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Graduate MA and PhD Program in Intercultural Humanities at Jacobs
University Bremen, Germany

The Graduate MA and PhD Program in Intercultural Humanities at Jacobs
University Bremen is a unique and innovative program that combines
studies in history, the history and theory of art, and literature with
a special emphasis on intercultural encounters, cross-cultural
transfers, cultural comparisons, and universal transcultural
phenomena. The program provides students with insights into the
theories and methods used to investigate and describe inter- and
transcultural phenomena and processes. Students become acquainted with
the particularities of research in these fields as well as with
interdisciplinary approaches applied in intercultural studies in the
humanities. By studying exemplary cases of intercultural encounters,
cross-cultural transfers and universal transcultural phenomena,
students learn how these theories and methods are applied, first,
within the fields and, secondly, across the fields.

Typical of the sorts of intercultural and transcultural issues that
the program addresses are questions such as:
- Why do authors write multilingual poems?
- Which traces of colonialism can be found in the life of an Indian
student today?
- How are cultural conflicts reflected in aesthetics?
- How did globalization start in China?
- How does the global art market affect the work of an artist in
Cameroon?
- What cultures regard violence as being beautiful?
- How can cultural theories be applied to the intercultural
interaction on the campus of an international university?

Jacobs University Bremen offers excellent conditions for teaching and
research. Its official language is English. Faculty members who are
teaching in the graduate program pursue a wide range of research
interests, including American, European, and Asian history,
literature, art and culture. Our students come from over 90 countries
around the world; intercultural knowledge and intercultural exchange
thus is not simply a matter of theory but is experienced on a day-to-
day basis.

The program includes modules and 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

Scholarships for PhD students are available. Successful MA and PhD
applicants may be granted a tuition waiver.
Deadline for applications in the first round is February 1 and for the
second round May 1, 2010.

For further information, program flyers, and the program handbook,
please visit our website at www.jacobs-university.de/maih/
or contact the program coordinators:
Prof. Dr. Immacolata Amodeo, i.amodeo @jacobs-university.de
Prof. Dr. Jürgen Trabant, j.trabantjacobs-university.de