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<p>Dear colleagues interested in Digital Humanities,<br />The project “Reuniting fragments, identifying scribes and characterizing scripts: the Digital palaeography of Greek and Coptic papyri” has just started in September in Basel and will be hosted on the website <strong>d-scribes.org</strong> which should soon be ready to launch. Besides a presentation of the project, it will gather information on the current initiatives related to Digital Palaeography and Document Analysis of Ancient Texts as well as a tool allowing the registration to the mailing-list on these topics. The first message of this mailing list contains two announcements that may interest some of you, and I would like to take this opportunity to mention that the position of technical lead in Basel is still open to application (see description attached). Do not hesitate to forward this message to potentially interested people.</p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>The call for participation: Digital Approaches in Greek Palaeography </strong></span></p>
<p>Institute of Classical Studies, University of London (December 14, 2018)<br />We invite interested scholars and colleagues to participate in a one-day discussion workshop exploring digital approaches, methods and tools to the study of Ancient Greek palaeography, script and scribal hands. Although the focus is on Ancient Greek, contributions dealing with related topics in other ancient languages are welcome. We would like to see a mix of classicists working on palaeography who are interested in applying digital approaches to their material, and digital humanities or informatics scholars with an interest in working with ancient writing and scripts.<br />Please send an email outlining your interests in this area, and any prior work if applicable, to gabriel.bodard@sas.ac.uk and klaas.bentein@ugent.be by October 31. Notification of acceptance will be given by November 15.<br />We have a small amount of funding available to support attendees travel. Please let us know if you would like to apply for this support, and how much you would need.<br />A full version of the CfP can be found here: <a href="http://www.evwrit.ugent.be/events/">http://www.evwrit.ugent.be/events/</a></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Three position openings for a new project in Geneva University</strong></span></p>
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<li>1 postdoc in documentary papyrology (80%, 4 years).</li>
<li>1 postdoc computer specialist in the Digital Humanities (80%, 4 years).</li>
<li>1 PhD student in documentary papyrology (4 years).</li>
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<p>Deadline for application: November 15, 2018. Beginning of the project: early 2019.</p>
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<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Summary<br /></span><em>The architecture of Greek documentary papyri</em> is a new research project, funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) and based at the University of Geneva (project leader: Paul Schubert). Its aim will be to develop a digital platform for the study and description of the typology of Greek documentary papyri. The funding provided by the SNSF will cover the hiring of three scientists.</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Postdoc in documentary papyrology (80%, 4 years)<br /></span>A papyrologist with a broad knowledge of Greek documentary papyri, whose task will be to map a robust taxonomy of the whole corpus. She/he will have to work in close collaboration with the postdoc computer specialist in order to develop the interface. Her/his output will consist in the elaboration of a taxonomy, which should result in an online, open access publication. Further output will consist of articles submitted to peer-reviewed journals.</p>
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<li>Employment rate: 80%, leaving 20% to develop her/his own research if desired, or to prepare the next steps in her/his career. The postdoc will be expected to spend at least three full workdays every week at the University of Geneva.</li>
<li>Duration: 4 years, starting in early January (to be determined).</li>
<li>Salary: approx. 65'000 Swiss francs (€ 57’000) / year.</li>
<li>Working language: English (French in addition will be a valuable asset).</li>
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<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Postdoc computer specialist in the Digital Humanities (80%, 4 years)<br /></span>A computing scientist with a high degree of competence in the Digital Humanities, with a special focus on ancient languages. She/he will develop the interface and display. She/he should have excellent skills in html programming, display building and image processing, handling of xml-encoded texts, and some specific experience with Ancient Greek texts. Skills would be required also in CSS, JavaScript, Python, as well as with MySQL databases. Her/his output will consist in the interface that will allow researchers to access the material selected for the typology. Further output will consist of articles submitted to peer-reviewed journals.</p>
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<li>Employment rate: 80%, leaving 20% to develop her/his own research if desired, or to prepare the next steps in her/his career. The postdoc will be expected to spend at least three full workdays every week at the University of Geneva.</li>
<li>Duration: 4 years, starting in early January (to be determined).</li>
<li>Salary: approx. 65'000 Swiss francs (€ 57’000) / year.</li>
<li>Working language: English (French in addition will be a valuable asset).</li>
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<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;">PhD student in documentary papyrology (4 years)<br /></span>She/he will be working on a PhD thesis covering a specific aspect of the typology of Greek documentary papyri, namely the <em>hypomnema</em> (memorandum), under the supervision of the project leader. She/he will also be using the tool developed by the two postdoc scientists. Her/his output should consist mainly of a monograph that will conform to the new SNSF guidelines regarding Open Access.</p>
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<li>Duration: 4 years, starting in early January (to be determined). The PhD student is expected to work in Geneva, together with the rest of the research team.</li>
<li>Salary: approx. 47'000 Swiss francs (€ 42’000) / year.</li>
<li>Working language: the dissertation will be written either in English (preferably) or in French.</li>
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<p>Candidates who wish to apply for any of the three positions should send a letter of application (stating for which position they are applying), a full CV with list of publications, a photocopy of the highest diploma, and two reference letters, by e-mail (pdf format), to Prof. Paul Schubert (paul.schubert@unige.ch), no later than Thursday, Nov. 15, 2018.</p>
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<p>If you have similar events you would like to share, do not hesitate to write to me. If you do not wish to be contacted again on this topic, follow the procedure to unsubscribe or just send “stop” to <a href="mailto:imarthot@d-scribes.org">imarthot@d-scribes.org</a> .<br />Wishing you all the best in your various activities,</p>
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<p><strong>Isabelle Marthot-Santaniello</strong><br />PI <em>Reuniting fragments, identifying scribes and characterizing scripts: the Digital palaeography of Greek and Coptic papyri</em>, Basel University<br />d-scribes.org</p>
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