The Department of Culture and Global Studies is a cross-faculty department linking together The Faculty of Humanities and the Faculty of Social Sciences. Department researchers and lecturers draw on theories and methods from both the social sciences and the humanities in their efforts to understand culture and society: inter-human relations, relations between cultures, local and global relations, relations between the past and the future.
Department of Culture and Global Studies
Research
Research activities within the Department of Culture and Global Studies cover a wide span, emphasising the interplay between cultural, social and political processes in a globalised world, and with a special focus on intercultural communication, transnational relations, creation of identity and the production of culture. Research at the department is organised in research groups and academic networks.
Doctoral Programmes
CGS has around 45 PhD students in the department’s two research training programmes Interdisciplinary Discourse Studies and Culture and Global Studies. These PhD students are investigating various fields of research from perspectives of discourse and culture studies, as well as transnational, cultural, political and economic processes.
Education
The distinctive feature of the School of Culture and Global Studies is that its programmes are directed ‘towards the world’ – including Danish, Nordic, European and global perspectives. The programmes of the School focus on the interplay between global elements and national/regional relations – e.g. history and politics, cultural text studies, professional communication, media and language studies.
Upcoming conferences
Events
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26.02.2019 at 10.45 AM - 00.00 PM
Invitation to ambassadorial guest lecture on "Romania in Europe – thoughts on Romania’s EU-presidency"
On Tuesday the Romanian ambassador, Mr Alexandru GRĂDINAR, will present Romania, its foreign policy and especially the aims of Romania’s EU-Presidency. After his presentation, there will be possibilities to ask questions.
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20.03.2019 at 00.30 PM - 02.15 PM
Invitation to guest lecture by Dr. Ildikó Bellér-Hann on Uighurs in Xinjiang province, China
What determines if the political conflict between Turkic and Muslim Uighurs and the Chinese State develops into civil war?
News
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21.02.2019
Martin Lemberg-Pedersen is one of the Academic Members of SAROBMED tasked with observing the Mediterranean and building a database of Search and Rescue-incidents
SAROBMED (Search and Rescue Observatory for the Mediterranean) is an international, multi-disciplinary consortium of researchers, civil society groups, and other organisations working in the field of cross-border maritime migration, either on the ground, or through advocacy, research and/or strategic litigation.
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18.02.2019
New Research Assistant at GRS: Berfin Gurini will be part of the new Advancing Alternative Migration Governance project (ADMIGOV)
Berfin Gurini is the new research assistant at Global Refugee Studies. She will be doing research about EU’s entry and exit policies with particular focus on Germany, Sweden and Denmark in relation to the Advancing Alternative Migration Governance (ADMIGOV) project.
Contact
Department of Culture and Global Studies
Kroghstraede 1
9220 Aalborg East
Phone: +45 9940 9208
Email: contact@cgs.aau.dk
VAT no: DK 29102384
Organisation