PhD Arabic and Islam


PhD Arabic and Islam “Islam and the Performing Arts in the Middle East”Nijmegen, Gelderland), 40 hours per week Radboud University Nijmegen

Job descriptionThe project entitled ‘Islam and the performing arts in the Middle East and Europe: from cultural heritage to cultural citizenship’ focuses on new discourses and practices in Western Europe and the Middle East in which Islam and the performing arts are creatively merged.

The project consists of three interrelated projects carried out by two PhD students and one post-doc. The project is funded by NWO. The successful applicants will become members of staff of Radboud University Nijmegen and will conduct their research within the framework of the research programme called ‘The Dynamics of Islamic Culture’. The subproject ‘Islam and the Performing Arts in the Middle East’ studies performing art productions by performers who view
themselves as Muslims and their productions as pious. The subproject focuses particularly on new genres of Islamic performing art productions, the way they are connected to new waves of piety, and the reception of these new Muslim art projects by diverse publics. The project will particularly focus on Morocco and Egypt. The study will be based on interviews with the performers and various publics, fans and critics. The candidate can state a preference for certain genres of the performing arts to be studied. The candidate will also assist in organizing academic and cultural activities.

Requirements :

University Graduate
You have a Master’sdegree in Anthropology, Middle East Studies, or Arabic Studies with anextensive knowledge of the social sciences. You have a good command ofspoken Arabic.

Organization

Radboud University Nijmegen Faculty of Arts

Strategically located in Europe, Radboud University Nijmegen is one of the leading academic communities in the Netherlands. A place with a personal touch, where top-flight education and research take place on a beautiful green campus in modern buildings with state-of-art facilities.


The Faculty of Arts consists of eleven departments in the area of language and culture, history, history of arts, linguistics and business communication, which together cater to about 2,800 students and work closely together in teaching and research.

Conditions of employment

Maximum salary amount in Euro’s a month 2.612
Employment basis: Temporary for specified period

Duration of the contract:


Maximum hours per week: 40


Additional conditions of employment:
Starting salary € 2.000. The initial appointment for the PhD position is 1.5 years with the possibility of extension by 2 years.

Additional InformationAdditional information about the vacancy can be obtained from:

Dr. K. van Nieuwkerk
E-mail address: k.v.nieuwkerk@let.ru.nl

Or additional information can be obtained through one of the following links.
About the organizationAbout the departmentAbout the functionRadboud University Nijmegen
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ApplicationYou can apply for this job before 07-05-2008 by sending your application to:

Faculteit der Letteren
Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen Afd PZ P Stunnenberg
Postbus 9103 6500 HD Nijmegen

E-mail address: vacatures@let.ru.nl

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PhD Student, Leiden University, Netherland

Dutch & Phonology of Aphasia: PhD Student, Leiden University, Netherlands
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Institution/Organization : Leiden University
Department : LUCL
Web Address : http://www.lucl.leidenuniv.nl

Level: PhD

Duties: Research

Specialty Areas: Phonology; Psycholinguistics

Required Language(s): Dutch (nld)

Description:

One PhD Position / promotieplaats full time

Vacancy number: to be announced

Project description:

Studying the phonology of aphasia in a research project on ‘Child language, aphasia and general sound laws revisited.’

Most of the recent research into sound structure in aphasia has been conducted within the area of psycholinguistics. Phonological errors have been studied, plus the functional loci of these errors, but much less the phonological representations or the phonological grammars that could give a theoretical account of these errors. This project will contribute to working out a model of
aphasia which is inspired by phonological theory as well as psycholinguistic modeling, by studying the linguistic principles that could govern the structure of consonant and vowel inventories in the speech of people with aphasia, while talking into account findings from psycholinguistic and neurolinguistic studies.

The focus will be on data from Dutch. Since the amount of reliable phonological data of aphasics is not very large, the candidate will have to invest a substantial amount of time collecting relevant data, both from production and from perception. Patients will be recruited from a Rotterdam revalidation centre, which will also make available to us a relatively large sample of recorded data. All these different types of data will have to be interpreted in collaboration with a PhD student working on segment inventories in child language acquisition, and with a postdoc working on the typology of segment inventories, in a research project which has as its main goal reexamining Roman Jakobson’s famous claims about the role of a phonological feature in child
language, aphasia and general sound laws.

Tasks:
  • performing repetition and naming experiments and collecting of spontaneous
  • speech samples with aphasics;
  • performing phoneme detection studies using mismatch negativity tests,
  • measured in an EEG;
  • giving a theoretical interpretation of the data, in collaboration with
  • colleagues and supervisors;
  • reporting the results in international journals and a dissertation;
  • presenting the results in national and international conferences;
  • following graduate courses offered at the LUCL graduate school.

Requirements:

  • an MA or MPHil degree in general linguistics, theoretical or
  • patholinguistics, or a comparable field;
  • demonstrable interest in both phonological theory and experimental research;
  • good working knowledge of Dutch and English;
  • good organisational and contactual skills;
  • independence of mind.

More information about the position and project is available at http://www.lucl.leidenuniv.nl/index.php3?m=&c=571 and

Conditions of employment:

The successful applicant will be appointed at the department TUCL for one year and after a positive evaluation, followed by a fixed- term period of three years.

Gross salary will be ? 2000,- per month in the first year, gradually rising, also depending upon the evaluation, to ? 2612,- per month in the final year conform the Collective Labour Agreement Dutch Universities.

Applications:

Please send your letter (in Dutch or English) within two weeks after the publication of these vacancy, with your curriculum vitae, marks and motivation under indication of the vacancy number on letter and envelop to: De afdeling P&O, t.a.v. mw. E.M. Bakker.

Application Deadline: 15-May-2008

Mailing Address for Applications:
Attn: Ms E.M. Bakker
Faculteit der Letteren
Postbus 9515
Leiden 2300 RA
Netherlands

Contact Information:

Prof.Dr. Marc van Oostendorp
marc.van.oostendorp@meertens.knaw.nl

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