The Dr. C. Louise Thijssen-Schoute Stichting promotes the study of the history of ideas, especially that of the seventeenth century. The foundation helps fund scholarly publications and conferences and maintains two special chairs. With its fellowship program, the foundation, in cooperation with the Huygens Institute, aims to help young researchers further develop research in this field. One Thijssen-Schoute fellow is selected each year.
Stipend and support
The stipend is €2000 per month and is provided for a period of three months. The research should be conducted in the year 2026. The fellow will have a workplace within the Knowledge and Art Practices research group at the Huygens Institute. At the end of the fellowship, the fellow accounts to the board of the Foundation with a brief report on the course of the project and its outcomes.
Candidates
The fellowship is open to advanced doctoral students and recent doctorated (PhD-defense no longer than 3 years ago at the time of application).
Application procedure
An application (in PDF) should include the following information:
– Name and mailing address;
– A recent CV, with publication list;
– Mention of 2 referees willing to advise the selection committee upon request;
– A brief research plan (maximum 1,000 words) in Dutch or English, explaining research question, method and source selection, planning and intended results;
– In which period in 2026 the research could be carried out.
Selection procedure
The selection committee consists of members of the board of the Dr. C. Louise Thijssen-Schoute Stichting and the department heads of the Huygens Institute’s Knowledge and Art Practices research group.
Applications should be emailed to the secretary of the foundation, Nina Geerdink, by May 15, 2025: n.geerdink@uu.nl
You will work as NLP-specialist in an interdisciplinary team, contributing to the ERC Starting Grant project ERASMOS. The project will inventory Renaissance Latin-Greek authors and texts in a relational database (partly by using automated transcription), will develop new digital tools to study and analyze this phenomenon, and will explore one of the tools’ potential for book history (more information on request and through the link below). You will be affiliated to the Latin Literature department, but will entertain contacts with other departments, faculties, and projects.
Closing date for applications: October 09, 2023
The Faculty of English at the University of Cambridge wishes to appoint a Research Associate to work on the Hernando Colón research project.
The person assigned to this post will be assisting on the OUP edition of the Libro de los Epítomes, a sixteenth-century neo-Latin compendium of book summaries from the extraordinary library of Hernando Colón. The Research Associate will be based in the Faculty of English at the University of Cambridge, and supervised by Dr Edward Wilson-Lee and Dr Paul White, two of the editors of the Libro.
We will be pleased to accommodate reasonable remote- and flexible-working arrangements.
Fixed-term: The funds for this post are available for 12 months in the first instance.
Closing date for applications: 20 July 2023
Following the earlier tradition of Nurus Fellowships (2006-2015), the Seminarium Philologiae Humanisticae in KU Leuven invites scholars in Neo-Latin studies to apply for a Seminarium Fellowship, so as to come work with its members during a period of 4 to 6 weeks between 1 November and 30 June.
They will provide:
- an office space with internet access;
- access to KU Leuven Libraries and university restaurants;
- a stipend of ca. €1000;
- a reimbursement of travel expenses up to ca. €300 (motivated exceptions will be considered);
- a stimulating environment for an exchange about Neo-Latin studies and the fellow’s research in this field.
They expect you to:
- reside in Leuven for the period chosen;
- engage with the Seminarium’s research community and discuss your research with them;
- give at least one seminar or lecture open to members of the Seminarium and other interested researchers;
- acknowledge your Seminarium affiliation in any publications (partly) stemming from your time in Leuven.
They particularly encourage early career researchers (PhD students, junior postdocs) to apply for a Seminarium Fellowship, but also more senior scholars (advanced postdocs, professors) are very welcome to do so.
The deadline for submitting your application is 30 June 2023. Each year, they will award one fellowship per term (i.e. two per year). Applications will be reviewed by the Seminarium’s responsible members as part of an open competition.
Applications should be in English and contain (1) a short CV (max. 2 pages) and (2) a brief description of the research you want to conduct in Leuven and why a stay in Leuven is beneficial to it (max. 1 page). Please include the preferred period of your stay in document (2) and take into account the amount of time it takes to apply for a visa, if relevant (see https://diplomatie.belgium.be/en/travel-belgium/visa-belgium). Applications should be sent as a single PDF file to seminarium@kuleuven.be.
Decisions will be announced before 1 August 2023.
The Department for Classical Philology and Neo-Latin Studies at Innsbruck University (Austria) offers two jobs in the context of a project on ‘The Dissertations of the Academia Taxiana’. One of them is a 3-year-predoc position, the other a 3-year-postdoc position – both starting in November 2023. For more information, please read the calls here (predoc) and here (postdoc). For general enquiries, contact the PI at: isabella.walser-buergler@uibk.ac.at.
The research institute LECTIO is announcing its Visiting Program for the next academic year 2023-2024. It allows for travel and accommodation in Leuven for 4-6 weeks. See: https://neolatijn.nl/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/LECTIO-visiting-program_2023-2024.pdf.
KU Leuven STUDIUM.AI @Lectio team is currently looking for a new team member with postdoctoral status in the field of early modern studies (broadly defined), with ample experience in the field of Digital Humanities and Social Network Analysis. STUDIUM.AI proposes to build a sustainable research infrastructure (RI) that allows to examine the ‘web of knowledge’ around the Old University of Leuven from a data- and AI-driven perspective. It is embedded within the KU Leuven Institute LECTIO for the Study of the Transmission of Texts, Ideas and Images in Antiquity, the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. The postdoc will work at the Faculty of Arts of KU Leuven.
The postdoc will facilitate linking data imported from datasets of the eight participating research teams and the four participating heritage institutions. In addition, the postdoc will identify datasets that can expand the database, either through cooperation with existing projects or by identifying corpora that can be mined for relevant information and set up the procedures of data cleaning. At the same time, the postdoc will coordinate data entry by the KU Leuven researchers as well as a series of student assistant, and document the process of data entry. Together with the AI- and DH-experts, the postdoc will finetune the tools for network analysis, as well as offer training to senior and junior members of the consortium to optimize the performance of the research infrastructure.
A salary according to barema 44 (postdoc).
It is a 50% position, for 18 months (flexible in tailoring this schedule)
Start: as soon as possible, no later than October, 1.
- Deadline submission application: April, 28 at noon
- Interviews (can be organized remotely): Wednesday May, 3 or Thursday May, 4
For further information:
https://www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jobsite/jobs/60205480
The Erasmus of Rotterdam Research Centre and the Rotterdam Public Library have recently launched a new fellowship with regard to the unique Erasmus Collection that is being preserved in the library. Interested scholars are able to apply for this position as of now.
The Rotterdam Public Library hosts the world’s largest Erasmus Collection which goes back to 1604. The Collection includes more than 3000 early-modern editions of Erasmus’ works and handwritten letters, and a vast range of modern translations, editions, articles and books related to Erasmus and his reception from the 16th century to the present. This provides a unique opportunity for junior and senior researchers to engage with Erasmus Studies in the context of (neo-latin) philology, philosophy, typography, book history, Renaissance Studies, and related fields.
ERRC and the Rotterdam Public Library aim to facilitate international researchers to study the world’s largest Erasmus Collection. We invite scholars from all over the world to apply for an Erasmus Collection Fellowship and engage in research related to the Collection. We encourage all interested academics, journalists and independent researchers to apply. For further information on the application: See our website.
De Stichting Philologisch Studiefonds verstrekt ieder jaar een beurs aan een of meerdere recent afgestudeerden (MA) of gepromoveerden (PhD) om een rondreis of een onderzoeksverblijf in het Middellandse Zeegebied mogelijk te maken. De deadline voor het indienen van een aanvraag is 1 april 2023. Aanvragen kunnen uitsluitend via de website van het Studiefonds worden ingediend (www.philologischstudiefonds.nl). Meer informatie over het studiefonds en hoe een aanvraag kan worden ingediend is te vinden in de bijlage. Kandidaten ontvangen vóór 1 mei een bericht over hun aanvraag.