Social History and Ethnography of a Techno- Scientific Configuration in the Digital Humanities

id="offer-description" class="ecl-u-type-heading-2 ecl-u-mt-none ecl-u-mb-l">Offer Description As part of the PALIMPSEST project —funded by the University of Caen Normandy’s CAESAR program— a full-time, fixed-term research position is available, running from September 1, 2027, to August 29, 2028. Project Name : PALIMPSEST (Science as a Palimpsest: Traces, Annotations, and Editorial Frameworks in the Digital Construction of Scholarly Memory). Funding : CAESAR / UNICAEN (ANR / Normandy Region). Scientific Lead : Christophe Maneuvrier (MRSH – Caen). Postdoctoral Scientific Supervisor : Vassili Rivron (CERREV / UNICAEN). Consortium : The consortium draws on over twenty years of experience. It brings together researchers and engineers from seven units at the University of Caen Normandy, covering fields such as history and textual studies (CRAHAM), literary studies (LASLAR), sociology and anthropology (CERREV), digital sciences (GREYC), scholarly publishing and dissemination (Métopes, PUC), and data structuring and documentation systems (PDN). Project Summary (PALIMPSEST) : The humanities and social sciences rely heavily on mechanisms of memory: traces, sources, archives, documents, and references serve as essential mediations for producing knowledge about the past and stabilizing scholarly understanding. Historically, scholarly publishing has played a central role in this "economy of memory"—establishing sources, organizing their interpretation, and creating the forms of dissemina