Project Details
Projekt
GSC 10: International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture (GCSC)
Subject Area
Literary Studies
History
Social Sciences
History
Social Sciences
Term
from 2006 to 2019
Project identifier
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 24060273
The International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture (GCSC) at Justus Liebig University Gießen (JLU) aims at establishing optimum conditions for doctoral candidates focussing on the study of culture. The GCSC fosters high-profile interdisciplinary research in clearly defined research areas. With the founding of the Gießener Graduiertenzentrum Kulturwissenschaften (GGK) in 2001, the university implemented a pioneering model for the reform of graduate studies in the humanities and social sciences and thus provided the foundation from which the vision for the GCSC has evolved.
The Centre's paramount objectives are:
(1) to maintain a sustainable structure-creating strategy ensuring prime conditions for doctoral students,
(2) to foster the development of new approaches and methodologies for the study of culture and the inter-transfer of concepts between diverse disciplines and academic cultures,
(3) to achieve high international profile for research at JLU in the field of the study of culture, and
(4) to establish long-term collaboration with both top-ranking international graduate schools and European PhD and research networks, so playing a front runner role in the creation of a European Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture. In the long term, the GCSC aims at consolidating JLU as an innovative and internationally recognised centre of excellence in both graduate studies and the study of culture.
The GCSC's academic programme is grounded in six principles. Playing a key role in the university's strategic planning, the GCSC will foster
(1) genuinely interdisciplinary cooperation,
(2) methodological pluralism,
(3) vanguard engagement in eight leading-edge research areas,
(4) new European-wide initiatives ensuring an international orientation,
(5) an innovative, interactive and holistic research training strategy, and
(6) dedication to self-reflexive academic teaching.
Measures designed to achieve these goals include the implementation of a comprehensive research training strategy (encompassing a curriculum, international master classes and summer schools, independent graduate research groups, conference experience, publishing opportunities, a teaching centre, career services and a supervision and mentoring programme), the enactment of professional management structures, a fellowship programme, the bringing in of excellent doctoral candidates and researchers - junior and senior - from abroad, and the full induction of GCSC doctoral students into the international academic community.
The Centre's paramount objectives are:
(1) to maintain a sustainable structure-creating strategy ensuring prime conditions for doctoral students,
(2) to foster the development of new approaches and methodologies for the study of culture and the inter-transfer of concepts between diverse disciplines and academic cultures,
(3) to achieve high international profile for research at JLU in the field of the study of culture, and
(4) to establish long-term collaboration with both top-ranking international graduate schools and European PhD and research networks, so playing a front runner role in the creation of a European Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture. In the long term, the GCSC aims at consolidating JLU as an innovative and internationally recognised centre of excellence in both graduate studies and the study of culture.
The GCSC's academic programme is grounded in six principles. Playing a key role in the university's strategic planning, the GCSC will foster
(1) genuinely interdisciplinary cooperation,
(2) methodological pluralism,
(3) vanguard engagement in eight leading-edge research areas,
(4) new European-wide initiatives ensuring an international orientation,
(5) an innovative, interactive and holistic research training strategy, and
(6) dedication to self-reflexive academic teaching.
Measures designed to achieve these goals include the implementation of a comprehensive research training strategy (encompassing a curriculum, international master classes and summer schools, independent graduate research groups, conference experience, publishing opportunities, a teaching centre, career services and a supervision and mentoring programme), the enactment of professional management structures, a fellowship programme, the bringing in of excellent doctoral candidates and researchers - junior and senior - from abroad, and the full induction of GCSC doctoral students into the international academic community.
DFG Programme
Graduate Schools
Applicant Institution
Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen
Spokesperson
Professor Dr. Ansgar Nünning
Participating Researchers
Professor Jörn Ahrens, Ph.D.; Dr. Doris Bachmann-Medick; Professor Dr. Hubertus Büschel; Professor Dr. Horst Carl; Professorin Dr. Cora Dietl; Professor Dr. Heiner Goebbels; Professorin Dr. Susanne Göpferich-Görnert (†); Professor Dr. Wolfgang Hallet; Professor Dr. Peter Haslinger; Professor Dr. Mark Kirchner; Professorin Dr. Anja Klöckner; Professor Dr. Andreas Langenohl; Professor Dr. Friedrich Lenger; Professor Dr. Henning Lobin; Dr. Beatrice Michaelis; Professor Dr. Joybrato Mukherjee; Professorin Dr. Greta Olson; Professor Dr. Volker Roelcke; Professor Dr. Dietmar Rösler; Professorin Dr. Annette Simonis; Professorin Dr. Silke Tammen (†); Professorin Dr. Monika Wingender; Professor Dr. Uwe Wirth; Dr. Martin Zierold
