Consortium
The Department of History at CEU provides an excellent academic gateway to the history of Central, Southeastern, and Eastern Europe, the Eastern Mediterranean and the Middle East from the early modern period to the twenty-first century, putting these in conversation with other European and world regions. It offers one of the few programs in the world that effectively enable students to study comparatively the Habsburg, Romanov, and Ottoman Empires, as well as their successor states, engaging with a variety of social, political, and cultural issues. Its programs are characterized by high-level thematic complexity and a strong focus on methodological training, including transferable skills. Special emphasis is put on classical and modern source language teaching. The whole university and the Department of History in particular has a civic commitment to analysing, producing, and disseminating historical knowledge as a way of social and political emancipation and empowerment.
The Graduate School of Global Studies (GSGS) at TUFS is one of the few educational institutions in Japan engaged primarily in specific and integrated research on the languages, cultures, and societies of the world, including Asia (East, Southeast, South, Central and West), Europe (Western and Eastern), the Americas, and Africa (North and Sub-Saharan). GSGS also serves as an international hub in the fields of Japan studies and Japanese language education. TUFS has long developed memory studies as one of its core research foci, and within the newly established School of Japan Studies (open from April 2019) it also offers comparative studies of Japanese history and memory studies.
The Department of History, Archeology, Arts and Performing Arts (SAGAS) at the Università degli Studi di Firenze (Department of Excellence) gathers together various disciplines involved in the study of cultural heritage as expressed in objects, texts, events, artistic expressions and social institutions. Several research projects spanning over a period from the late Middle Ages and Renaissance to today study cultural traditions combining traditional research methods with innovative scientific and technical tools. The teaching program of SAGAS offers a unique interdisciplinary blend of history, geography, and urban anthropology, which are grounded in the rich local history of the town itself. This enables students to “experience” history through a better understanding of the changes in the local urban landscape as well as through a direct participation in cultural events and performances. Florence also provides a fascinating range of internship possibilities at local museums and archives.
The NOVA School of Social Sciences and Humanities (NSSH) is one of the faculties of Lisbon’s New University. NSSH was established in 1977, shortly after the restoration of democracy in Portugal, with a sense of mission that is inseparable from a commitment to democratic citizenship, cultural pluralism, tolerance and mutual respect, as well as the social dissemination of academic knowledge. One of the biggest strengths of NSSH is its large portfolio of partnerships with civic and cultural institutions, including a close cooperation with Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, which allows NSSH to reach out to various social strata, both in Lisbon and throughout the country. Moreover, NSSH is an interdisciplinary school which promotes the close integration between teaching and research, drawing great advantage from an impressive host of research units/centres, including a recently established Digital Humanities Laboratory which provides services and training in the development of technical and methodological solutions for the application of digital technologies to humanities research.
Associated Partner
The National Institute of Languages and Civilizations (INALCO) is a founding member of the University Sorbonne-Paris-Cité and the most international institution within the French academic system, its historical roots going back to 1669. It combines the study of a hundred languages from all continents with teaching and research on the geography, history, institutions, and the political, economic, and social life of the respective countries. Research teams specialize on various regions, especially the Middle East, Africa, China, Japan, Southeast Asia, and Eurasia, as well as on thematic areas such as media studies, literatures and orality, linguistic identities, and cultural heritage. With the support of the French state and the Francophone University Network, INALCO offers joint programs with universities on a global scale, and maintains branches in Singapore, Buenos Aires, and São Paulo. As an institution with an outstandingly global expertise and way of operation, INALCO will decisively enhance the geographical scope of the consortium and contribute a column of cultural and literary studies.