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Position: Research Assistant Japanese Studies

News vom 24.07.2017

Research assistant (PhD or Postdoc)
with 65%-part-time job
limited to 3 years
Application deadline: August, 31, 2017

The Department of History and Cultural Studies at Freie Universität Berlin in conjunction with the European Research Council invites applications for a three-year PhD scholarship in Japanese studies in the areas of human-computer interaction and robotics. The candidate will join a European Research Council-funded project titled, "Emotional Machines: The Technological Transformation of Intimacy in Japan", which explores the impacts of emerging affect-sensing technologies on social relationships as well as on cultural and scientific knowledge of the emotions in the affective sciences. As the project is interdisciplinary in nature, the Department welcomes applicants from across the humanities and social sciences (particularly from literary studies, cultural anthropology, or science and technology studies) as well as those from the technical sciences. An ideal candidate will have some familiarity with the Japanese language and culture as well as basic knowledge in or a willingness to learn programming and coding specific to affective computing and emotion modeling. The candidate will work toward a PhD in Japanese studies in the Department of History and Cultural Studies, and design an interdisciplinary course of study under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Elena Giannoulis. The academic program is fully funded for three years and comes with a monthly salary with the German pay scale grouping E13. Opportunities exist to extend to a fourth year of study under the same financial conditions. The student’s work should be original but overlap with the project aims as described in the project outlines.

Projects Website: http://www.geschkult.fu-berlin.de/…/j…/forschung/emtech.html

Seminar of East Asian Studies/Japanology: http://www.geschkult.fu-berlin.de/e/oas/japanologie/

For more information about the position and the application please visit the following website:
http://www.fu-berlin.de/en/service/stellen/acad/index.html

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