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        Date: 2024-06-07 09:37:20+00:00
        From: Marten DURING <marten.during@uni.lu>
        Subject: Impresso2 is hiring a Postdoc in Digital / Computational History (28 months)

Dear colleagues,

I am happy to announce this position in the Impresso2 project – please help us
spread the word!

With best wishes,
Marten


Impresso - Media Monitoring of the Past II. Beyond Borders: Connecting
Historical Newspapers and Radio <https://impresso-project.ch/> is an
interdisciplinary research project that leverages an unprecedented corpus of
newspaper and radio archives, and uses machine learning to pursue a paradigm
shift in the processing, semantic enrichment, representation, exploration and
study of historical newspaper and radio collections across modalities, time,
languages, and national borders.

Impresso is carried out by the Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital
history (C2DH)<http://c2dh.uni.lu/> and Swiss partners DHLAB at the École
polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)<http://dhlab.epfl.ch/>, the University
of Lausanne’s History department, the University of Zürich’s Institute for
Computational Linguistics<http://www.cl.uzh.ch/de.html>. The project is funded
by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) and the Luxembourg National
Research Fund (FNR).

We are recruiting a Postdoctoral researcher in computational humanities/digital
history to join our Luxembourg-based team. In this role, you will help us
achieve Impresso’s goal<https://impresso-project.ch/project/objectives/> to link
historical newspaper and radio collections across time, countries, modalities
and languages and to develop novel interfaces to enable their exploratory and
computational analysis.

As part of the team, you will conduct innovative, data-driven research in media
history, contribute historical expertise to the co-design of Impresso’s web app
and data lab, and engage with the computational humanities research community
through outreach activities like tutorials and workshops.
This position offers an exciting opportunity to work with an international,
interdisciplinary team of renowned experts in digital humanities, machine
learning, design, and history, exploring new pathways in integrating and
analyzing digitized sources across languages and modalities.
Key Responsibilities

  *   Conduct original data-driven historical research on the theme of “media
influences”
  *   Develop innovative computational research methods building on Impresso’s
corpus of multilingual newspaper and radio sources provided by a network of
Western European partners
  *   Contribute to the design of the Impresso web app and the Impresso data lab
together with a team of designers and experts in natural language processing and
history
  *   Engage in outreach activities such as workshops, conferences, trainings
and teaching and user evaluations
  *   Contribute to other Impresso work packages as needed and participate in
on-site meetings with partners in Switzerland
What we expect from you

  *   Demonstrable experience in humanities research using computational methods
  *   PhD in history or a related field or, alternatively a PhD in computer
science with experience in conducting historical research
  *   Ability to meet deadlines and demonstrate methodological, organised,
pragmatic and effective approaches to your work
  *   Fluency in English is required; knowledge of French, German and/or Dutch
are considered an asset
Advantageous are

  *   Knowledge of at least one programming language, preferably Python
  *   Knowledge of machine learning, more specifically representation learning
  *   Knowledge of current debates in media history
  *   Experience in working with data derived from historical newspaper and
radio collections

In a nutshell

  *   28 months full time (40h/week) fixed term contract
  *   Earliest possible start date is November 2024
  *   Application deadline 1. August 2024
  *   Annual gross salary of 83099 EUR.
  *   Applications must include a Curriculum Vitae and a Cover letter and must
be submitted via the University of Luxembourg’s recruitment portal<https://recru
itment.uni.lu/en/details.html?nPostingId=95417&nPostingTargetId=139584&id=QMUFK0
26203F3VBQB7V7VV4S8&LG=UK&languageSelect=UK&sType=Social%20Recruiting&mask=karri
ereseiten>.

For any open questions, please contact Marten Düring,
marten.during@uni.lu<mailto:marten.during@uni.lu>.

The University of Luxembourg is an international research university with a
distinctly multilingual and interdisciplinary character. The University was
founded in 2003 and counts more than 6,700 students and more than 2,000
employees from around the world. The University’s faculties and
interdisciplinary centres focus on research in the areas of Computer Science and
ICT Security, Materials Science, European and International Law, Finance and
Financial Innovation, Education, Contemporary and Digital History. In addition,
the University focuses on cross-disciplinary research in the areas of Data
Modelling and Simulation as well as Health and System Biomedicine. Times Higher
Education ranks the University of Luxembourg #3 worldwide for its “international
outlook,” #20 in the Young University Ranking 2021 and among the top 250
universities worldwide.

The Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C2DH) is a research
centre for the study, analysis and public dissemination of contemporary history
of Luxembourg and Europe with a particular focus on digital methods and tools
for doing innovative historical research. It serves as a catalyst for innovative
and creative scholarship and new forms of public dissemination and societal
engagement with history.

The University of Luxembourg embraces inclusion and diversity as key values. We
are fully committed to removing any discriminatory barrier related to gender,
and not only, in recruitment and career progression of our staff.


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