Guide to a PhD-Position at the University of Bayreuth - International ...

1. APPLYING AT A GRADUATE SCHOOL
There are several ways to study as a PhD student resp.
doctoral fellow and to obtain a degree from the University of
Bayreuth.
Bayreuth University has a variety of specialized and
Graduate Schools and Graduate Programs. The
regular time to degree is 3 years, resp. 6 semesters.
Most PhD projects are being extended to 8 semesters.
1.1 HUMANITIES
1.1.1 BIGSAS – Bayreuth International Graduate School
of African Studies
The aims of BIGSAS are to
bring together outstanding
young African and non-African
scholars to work jointly in the
field of African Studies, and to
offer a centre of creative and
innovative PhD training and
research in Germany in
African Studies. Four research
areas allow for challenging theoretical studies sensitive to
emerging basic problems; they also take into account
practical questions and problems concerning the African
continent. Thus the BIGSAS research areas encompass
basic, strategic and applied research.
1.1.2 Kulturbegegnungen – Cultural Encounters –
Rencontres Culturelles
The overall heading
of Cultural
Encounters serves
to unite a range of
research foci, which
in turn provide the
framework for
diverse individual
historical,
systematic and
interdisciplinary studies. Globalization has dramatically
increased the need for reflection on all intercultural issues.
Research in language, literary and media studies over the
last two decades has significantly shifted towards the study
of cultural identity, cultural stereotyping and intercultural
communication, migration, alterity (‘otherness'), syncretism
and hybridity. Language, literary and media studies are
among the disciplines at the vanguard of such research
since cultural encounters occur within the context of
communicative processes which operate through language
and the media.
http://www.promotion-kb.uni-bayreuth.de/en/index.html
The instruction language is English. There is the possibility
for excellent applicants from lusophone or francophone
countries to attend English classes.
www.bigsas.uni-bayreuth.de/en/index.html
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