PU Hindi and Indian Studies (Odyssey: 260847; Section CNU: 15)

Application to be submitted on Odyssée:
https://www.galaxie.enseignementsup-recherche.gouv.fr/ensup/cand_recrut…

Teaching

Attached to the Department of Indian, South Asian and Tibetan Studies, the candidate must be able to provide high-quality teaching on modern Hindi and Indian civilization, at all undergraduate and Master LLCER levels. He or she should also have an excellent knowledge of Hindi-speaking society and culture. Solid teaching experience in a French-speaking environment will be highly appreciated, as will the ability to adapt to a wide range of student profiles.

The candidate may be required to take on administrative responsibilities within the Hindi section, and will lead the teaching team with the repetiteur and lecturers.
The professor recruited will be responsible for teaching Hindi language, literature and Indian civilization at bachelor's and master's levels. Depending on his/her profile, he/she may also take part in cross-disciplinary courses offered within the establishment.

He/she will supervise students from bachelor to doctorate level, and may teach in English.
The candidate will also be expected to contribute to the development of pedagogical tools, particularly digital ones, as part of the establishment's development of hybrid or distance learning courses. Competence in ICTE and reflection on digital pedagogy are desirable.

Teaching Department: Indian, South Asian and Tibetan Studies
Location: INALCO, 65 rue des Grands Moulins CS21351 75214-PARIS cedex 13
Department directors: Shahzaman Haque and Harit Joshi
Department directors' e-mail: View e-mail 
Department URL: www.inalco.fr/asie-du-sud-himalaya

Research

The candidate will consider the convergence between his/her work and Inalco's intellectual and scientific identity, as embodied in the collective projects carried out by the institution and its research units. Depending on his or her specialties, the teacher-researcher recruited will be able to join the research unit of his or her choice from among Inalco's own teams and the UMRs under Inalco's (co-)supervision, in particular:
The PU recruited will join one of Inalco's research teams depending on his or her field of research. Special attention will be paid to specialists in the following disciplines or fields: linguistics, didactics, history, applied linguistics and Hindi literature.

A relevant research project and an interest in South Asian issues (India, North India and even the Hindi-speaking diaspora) are essential, as is a taste for teamwork and scientific leadership. Depending on their specialties, the teacher-researcher recruited will be able to join the research unit of their choice from among Inalco's own teams and UMRs under the (co)supervision of Inalco, notably CESSMA or CERLOM.

Laboratory of affiliation : CERLOM (Centre d'Etude et de Recherche sur les Littératures et les Oralités du Monde)
The candidate's work will focus on Hindi literature and culture, and will require the processing of Hindi-language sources. They may be part of one or more research themes in the current five-year plan:
1/ Editing, translating and teaching world literatures and oralities
2/ Comparative history of poetics 
3/ Migrant words, migrant writings
4/ Audiovisual creation and world societies

Location: Inalco, 2 rue de Lille, 75007 Paris
Laboratory director: Stéphane Sawas 
Laboratory director's e-mail: View e-mail 
Laboratory URL: www.inalco.fr/cerlom

Laboratory of affiliation : CESSMA (Centre d'études en sciences sociales sur les mondes africains, américains et asiatiques)

The recruited colleague will be able to join UMR 245 CESSMA, an interdisciplinary laboratory focused on the analysis of historical and spatial configurations of development and globalization dynamics. Depending on his or her research, the PU will be expected to contribute to the activities of one of the unit's 4 thematic axes:

1- Appropriation, Contestation, Resistance: Spatiality, Domination, Violence
2- Cities: Power, Practices, and Temporalities
3- Marchandisation et émancipation: from the social question to the environmental question
4- Societies and politics: interactions, temporalities, knowledge

He/she will also be expected to play an active role in leading the laboratory's Asian studies cluster, which brings together a significant proportion of its tenured and doctoral students. He/she will also be involved in representing CESSMA externally, notably on the GIS Asie scientific council. The colleague will help set up scientific projects involving the laboratory in relation with national and international partners.

Location: Inalco, 2 rue de Lille, 75007 Paris
Laboratory management team: Sylvie Fanchette (IRD), Margot Herman (Inalco), Nathalie Fau (UPC)
Laboratory management email: View e-mail 
Laboratory URL: https://www.cessma.org/

The position for which you are applying may be located in a “restricted access zone” within the meaning of Article R. 413-5-1 of the French Penal Code. If applicable, appointment and/or assignment to the position may only take place following authorization to access the restricted zone, issued by the head of the institution, in accordance with Article 20-4 of Decree No. 84-431 of 6 June 1984.

Reference: Decree of 6 February 2023 on the general procedures governing transfers, secondments and competitive recruitment of Maîtres de conférences, Professors of Universities, and Junior Professor Chairs.