Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Research Network (IPN)

The Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Research Network (IPN) is an institution integrated into the WBKolleg to provide the means and organization for promoting researchers on the level of doctorates and post-doctoral projects.

The Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Research Network incorporates a fellowship program for postdoctoral students (Junior Fellows), the Graduate School of the Humanities (GSAH) with four interdisciplinary doctoral programs – Global Studies, Interdisciplinary Cultural Studies, Studies of Language and Society and Studies in the Arts – as well as a Master's program in Editorial Studies.

News and Events

ESSCS Summer School Lisbon: Call for Papers

The Lisbon Consortium at the Universidade Católica Portuguesa, will host its XV Lisbon Summer School for the Study of Culture on the topic: "The Age of Excess", between June 30 and July 5, 2025.

There is a reserved quota of places for members of the GSAH and the IFN or doctoral students of the faculty: send an abstract in English (max. 200 words), and a short bio (max. 100 words) to mike.toggweiler@unibe.ch by 6 February 2025.

THoR

Taking the Humanities on the Road (THoR) is an Ideas-and-Actions-Lab at the Walter Benjamin Kolleg Bern to crowdsource ideas and actions that showcase the vitality and innovative potential of the humanities at the University of Bern, Switzerland, and beyond. The initiative aims at establishing a discussion of concrete ways to build bridges between academia and the public, individual research and participation, analytical and engaged scholarship. THoR is a bottom up working group. We invite scholars (from all disciplines, at all levels), as well as artists, teachers, activists, bloggers, para-academics, and community organizers etc., who are passionate about engaged scholarship to participate. VISIT OUR ONLINE PLATFORM AND JOIN!

Library WBKolleg

The WBKolleg has a small reference library in the research pool.

The library stock can now be viewed online.

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