Competition for the adjunct – postdoctoral trainee position (post-doc) – the contractor of a research project

Competition for the adjunct – postdoctoral trainee position (post-doc) – the contractor of a research project

INSTITUTION: Institute of History Tadeusz Manteuffel of the Polish Academy of Sciences

CITY: Warsaw

POSITION: adjunct – postdoctoral trainee position (post-doc) – the contractor within the research project

SCIENTIFIC DISCIPLINE: history, New Latin literature, intellectual history, history of ideas

ANNOUNCEMENT DATE: 13.12.2023

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION OF OFFERS: 10.01.2024

DATE OF THE COMPETITION: until 17.01.2024.

LINK TO THE WEBSITE: http://www.ihpanstary.aionline.dev

KEYWORDS: religion, rationalism, enlightenment, socinianism, remonstrants

 

Institute of History Tadeusz Manteuffel of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw announces a competition[1] for the position of adjunct – postdoctoral trainee (post-doc) – contractor of the research project entitled “Religion, Rationalism and Enlightenment: exploring documents on Polish-Dutch connections”, commissioned by the National Science Center (project no. 2023/49/B/HS1/02719) under the supervision of Dr. Jan H. Waszink.

 

The tasks of the trainee will include:

• searching for source documents on the Socinians in archives in Poland, the Netherlands, Germany (and elsewhere if necessary);
• transcribing and translating source documents on the Socinians;
• collecting the existing editions of Socinian texts in 19th- and 20th century scholarship and digitising them
• writing and publishing articles on topics connected with the project;
• presenting papers at conferences;
• assisting the project leader in the management of the project, building a project website, publishing of the results and other tasks;
• assiting the project leader with the composition of a future research grant application on the role of religious minorities in the Enlightenment.

 

DESCRIPTION: The candidate should:

1. have a doctoral degree in humanities in the history of culture or intellectual history, or the history of religion from the early modern era;
2. have research experience and scientific achievements in the field of early-modern intellectual history confirmed by one or more publications, preferably on the intellectual history of Socinianism;
3. have demonstrable experience in making textual editions (experience editing Socinian texts is an advantage);
4. have fluent knowledge of spoken and written English and Latin;
5. have proven experience in teamwork;
6. have proven experience in managing research projects;
7. declare consent to be included in the number of employees conducting research activity during the employment period, i.e. in the number N for the purposes of the algorithm for allocating the base subsidy to statutory activity.

 

Employment: after signing the IH PAN – NCN grant agreement (probably from 01/02/2024) for a period of 2 years, full-time. Detailed terms of employment (in line with the recommendations of the National Science Center) will be specified in the employment contract for a closed period, concluded between the adjunct-trainee and the Director of the Institute of History of the Polish Academy of Sciences.

 

Candidates are requested to submit the following documents:

• Application for employment addressed to the director of the Institute[2];
• Curriculum Vitae;
• A copy of the doctoral diploma;
• Information on scientific achievements with a bibliography;
• Sample of one publication by the candidate in English;
• Candidate’s declaration that in the event of winning the competition, IH PAN will be the primary place of work;
• Consent to be included in the number of employees conducting research activity during the employment period, i.e. the number N for the purposes of the algorithm for allocating the base subsidy for statutory activity (link to the form https://ihpanstary.aionline.dev/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Oswiadczenie_wskazanie_do_wniosku_od-2018.pdf ).

 

Documents should be submitted to the Secretariat of the Institute of History of the Polish Academy of Sciences or sent by post to the following address: Rynek Stary Miasto 31, 00-272 Warsaw and their scans should be sent to the address: ihpan@ihpanstary.aionline.dev with the annotation “Competition for the position of a trainee in the OPUS project – Religion, rationalism and the Enlightenment”

Selected candidates may be invited for an interview (on-line). Each candidate will be informed about the date of the interview and the result of the competition.

 

Director Institute of History PAS
Prof. dr hab. Maciej Janowski

Warsaw, 13.12.2023

 

[1] Competition will be held according to: „Terms and regulations on awarding funding for research tasks funded or co-funded under international calls launched by the National Science Centre and carried out as multilateral collaboration UNISONO”, Annex to NCN Council Resolution No 28/2022 of 2 March 2022 .

[2] In all cases related to processing of personal data please contact the data protection officer: iodo@ihpanstary.aionline.dev. More details on the Institute of History Polish Academy of Sciences website: https://ihpanstary.aionline.dev/en/about-us/personal-data-protection/