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        Date: 2024-02-09 19:00:16+00:00
        From: Elisabeth Burr <elisabeth.burr@uni-leipzig.de>
        Subject: Full time PhD Position Computational Humanities at Leipzig University - Application deadline 8 March 2024

Doctoral researcher (m/f/d) on the project “Contextual scientometrics –
Uncovering and understanding referencing patterns to the ancient canon
in modern scholarly discourses” (MECANO – MSCA Doctoral Network)
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The Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, Institute of Computer
Science seeks to fill the above position from 1 September 2024. This PhD
position is part of the project MECANO (Mechanics of Canon Formation and
the Transmission of Knowledge from Graeco-Roman Antiquity) that has
received funding from Horizon Europe Program for Research and Innovation
under the MSCA Doctoral Networks 2022, Grant Agreement No. 101120349.

This is a full-time PhD position with the expected start in September
2024. This PhD position will be based at Leipzig University under the
main supervision of Prof. Manuel Burghardt (Computational Humanities,
Institute of Computer Science, Faculty of Mathematics and Computer
Science). The PhD candidate is expected to visit Leuven, Belgium for a
research stay of 6 months to be co-supervised by Prof. Mark Depauw (KU
Leuven, Faculty of Arts, Ancient History) and Prof. Bart Thijs (KU
Leuven, Faculty of Economics), and to do an internship of 3 months at
German National Library in Leipzig, Germany.

The PhD project revolves around the notion that in modern academia,
famous authors, thinkers and philosophers from the ancient world
continue to shape scholarly discourses. However, precisely which
canonical references we find in specific disciplines, and how often they
are referred to, is yet to be investigated. The specific objectives of
this PhD project are therefore to build a large, multi-disciplinary
corpus of scientific journals from JSTOR, reuse existing computational
workflows from the Trismegistos project (TM) and detect ancient canonic
references in this corpus. The main analytical objective will be to
analyse the extracted references in a scientometric way, allowing us to
investigate which of the canonic thinkers are quoted the most in
different disciplines and whether there are any diachronic trends to be
found. Furthermore, we are interested in co-citation networks, which
will help us to understand which canonic authors are frequently
mentioned together and may be even forming canonic clusters. In addition
to these more traditional scientometric approaches, a core
methodological objective is to add a distant reading perspective to the
analyses, which allows us to put the canonical references in context and
better understand their usage, shedding light on the influence of the
ancient canons on the modern academic.

Application Deadline: 8 Mar 2024 - 23:59 (Europe/Berlin)

About the position

-- Fixed term of 36 months
-- 100% of a full-time position
-- Planned remuneration: gross amount of approx. 3,200 Euro (3,750 Euro
if eligible for family allowance)

What we offer

-- A highly dynamic, collaborative and interdisciplinary working
environment in a modern workplace.
 -- Flexible working hours and work-life balance.
 -- English as working language.
 -- Leipzig as an attractive city with rich culture and beautiful
surroundings, where international visitors usually find it easy to
settle in.

Requirements

-- Master’s degree in Digital Humanities, Data Science, Computational
Linguistics, Computer Science, Information Science or any other relevant
field of expertise, held by time of appointment, with an MA thesis of
high quality (if the degree is not yet obtained at the time of
application, a statement by the applicant’s supervisor should confirm
that it will be obtained by time of appointment);
-- Well-developed research skills, including the ability to formulate
relevant research questions and hypotheses as well as descriptive,
analytical and computational skills;
-- Excellent competence in the application of state-of-the-art methods
from the field of text mining / natural language processing (large
language models, word embeddings, etc.) and ideally experience in the
areas of scientometrics, digital philology or digital classics;
-- Good competence in spoken and written English;
-- Independent thinker, team player;
-- Mobility rule (as part of the MECANO programme): the candidate has
not resided in Germany for more than 12 months in the 36 months
preceding appointment;

Details at: https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/192590

Contact: froemmert@informatik.uni-leipzig.de

Website: https://ch.uni-leipzig.de/

______________________________

Prof. Dr. phil. Elisabeth Burr
Französische, frankophone und italienische Sprachwissenschaft
Gründerin und Direktorin der European Summer University in Digital
Humanities "Culture & Technology" (ESU DH C&T) 2009-2022
(https://esu.fdhl.info/)
Präsidentin der European Association for Digital Humanities (EADH)
2016-2023 (https://eadh.org/)
(Vize-)Präsidentin des Constituent Organisations Board der Alliance of
Digital Humanities Organisations (ADHO) 2019-2021 (https://adho.org/)
Vorsitzende des Wissenschaftlichen Programmkomitees von EADH2020-2021,
Krasnoyarsk (https://eadh2020-2021.org/)
Universität Leipzig
Beethovenstr. 15
D-04107 Leipzig
https://home.uni-leipzig.de/burr/


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