Funded by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), European PhDnet "Literary and Cultural Studies" at Justus Liebig University (JLU) Giessen constitutes an international network between JLU, the Finnish Graduate School for Literary Studies in Helsinki, the PhD Program in Culture Studies at the Catholic University of Portugal in Lisbon and the doctoral programmes in literary and cultural studies at the University of Bergamo and the University of Stockholm. Members of the PhDnet pursue their doctoral studies at JLU and one of the four partner institutions. Their projects are jointly supervised leading to the award of bi-national degrees.
The PhDnet offers a clearly structured three-year doctoral programme of high academic standard and with a distinctively international orientation. Joint events (doctoral symposia, master classes, PhDnet conferences), which have been developed especially to suit the needs of international doctoral students, will implement the tight network structures envisioned in the PhDnet. This study programme ensures the academic quality of the PhD while at the same time reducing the time needed to obtain the degree to three years.
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A five star network
Gießen Graduate School for the Humanities (GGK)
The Gießen Graduate School for the Humanities (GGK)
at Justus Liebig University Giessen (JLU) aims to establish optimum conditions for doctoral candidates focussing on the study of culture. With its founding in 2001, the university implemented a pioneering model for the reform of graduate studies in the humanities and social sciences in Germany and thus provided the foundation upon which international PhD programmes like the International Graduate Center for the Study of Culture (GCSC), the International PhD Programme “Literary and Cultural Studies” (IPP) and most recently the PhDnet are built.
Finnish Graduate School of Literary Studies, Helsinki
The Finnish Graduate School of Literary Studies
is a joint doctoral project consisting of seven participating universities in Finland. The Graduate School organises seminars and conferences in its various fields of research. Every year the Graduate School seeks to organise two to three wide-ranging seminars and conferences as well as two or three smaller, workshop-like seminars in which the Graduate School's researchers receive comments on their work in progress.
PhD Program in Culture Studies
, Catholic University of Portugal, Lisbon
The PhD Program in Culture Studies is based at UCP’s Faculty of Human Sciences and articulated with the Research Centre for Communication and Culture (CECC). The program aims to discuss culture as a discursive practice and to promote critical reflection as regards aesthetic theory and practice and the structures of mediation and remediation in contemporary societies. The program is internationally oriented, both in faculty and thematic focus. It is structured across a three year period.
Doctorate School of Humanities, University of Bergamo
The University of Bergamo offers a PhD in Humanities through its Doctorate School of Humanities, which combines two doctorates, namely Euro-American Literature and Theory and Textual Analysis. As a site for joint research and enquiry, the School's programme develops across theme-oriented modules, seminars, guest lectures and colloquia, bringing together a number of disciplines – Critical Theory, Anglo-American and Anglophone Studies, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Russian, Film and Media Studies, Art History etc.
The department of Baltic Languages, Finnish and German
, , University of Stockholm
The doctoral programs in the Humanities consist of a four-year study curriculum. The program is made up of two to three semesters of doctoral courses and seminars (that can be taken within the department or at other institutions, nationally or internationally) and five to six semesters of dissertation work. The course work can be spread out evenly over all of the eight semesters. Courses can be taken within the department, in other departments, and at other universities. Courses are chosen with the aim 1) to help the student to write a dissertation of high quality and 2) to give the student a broad knowledge in his or her field of research. International exchange such as participation in conferences, summer schools, and seminars is encouraged in order to educate internationally competitive scholars with excellent command of their respective field of research.
