The Faculty of Humanities’ Graduate School at the University of Copenhagen is inviting applications for 13 PhD fellowships starting September 1, 2009 for a period of up to three years. Application deadline is February 9, 2009.
PhD projects can be related to one of the following subject areas:
* Scandinavian studies in literature, language or media, or ideally across the boundaries of these areas (Subject area 1: Nordic Philology, General and Applied Linguistics)
* IT and communication (Subject area 2: Education, Philosophy and Rhetoric, Film and Media Studies)
* Themes within European culture and history in a global context (Subject area 3: History, Archaeology and Ethnology, Greek and Latin)
* Cultural memory and migration: The construction of nation, religion and history as rendered through exhibition, writing, canon, schoolbooks or other media (Subject area 4: Middle Eastern Studies, Asian Studies, Eskimology, History of Religion, native American Languages and Cultures, Eastern European Studies, Minority Studies, Comparative Cultural Studies)
* Globalization and transnational studies (Subject area 5: English, German and Romance Languages and Literature)
* Forms of cultural attention (Subject area 6: History, Theatre Research, Dance, Comparative Literature, Musicology)
* Medieval and/or early-modern Scandinavian textual studies (Subject area 7: Old Norse, Dialect Research, name Research)
* Language technology, preferably within the strategic fields: language resources and tools (research infrastructure) , cognitive science, knowledge systems and tools for multilinguality (Subject area 8: Language Technology)
For the complete announcement, please consult http://www.humanities.ku.dk/research/phd/announcements/
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