Call for candidates for a doctoral position in Semitic epigraphy for a person willing to contribute to the database of the project. Deadline for applications: 21 September 2020, 11:59pm CET.

We are opening a call for a doctoral candidate willing to work on populating our database with epigraphical data. The doctoral candidate will work in a team of four people, reporting to the PI of the project, with one postdoc and one IT expert.

Details in the attachements: EN, PL.

Responsibilities/duties:

• creating complete datasets for Christian Palestinian Aramaic and Jewish Palestinian Aramaic inscriptions dating from the first Millenium C.E., compliant with the EpiDoc standards (TEI XML).
• participating in the work on datasets of Syriac inscriptions dating from the first Millenium C.E., compliant with the EpiDoc standards (TEI XML)
• integrating the collected datasets with a relational database, using digital solutions developed within the project, tagging, geopositioning and other forms of processing the records in the relational database
• participating in the analysis of the material collected
• giving talks at three international conferences
• together with the PI, producing an edited volume with proceedings of an international conference organized as an integral element of this project
• actively participating in the organisation of conferences and workshops planned in the project, which will include managing part of the correspondence on behalf of the project
• submitting at least one paper to a high-ranking international journal
• participating in the dissemination of the news on the progress of the project in social media
• the doctoral student will be required to develop together with the PI a phase-milestone plan for their work, against which their progress will be regularly monitored and subject to evaluation
• the doctoral student and the PI will hold weekly meetings (in person or via videocommunicators) discussing the work progress

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