LMU will establish, starting January 2026 and through 2032 the Excellence Cluster “Cross-Cultural Philology. New Perspectives on Premodern Textualities”, thanks to funding received through the Excellence Strategy of the German federal and state governments. The new website of the cluster has just been launched (with a few imprecisions and errors which will be fixed soon):
https://www.lmu.de/crossculturalphilology/en/.
Both disciplines of Indology and Tibetology are represented in the said Cluster, with Jörg Heimbel and myself serving as PIs, and several other colleagues involved as Key Researchers. For the first phase of the projects (3 years and a half, starting January), our disciplines are especially represented in two subprojects, for which positions are being created:
1. “Inscribing Piety: Patronage and Epigraphic Practices Across the Indian and Tibetan Cultural Worlds”
– One 100% position (TVL-E13) for a postdoc to support the subproject “Layers of Inscribed Meaning: Toward a Typology and Digital Corpus of Inscriptions in Tibetan Buddhist Sacred Art”.
– One 65% position (TVL-E13) for a part-time postdoc to support the subproject “Monuments of Faith: Patronage and Institution in the Early Inscriptions of the Deccan”.
2. “Medieval and Early Modern Courts as Hubs of Textual Migration”
– One 65% position (TVL-E13) for a doctoral candidate focusing on the Tanjavur court culture in South India (this subproject being led by Elisa Ganser)
On top of these, there is a further call for application for 4 “open topic” postdoctoral positions. Applicants from all the disciplines (https://www.lmu.de/crossculturalphilology/en/structure/participating-disciplines/) represented in the Cluster will compete for these positions, and it is essential that postdoctoral projects be linked to one of the five research areas (https://www.lmu.de/crossculturalphilology/en/research/research-areas/) represented in the cluster, and be tied to a particular PI.
Applications should be submitted through an online application tool by 21 October. For questions regarding the applications, please contact calls-ccphil@lrz.uni-muenchen.de
You may also find the general call for applications in the following page:
https://job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/b1cb15657a6e8a65131a6b613555abe3aa4c1cd40?ref=homepage.