Dear SACP Members,
Some of you may be interested in a recent job post for a professorship in Chinese Studies at Tallinn University. You will find the link below as well as copy text from their site.
https://www.tlu.ee/en/taxonomy/term/84/professor-chinese-studies
Position: Tenure Track Professorship (career level I – Associate Professor)
Academic unit: School of Humanities
Study Area: Asian Studies
The position will be filled by 01.09.2020
Description of the field of the academic work: Chinese studies with a strong theoretical background in a subfield of social sciences or the humanities.
Current strengths of TLU in the field of the position: Teaching Asian Studies has been the area of responsibility for TLU, which is the only university in Estonia to offer full degree programmes (BA, MA and PhD levels) in Asian Studies. TLU provides the strongest language base in Estonia in key Asian languages (Chinese, Japanese, Arabic), starting from BA level, which is the pillar and strength of TLU’s regional studies approach.
TLU is also the host of the Confucius Institute, which is responsible for teaching the Chinese language, and King Sejeon Institute that teaches Korean language and popular culture.
In terms of research, the Asian Studies programme of TLU has established itself internationally as a strong centre of classical East Asian cultures (primarily philosophy and literature), and has recently developed a research focus on mainland Southeast Asian (SEA) and SEA-China cross-regional developments. A Professor of Chinese Studies with a background in anthropology, sociology, philosophy, literature, cultural studies or related fields, will give the TLU programme a good standing in the field.
The strategic importance of the position within the School and how it relates to the other planned tenure and non-tenure positions: Preference will be given to candidates with a broad interdisciplinary range of research interests, and a strong theoretical background in at least one subfield of the social sciences and/or the humanities. The content of the particular courses and student supervision of the Professor in Chinese Studies will depend on his/her academic background and specific research focus but he/she is expected to teach an MA course “Chinese Society and Politics.” The professor will also be contributing to the School’s general courses for MA and PhD students. He/she will join the teams of research and is expected to lead and take the Chinese studies at TLÜ to a new level.
The relevance of the field to the development priorities of TLU, Estonia and Europe: Since the release of the report by the Estonian Parliament’s Foreign Commission, titled “Estonia’s opportunities and interests in Asia until 2025” (2012), Estonia has been gradually developing its capacity to understand, study and engage with Asia. At TLU and the School of Humanities, teaching and researching Asia has been one of the focus areas supported by the Ministry of Education and Research.
Requirements for the candidates
Candidates for the tenure system position shall meet at least the requirements of career level I of tenure system professor, tenure track associate professor (stipulated in Annex 2 and respectively in Annex 9 and 10 to the Employment Relations Rules).
The elected professors will begin their career in the first career level of the tenure system, with the title of tenure track associate professor. The aim for that is to support them as a leader in the relevant field of research and study and, upon successful evaluation to progress to the second career level of the tenure system, with the title of professor.
- The candidate must have an advanced level language proficiency in the Chinese language;
- He/she must have an academic background that could (but does not need to) involve social or political anthropology, cultural history, studies of contemporary culture, human or political geography, history of ideas, philosophy, or political science;
- he/she must have a list of publications in peer-reviewed academic journals.
Job responsibilities
In accordance with Annexes 1, 2 and 10 to the Employment Relations Rules:
- Expected to teach at all levels; supervise MA / engage and supervise PhD students;
- Expected to conduct research, lead research projects and publish;
- Expected to engage in societal and institutional activities;
- Actively apply or co-apply for funding with other staff for Estonian/EU/other international research projects, exchange or other programmes;
- Exploit his/her networks for initiating new research collaboration;
- Organize international research workshops at TLU.
Language skills
- English on the level necessary for conducting teaching and research
- The knowledge of other languages of the Sino-Tibetan family, minority languages of China, Japanese and Korean will be considered an asset.
- Proficiency in Estonian least a B1 level is required within three years, for teaching and performing administrative tasks.
Load: 1,0.
Salary: to be agreed upon according to the Tallinn University Remuneration Regulation.
Location: Tallinn
Start of the contract: 01.09.2020
Additional information: Please address your administrative questions to konkurss@tlu.ee, and questions on the content to the Administrative Head of the School Terje Kalamees, terje.kalamees@tlu.ee
Required application documents shall be submitted by 10th March 2020 (incl) to Personnel Office of Tallinn University.
