MA and PhD stipends in Intercultural Humanities
From: Nicola Spakowski
Jacobs University Bremen, Germany, offers a number of MA and PhDstipends in Intercultural Humanities. Faculty teaching in the programinclude specialists on China, South Asia and Southeast Asia.
Application deadline:
1 February 2008
Short description of the program:
Intercultural and transcultural issues are becoming increasinglysignificant for political, cultural and everyday life on a macro and amicro level. This is due to processes related to internationalizationand globalization and the cultural changes and conflicts caused bythem. For this reason inter- and transcultural issues have become anew focus of academic research.
The Graduate Program Intercultural Humanities is a unique andinnovative combined graduate program in History, History and Theory ofArt, and Literature with a special emphasis on interculturalencounters, cross-cultural transfers, cultural comparison, andtranscultural universals.
The Graduate Program Intercultural Humanities provides students withinsights into the theories and methods used to investigate anddescribe inter- and transcultural processes and phenomena. Studentsbecome acquainted with the particularities of research in History,History and Theory of Art, and Literature as well as withinterdisciplinary approaches applied in intercultural studies in thehumanities. By studying exemplary cases of intercultural encounters,cross-cultural transfers and transcultural universals students learnhow these theories and methods are applied in each of the fields and,in a second step, across the fields. In particular, they acquire anunderstanding of the historical dimension of the relevant processesand phenomena and an awareness of the specific problems involved ininteractions between Western and Non-Western cultures, cultural andaesthetic products and societies.
For more information please visit the program website at:
Prof. Dr. Nicola Spakowski
Jacobs University Bremen
School of Humanities and Social Sciences
P.O. Box 750 56128725 Bremen
Germany
Telephone:+49 421 200-3391Fax: +49 421 200-3303
E-Mail: n.spakowski@...
