Multilateral Cooperations

The IPP is member of four multilateral networks that provide PhD students with further possibilities to participate in academic events such as summer schools and international conferences. These networks offer a great variety of different forums for presenting work in progress and receiving feedback from international scholars.

HERMES

HERMES is a European network of scholars working in the field of Literary, Aesthetic and Cultural Studies. The network is particularly dedicated to offering a research oriented intellectual community where PhD students and senior staff members from all over Europe can engage in debates on currents issues in their particular fields. HERMES therefore organises symposia and seminars where senior and junior scholars meet in order to exchange ideas on current research and to plan new projects. Our cooperative partners are:

• University College London (Great Britain / London)
• The Netherlands Graduate School for Literary Studies (OSL): Leiden University, Maastricht University, University of Nijmegen, Tilburg University, Utrecht University, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (Netherlands)
• University of Åarhus (Denmark / Åarhus)
• Leuven University (Belgium / Leuven)
• University of Lisbon (Portugal / Lisbon)
• Stanford University (cooperation under preparation) (USA / Stanford)

ESSCS

The European Summer School in Cultural Studies (ESSCS) is a network-based seminar for interdisciplinary research training in the fields of art and culture, organised by four organisations alongside IPP and GCSC:

• Copenhagen Doctoral School in Cultural Studies, Literature and the Arts (Denmark / Copenhagen)
• London Consortium (= Collaboration between the Architectural Association, School of Architecture, Birkbeck College (University of London), the Institute of Contemporary Arts and TATE (Great Britain / London)
• Amsterdam School of Cultural Analysis (ASCA) (Netherlands / Amsterdam)
• The Norwegian Doctoral School in Cultural Studies (Norway / Oslo, Trondheim)

The summer school sessions are hosted alternately by the partner institutions.

European Thematic Network ACUME

Over 80 European universities are members of this thematic network. It brings together scholars and experts from various European countries in order to encourage a new way of interfacing Sciences, Literature and the Humanities and to work together towards broad curricular innovation. The network is coordinated by the University of Bologna.

European PhDnet "Literary and Cultural Studies"

The European PhDnet "Literary and Cultural Studies" constitutes an international network for doctoral students of the IPP. Members of the PhDnet pursue their doctoral studies at the IPP and one of the four partner institutions, where their projects are jointly supervised within a “Cotutelle” framework. They are awarded bi-national degrees. The four European partner institutions are:

• Finnish Graduate School of Literary Studies, Helsinki
• PhD Program in Culture Studies, Catholic University of Portugal, Lisbon
• Doctorate School of Humanities, University of Bergamo
• Department of Baltic Languages, Finnish and German, University of Stockholm

The institutions alternately host symposia and conferences for PhDnet students.