Overview

Key Features

How do creations and innovations emerge? In what spaces and what temporalities do they circulate? It is not uncommon for scientific and technological practices to generate specific cultural times and spaces.

This observation calls for analyzing with historical depth the rhythms of the present, the way in which social time and technological time interact. What are, for example, the links between the phenomena of “acceleration” and modernity, from the discovery of the principle of inertia to the computerization of financial tools? What are the political problems posed by this condensation of time? What are the new physiognomies of the social bond in a reality that shakes up the classic representations of borders, between disciplines as well as between sciences and societies?

The Human Sciences, Arts, Letters and Languages program is offered Institut Polytechnique de Paris

Programme Structure

Courses include:

Sciences and techniques in societies: history of science and technology, epistemology, arts and sciences

Political rationalities: philosophy, contemporary history, political science, international relations

Data in societies: strategy and research on armed conflicts; digital humanities

Key information

Duration

Full-time
- 36 months

Start dates & application deadlines

Starting 2025-09-01 00:00:00
- Apply before 2025-01-12 00:00:00

Language

English

TOEFL^® IBT

90

Delivered

On Campus

Disciplines

Language Studies Liberal Arts Literature

Academic requirements

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

English requirements

TOEFL^® IBT

90

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Other requirements

General requirements

Get into contact with a researcher/professor from one of the IP-Paris laboratories, develop in collaboration with him/her a PhD project and discuss funding possibilities. This is generally done in the middle of the M2 year, when choosing research internships.
Once a few compulsory documents have been collected (thesis project, CV, M2 grades, letter of support from the thesis supervisor), one must obtain the agreements from the director of the laboratory and the director of the doctoral school. Then the application can be deposited on ADUM.

Tuition Fee

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International

380 EUR/year

Tuition Fee

Based on the tuition of 380 EUR per year during 36 months.
EU/EEA

380 EUR/year

Tuition Fee

Based on the tuition of 380 EUR per year during 36 months.

Living costs for Palaiseau

640 - 950 EUR /month

Living costs

The living costs include the total expenses per month, covering accommodation, public transportation, utilities (electricity, internet), books and groceries.

Funding

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Scholarships Information

Below you will find PhD's scholarship opportunities for Human Sciences, Arts, Letters and Languages.

Available Scholarships

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