POST-INTERNET CITIES | INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

How can art and architecture respond to this uncertain and unstable condition?
Organized by MAAT – Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology, held in Lisbon, Portugal on the 26th May 2017, this conference seeks to promote a critical reflection on the way in which digital technologies affect the conceptualization and life of cities under the scope of a Utopia/Dystopia exhibition .

Talking about the present and the future of our cities means, first of all, discussing what the urban space means to us today. Besides having brought about evident changes to our everyday practices, the communication technologies have radically transformed the way in which cities are recognised, appropriated and (re)designed. The globalisation of the Internet and, more recently, the phenomenon of the social media, have reshaped the urban space, dividing it into multiple territories that coexist and intertwine, in a growing ambiguity between the public and private domains, between the real and the virtual.

In a scenario of constant hybridisation and connectivity, physical distances have shortened, giving rise to ubiquitous and parallel cities, mapped by interactive and collaborative systems. This process explains how the main political protest movements of the last decade appeared online first and then only afterwards occupied the symbolic places of our cities. But are these new socio-cultural dynamics calling into question the role of the built public environment? To what extent should the city be understood as an overlapping between the material reality and a collective imagination that has been reinvented on the social media?

Conference topics

– Contemporary architecture as urban utopia/dystopia
– Network cultures and the “right to the city”
– Digital (il)literacy and social exclusion
– Architecture and urban iconography after the Internet
– Architecture, technology and uncertainty
– Contemporary art as urban intervention in a digital age
– Digital art in public spaces
– Urban space as mixed reality

How to Submit:

Language: English
Abstracts: Title of paper, abstract (350-500 words), 5 keywords, author’s affiliation, e-mail address and short biography (100-150 words)
Format: PDF file – max. 3 pages or 2.00 MB
Full papers: 2000-2500 words (additional guidelines will be provided soon)
E-mail address: all abstracts should be sent to the following e-mail address: postinternetcities@gmail.com

IMPORTANT DATES

  • Deadline for submission of abstract: 26 March 2017
    Notification of acceptance: 6 April 2017
    Submission of full papers for publication: 4 May 2017
    Deadline for registration:
    12 May 2017

Comparative Lit & Culture Studies, 18th century forum @ 2018 MLA Conference

What were the “new media” of the 18th-century, and how might Enlightenment practices of science, artistry, design, communication, surveillance, and fabrication speak to contemporary theories of media ecologies and media technologies? We are especially interested in comparative approaches to technologies of empire in the 18th-century. Possible lines of inquiry include: the relationship between techne and technology; how European scientific and artistic innovations borrowed from indigenous or non-European cultures; types of cross-cultural borrowings that led to intentional or accidental misunderstandings; divergent uses of technological practices.

We invite abstracts from scholars working in and across the history of race and empire, art and material culture, media studies, literary studies, science studies, and history of material texts.

Old Media/New Media: Comparative approaches to technologies of empire in the 18th-century, including scientific and artistic innovations that borrowed from indigenous or non-European cultures. 300-word abstract and one-page c.v. by 15 March 2017: Natania Meeker (nmeeker@usc.edu) and Paul Kelleher (pkelleh@emory.edu).

Fabrications, Old/New: Comparative and transhistorical approaches to 18th-century modes and technologies of fiction and fabrication, design, speculation, utopic projection, falsehood, untruth, libel, and slander. 300-word abstract and 1-page CV by March 15 to: Chi-ming Yang (cmyang@english.upenn.edu) and Sunil Agnani, sagnani1@uic.edu.

New Philology, Media Ecology: Papers engage Medienphilologie and/or media ecology in relation/application to 18th-century literary texts. How are these approaches, and their results concerning this period, related or distinct? 1 page abstract by 15 March 2017: Nicholas A. Rennie (nicholas.rennie@rutgers.edu) and Birgit Tautz (btautz@bowdoin.edu).

ALL CFPs

Instructional Designer – Connected Learning, Colgate University

Colgate University in New York has an opening for an Instructional Designer for Connected Learning who will be responsible for providing leadership, assistance and mentoring in the implementation and integration of current and emerging technologies in support of teaching, learning and research. This position will support faculty in their use of new/social media to engage in connected learning for pedagogy and scholarship, including academic publishing technologies (e.g., WordPress), networked communication tools, and exploration of new forms of digital scholarship, including but not limited to the digital humanities.
Specific Responsibilities:
  • Support, guide, and model the incorporation of research-based best practices in the application of connected learning principles and technologies when planning learning experiences
  • Consult with faculty members to develop a grounded understanding of instructional approaches, course design challenges and scholarly interests
  • Collaboratively design and develop learning opportunities and programs for faculty focused on instructional methods, teaching strategies, and the effective use of currently available tools and technologies to enhance learning
  • Develop instructional materials and support resources for the meaningful use of digital and instructional technologies in a variety of learning contexts
  • Manage and participate in team-based project work that involves faculty, staff, ITS colleagues, librarians and student media consultants
  • Build strong collaborative relationships with colleagues on the Learning and Applied Innovation team, the library and the Colgate Center for Learning, Teaching and Research (CLTR)
  • Regularly engage with information (research, blogs, networked communities) related to technology-enhanced teaching and learning to inform practice.

Qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s degree in education, instructional design, educational technology or related field or a combination of education and experience from which comparable skills are attained
  • minimum of three (3) years combined teaching experience (K-12 or college)
  • broad knowledge of the application of technology to enhance teaching, learning and research
  • demonstrated experience assisting with the effective use of technology in traditional and technology-enabled learning environments using skills recommended to facilitate adult learning
  • demonstrated and broad experience integrating web-based learning tools in educational contexts, combined with a strong understanding of the application of connected learning principles and technologies (e.g., new / social media, participatory culture, distributed communities of practice, digital scholarship)
  • demonstrated and strong knowledge of instructional design principles and practices (e.g., needs assessment, task analysis, activity design, rapid prototyping, evaluation)
  • demonstrated working knowledge of course design principles, and the planning of learning experiences

Additional Preferred Qualifications:

  • Master’s degree in education, instructional design, educational technology or related field
  • Five (5) or more years’ experience working with clients in instructional design or educational development in a university setting
  • Experience designing and conducting program evaluations and/or research studies
  • Experience participating in large initiatives across an entire organization through consultation, facilitation, and training.

Position open until filled

Full position posting and application details

FemTechNet Network Gathering @ 19th annual Allied Media Conference

FemTechNet Network Gathering @ the 19th annual Allied Media Conference

 June 15-18, 2017

Do you lead technology or feminist focused courses, workshops, activities, or actions on your campus or in your community? Or are you interested in being involved with intersectional feminist media-based practice in your community — be that in your neighborhood, your local education center, or in other more formal educational and higher learning institutions?

Since 2013, FemTechNet (FTN) has organized, coordinated, and documented a distributed, open, collaborative course on the topic of feminism and technology. The work of maintaining this network has become the focus of our research, as well as our media, teaching and learning practices. In response to the precarious (be they financial, emotional, physical, spiritual, ideological) positions most of our members inhabit, and the inherent challenges of doing this work, we operate in a horizontal committee structure to prioritize the fair distribution of labor.

FTN aims to be an artist or activist collective that strives for mutual care and kick-ass projects that get done based on the interest and energy of participants. We also aim to provide a supportive community for the difficult work of feminist pedagogy. We invite you to build with us, so that we may support each other and create online spaces that value ethics, care, reciprocity, safety and privacy at their core. If this sounds interesting to you or if you’ve worked with FTN in the past and want to be a part of reshaping its future, fill out an application and join us at AMC2017!

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FemTechNet is an activated network of hundreds of scholars, students, and artists who work on, with, and at the borders of technology, science, and feminism in a variety of fields including Science and Technology Studies, Media and Visual Studies, Art, Women’s, Queer, and Ethnic Studies. In the FemTechNet (Feminist Technology) Network Gathering we will explore how technology perpetuates existing structural inequalities and what can we do to make technologies work for us and our diverse communities. We will create a collaborative space for revealing the power relations embedded in technology, such as racial bias in tech design, systemic threats to online safety, and gender imbalances. Our goal is to review existing materials from the FemTechNet archive of videos, syllabi, and/or assignment prompts in order to formulate continued organizing goals. Our hope at the AMC is to bring people into the FemTechNet network and springboard new projects and collaborations.

Participants will walk away with a bank of successful intersectional feminist project designs, alliances with people in different geographical and institutional contexts, and supportive relationships built from face-to-face collaborations. To apply to attend, please submit an application.

Coordinators of this network gathering are Ashley Walker, Veronica Paredes, Heide Solbrig, and Anne Cong-Huyen.

HASTAC 2017

Submission Deadline:  April 7, 2017

On November 2-4, 2017, we invite you to join us at the University of Central Florida to explore “The Possible Worlds of Digital Humanities.” This year, we hope to address the unsolved hard problems and explore the new opportunities of the digital humanities, including

  • challenges of monolingualism within the digital humanities;
  • indigenous culture, decolonial and post-colonial theory and technology;
  • technology and education–open learning, peer learning, and issues of access, equity for primary and/or higher education;
  • communication of knowledge, publishing, and intellectual property;
  • digital cultural heritage and hegemony;
  • interdisciplinary goals and conversations in digital humanities;
  • digital humanities and gender, race, and other identities;
  • simulation, modeling, and visualization;
  • games and gaming, including for learning; and
  • community development, including the importance of art and culture districts.
  • PLUS project demos, digital and/or poster sessions, and a curated media arts show exhibition.

We seek proposals for participant presentations in the following categories:

  • 5-8 minute “soapbox” talks
  • roundtables (be creative with your format — no reading papers!)
  • project demos
  • digital and/or print posters
  • maker sessions or workshops
  • Media arts (new media, games, and electronic literature)

For each submission, we will need the following information:

1) complete contact information including valid phone, email, and institutional affiliation, if any;

2) maximum 500-word abstract of the work you would like to present that must discuss its relationship to the conference themes;

3) any technical requirements or other support (including space requirements) that may be required for the presentation.  For exhibitions or other performances, please indicate any equipment that is absolutely required and that you cannot bring with you.  In the event that we cannot guarantee access to the equipment, we regret that we may not be able to accept your proposal.

Digital and/or Print Posters Wanted!

Print posters (4 x 3’) and electronic posters (to be projected) are solicited for emerging projects, ideas, and scholars. In presenting your research with a poster, you should aim to use the poster as a means for generating active discussion of your research. Limit the text to about one-fourth of the poster space, and use visuals (graphs, photographs, schematics, maps, etc.) to tell your story.  Use the regular submission form, but indicate that you are proposing a Poster by checking the appropriate box.

Maker Sessions & Workshops

We will provide some room and resources for individuals or groups to create informal maker spaces, where conference participants can share, exchange, and experiment with new online tools, personal fabrication technologies, open source electronics such as Arduino, and other creative and learning devices and gadgets. To propose a maker session or workshop, please use the standard submission form and indicate that yours is a maker session. Please also tell us how long the session requires!

Media Arts Show

The Media Arts Show invites creative works that engage with the show’s theme, “Soft(ware) Solutions / Hard Problems.” Works of new media, including games, electronic literature, and installations that meld physical and digital components, are welcome. Please provide a detailed description of the work, its purpose, and all technical and physical requirements for display.

All proposals will be peer-reviewed, but we regret that we cannot provide detailed reviewer feedback. We welcome applications from scholars at all stages of their careers from all disciplines and fields, from private sector companies and public sector organizations, from artists and public intellectuals, and from networks and individuals.

Submit your proposal
Download and Share: HASTAC 2017 Call for Proposals (pdf)

 

We welcome applications from scholars at all stages of their careers from all disciplines and fields, from private sector companies and public sector organizations, from artists and public intellectuals.

Postdoctoral Research Assistant: Enlightenment Architectures

british museum digital humanitiesAn exciting opportunity has arisen at the British Museum for a Postdoctoral Research Assistant to contribute to the Leverhulme Trust funded research project Enlightenment Architectures: Sir Hans Sloane’s catalogues of his collections under the Principal Investigator, Kim Sloan and Co-Investigator Julianne Nyhan (UCL).Beginning ideally in May 2017, as part of this project, the post-holder will work alongside another Postdoctoral Research Assistant on the process of digitally encoding externally sourced transcriptions of six of Sir Hans Sloane’s manuscript catalogues and will assist with identifying information entities within them which will inform research. You will also participate in the production of the project’s peer-reviewed research publications, planned to be a minimum of four co-authored interdisciplinary articles which will be published by the end of the project.

Qualifications:

  • completed a PhD, or equivalent
  • proficient in Latin and/or at least one modern language related to the project
  • experience of research/teaching/curatorial work
  • strong knowledge of electronic text, particularly digital cultural heritage resources for the 17th and 18th centuries
  • be able to work closely and diplomatically with research partners and museum colleagues
  • confident in speaking publicly about research to scholarly and wider audiences
  • excellent organizational skills and ability to meet deadlines
  • have your own academic publication in preparation.

If you are a positive individual, passionate about the Museum and would like to know more about this exciting opportunity, please visit the position posting and follow the “Apply now” link.

Closing date: 13 March 2017, Midday

Mitford Coding School

Invitation to join members of the Digital Mitford project team from Wed. June 28 through Friday June 30, 2017 for the Fifth Annual Workshop Series and Coding School, hosted by the Pitt-Greensburg’s Center for the Digital Text.

E-mail your interest by Monday April 3

The Digital Mitford project has two major purposes:

  1. to produce the first comprehensive scholarly edition of the works and letters of Mary Russell Mitford, and
  2. to share knowledge of TEI XML and related humanities computing practices with all serious scholars interested in contributing to the project.

Our editing team meets face-to-face to brush up on project methods and make major decisions, and we invite participants and prospective new editors to learn our methods and think with us about project management challenges during the Coding School.

Please join us if you want to learn text encoding methods and their applications in the Digital Humanities in the context of an active digital archive project. We will orient you to our methods of text encoding, edition making, and data analysis by giving you hands-on experience with literary and historical documents. We offer an opportunity to learn and reflect on the encoding of markings on manuscript material, as well as the auto-tagging enormous and complicated texts with regular expression matching.

All participants gain experience with navigating and processing editorial markup helpful in managing a digital edition project. Returning participants and advanced coders will continue learning how to write project schemas and process and transform markup for publication. And we invite all participants to think with us about how best to build a site interface and visualizations to help explore the data we are gathering on nineteenth-century networks of people, places, and texts. Our workshops are held at the lovely Pitt-Greensburg campus, recently named one of the five most scenic college campuses near Pittsburgh.

HOW TO REGISTER:

Send me an e-mail (ebb8@pitt.edu) with the subject line “Digital Mitford Coding School”  by Monday, April 3, 2017, indicating your interest in attending the Coding School, whether you are a new learner or a returning registrant, and whether you seek an introduction to coding and markup or the more advanced training we describe here. (All communities are welcome, and learning the backgrounds of our group will help us to prepare training groups.) A registration fee is required of all who are not actively affiliated as editors with the project:

  1. Students, Adjunct Instructors, or Independent Scholars: $180
  2. Full-Time Faculty Members, Editors, and Librarians: $300

All registration fees are to be paid by check to the University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg, and are due by May 15, 2017.

WHAT WE TEACH AND SHARE:

  • Discussion of best practices for preparing digital scholarly editions as digital databases.
  • Textual scholarship and paleography (working primarily with 19th-century manuscript letters and publications)
  • Participation in an active “dig site” for important data on networks of women writers, theaters, and publishers from the 18th and 19th centuries.
  • Text encoding, including the following:
    • TEI XML encoding and best practices for project sustainability and longevity
    • Autotagging and regular expression matching to “up-convert” plain text, and old word-processed documents and dated formats into XML markup,
    • Hands-on experience with XPath and code schemas to help manage a project
    • For those ready (returning and advanced coders) experience writing XSLT and working with an XML database to publish editions and process data for graphs and charts.
  • Perspective on project management and interface development as we work on developing our site interface.
  • Individual and Group Instruction, working with our Explanatory Guides and Resources, organized and led by an elected member of the TEI Technical Council. See our instructional materials for a range of coding we are prepared to teach.

WHO COMES?

Though we draw our active editors from researchers of 19th-century literature, we hope that all who join the Mitford project (whatever their primary research field) will find good resources for professional scholarly research and publication, and gain beneficial experience for individual projects. Joining our workshop leads for any interested in joining to a free first-year membership in the Text Encoding Initiative, the international consortium establishing best practices for encoding of digital texts.  We anticipate hosting three overlapping groups: 1) beginning coders who wish to learn our methods to apply them to their own projects 2) scholars who wish to join the Mitford project as active editors, and 3) repeat visitors seeking to review what they learned last year and to learn more about how to process, transform, and publish digital editions and informational graphics from markup.

Day 2 of #digimit16: @bcpkr396 has gained a devoted following while teaching us regular expressions @DigitalMitford pic.twitter.com/t1PAQXMyqp

— Alexi Garrett (@AlexiGarrett) June 26, 2016

TIMING

This year’s conference follows the 25th Anniversary of the British Women Writers Conference (BWWC) held in Chapel Hill, NC (June 21-24) , a conference that is very special to us because its 2013 meeting hosted the founding of our Digital Mitford project. Some of our team will be on hand at the BWWC to offer a Digital Paleography workshop at the conference–a preview of what to expect of our more extended Coding School at Greensburg. We expect our resident Coding School participants to arrive at Greensburg on Tuesday June 27 (so we can begin working at around 9am on Wednesday June 28),  and depart on Saturday July 1,  with our Coding School in session from around 9am Wednesday June 28 through Friday evening June 30. Members of the Digital Mitford editing team plan to use Saturday July 1 as a meeting day, but will also be working together on project development through the week. Some of that activity will feed into material for the Coding School to work with together.

2017 University of Oregon Grad Forum

On May 12, 2017, the University of Oregon Graduate School will host the 8th Annual Graduate Student Research Forum. Last year over 100 students from graduate programs representing every UO school and college participated in the Grad Forum.

The Grad Forum is an excellent professional development opportunity for students to share their work with an interdisciplinary audience of faculty, other graduate students, undergraduates, and members of the public. We appreciate the support you have offered over the past 7 years and look forward to your ongoing support this year.

Students can participate in ONE OF THREE WAYS:

POSTER SUBMISSIONS: Submit a title; a 150 word abstract describing
your research; and a 140 character thumbnail summary to be used for the
promotional materials (about 25-28 words). Details about poster size
will be available soon. Posters previously developed or to be developed
in the future for presentation at other conferences are welcome.

    * THREE MINUTE THESIS SUBMISSIONS: Submit a title; a 150 word abstract
describing your research; and a 140 character thumbnail summary to be
used for the promotional materials (about 25-28 words). Presenters will
have 3 minutes (no more!) to present their research at the forum and
they can use one static slide. Winners have the opportunity to compete
in the state finals for Three Minute Thesis, held here in Eugene on
Saturday May 20, 2017

    * SYMPOSIA SUBMISSIONS: Symposia are comprised of talks by three to
five graduate students (total presentation time is 1 hour). At least two
different fields must be represented, and the talks should share a theme
or topic. Submit a symposium title and a 300-word abstract describing
the symposium theme and how each of the talks relates to it. In
addition, for _each_ individual presentation, submit a title and a 140
character thumbnail summary. Please designate one symposium participant
as a contact person, who will also serve as the panel’s moderator.

New this year! – To continue the excitement of last year’s popular “blitz” talks, we are holding the Three Minute Thesis competition in conjunction with the Grad Forum.

Three Minute Thesis presentations will be one of the presentation formats:

* Symposia need to include only TWO different departments this year
(although we encourage you to indulge your interdisciplinary desires to
the maximum extent!). If you have an idea about a symposium and need
help fleshing it out or finding other participants to complete your
symposium, please contact Sara Hodges at sdhodges@uoregon.edu.

Grad Forum is open to new presenters whose research is ready to go public. We also encourage more seasoned participants to take advantage of this lively exchange of ideas. Please consider applying!

DEADLINE: WEDNESDAY, MARCH 15, 2017

LINK FOR SUBMISSIONS

Multiple Positions at King’s College, London

King's College LondonKing’s College London is making a significant investment in the Department of Digital Humanities as part of an ambitious program of growth in existing and emergent research areas and expansion in student numbers across its five MA programs and the BA Digital Culture.  We are seeking to recruit exceptional candidates to join the Department no later than 1st September, who can enthuse and inspire our students, conduct world-leading research, and contribute to the life and reputation of the Department through academic leadership and public engagement.

Professor (1 opening) – Candidates will be scholars of international standing with an outstanding research profile and publications record, including experience of successful grant capture from high-quality funders, and be able to provide inspiring and innovative teaching and supervision for students. The successful applicant will provide leadership across the full range of the Department’s activities, and be able to mentor and motivate staff at all levels.  With a track record of successful partnerships, collaborations, and external networks, the post-holder will play a leading role in the strategic development and profile of the digital humanities at King’s and internationally.

Senior Lecturer (up to 3 openings) – Candidates will be scholars of international standing with a strong research and publication record and evidence of or potential for research income generation.  The successful applicants will play a key role in leading work across the Department to enhance our research strengths, to develop new and emergent research areas, to innovate in teaching practice and pedagogy, and to contribute to our underpinning values of co-research and collaboration.

Lecturer (up to 4 openings) – Candidates will be on their way to becoming scholars of international standing with a research and publication trajectory that illustrates this ambition.  They will contribute to the further development of the Department’s research strengths, provide high-quality teaching and supervision, and work collaboratively within the Department and beyond.

Also recruiting in the following areas:

*   Digital Asset Management, Curation, and Preservation, including: digital asset and media management fundamentals; digital rights management; information ethics; policy and strategy
*   Critical Humanities Infrastructure studies, including: critical technical practice; digital information and data infrastructures; participatory architectures; open and closed data; digital ecosystems
*   Digital Making in the Humanities, including: programming (as a creative process); interaction design; interface studies; maker culture
*   Digital Methods in the Arts and Humanities, including one or more of: cultural and social analytics; advanced humanities computational methods; network analysis, literacies, and effects; qualitative methods
*   Digital Economy, including: digital industries and internet cultures; consumers and audiences; data and marketing, advertising, brands and branding
*   Digital Culture and Society, including: global cultures; migration/mobility; ethnicity; gender; visual arts and culture
*   Theories of Digitality, including: theories of new media; critical debates in digital culture; algorithmic culture; the foundations of digital culture

Full position posting and application details

To apply for these posts, please go to https://www.hirewire.co.uk/HE/1061247/MS_JobDetails.aspx?JobID=75212 and register to download and submit the specified application form. Please indicate on the application form which area you are interested in and at what level.

For an informal discussion to find out more about the roles please contact Professor Sheila Anderson, Head of Department, at sheila.anderson@kcl.ac.uk

Digital Scholarship Project Manager, Yale University

Yale University seeks a Project Manager (PM) who will be responsible for coordination and completion of projects for Digital Scholarship Services (DSS) in the Yale University Library. This position will oversee all aspects of digital scholarship project management by setting deadlines, assigning responsibilities, and monitoring and summarizing progress of projects. The PM will prepare reports for upper management regarding status of projects and be familiar with a variety of digital scholarship concepts, practices, and procedures. Relying on experience and judgment, the PM will plan and accomplish goals by performing a variety of tasks across a spectrum of technologies and digital services. A wide degree of creativity and latitude is expected. Reports to the Director of Digital Scholarship Services.

Essential duties:

  • Helps define, assess, execute and complete Digital Scholarship Services projects.
  • Serving as team lead, coordinates activities among team of librarians, data specialists, developers, and other experts.
  • Plans, tracks, and communicates resources, tasks, and processes for DSS.
  • Participates in development, maintenance, and day-to-day oversight of projects in support of digital scholarship services.
  • Collaborates with the Library IT and central ITS to ensure that appropriate hardware, software, and licensing support are available for DSS initiatives.
  • Works with Assessment Librarian and DSS staff to document and share project metrics and progress.
  • Keeps up to date on trends related to digital scholarship, research data, web publishing, educational technology, digital humanities, scholarly communication, digital collections, workflow design, open access policy, repositories and metadata, assessment and digital preservation.

Required Education, Skills and Experience:

  • Bachelor’s degree and four years of experience in the field or in a related area.
  • Familiarity with a variety of digital scholarship concepts, practices, and procedures.
  • Demonstrated project management expertise and familiarity with Project Management software.
  • Ability to operate within a complex work environment, working both independently and within a team setting.
  • Excellent oral, written and interpersonal communication skills.
  • Demonstrated ability to motivate and mobilize a team around shared goals.

Preferred Education, Skills and Experience: Master’s degree in Library and Information Science.

How to Apply: include the following in your online application:

  • cover letter
  • resume
  • names and contact information of three professional references

Review of applications will begin immediately and will continue until the position is filled

Full position posting and application details

 

Yale University considers applicants for employment without regard to, and does not discriminate on the basis of an individual’s sex, race, color, religion, age, disability, status as a veteran, or national or ethnic origin; nor does Yale discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity or expression.