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In English
Graduate School of Cultural Interpretations: Nationality, Locality, Textuality
The purpose of the graduate school is to train high quality researchers and specialists in the production, analysis, interpretation and application of knowledge regarding cultures in various times and places. It also aims to train these researchers and specialists to utilize their expertise for the benefit of both the scientific community and society at large.
The graduate school will familiarize its graduate students in the most central and up-to-date theoretical and methodological issues of cultural research. The goal of the educational programme is to foster ethically responsible research based on high quality expertise in the fields of religious and folklore studies.
The central topics of the educational programme are old and new expressions of national culture and cultural tradition, which will be examined as phenomena which are multi-dimensional, temporally layered, and socially, ideologically and geographically variable. The primary empirical field of the graduate school is the northern part of Eurasia, more specifically the lands and peoples of the Baltic region.
The head university of the graduate school is 2009-2011 the University of Turku (Folkloristics). The former head university was (2007-2009) The University of Joensuu [from 1.1. 2010 The University of Eastern Finland] (Department of Finnish and Cultural Research / Folklore Studies). Participating universities include the University of Helsinki (Folklore), the University of Jyväskylä (Ethnology), the University of Turku (Folkloristics and Comparative Religion), and the Åbo Akademi University (Folkloristics and Comparative Religion). The executive board of the graduate school is composed of the professors of the participating departments and of the head of the Folklore Archives of the Finnish Literature Society.
The members of the executive board will function both as the supervisors responsible for the guidance of graduate students, and as the instructors of the seminars and other educational forums.
