[Bilimsel Haber] MA and Phd Scholarships, Intercultural Humanities at Jacobs University Bremen, Bremen

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Jacobs University Bremen, Bremen, Germany
Bewerbungsschluss: 01.05.2007

Scholarships for MA and for PhD students are available in the Graduate
Program (MA and PhD) Intercultural Humanities at Jacobs University
Bremen. This 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 program 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.

Jacobs University Bremen offers excellent conditions for teaching and
research. Its official language of is English. Faculty teaching in the
graduate program pursue a wide range of research interests, including
American, European, and Asian histories, literatures, and cultures. As
Jacobs University students come from over 80 countries around the world,
intercultural knowledge and intercultural exchange is not simply a
matter of theory but is experienced on a day-to-day basis. The program
includes courses such as:

Theoretical Foundations and Methods in Intercultural Humanities
. Concepts of Historical Research and History-Writing beyond the
Nation-State
. Literary Theory and Intercultural Approaches
. Intercultural Approaches in Art History and Visual Theory 
. Advanced Qualitative Methods Historical Perspectives on Inter- and
Transcultural Phenomena
. Crossing Cultures: Transfers and Comparisons in Modern History
. Literary History in Inter- and Transcultural Contexts Intercultural
Issues in the Contemporary World
. Globalization in a Historical Perspective: Culture and Society
. Migration, Globalization, Multilinguism and Literary Taxonomies
. Visual Communication
. Transnational Communication

Deadline for applications in the second round is 1 May 2007.