Bourses — Danemark Aarhus Institute

At the Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies, AIAS, 25 AIAS-COFUND Marie Curie fellowships are available for talented researchers from all academic disciplines over the next year within the first Call for Applications.

Application deadline is 21 March 2014.

 www.aias.au.dk

We hope that you will find the call of interest, and you are welcome to forward the call to other high-level researchers.

Post-doctorat — université de Gand

Job vacancies in Syriac hagiography and Persian medieval narrative literature

 

Two fully-funded ERC Postdoctoral Research Fellowships (4 years each) at Ghent University (Belgium)

The Department of Literary Studies at Ghent University (Belgium) is seeking well-qualified applicants for two fully-funded Postdoctoral Research Fellowships attached to the European Research Council project Novel Saints. Ancient novelistic heroism in the hagiography of Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages(http://erc.europa.eu/cordis_search/project_details/109905). The Principal Investigator of this project is Prof Dr Koen De Temmerman, who, as a classicist, specializes in ancient fiction and its persistence in later periods.

There is one position available in the field of Syriac hagiography and another in that of Persian medieval narrative literature.

The two successful applicants will start employment on 1 June 2014 or as soon as possible thereafter.

Deadline: applications should arrive no later than 21 March 2014.

For detailed information and for guidelines on how to apply, please see http://users.ugent.be/~kdtemmer/vacancies.pdf.