PHD SUPPORT
The EHU has been conducting yearly, merit-based grant competitions to support the promising young scholars in their doctoral studies, dissertation defense, and publication of scientific research, primarily in the areas of Philosophy, Visual and Cultural Studies, Political Science, Law and History.
CHALLENGE SEMINAR: EXPLORING POSTMODERN IMMEDIACY OF MASS MEDIA (2007-2009)
The Seminar has involved young faculty from the former Soviet Union in to the interdisciplinary collaborative analysis of how the contemporary media has re-configured the correlation of form and content of the message, the narrative and the visual, the global and the local, the private and the public experience of individuals in the new space of global communications. It is supported by the Open Society Institute.
CHALLENGE SEMINAR: CONTEMPORARY PHILOSOPHY IN AND BEYOND UNIVERSITY (2008-2010)
The Open Society Institute-supported Seminar, that involves university teachers from the former Soviet Union, has developed a model of innovative scholarly teaching in the contemporary practical philosophy. The focus is on the transformations of subject fields and analytical strategies, and their implications for teaching. Institutional issues, course and curricular development are integral components of the project.
