Germany: MA and PhD:Bremen University

Germany: MA and PhD Stipends in Intercultural Humanities, Bremen University

Jacobs University Bremen, Germany, offers a number of MA and PhD stipends in Intercultural Humanities. Faculty teaching in the program include specialists on China, South Asia and Southeast Asia.

Application deadline: 1 February 2008

Short description of the program:
Intercultural and transcultural issues are becoming increasingly significant for political, cultural and everyday life on a macro and a
micro level. This is due to processes related to internationalization and globalization and the cultural changes and conflicts caused by
them. For this reason inter- and transcultural issues have become a new focus of academic research.

The Graduate Program Intercultural Humanities is a unique and innovative combined graduate program in History, History and Theory of Art, and Literature with a special emphasis on intercultural encounters, cross-cultural transfers, cultural comparison, and transcultural universals.

The Graduate Program Intercultural Humanities provides students with insights into the theories and methods used to investigate and
describe inter- and transcultural processes and phenomena. Students become acquainted with the particularities of research in History, History and Theory of Art, and Literature as well as with interdisciplinary approaches applied in intercultural studies in the
humanities. By studying exemplary cases of intercultural encounters, cross-cultural transfers and transcultural universals students learn how these theories and methods are applied in each of the fields and, in a second step, across the fields. In particular, they acquire an understanding of the historical dimension of the relevant processes and phenomena and an awareness of the specific problems involved in interactions between Western and Non-Western cultures, cultural and aesthetic products and societies.

For more information please visit the program website.

Contact:
Prof. Dr. Nicola Spakowski
Jacobs University Bremen
School of Humanities and Social Sciences
P.O. Box 750 561
28725 Bremen
Germany
Telephone:+49 421 200-3391
Fax: +49 421 200-3303
E-Mail: n.spakowski[ at ]jacobs-university.de

Application deadline: 1 February 2008