PhD Scholarships in Languages of Emotion, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany

Funded within the Excellence Initiative of the German Research Foundation (DFG), the
Graduate School of the Cluster “Languages of Emotion” has as its aim the supervision of exceptional dissertation projects pertinent to the research of the Cluster. The graduate school offers intensive and individual supervision of the thesis as well as a structured course of studies. The research of the cluster is dedicated to the complex interrelations between the use of signs/symbols, the transfer of emotions, aesthetic practices, mental dispositions and affective modes of constructing both personal and social identities the cluster. The graduate school focuses on the following research areas:

• the relations between affective phenomena and various representational media (lan-guage, sound, image);
• the artistic practices and poetics of (re)presenting/ shaping emotion;
• correlations between emotional and linguistic competencies (and their disorders)
• modes of emotion modelling at the level of cultural codes and patterns of social be-havior and identity.

Applicants interested in pursuing a doctorate with an emphasis in one of the cluster’s research areas must have a completed degree (M.A. or the equivalent) with above average marks by mid-April in one of the disciplines: Anthropology, Biology, Dance Studies, Film Studies, Japanese Studies, History of Art, Linguistics, Literary History and Criticism (Comparative Literature, Classical Greek and Latin Studies, English and American Studies, German Studies, Romance Languages and Literatures, Slavic Studies) Musicology, Near Eastern Studies, Neuropsychiatry, Philosophy, Political Science, Psychology, Religious Studies, Sociology, and Theater Studies.

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