Jobs: 12 doctoral positions (65%, 4 years, T-VL13, 65%) GraKo Bochum (start: 1 Dec ’24)

Zum 01.12.2024 sind an der Ruhr-Universität Bochum im Graduiertenkolleg 2945, “Wissen – Glauben – Behaupten: Wahrheitsproduktion und Wahrheitsdurchsetzung in der Vormoderne”, 12 Promotionsstellen (d/m/w; Stellenqualität: TV-L E13, 65%, für 4 Jahre) in den Bereichen Anglistik, Germanistik, Geschichte, Komparatistik, Koreanistik, Kunstgeschichte, Rechtsgeschichte, Romanistik, Sinologie und/oder Wissensgeschichte sowie (ebenfalls zum 01.12.2024) die Stelle einer:s wissenschaftlichen Koordinator:in (d/m/w); Stellenqualität: TV-L E13, 100%, für 5 Jahre) zu besetzen.

Das GRK 2945 fragt nach den Praktiken und Prozessen der Wahrheitsproduktion und Wahrheitsdurchsetzung zwischen dem 13. und 17. Jahrhundert. Es untersucht, wie behauptet, durchgesetzt und annehmbar gemacht wird, was als Wahrheit akzeptiert werden und Sprechen, Denken, Handeln und Entscheiden anleiten soll. Zugleich beobachtet es, wie Bilder, Texte, Objekte und Inszenierungen der Vormoderne Wahrheitsproduktion und -durchsetzung reflektieren. Untersucht werden dabei gleichermaßen Europa und seine frühen kolonialen Kontaktzonen und China und Korea!

Nähere Informationen zum Programm des GRK 2945 sowie zum Bewerbungs- und Auswahlverfahren finden sich im Anhang sowie unter: https://www.dekphil.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/grk2945.html.de.

Die zugehörigen Ausschreibungen finden sich im Stellenportal der RUB unter:

a) DirektLink zu den 12 Promotionsstellen:
https://jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/jobposting/36ff2e57b42505be75a17adb92f59dcf2e3424a20?ref=homepage

b) DirektLink zur Koordinationsstelle:
https://jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/jobposting/7c114cdab74d9d50067b2322780e71770585b97f0?ref=homepage

Research Training Group 2945: Knowing – Believing – Asserting: Production and Enforcement of Truth in the Premodern Period

The Research Training Group (RTG) 2945 investigates the production and enforcement of truth between the 13th and 17th centuries. It focuses on a period characterized by social, political, and religious dynamics as well as by transformations of knowledge cultures, by media changes, and by changing public spheres. During this period, more differentiated semantics of truth and knowledge emerged, while rhetorical or moral arguments and well-established institutional or ritual ways of securing truth remained effective. A multiplicity of new and established practices of asserting and enforcing truth existed simultaneously – ignoring, supporting, negating, or copying each other. The RTG seeks to attract doctoral projects that either investigate how truth is claimed, asserted, enforced, and made acceptable to guide speech, thought, action and decision-making, or that explore how processes of ‘making truth’ are observed and reflected in images, plays, and texts. Europe and its early colonial contact zones as well as China and Korea – which are particularly suitable for a comparative investigation due to their highly developed written cultures and their specific dynamics – will be analyzed.
By understanding truth as something that is made or produced, we acknowledge the fact that even though truth can be conceptualized as ontological, unattainable, or eternal, it only becomes tangible in the mode of its mediation. Truth needs to be declared or claimed, its status must be asserted, inscribed, or embodied – it always appears within media.
Complementing existing research on the history of knowledge and science, on institutional validity claims, or on the role of the expert, the RTG focuses on practices and processes of making truth and explores their dependence on bodies, natural things, and artefacts. It observes truth production as a bundle of practices and material arrangements in which people, media, things, and spatial arrangements interact. Bodies, instruments, tools, natural and artificial objects, texts, images, diagrams, architectures, workshops, courthouses, or theatre stages all participate in the assertion and negotiation of truth.

Information for applicants in English:

https://www.dekphil.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/dekphil/mam/information_for_applicants.pdf