Linnaeus University Centre for Concurrences in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies

Linnaeus University

The Linnaeus University Centre for Concurrences in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies is an interdisciplinary Centre in the humanities and social sciences. It brings together around thirty Linnaeus University researchers, from graduate students to full professors, in nine disciplines: Archaeology, Comparative Literature, English Literature, Ethnology, French Literature, History, Religious Studies, Political Science, and Sociology. The Centre also hosts a PhD program entitled Global Humanities: A research training program for the future.

The core of the Centre's research focuses on the consequences of imperial and colonial expansion, historically and in the contemporary world. The theoretical and methodological framework of concurrences offers a particular contribution to the field of colonial and postcolonial studies and related fields of research through its sustained focus on illuminating contested, conflicting, and simultaneous claims for justice and recognition emerging in cultural encounters and colonial and postcolonial contexts across time and space.

The Centre hosts a guest researcher program.

A number of fully salaried PhD positions in Global Humanities are normally issued every other year.