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label Burse autorenew 2025-09-29, 17:01 history_edu Diana Ignat
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitt (LMU) in Munich is one of the leading European universities with a tradition reaching back more than 500 years. The university has established the Graduate School "Distant Worlds: Munich Graduate School for Ancient Studies" which is funded by the German Excellence Initiative.

The Graduate School is an interdisciplinary research network that brings together LMU Munich and research institutions in Munich to provide an optimal environment for disciplinary research and the promotion of junior academics in the field of ancient studies. As part of its doctoral study and postdoctoral training programme, the Graduate School will combine research from a broad spectrum of disciplines within the field of ancient studies.

Each of the positions will be integrated into a junior research group The junior research groups are oriented towards one of the seven focus areas below:
1. Constructions of norms
2. Constructions of elites
3. Constructions of the "beautiful"
4. Organisation of coexistence
5. Organisation of exchange
6. Organisation of dealing with dissent
7. Organisation of memory and forgetting