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Professorship for Cultural and Social Anthropology with a focus on East Asia (W2 / Associate Professor)

Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), Germany
Deadline: 22nd Dec 2021
The Faculty of Humanities, Social Sciences, and Theology at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) invites applications for a Professorship for Cultural and Social Anthropology with a focus on East Asia (W2 / Associate Professor) at the Institute of Languages and Cultures of the Middle East and East Asia in the Department of Classical World and Asian Cultures. The professorship is to be filled by 01.10.2022 on a fixed-term basis until 30.09.2027. The professorship is planned as part of the Elite Master’s degree programme ‘Standards of Decision-Making Across Cultures’ (SDAC) which was established in

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Call for Researcher Position: Chinese Ecolinguistics (2022–2025)

Ca’ Foscari University, Venice
Position: Researcher (Assistant Professor)
Type of contract: Research position, with limited teaching duties (60 hours frontal teaching/year). Length of contract: 3 years, expected start between January and February 2022. Research duties: The Researcher will play a key role in prototyping a Toolkit for Sustainability Discourse Analysis (ToSuDA). ToSuDA’s purpose is to assist in the characterization of discourses vs different sustainability paradigms, by indexing textual and propositional features based on their proximity to different attitudes toward (a) human welfare and (b) environmental sustainability. In consideration of China’s emergent role in the global environmental

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GEAS International and Interdisciplinary PhD Program East Asian Studies

Deadline: 12th Nov 2021
Freie Universität Berlin
GEAS at Freie Universität Berlin invites applications for its international and interdisciplinary PhD program East Asian Studies again (GEAS) for start in October 2022. Up to 9 candidates can be accepted. GEAS offers a social science-based, structured 3(-4)-year PhD program with a regional focus on East Asia (China, Japan, Korea). Doctoral dissertations at GEAS are expected to analyze the institutional environment of social, political, cultural and economic actors in the East Asian region. All dissertation research at GEAS will be conducted in the context of the three interconnected research lenses of its academic profile: 1. the origin and change of institutions in East Asia, 2. the effects institutions have on processes, related to

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