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Dear Listserv members,

We are seeking to appoint a Research Fellow who specialises in Chinese 
intellectual and/or cultural history, with background in the history 
of education and classicising learning in the Tang/Song period. The 
Research Fellow should have strong interest in exploring and employing 
cross-cultural approaches to the history of education and empire 
studies. This post is part of a comparative research project focusing 
on the Byzantine and middle period Chinese (Tang/Song) empires, titled 
?Classicising learning in medieval imperial systems: Cross-cultural 
approaches to Byzantine paideia and Tang/Song xue? (PAIXUE), which is 
funded by the European Research Council (ERC CoG 726371, 2017?2022) 
and co-directed by Niels Gaul and Curie Virág. It is therefore 
essential that the postholder be genuinely interested in engaging with 
Byzantine learned culture and practices from a comparative vantage 
point, and willing to develop the requisite skills and methodologies. 
Research interests in performance studies, social performances (of 
learning), and medieval ritualised communication, or willingness to 
engage with these, would be an advantage. The postholder will pursue 
his/her own research in close cooperation with the project team, and 
is expected to present the results of his/her work in a scholarly 
monograph written with a comparative angle and to co-author at least 
cross-disciplinary article with a Byzantinist team member.

The Research Fellow will become a core member of the small PAIXUE 
project team that will consist of two Byzantinists and two Sinologists 
(including the project directors). PAIXUE constitutes the first 
attempt to study classicising learning and its social, political, and 
intellectual ramifications systematically and in-depth across two 
medieval imperial systems, the Byzantine and Tang/Song empires.

This post is full time fixed-term for 28 months starting on 1st April 
2019, and may be renewable for another 12 months depending on the 
availability of funding at the end of financial year 2020/21.

Salary: £33,199 - £39, 609 (per annum)

Closing date: 12th February 2019 at 5pm (GMT)

The full job posting can be found here:

https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/BPM902/research-fellow

Any questions can be directed to curie.virag@ed.ac.uk.

Please spread the word!

Thank you,
Curie Virág