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<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; ">Position announcement: W1 Junior Professorship "Japanese Studies"</div>
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<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; ">The Faculty of History, Arts and Oriental Studies at the University of</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; ">Leipzig invites applications for the following position starting October</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; ">1, 2014:</div>
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<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; ">W1- Junior Professorship “Japanese Studies”</div>
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<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; ">(Position will be offered for 3 years and is extendable another 3 years</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; ">after successful evaluation.)</div>
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<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; ">The professorship will focus on “Japan in the age of new / digital</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; ">media.” Position requirements include academic qualifications in</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; ">Japanese Studies and Media Studies, a broad knowledge of the relevant</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; ">academic discourses in Japanese and Western languages as well as</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; ">familiarity with developments of new media cultures in modern-postmodern</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; ">societies in general.</div>
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<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; ">The selected candidate is required to participate in the study programs</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; ">offered by the Institute of East Asian Studies including the teaching of</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; ">specialized language skills.</div>
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<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; ">The teaching load is four, after a positive evaluation six semester</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; ">hours per week, i.e. two to three courses.</div>
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<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; ">The willingness to cooperate in research projects with a similar focus</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; ">at the University of Leipzig is expected.</div>
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<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; ">In order to be selected the candidate is required to present an</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; ">outstanding dissertation on a relevant research topic, internationally</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; ">recognized publications, as well as teaching experience.</div>
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<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; ">Rights and obligations of the jobholder are within the Saxonian</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; ">university law (Sächsisches Hochschulfreiheitsgesetz, SächsHSFG) §§ 63,</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; ">64, 70 and the Saxonian public service task regulation (Sächsische</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; ">Dienstaufgabenverordnung, DAVOHS). Applicants must meet the requirements</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; ">of § 63 SächsHSFG.</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; ">The University of Leipzig emphasizes the equality of women and men.</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; ">Handicapped applicants are encouraged to apply and given preference if</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; ">equally qualified.</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; ">Applications with the usual documents, enclosing detailed CV, a list of</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; ">the scientific work and academic teaching including available records of</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; ">teaching evaluations and a certified copy of the certificate of the</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; ">highest acquired academic degree should be sent before the 29.11.2013 to:</div>
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<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; ">Universität Leipzig</div>
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<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; ">Dekan der Fakultät für Geschichte, Kunst- undOrientwissenschaften</div>
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<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; ">Herrn Prof. Dr. Manfred Rudersdorf</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; ">Schillerstr. 6</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; ">04109 Leipzig</div>
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