Overview

About the programme

The Global and Area Studies programme at Leipzig University examines how processes of spatialization change under the global condition and how new spatial formats are produced by actors within the global condition while existing spatial formats are modified as well as merged into new spatial orders.

To describe and explain these transformations, we have developed a terminology to distinguish between

the multilayered spatializations resulting from social interactions;
spatial formats, which are characterized by (at least medium-term) establishment, institutionalization, (routine) performance, and intersubjective reflection; and
spatial orders, which are the outcome of negotiation processes involving different spatial formats.

Programme Structure

Research projects include:

Spheres of Production and Circulation: Mass Culture between Europe and North America, 1830s to 1930s
Innovative Technology Enterprises in Unlikely Places in Central Asia and Africa
Digital Governance and the Respatialization of the Indian Nation State
Chinese Engineers and their Spatial Imaginations: Architects of an Interconnected Nation, 1906–1937
“Free Radicals”? Political Mobilities and Post-Colonial Processes of Respatialization in the Second Half of the 20th Century

Key information

Duration

Full-time
- 36 months

Start dates & application deadlines

Starting 2025-10-01 00:00:00

Application deadline not specified.

Language

English

Delivered

On Campus

Campus Location

Leipzig, Germany

Disciplines

Area & Cultural Studies International Relations View 4 other PhDs in International Relations in Germany

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Academic requirements

We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.

English requirements

We are not aware of any English requirements for this programme.

Other requirements

General requirements

Required:

dated and signed application form
written confirmation from your supervisor (supervision agreement)
CV
secondary school leaving certificate (certified copy)
evidence of university entrance examination (certified copy), if applicable
evidence of all university degrees (certified copies), e.g. bachelor’s, master’s, Diplom)
Transcripts of Records from all secondary and university qualifications (certified copies)
evidence of your knowledge of German at DSH-2 level, if the doctorate will be in German (certified copy)
evidence of your knowledge of English, if the doctorate will be in English
confirmation of admission to a faculty’s list of doctoral candidates, if already available (confirmation can otherwise be submitted within one semester)

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Tuition Fee

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International

Free

Tuition Fee

Based on the tuition of 0 EUR per semester during 36 months.
EU/EEA

Free

Tuition Fee

Based on the tuition of 0 EUR per semester during 36 months.

Students pay a semester fee (EUR 253,50)

Living costs for Leipzig

720 - 1047 EUR /month

Living costs

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