work on the “Digitization of Gandharan Artefacts (DiGA)” project. The DiGA project will digitize and catalogue a corpus of 1,791 Buddhist sculptures from Gandhara currently kept in two collections in Chakdara and Saidu Sharif. The resulting database will be hosted on heidICON (Heidelberg University Library) and made available on OpenAccess. The project is funded by the German Federal Ministry for Education and Research (funding line eHeritage) for a period of three years.

 

Details about the project and the positions can be found here. The deadline for applications is 31st of January 2021. Please feel free to circulate the announcement!

 

Two short precisions on the announcement:

  1. The positions are advertised for two years but it is actually just under three years. The researchers will start working after the official start of the project on the 1st of February 2021 (very likely in the Spring as soon as the hiring process is complete), and will be employed until its official end on the 31st of January 2024.
  2. The positions are open for doctoral candidates and postdoctoral researchers alike.

 

All the best,

Jessie Pons