From Hubert.Cuyckens at arts.kuleuven.be Sat Apr 6 16:45:27 2013 From: Hubert.Cuyckens at arts.kuleuven.be (Hubert Cuyckens) Date: Sat, 6 Apr 2013 16:45:27 +0000 Subject: 18th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL-18) Message-ID: 18th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL-18) First announcement ICEHL-18 will take place at the University of Leuven (KU Leuven), Belgium, 14-18 July 2014 (academic programme 14-17 July). Plenary speakers · Maria Jose Lopez-Couso (University of Santiago de Compostela) (http://www.usc-vlcg.es/MXLC.htm). · Robert Fulk (Indiana University, Bloomington) http://www.iub.edu/~engweb/faculty/profile_rFulk.shtml). · Peter Grund (University of Kansas) (http://www.english.ku.edu/people/grund-peter-j/index.shtml). · Anthony Warner (The University of York) (http://www.york.ac.uk/language/people/academic-research/anthony-warner/). · Charles Boberg (McGill University) http://www.mcgill.ca/linguistics/sites/mcgill.ca.linguistics/files/boberg_webpage.pdf Presentation formats Full papers will be allowed 30 minutes, including 10 minutes for discussion. Posters will be presented in a special session and remain on display during the conference. Submission of abstracts and workshop proposals Abstracts and workshop proposals can be submitted from 1 May onwards. The deadline for abstract submissions is November 30, 2013; proposals for workshops are invited by 30 September. Notification of acceptance of workshop proposals will be given by 30 October. Notification of acceptance of abstracts will be sent out by 15 February 2014. Further particulars will follow. Workshops A total of four workshops can be scheduled (one per day). Further particulars to follow. Conference website Under construction Email address: icehl18 at arts.kuleuven.be Registration Registration for the conference opens on February 15, 2014. Travel and Accommodation Further particulars to follow Organizing committee Hubert Cuyckens Hendrik De Smet Liesbet Heyvaert Peter Petré -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The venue is the monastery of Metochi-Kalloni on the island of Lesbos (Greece). Classes will take place in the morning and early evening and you will have the opportunity to present your own research at a special session. Our teachers and modules in 2013 will be · Peter Trudgill (Agder) on Contact-related Processes of Change in the History of English · Joseph Salmons (UW Madison) on the Historical Sociolinguistics of Heritage Languages · Doris Stolberg (IDS Mannheim) on Language and Colonialism: German in the Pacific · Peter Bakker (Århus) on Distinct Men’s and Women’s Languages: When, Where, What & Why? · Gijsbert Rutten (Leiden) on Dutch in Modern Times: Historical Sociolinguistic Perspectives · Michael Schulte (Agder) on Historical Language Contact in Western Scandinavian: Icelandic - Faroese - West Norwegian - Shetland and Orkney Norn · Raymond Hickey (Duisburg-Essen) on Phonological Typology in English The school will last for one week and will cost £475 (if registered by May 15th or £575, if you register thereafter), which includes accommodation, three meals per day, tuition, and an excursion. There is space for only 40 students, so secure your place with a £100 deposit now! For further information and registration, visit www.bris.ac.uk/german/hison/summerschool2013.html or email: sml-hison at bris.ac.uk www.hison.ac.uk -- Dr Nils Langer Subject Lead (German Dept.) Reader in German Linguistics School of Modern Languages 21 Woodland Road University of Bristol BS8 1TE Stor Britannien 0117 928 9841 www.bris.ac.uk/german www.fgls.ac.uk www.hison.ac.uk www.onion.com _______________________________________________ Histling-l mailing list Histling-l at mailman.rice.edu https://mailman.rice.edu/mailman/listinfo/histling-l From george.walkden at gmail.com Mon Apr 15 18:57:43 2013 From: george.walkden at gmail.com (George Walkden) Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2013 19:57:43 +0100 Subject: Historical corpus list created Message-ID: Dear all, A new email list, specifically devoted to historical corpora and historical corpus linguistics, has now been set up at the University of Manchester. To subscribe, send an email to listserv at listserv.manchester.ac.uk containing the text "subscribe historical-corpora" in the body of the email. Best wishes, - George ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: George Walkden Lecturer in English Linguistics University of Manchester george.walkden at manchester.ac.uk http://personalpages.manchester.ac.uk/staff/george.walkden/ Office: N1.2 Samuel Alexander Building Tel.: +44 (0)161 275 8905 ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: _______________________________________________ Histling-l mailing list Histling-l at mailman.rice.edu https://mailman.rice.edu/mailman/listinfo/histling-l From eska at vt.edu Tue Apr 16 18:23:15 2013 From: eska at vt.edu (Joseph F. Eska) Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2013 14:23:15 -0400 Subject: New journal annoucement Message-ID: New journal: Indo-European linguistics Indo-European linguistics (IEL) is a new, double-blind peer-reviewed journal devoted to the study of the Indo-European languages from the perspective of modern linguistics. It provides a venue for synchronic or diachronic linguistic studies of the older Indo-European languages and the Indo-European family as a whole, within any theoretical or analytical framework. IEL welcomes submissions dealing with phonetic, phonological, morphological, syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic aspects of the older Indo-European languages; historical studies of any of the Indo-European languages or branches, including problems related to the reconstruction of proto-Indo-European; typological investigations, including those which make use of data from non-Indo-European languages; and research which draws upon the findings of language acquisition, cognitive science, variationist sociolinguistics, or language contact. Contributions with a focus on more ‘traditional’ topics such as sound change or etymology, but which have ramifications for linguistic theory or general issues of language use, acquisition, and change, are likewise encouraged. IEL will be published by Brill Academic Publishers in both print and electronic form. The electronic form will be open access for the first five years of the journal's publication. The print form will appear once per year as a volume of ca. 300 pages. The electronic version of articles will be posted as they are ready for publication. General Editors: Joseph F. Eska (Blacksburg) Ronald Kim (Poznan) Editorial Board: Stephen Colvin (London) Eystein Dahl (Bergen) Petra Goedegebuure (Chicago) Olav Hackstein (Munich) Götz Keydana (Göttingen) Paul Kiparsky (Stanford) Masato Kobayashi (Tokyo) Martin Kümmel (Freiburg) Rosemarie Lühr (Jena) H. Craig Melchert (Los Angeles) Don Ringe (Philadelphia) Michael Weiss (Ithaca) For authors guidelines for the preparation of manuscripts and electronic submission, please direct your browser to www.brill.com/publications/journals/indo-european-linguistics. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The position is attached to the project “Birds and Beasts: Shaping Events in Old Russian” in the Department of Language and Linguistics and the successful candidate will be a member of the CLEAR (Cognitive Linguistics: Empirical Approaches to Russian) research group. The position of Postdoctoral Research Fellow is a fixed term position for a period of three years. The main objective of the appointment as a post-doctoral research fellow is to qualify for work in a senior academic position. No one may be appointed to more than one fixed term period as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the same institution. Further information about the position is available by contacting the Department Chair Endre Mørck, tlf. 776 44238, e-mail: endre.morck at uit.no or Professor Tore Nesset, e-mail: tore.nesset at uit.no. The Department of Language and Linguistics (IS) has approximately 33 permanent faculty members and approximately 20 PhD students. There are additional administrative employees and personnel in temporary research and teaching positions. IS conducts teaching, research, and dissemination in the area of general linguistics, English, Finnish and Kven, French, Norwegian, Russian, Saami, Spanish, and German. There is also work done on Saami language technology in the Giellatekno and Divvun research groups. Due to the strategic position of the University of Tromsø with respect to the High North, it is natural for IS to invest its resources in the languages of the High North, although research is also conducted on a broad spectrum of other topics andwith various theoretical approaches. A previously free-standing Center of Excellence in theoretical linguistics (CASTL) continues as a research group in IS. In addition to the Saami Language Technology and CASTL research groups,there are research groups in Slavic Cognitive Linguistics, Language Acquisition, and Language and Society. “Birds and Beasts: Shaping Events in Old Russian” is a research project funded by the Norwegian Research Council, which aims to construct an Old Russian electronic text corpus and investigate the grammatical categories of aspect and aktionsart in Russian. The successful applicant will be hired as a postdoctoral fellow who will share responsibility for the Birds & Beasts project with the project leaders Tore Nesset and Laura Janda and the researcher Hanne Eckhoff. The postdoctoral fellow will be expected to contribute to the practical work of building thecorpus, such as training and guiding annotators, preparing texts and overseeing quality control. The postdoctoral fellow will also be coauthor on two or more of the subprojects, and should contribute in addition a subproject in line with the main ideas of the project. Applicants can receive a detailed description of the Birds & Beasts project from the project leader Tore Nesset. The successful applicant must have a Norwegian doctoral degree in linguistics with a focus on the study of the Russian language, or a corresponding foreign doctoral degree recognized as equivalent to a Norwegian doctoral degree, and should show promise as a researcher. In order for the postdoctoral fellow to undertake the responsibilities described above, a solid background in Russian historical linguistics is essential, and it is desirable to document expertise in Russian aspect and Aktionsart. Given the theoretical orientation of the project, training in cognitive linguistics is important preparation. Technical experience with corpus linguistics, statistical methods, and good computer skills are an advantage. When applying for a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, the applicant shall submit a project proposal for the qualifying work. This proposal shall include a progress plan. It is required that the applicant will be able to complete the project during the period of appointment. Further, applicants must be able to document teaching qualifications in the form of documented practical competence as ateacher, university-level teaching seminars, other teaching education or through having developed a teaching portfolio, refer to the website about teacher training courses< http://uit.no/ansatte/organisasjon/artikkel?p_menu=42374&p_lang=2&p_document_id=139547&p_dimension_id=88155 >. Emphasis shall be attached to personal suitability. The working hours shall be used for research, research-related activities and research administration. The position mayinclude teaching or equivalent duties for UiT of up to a 25% position. The successful applicant must be willing to engage himself/herself in the ongoing development of his/her discipline and the university as a whole. The remuneration for this position is in accordance with the State salary scale code 1352. A compulsory contribution of 2 % to the Norwegian Public Service Pension Fund will be deducted. The applicants will be assessed by an expert committee. The committee’s mandate is to undertake an assessment of the applicants’ qualifications based on the written material presented by the applicants, and the detailed description drawn up for the position. The applicants who are assessed as the best qualified will be called to an interview. The interview shall among other things aim to clarify the applicant’s personal suitability for the position. A trial lecture may also be held. The University of Tromsø wishes to increase the proportion of females in research positions. In the event that two or more applicants are found to be approximately equallyqualified, female applicants will be given priority. The application must be submitted electronically via the application form available onwww.jobbnorge.no. In addition, by the application deadline, four (4) copies of the following shall be sent directly tothe Faculty of Humanities, Social Sciences and Education, University of Tromsø, NO-9037 Tromsø: * Letter of application * CV (containing a complete overview of education, supervised professional training and professional work) * Certified copies of diplomas and references * Form for documentation of teaching qualifications< http://uit.no/ikbViewer/Content/285975/Skjema%20for%20dokumentasjon%20av%20pedagogiske%20kvalifikasjoner%20engelsk.xls > * List of works and description of these (see below) The list of works shall contain the following information: · author(s), the work’s title · for articles: the journal’s name and volume, the first and last page of the article, year of publication * for books or other publications: publisher, printer, year of publication, number of pages The applicant may submit up to 10 works that are central to his/her production. The applicant’s doctoral thesis is regarded in this context as one work. The works must be submitted in three (3) copies arranged as three (3) complete sets. In addition, applicants may submit one copy of the additional listed works. In addition, theapplicant shall provide a description of his/her scientific production stating which works he/she considers the most important and shall therefore be the main emphasis of the assessment. A brief description of the other listed works shall also be included to demonstrate depth of production. These descriptions shall be an attachment to the application. The works shall be sent, by the closing date for applications, directly to: Faculty of Humanities, Social Sciences and Education University of Tromsø NO-9037 TROMSØ Applicants shall also refer to the Supplementary regulations for appointment to postdoktor (Postdoctoral Research Rellow), stipendiat (PhD) and vitenskapelig assistent (Research Assistant) positions at the University of Tromsø< http://uit.no/Content/293360/Utfyllende%20bestemmelser%20tilsetting%20postdoc%20stipendiat%20og%20vit%20ass%20ved%20UiT.doc > and to the Regulations concerning terms and conditions of employment for posts of postdoktor (Postdoctoral Research Fellow), stipendiat (PhD), vitenskapelig assistent (Research Assistant) and spesialistkandidat (Resident)< http://www.lovdata.no/cgi-wift/wiftldles?doc=/app/gratis/www/docroot/for/sf/kd/kd-20060131-0102.html&emne=P >. Questions concerning the organization of the working environment, such as the physical state of the place of employment,health service, possibility for flexible working hours, part time, etc. may be directed to the telephone reference in this announcement. The University of Tromsø has HR policy objectives that emphasize diversity, and therefore encourages qualified applicants to apply regardless of their age, gender, functional ability and national or ethnic background. The University of Tromsø is an IW (Inclusive Workplace) enterprise, and will therefore emphasize making the necessary adaptations to the working conditions for employees with reduced functional ability. Personal data given in an application or CV will be processed in accordance with the Act relating to the processing of personal data (the Personal Data Act). In accordance with Section 25 subsection 2 of the Freedom of Information Act, the applicant may request not to be registered on the public list of applicants. 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Maria Jose Lopez-Couso (University of Santiago de Compostela) (http://www.usc-vlcg.es/MXLC.htm). ? Robert Fulk (Indiana University, Bloomington) http://www.iub.edu/~engweb/faculty/profile_rFulk.shtml). ? Peter Grund (University of Kansas) (http://www.english.ku.edu/people/grund-peter-j/index.shtml). ? Anthony Warner (The University of York) (http://www.york.ac.uk/language/people/academic-research/anthony-warner/). ? Charles Boberg (McGill University) http://www.mcgill.ca/linguistics/sites/mcgill.ca.linguistics/files/boberg_webpage.pdf Presentation formats Full papers will be allowed 30 minutes, including 10 minutes for discussion. Posters will be presented in a special session and remain on display during the conference. Submission of abstracts and workshop proposals Abstracts and workshop proposals can be submitted from 1 May onwards. The deadline for abstract submissions is November 30, 2013; proposals for workshops are invited by 30 September. Notification of acceptance of workshop proposals will be given by 30 October. Notification of acceptance of abstracts will be sent out by 15 February 2014. Further particulars will follow. Workshops A total of four workshops can be scheduled (one per day). Further particulars to follow. Conference website Under construction Email address: icehl18 at arts.kuleuven.be Registration Registration for the conference opens on February 15, 2014. Travel and Accommodation Further particulars to follow Organizing committee Hubert Cuyckens Hendrik De Smet Liesbet Heyvaert Peter Petr? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The venue is the monastery of Metochi-Kalloni on the island of Lesbos (Greece). Classes will take place in the morning and early evening and you will have the opportunity to present your own research at a special session. Our teachers and modules in 2013 will be ? Peter Trudgill (Agder) on Contact-related Processes of Change in the History of English ? Joseph Salmons (UW Madison) on the Historical Sociolinguistics of Heritage Languages ? Doris Stolberg (IDS Mannheim) on Language and Colonialism: German in the Pacific ? Peter Bakker (?rhus) on Distinct Men?s and Women?s Languages: When, Where, What & Why? ? Gijsbert Rutten (Leiden) on Dutch in Modern Times: Historical Sociolinguistic Perspectives ? Michael Schulte (Agder) on Historical Language Contact in Western Scandinavian: Icelandic - Faroese - West Norwegian - Shetland and Orkney Norn ? Raymond Hickey (Duisburg-Essen) on Phonological Typology in English The school will last for one week and will cost ?475 (if registered by May 15th or ?575, if you register thereafter), which includes accommodation, three meals per day, tuition, and an excursion. There is space for only 40 students, so secure your place with a ?100 deposit now! For further information and registration, visit www.bris.ac.uk/german/hison/summerschool2013.html or email: sml-hison at bris.ac.uk www.hison.ac.uk -- Dr Nils Langer Subject Lead (German Dept.) Reader in German Linguistics School of Modern Languages 21 Woodland Road University of Bristol BS8 1TE Stor Britannien 0117 928 9841 www.bris.ac.uk/german www.fgls.ac.uk www.hison.ac.uk www.onion.com _______________________________________________ Histling-l mailing list Histling-l at mailman.rice.edu https://mailman.rice.edu/mailman/listinfo/histling-l From george.walkden at gmail.com Mon Apr 15 18:57:43 2013 From: george.walkden at gmail.com (George Walkden) Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2013 19:57:43 +0100 Subject: Historical corpus list created Message-ID: Dear all, A new email list, specifically devoted to historical corpora and historical corpus linguistics, has now been set up at the University of Manchester. To subscribe, send an email to listserv at listserv.manchester.ac.uk containing the text "subscribe historical-corpora" in the body of the email. Best wishes, - George ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: George Walkden Lecturer in English Linguistics University of Manchester george.walkden at manchester.ac.uk http://personalpages.manchester.ac.uk/staff/george.walkden/ Office: N1.2 Samuel Alexander Building Tel.: +44 (0)161 275 8905 ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: _______________________________________________ Histling-l mailing list Histling-l at mailman.rice.edu https://mailman.rice.edu/mailman/listinfo/histling-l From eska at vt.edu Tue Apr 16 18:23:15 2013 From: eska at vt.edu (Joseph F. Eska) Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2013 14:23:15 -0400 Subject: New journal annoucement Message-ID: New journal: Indo-European linguistics Indo-European linguistics (IEL) is a new, double-blind peer-reviewed journal devoted to the study of the Indo-European languages from the perspective of modern linguistics. It provides a venue for synchronic or diachronic linguistic studies of the older Indo-European languages and the Indo-European family as a whole, within any theoretical or analytical framework. IEL welcomes submissions dealing with phonetic, phonological, morphological, syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic aspects of the older Indo-European languages; historical studies of any of the Indo-European languages or branches, including problems related to the reconstruction of proto-Indo-European; typological investigations, including those which make use of data from non-Indo-European languages; and research which draws upon the findings of language acquisition, cognitive science, variationist sociolinguistics, or language contact. Contributions with a focus on more ?traditional? topics such as sound change or etymology, but which have ramifications for linguistic theory or general issues of language use, acquisition, and change, are likewise encouraged. IEL will be published by Brill Academic Publishers in both print and electronic form. The electronic form will be open access for the first five years of the journal's publication. The print form will appear once per year as a volume of ca. 300 pages. The electronic version of articles will be posted as they are ready for publication. General Editors: Joseph F. Eska (Blacksburg) Ronald Kim (Poznan) Editorial Board: Stephen Colvin (London) Eystein Dahl (Bergen) Petra Goedegebuure (Chicago) Olav Hackstein (Munich) G?tz Keydana (G?ttingen) Paul Kiparsky (Stanford) Masato Kobayashi (Tokyo) Martin K?mmel (Freiburg) Rosemarie L?hr (Jena) H. Craig Melchert (Los Angeles) Don Ringe (Philadelphia) Michael Weiss (Ithaca) For authors guidelines for the preparation of manuscripts and electronic submission, please direct your browser to www.brill.com/publications/journals/indo-european-linguistics. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- _______________________________________________ Histling-l mailing list Histling-l at mailman.rice.edu https://mailman.rice.edu/mailman/listinfo/histling-l From h.m.eckhoff at ifikk.uio.no Wed Apr 17 15:59:00 2013 From: h.m.eckhoff at ifikk.uio.no (Hanne Martine Eckhoff) Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2013 17:59:00 +0200 Subject: Postdoctoral position, Russian historical corpus linguistics Message-ID: Postdoctoral Fellow in Russian Linguistics: http://www.jobbnorge.no/job.aspx?jobid=92982 (Follow this link to the online portion of the application and see further information below) Ref. no.: 2013/1703 Postdoctoral Fellow in Russian Linguistics at the Faculty of Humanities, Social Sciences and Education, Department of Language and Linguistics Application deadline: 30.05.2013 (May 30, 2013) Applications shall be marked:Ref. 2013/1703 The University of Troms?, Faculty of Humanities, Social Sciences andEducation, has a Postdoctoral Research Fellow position vacant. The position is attached to the project ?Birds and Beasts: Shaping Events in Old Russian? in the Department of Language and Linguistics and the successful candidate will be a member of the CLEAR (Cognitive Linguistics: Empirical Approaches to Russian) research group. The position of Postdoctoral Research Fellow is a fixed term position for a period of three years. The main objective of the appointment as a post-doctoral research fellow is to qualify for work in a senior academic position. No one may be appointed to more than one fixed term period as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the same institution. Further information about the position is available by contacting the Department Chair Endre M?rck, tlf. 776 44238, e-mail: endre.morck at uit.no or Professor Tore Nesset, e-mail: tore.nesset at uit.no. The Department of Language and Linguistics (IS) has approximately 33 permanent faculty members and approximately 20 PhD students. There are additional administrative employees and personnel in temporary research and teaching positions. IS conducts teaching, research, and dissemination in the area of general linguistics, English, Finnish and Kven, French, Norwegian, Russian, Saami, Spanish, and German. There is also work done on Saami language technology in the Giellatekno and Divvun research groups. Due to the strategic position of the University of Troms? with respect to the High North, it is natural for IS to invest its resources in the languages of the High North, although research is also conducted on a broad spectrum of other topics andwith various theoretical approaches. A previously free-standing Center of Excellence in theoretical linguistics (CASTL) continues as a research group in IS. In addition to the Saami Language Technology and CASTL research groups,there are research groups in Slavic Cognitive Linguistics, Language Acquisition, and Language and Society. ?Birds and Beasts: Shaping Events in Old Russian? is a research project funded by the Norwegian Research Council, which aims to construct an Old Russian electronic text corpus and investigate the grammatical categories of aspect and aktionsart in Russian. The successful applicant will be hired as a postdoctoral fellow who will share responsibility for the Birds & Beasts project with the project leaders Tore Nesset and Laura Janda and the researcher Hanne Eckhoff. The postdoctoral fellow will be expected to contribute to the practical work of building thecorpus, such as training and guiding annotators, preparing texts and overseeing quality control. The postdoctoral fellow will also be coauthor on two or more of the subprojects, and should contribute in addition a subproject in line with the main ideas of the project. Applicants can receive a detailed description of the Birds & Beasts project from the project leader Tore Nesset. The successful applicant must have a Norwegian doctoral degree in linguistics with a focus on the study of the Russian language, or a corresponding foreign doctoral degree recognized as equivalent to a Norwegian doctoral degree, and should show promise as a researcher. In order for the postdoctoral fellow to undertake the responsibilities described above, a solid background in Russian historical linguistics is essential, and it is desirable to document expertise in Russian aspect and Aktionsart. Given the theoretical orientation of the project, training in cognitive linguistics is important preparation. Technical experience with corpus linguistics, statistical methods, and good computer skills are an advantage. When applying for a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, the applicant shall submit a project proposal for the qualifying work. This proposal shall include a progress plan. It is required that the applicant will be able to complete the project during the period of appointment. Further, applicants must be able to document teaching qualifications in the form of documented practical competence as ateacher, university-level teaching seminars, other teaching education or through having developed a teaching portfolio, refer to the website about teacher training courses< http://uit.no/ansatte/organisasjon/artikkel?p_menu=42374&p_lang=2&p_document_id=139547&p_dimension_id=88155 >. Emphasis shall be attached to personal suitability. The working hours shall be used for research, research-related activities and research administration. The position mayinclude teaching or equivalent duties for UiT of up to a 25% position. The successful applicant must be willing to engage himself/herself in the ongoing development of his/her discipline and the university as a whole. The remuneration for this position is in accordance with the State salary scale code 1352. A compulsory contribution of 2 % to the Norwegian Public Service Pension Fund will be deducted. The applicants will be assessed by an expert committee. The committee?s mandate is to undertake an assessment of the applicants? qualifications based on the written material presented by the applicants, and the detailed description drawn up for the position. The applicants who are assessed as the best qualified will be called to an interview. The interview shall among other things aim to clarify the applicant?s personal suitability for the position. A trial lecture may also be held. The University of Troms? wishes to increase the proportion of females in research positions. In the event that two or more applicants are found to be approximately equallyqualified, female applicants will be given priority. The application must be submitted electronically via the application form available onwww.jobbnorge.no. In addition, by the application deadline, four (4) copies of the following shall be sent directly tothe Faculty of Humanities, Social Sciences and Education, University of Troms?, NO-9037 Troms?: * Letter of application * CV (containing a complete overview of education, supervised professional training and professional work) * Certified copies of diplomas and references * Form for documentation of teaching qualifications< http://uit.no/ikbViewer/Content/285975/Skjema%20for%20dokumentasjon%20av%20pedagogiske%20kvalifikasjoner%20engelsk.xls > * List of works and description of these (see below) The list of works shall contain the following information: ? author(s), the work?s title ? for articles: the journal?s name and volume, the first and last page of the article, year of publication * for books or other publications: publisher, printer, year of publication, number of pages The applicant may submit up to 10 works that are central to his/her production. The applicant?s doctoral thesis is regarded in this context as one work. The works must be submitted in three (3) copies arranged as three (3) complete sets. In addition, applicants may submit one copy of the additional listed works. In addition, theapplicant shall provide a description of his/her scientific production stating which works he/she considers the most important and shall therefore be the main emphasis of the assessment. A brief description of the other listed works shall also be included to demonstrate depth of production. These descriptions shall be an attachment to the application. The works shall be sent, by the closing date for applications, directly to: Faculty of Humanities, Social Sciences and Education University of Troms? NO-9037 TROMS? Applicants shall also refer to the Supplementary regulations for appointment to postdoktor (Postdoctoral Research Rellow), stipendiat (PhD) and vitenskapelig assistent (Research Assistant) positions at the University of Troms?< http://uit.no/Content/293360/Utfyllende%20bestemmelser%20tilsetting%20postdoc%20stipendiat%20og%20vit%20ass%20ved%20UiT.doc > and to the Regulations concerning terms and conditions of employment for posts of postdoktor (Postdoctoral Research Fellow), stipendiat (PhD), vitenskapelig assistent (Research Assistant) and spesialistkandidat (Resident)< http://www.lovdata.no/cgi-wift/wiftldles?doc=/app/gratis/www/docroot/for/sf/kd/kd-20060131-0102.html&emne=P >. Questions concerning the organization of the working environment, such as the physical state of the place of employment,health service, possibility for flexible working hours, part time, etc. may be directed to the telephone reference in this announcement. The University of Troms? has HR policy objectives that emphasize diversity, and therefore encourages qualified applicants to apply regardless of their age, gender, functional ability and national or ethnic background. The University of Troms? is an IW (Inclusive Workplace) enterprise, and will therefore emphasize making the necessary adaptations to the working conditions for employees with reduced functional ability. Personal data given in an application or CV will be processed in accordance with the Act relating to the processing of personal data (the Personal Data Act). In accordance with Section 25 subsection 2 of the Freedom of Information Act, the applicant may request not to be registered on the public list of applicants. However, the University may nevertheless decide that the name of the applicant will be made public. The applicant will receive advance notification in the event of such publication. UNIVERSITY OF TROMS? 9037 Troms? 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