Call for Applications of the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich and the Universität Regensburg
The Graduate School for East and Southeast European Studies is a cooperative venture
organized by the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) Munich and the Universität
Regensburg. The School is funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) as
part of the German Excellence Initiative and started in November 2012. Research at the
Graduate School is conducted in three broad interdisciplinary fields:
• Origins and Forms of Social and Political Change
• Cultural Systems
• Infrastructure, Migration and Transfer of Knowledge
Research at the Graduate School focuses particularly on interrelations and
interdependencies between East and Southeast Europe and other regions of the world.
In the context of its primary focus on East and Southeast Europe, the Graduate School
draws on the following disciplines: History, Literary and Language Studies, Art History,
Theatre Studies, Political Science, and Law. In the context of cross-regional comparisons
and transfer studies the School’s expertise in Area Studies is complemented by insights
from Chinese, Japanese and North American Studies
