Vacant Positions: Turin Group of Semiotics

The calls will be open in December 2022; if you are interested in the positions, please send a European-format CV and a 1000 words max motivation letter to the relevant PI by December 1, 2022. No other materials will be considered at this stage. This is not the official selection, this is a campaign of dissemination of the calls in view of the forthcoming selection.

Prof. Massimo LEONE: massimo.leone@unito.it

1) PROJECT: FACETS: Face Aesthetics in Contemporary E-Technological Societies; specific area: “Biopolitics of the Digital Face: Surveillance, Control, Concealment, and Protest”
PI: Massimo LEONE massimo.leone@unito.it
Position available: Post-Doc
Number of months: 12
Total remuneration: 23.890,00 Euros
Required skills: PhD, Academic English, Semiotics, availability to be in Turin in key periods of the project, proactiveness, willingness to work in team

2) PROJECT: FACETS: Face Aesthetics in Contemporary E-Technological Societies; specific area: “Scarring: Semiotics of the Disfigured Face in the Arts, Narratives, and Society”
PI: Massimo LEONE massimo.leone@unito.it
Position available: Post-Doc
Number of months: 12
Total remuneration: 23.890,00 Euros
Required skills: PhD, Academic English, Semiotics, Visual Semiotics, Visual Anthropology, availability to be in Turin in key periods of the project, proactiveness, willingness to work in team.

3) PROJECT: FACETS: Face Aesthetics in Contemporary E-Technological Societies; specific area: “Generating Faces: Semiotics and Artificial Life beyond the Uncanny Valley”
PI: Massimo LEONE massimo.leone@unito.it
Position available: Post-Doc
Number of months: 12
Total remuneration: 23.890,00 Euros
Required skills: PhD, Academic English, Semiotics, Visual Semiotics, Visual Anthropology, Digital Studies, availability to be in Turin in key periods of the project, proactiveness, willingness to work in team.

4) PROJECT: EUFACETS: EU Face Advanced Communication for Elders Treasuring in Society
PI: Massimo LEONE massimo.leone@unito.it
Position available: Post-Doc
Number of months: 36
Total remuneration: 105.000 Euros
Required skills: Academic English, Semiotics, Artificial Intelligence, Digital Welfare, Ethics, availability to be in Turin in key periods of the project, proactiveness, willingness to work in team.

5) PROJECT: VORTEX: Coping with Varieties of Radicalization into Terrorism and Extremism (VORTEX); specific area: “Fake and Conspiracy: Disinformation Dynamics and Radicalization”
PI: Massimo LEONE massimo.leone@unito.it
Position available: European PhD
Number of months: 36
Total remuneration: 158.637,60 Euros
Required skills: Academic English, Semiotics, Digital Studies
Other requirements: not having spent more than 12 months in Italy in the past 36 months; availability to extensively travel across Europe, availability to be in Turin in key periods of the project, proactiveness, willingness to work in team.

Prof. Jenny PONZO: jenny.ponzo@unito.it

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EN:
1 position is opened in the framework of the ERC project “NeMoSanctI: New Models of Sanctity in Italy (1960s-2010s). A Semiotic Analysis of Norms, Causes of Saints, Hagiography, and Narratives” (g.a. no. 757314). The project adopts a semiotic perspective to study the models of sanctity emerged after the Second Vatican Council, which are also explained in light of the notion of sanctity elaborated since the Council of Trent. The postdoc will study how the codification and the paradigmatic definition of models of sanctity takes place, especially in the contemporary culture. Analysis will take into consideration corpus of texts of different genres, according to the research plan entailed by the ERC project. The postdoc will also take part in activities of project management (mainly organization and communication). For further information on NeMoSanctI: nemosancti.eu

IT:
È vacante 1 posizione nell’ambito del progetto ERC Starting Grant “NeMoSanctI: New Models of Sanctity in Italy. A Semiotic Analysis of Norms, Causes of Saints, Hagiography, and Narratives” (g.a. no. 757314). Il progetto adotta una prospettiva semiotica e studia i modelli di santità emersi dopo il Concilio Vaticano Secondo, i quali sono spiegati anche alla luce del concetto di santità elaborato a partire dal Concilio di Trento. L’assegnista studierà come avviene la codifica e la definizione paradigmatica dei modelli di santità, specialmente nella cultura contemporanea, eseguendo l’analisi semiotica di corpus di testi di diverso genere, secondo il programma di ricerca previsto dal progetto ERC. Avrà anche un ruolo nel project management (specialmente attività di organizzazione e comunicazione). Per ulteriori informazioni sul progetto NeMoSanctI: nemosancti.eu