From: owner-anenews-digest@ (ANEnews Digest) To: anenews-digest Subject: ANEnews Digest V1998 #67 Reply-To: Sender: owner-anenews-digest@ Errors-To: owner-anenews-digest@ Precedence: bulk ANEnews Digest Thursday, April 23 1998 Volume 1998 : Number 067 anenews Egyptology & Sudanarchaeology SAVED at Humboldt-University anenews Professorship in Assyriology in Munich anenews CHAIR IN ARCHAEOLOGY - UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 08:46:51 -0500 From: "Charles E. Jones" Subject: anenews Egyptology & Sudanarchaeology SAVED at Humboldt-University Forwarded on behalf of the undersigned, to whom responses and inquiries should be directed. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Egyptology & Sudanarchaeology SAVED at Humboldt-University On March 30, 1998, in a meeting of the "Akademische Senat", the highest body of the self-administration of the Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin, a 2/3 majority of its members voted in favour of keeping the professorships of Egyptology and Sudanarchaeology at this university in spite of the existence of Egyptology also at the Freie Universitaet (ex West-Berlin). After many hours of discussion this decision had been taken AGAINST all recommendations of all other committees and administrative units of the university which suggested to cut -for financial resons only- both professorships at the Humboldt relying on an orally made promise that the vacant second professorship in Egyptology (focus: archaeology) at the Freie Universitaet will be filled. This positive decision came as a total surprise to everybody, including ourselves, who did not see any chance left after the HU had recently even decided to eliminate Germany's unique professorship in Sudanarchaeology to the favour of an archaeology oriented second Egyptology professorship at the FU. But due to the tradition which Egyptology (first chair in Germany created for Richard Lepsius in 1846) and Sudanarchaeology (independent degree-subject initiated by the late Prof. Fritz Hintze) played especially at this university, individual Senators wanted to keep these subjects alive at the Humboldt-Universitaet thus causing the long discussion about them and the vast majority to vote in their favours. However, I must emphasize here, that this decision was mainly due to our students who, days before this important session, visited EVERY single member of the "Akademische Senat" personally and informed them about the history and the meaning of these subjects, so that a problem called "Egyptology and Sudanarchaeology" was present in the minds of the Senators who in the majority were not even representatives of the Humanities! Accordingly, this totally surprising decision got an unusual press coverage in the Berlin daily papers. Here a quote from "Der Tagesspiegel" of 04/01 in a report about the session: "Besonders stark setzten sich die Aegyptologen fuer die Erhaltung ihres Seminars an der HU ein. Erika Endesfelder, Professorin am Seminar fuer Aegyptologie / Sudanarchaeologie verwies auf die Traditionen der Aegyptologie an der HU und auf die Beteiligung ihrer Studenten an der derzeitigen Mumienausstellung im Kunstgewerbemuseum. Und sie hatte Glueck, denn der Senat warf die Absprachen mit der FU ueber den Haufen und entschied sich, die Aegyptologie und die Sudanarchaeologie mit je einer Professur an der HU zu erhalten." and from "Berliner Morgenpost" of the same day: "Ueberraschend beschloss der Akademische Senat, die Sudanarchaeologie - ein Unikum der Deutschen Hochschullandschaft - und die Aegyptologie fortzufuehren." By the way, another subject which all committees and administrative units wanted to cut but which the "Akademische Senat" again against all recommendations decided to keep at the HU is Jewish Studies (through a permanent guest-professorship), while 'Koreanistik' with also a long and highly esteemed tradition and currently two professors at the HU was cut immediately without a word of discussion ... However, this was not the last battle to fight, the decisions taken by the different universities in Berlin will now be evaluated by an independent committee of professors from all German universities ("Wissenschaftsrat") who will propose to the Land of Berlin how the future structures of those universities should look like and should be financed by the government ... So we have to continue to keep our fingers crossed! Personally I would like to use this opportunity to thank all colleagues and members of ANE very much who have so eagerly reacted to my APPEAL FOR SUPPORT of December last year. We received 102 e-mails and faxes from 140 colleagues and friends of 67 different academic institutions in 21 countries!!! It was a great support and I can only suggest to other institutions in danger also to lance similar appeals and urge ALL colleagues and members of ANE to react to them: every single e-mail helps to create a statistic with impressive numbers as the one mentioned above and this can then very easily be used in all possible discussions and meetings ..... Thank you very much to all of you! Most sincerely, Christian E. Loeben Egyptology Humboldt-University of Berlin / Germany e-mail: h0539asi@rz.hu-berlin.de ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 08:56:51 -0500 From: "Charles E. Jones" Subject: anenews Professorship in Assyriology in Munich From Michael Roaf via Sassonet came this copy of a recent announcement: ======================================= In der Philosophischen Fakultaet fuer Altertumskunde und Kulturwissenschaften ist ab WS 1998/99 eine Professur (C4) fuer Assyriologie (Lehrstuhl) - Nachfolge Prof. Dr. Dietz Otto Edzard - zu besetzen. Bewerber/Bewerberinnen sollen das Fach Assyriologie (Sumerisch und Akkadisch) in seiner gesamten zeitlichen Ausdehnung im mesopotamischen Zentralbereich (Babylonien, Assyrien) vertreten. Einstellungsvoraussetzungen sind abgeschlossenes Hochschulstudium, paedagogische Eignung, Promotion und Habilitation oder einer Habilitation vergleichbare wissenschaftliche Leistungen. Bewerber/Bewerberinnen duerfen das 52. Lebensjahr zum Zeitpunkt der Ernennung noch nicht vollendet haben. Die Universitaet Muenchen ist bestrebt, den Anteil der Frauen am wissenschaftlichen Personal zu erhoehen. Schwerbehinderte werden bei gleicher Eignung bevorzugt. Bewerbungen sind mit den ueblichen Unterlagen (Lebenslauf, Zeugnisse, Urkunden, Schriftenverzeichnis sowie einer Liste der bisher abgehaltenen Lehrveranstaltungen) bis spaetestens 15. Mai 1998 beim Dekan der Philosophischen Fakultaet fuer Altertumskunde und Kulturwissenschaften der Universitaet Muenchen, Geschwister-Scholl-Platz 1, 80539 Muenchen, einzureichen. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 10:10:15 -0500 From: "Charles E. Jones" Subject: anenews CHAIR IN ARCHAEOLOGY - UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON Forwarded on behalf of the undersigned, to whom responses and inquiries should be directed. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON DEPARTMENT OF ARCHAEOLOGY CHAIR IN ARCHAEOLOGY Applications are invited for a new Professorship in the Department of Archaeology at the University of Southampton. The Department was graded 5 in the 1996 RAE and this appointment will complement and expand existing areas of expertise. The successful candidate will provide academic leadership through innovative teaching at undergraduate and postgraduate level, an international research focus, including fieldwork, and contribute to the administration of a large department. Applications will be welcomed from any outstanding researcher but we seek in particular to appoint in one of the following areas; The early historic, Classical and Roman civilisations of western Europe, the Mediterranean and/or the Middle East, with an emphasis on the changing patterns of individual and political identities through art, material objects and the built environment. The social archaeology of technology, including cognitive and symbolic approaches to a material type from any period or region, and the interpretation of techniques of manufacture, use and the disposal of artefacts. For informal enquiries please contact Professor Clive Gamble, +44 (0)1703 592247, e-mail csg@soton.ac.uk Department of Archaeology University of Southampton Southampton SO17 1BF UK tel. 01703-592247 fax 01703-593023 ------------------------------ End of ANEnews Digest V1998 #67 ******************************* Back issues are available on the Oriental Institute World-Wide Web (WWW) site at: http://oi.uchicago.edu/OI/ANE/OI_ANE.html