MCF-Lao language and culture
Job no.: 15MCF366
⚠ Application period: February 22 to March 25, 2024 (4pm Paris time)
Teaching
The candidate will be required to teach fundamental language courses (grammar, written and oral expression) within the Lao LLCER bachelor's degree, as well as master's-level Lao language courses. Courses in literature or the humanities and social sciences could complete the service, depending on the candidate's profile.
Fluency in Siamese would be an appreciable plus.
The candidate will also be expected to contribute to the development of teaching tools, possibly digital. Competence in ICTE is desirable.
He/she may, depending on his/her specialist discipline, take part in cross-disciplinary teaching at bachelor's and master's levels (literature, linguistics, human and social sciences).
Teaching will be provided in French and Lao, and the candidate is likely to teach in English.
Teaching department
Location: INALCO, 65 rue des Grands Moulins CS21351 75214-PARIS cedex 13
Department director name: Agnès HENRI and Dara NON
Department director email: agnes.henri@inalco.fr, dara.non@inalco.fr
Department URL: www.inalco.fr/departement/asie-sud-pacifique
Research
Related laboratories
Depending on his/her specialties, the recruited professor will be able to join an Inalco team of his/her choice among the following:
CERLOM :
The recruited candidate's research will focus on Lao language and culture. They will require the processing of sources in the Lao language.
They may fall within one of the themes of the current contract: 1) Editing, translating, teaching world literatures and oralities; 2) Comparative history of poetics; 3) Words of migrants, writings of migrants; 4) Audiovisual creation and world societies.
Laboratory of affiliation: CERLOM (EA 4124)
Location: Inalco, 2 rue de Lille, 75007 Paris
Name of laboratory director: Stéphane Sawas
E-mail from laboratory director: stephane.sawas@gmail.com
The candidate, with an excellent command of the Lao language and working as closely as possible with specific data from a variety of corpora, could fit into one of Sedyl's axes :
(1) Reference and predication: research on language structure, grammar and its teaching, different aspecto-temporal and modal systems, the functioning of discourse markers.
(2) Contact linguistics, social issues of plurilingualism (migration, education, language teaching), heterogeneous language practices (sub-national and migratory context), national and family language policies, language x in contact with other languages in the area.
As part of the projects carried out within Axis 2, the SeDyL relies on its supervisory body, the IRD, to carry out research in countries of the South in partnership with local institutions on themes such as the social stakes of multilingualism and language contacts, taking local languages into account in teaching, the study of plurilingual corpora, creole languages, languages in the diaspora. Candidates whose research and publications focus on one or more of these themes will be able to promote the results of their work through teaching or training at INALCO (levels L & M).
(3) From description to typology: research in areal and typological linguistics.
Laboratory of affiliation: SeDyL - UMR 8202, CNRS, INALCO, IRD
Location: CNRS, Campus de Villejuif, 7 rue Guy Môquet, 94800 Villejuif
Name of laboratory director: Sophie Vassilaki
Email from laboratory director: sophie.vassilaki@inalco.fr
The recruited MCF will be able to join the EA 4514 PLIDAM host team currently organized around 6 axes: Axe 1 - Politiques linguistiques, plurilinguisme et représentations ; Axe 2 - Didactique et enseignement/apprentissage des langues ; Axe 3 - Lexique et traduction : quelle didactique ? ; Axe 4 - Literature and culture in language didactics ; Axe 5 - Development and practice of digital tools for teaching and learning languages and cultures ; Axe 6 - SémioMed "Semiotics, multimedia corpora and uses"
The PLIDAM laboratory is building cooperative projects with numerous French and foreign research teams. The recruited MCF will be invited to get involved in the laboratory's collective work, which requires proven pedagogical experience and reflection on the transmission of foreign languages, literatures and cultures to a French-speaking audience.
Laboratory of affiliation: PLIDAM- EA 4514
Location: Inalco, 2 rue de Lille, 75007 Paris
Name of laboratory director: Thomas Szende
E-mail from laboratory director: thomas.szende@inalco.fr
The CESSMA supports the creation of the position of MCF Etudes laotiennes. Depending on the specific features of his/her research themes, the lecturer will choose to participate in the work of one of CESSMA's thematic axes. The recruited lecturer will also participate in the activities of CESSMA's Asia area.
Laboratory of affiliation: CESSMA (UMR 245)
Location: Bâtiment Olympe de Gouges, rue Albert Einstein / 8 place Paul Ricoeur
75013 Paris
Name of laboratory director: Pepita Ould Ahmed (Sarah Mohamed-Gaillard for the INALCO trusteeship)
Laboratory director's e-mail: cessma@univ-paris-diderot.fr
The candidate will eventually be integrated into the Southeast Asia Center (UMR8170). Based on the Condorcet Campus, this joint research unit of the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) and INaLCO, founded in 2006, federates multidisciplinary research on the eleven countries of Southeast Asia and interconnected spaces.
The candidate will be fully involved in the life of the laboratory and its research areas (1/ frictions, 2/ territories, 3/ mediations). A solid background in human and social sciences is expected. Practice of a South-East Asian "field" (understood here in the broadest sense and including archives and all types of corpus) is mandatory.
Laboratory of affiliation: CASE (UMR 8170)
Location: 2 Cours des Humanités, 93300 Aubervilliers
Laboratory directors' names: Anne-Valérie Schweyer, Annabel Vallard & Véronique Degroot
Laboratory director's e-mail: dir.case@ehess.fr
Research profile:
LACITO's "strategic" preference would be for a research profile oriented towards field linguistics (associated with historical linguistics and linguistic typology). But this is only a preference: given the diversity of the unit's research themes, the research profile could concern the diversity of social uses of language (ethnolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, sociolinguistics...) as well as the diversity of linguistic structures, both synchronically (morphosyntax, semantics, phonetics/phonology, linguistic description) and diachronically (comparative grammar, historical phonetics/panchronic phonetics). A research profile with a "Data Science" coloration (corpus linguistics, Computer Processing of Natural Languages, statistical exploitation of rare language corpora...) could also integrate very successfully with LACITO.
Scientific expectations:
The person recruited will be part of a dynamic collective, whose activities are carried out in partnership with other units, located on the same campus (including two other INALCO research units: LLACAN, SEDYL), on Ile-de-France sites (CRLAO, LLF...), and nationally and internationally. LACITO has been a partner of the Labex "Fondements empiriques de la linguistique" (EFL), the Groupement de recherche "Linguistique informatique, formelle et de terrain" (LIFT) and the Institut des langues rares de l'École Pratique des Hautes Études (ILARA-EPHE) since their foundation. The person recruited is expected to carry out research in line with one or other of the many and varied orientations of these initiatives and groupings.
We'd like to point out two more specific elements, emphasizing that they in no way constitute a filter for the diversity of approaches and practices at LACITO. On the one hand, the unit is one of the pioneers of what is now known as Open Science. As part of the Pangloss collection and the Cocoon platform, field recordings of rare languages are formatted and published electronically, with a threefold aim: to preserve the world's linguistic and cultural heritage, to inscribe research in a cumulative logic, and to open up data to new uses. Adherence to the principles of Open Science is therefore encouraged. On the other hand, the unit has experience of fruitful collaborations with computer science research, and research work that takes advantage of the potential of new technologies finds at LACITO a framework durably conducive to its blossoming, thanks to a coherent and motivated team of engineers & technicians, to the solidity of the institutional environment (under the aegis of Huma-Num), and to the support received from our tutelles and partners. The recruited person's interest in Digital Humanities and computational linguistic documentation would therefore find satisfaction in LACITO's activities.
Laboratory of affiliation: LACITO (UMR 7107)
Practice location: 7, rue Guy Môquet (bât. D) - 94801 Villejuif Cedex - France
Name of laboratory directors: Alexis Michaud (director), James Costa (deputy director)
E-mail from laboratory director: lacito.direction@cnrs.fr
Hiring procedures
The position for which you are applying is likely to be located in a "restricted area" within the meaning of article R. 413-5-1 of the French penal code. If this is the case, your appointment and/or assignment can only take place after access authorization has been issued by the head of the establishment, in accordance with the provisions of article 20-4 of decree n°84-431 of June 6, 1984.
Administrative documents in a foreign language must be translated into French.
Réf : -arré du 13 février 2015 relatif aux modalités générales des opérations de mutation, de détachement et de recrutement par concours des maîtres de conférences
-arré du 13 février 2015 relatif aux modalités générales des opérations de mutation, de détachement et de recrutement par concours des professeurs des universités.
Applications must be submitted on galaxie.fr (applications received by email or post will not be considered for the campaign).