Kategorie: Geschichtswissenschaft

The Department of Language and Information Sciences of the Faculty of Arts of the University of Lausanne (UNIL) is looking for a postdoc (SNSF senior researcher) in digital humanities.

Job information

Expected start date in position:

February 1st, 2020 or March 1st, 2020

Contract length:

One year or 11 months respectively, not renewable

Activity rate

90%

Workplace:

Lausanne-Dorigny

Your responsibilities

The successful candidate will work on the Spark project “An Agile Approach Towards Computational Modeling of Historiographical Uncertainty” funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF). The project aims to develop a taxonomy of historiographical uncertainty, which can serve as a basis for a computational formalization in a follow-up project.

Your main tasks would be:

• To develop of an analytical framework for historical narratives in collaboration with the PI.
• To define a historiographical case study that has a “high density” of uncertainty (typically indicated by ongoing historical controversies); the exact field of the case study is for you to propose.


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Quelle: https://dhd-blog.org/?p=12700