[KS] CfA: Doctoral position in premodern Korean Studies at Ruhr University Bochum

[Marion Eggert]

Dear colleagues,

Ruhr University Bochum invites applications for doctoral positions 
(part-time, 65%, four years) within a new Research Training Group (i.e., 
a temporary Graduate School funded by the German Research Foundation) on 
truth production in premodern Europe and East Asia (China and Korea). 
Employment will start Dec. 2024; application deadline is July 22, 2024.

Here is the link to the official call:

https://jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/jobposting/36ff2e57b42505be75a17adb92f59dcf2e3424a20?ref=homepage 

The call is in German, but knowing German is not a precondition for 
successful application.
Below you find the most important information concerning the position 
and the application process.
Persons considering to apply may turn to me for more information on the 
RTG's research approach. For information on the application procedure, 
see the very end of this e-mail.

Regards,
Marion Eggert

*Research Training Group 2945: Knowing – Believing – Asserting: 
Production and Enforcement of Truth in the Premodern Period*

The Research Training Group (RTG) 2945 investigates the production and 
enforcement of truth between the 13^th and 17^th centuries. It focuses 
on a period characterized by social, political, and religious dynamics 
as well as by transformations of knowledge cultures, by media changes, 
and by changing public spheres. During this period, more differentiated 
semantics of truth and knowledge emerged, while rhetorical or moral 
arguments and well-established institutional or ritual ways of securing 
truth remained effective. A multiplicity of new and established 
practices of asserting and enforcing truth existed simultaneously – 
ignoring, supporting, negating, or copying each other. The RTG seeks to 
attract doctoral projects that either investigate how truth is claimed, 
asserted, enforced, and made acceptable to guide speech, thought, action 
and decision-making, or that explore how processes of 'making truth' are 
observed and reflected in images, plays, and texts.Europe and its early 
colonial contact zones as well as China and Korea - which are 
particularly suitable for a comparative investigation due to their 
highly developed written cultures and their specific dynamics - will be 
analyzed.

By understanding truth as something that is made or produced, we 
acknowledge the fact that even though truth can be conceptualized as 
ontological, unattainable, or eternal, it only becomes tangible in the 
mode of its mediation. Truth must be declared or claimed, its status 
must be asserted, inscribed, or embodied – it always appears within media.

Complementing existing research on the history of science, on 
institutional validity claims, or on the role of the expert, the RTG 
focuses on practices and processes of making truth and explores their 
dependence on bodies, natural things, and artefacts. It observes truth 
production as a bundle of practices and material arrangements in which 
people, media, things, and spatial arrangements interact. Bodies, 
instruments, tools, natural and artificial objects, texts, images, 
diagrams, architectures, workshops, courthouses, or theatre stages all 
participate in the assertion and negotiation of truth.


*Your tasks:*
- completion of a PhD thesis and of the doctoral examination within 4 years
- active participation in the activities and programme lines of the GRK 2945
*We expect:*
- an excellent degree (M.A., M.Ed., first legal examination, or 
equivalent international degrees) in one of the subjects participating 
in the RTG (i.e. English Literature, German Literature, History, 
Comparative Literature, Korean Studies, Art History, Legal History, 
Romance Studies, Chinese Studies, History of Knowledge) or in a related 
subject area with a strong focus on the premodern period
- the ability to conduct independent academic work
- a strong interest in interdisciplinary, theoretical work
- a high degree of personal initiative
*Interviews* will take place via Zoom on 5/6 August 2024. We will inform 
you of a possible invitation on 29 July 2024.


Please send your application (German or English) with the required 
documents (letter of motivation, CV, certificates, list of publications 
and presentations if applicable) and an outline of your dissertation 
project (maximum of 20,000 characters, including spaces) by *22 July 
2024* exclusively in electronic form and in a single PDF document with 
the reference number ANR 3401 to: Sabrina Pähler 
(sabrina.paehler at ruhr-uni-bochum.de). Ms Pähler is also available to 
answer any questions concerning the application process.
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