Daily Archives: 30 April 2014

Saint Louis University: Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Digital Humanities – Call For Applications

Saint Louis University, a Jesuit Catholic institution dedicated to education, research, healthcare and service, seeks applicants for a one-year Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Digital Humanities, beginning 1 September 2014. The Fellow will reside in the University’s Center for Digital Humanities, where they will conduct his/her own research. They will also assist in the general tasks of the Center including workshops, seminars and lectures. Finally, the Fellow may teach one course in Digital Humanities in the spring semester.

The Center for Digital Humanities is a collaboration between the College of Arts and Sciences and the Pius XII Memorial Library. It supports the disciplines of English, History, Philosophy, Modern and Classical Languages, Theological Studies as well as Library and Information Studies.

The Center has a close connection to the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, and also coordinates its activities with the Walter J Ong Center for Language, Media and Culture. For the last four years, the Center’s research focus has been pre-modern manuscript studies and is currently developing a number of image/text annotation systems.

The Center welcomes candidates who are pursuing research in this or commensurate fields. In addition to the general research resources of the University, the Fellow will have access to a software developer should the research project require it. The Center will also provide some limited research and travel funds throughout the year.

General enquiries about the position may be directed to Dr James Ginther (ginthej@slu.edu).

Review of Applications will begin 1 May 2014 until the position is filled.

Please submit a letter of application, a curriculum vitae, a description of the research project (2 pages maximum), and the names of three referees. All submissions must be sent as email attachments to Dr. James R. Ginther, Director, Center for Digital Humanities (digitalhumanities@slu.edu).

Saint Louis University is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer and strongly encourages applications from women and minority candidates.

Exploring Jesuit Distinctiveness – Call For Papers

First International Symposium On Jesuit Studies
“Exploring Jesuit Distinctiveness”
Boston College
10-14 June 2015

The Jesuit tradition is an intriguing prism through which to look at many aspects of the Society of Jesus¹s history and influence, whether explicitly through comparative studies, or by the grouping of studies around a given topical, chronological, or geographic focus. Scholarship on the Society of Jesus engages a staggering array of disciplines like art history, theology, literary studies, history of science, international law, military history, performing arts, and archeology. From another perspective, scholarship on Jesuits and their works intersects with many historical periods like the Renaissance, Reformation, Scientific Revolution, and the Enlightenment among others.

The aim of the International Symposium on Jesuit Studies, sponsored by Boston College¹s Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies, is to establish a platform for academic exchange that will stimulate scholars to cross the thematic and chronological boundaries of their research fields in order to reflect this interdisciplinary development.

The symposium theme is the distinctiveness of Jesuits and their ministries. It will focus on the quidditas Jesuitica, the specifically Jesuit way of proceeding in which Jesuits and their colleagues operated from historical, geographical, social, and cultural perspectives. Is there an essential core of distinctive elements that characterize the way in which Jesuits live their religious vocation and conduct their various works? How was this way of proceeding lived out in the various epochs and cultures in which Jesuits worked over four and a half centuries? What changed and adapted itself to different times and situations? What remained constant transcending time and place, infusing the apostolic works and lives of Jesuits with the charism on which the Society of Jesus was founded and developed? These are just a few examples of questions that might be explored during the Symposium.

Proposals for individual papers and panels (max. 250 words) along with a narrative CV (max.150 words) must be submitted to the Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies (iajs@bc.edu) before 31 May 2014.