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Graduiertenkolleg Wissensgeschichte der Neuzeit (History of Knowledge in the Modern Era) at University of Erfurt

University of Erfurt, Germany

Programme overview

University-internal doctoral college where doctoral candidates, postdocs and senior scholars research the transdisciplinary history of knowledge.

Location: Erfurt, Thüringen, Germany

What you will study

Practices that produce knowledge and different forms of knowledge, with methods from historical anthropology, cultural techniques, material culture, spatial and intellectual history and postcolonial approaches; studies on the Gotha court are one focus.

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Entry requirements

Admission as a doctoral candidate (Annahme als Doktorand*in) in the relevant faculty or the Max-Weber-Kolleg under its doctoral regulations, with a supervisor and a research outline (exposé); members of the doctoral colleges receive up to 600 EUR per year towards research costs for up to four years.

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