- Intellectual Heritage of the Ancient Near East
- Europe 1815-1914 (EReRe)
- St. Petersburg - Helsinki
- Centre of Excellence on Ancient Greek Written Sources
- The Governance of Transnational Islam
- Cultures of Silence
- People and the Environment: Human Agency, Housing Constructiongs and Social and Ritual Space in Egypt 1550-1609 BC
- Nordic Co-operation Revisited
The Department of World Cultures is part of the Faculty of Arts.
PO Box 59
00014 University of Helsinki
Unioninkatu 38 A
+358 (9) 191 22994
Research and postgraduate studies
The Department of World Cultures welcomes research projects in the following core areas. While some of our postgraduate theses are also directed toward these fields, doctoral students with other interests should not feel discouraged from getting in touch with us.
Core research areas:
- Cultural and linguistic diversity
- Intercultural interaction
- Conceptual studies
- Area and cultural studies
- Classical antiquity and classical philology
- Global history
- Comparative religion.
We have extensive expertise in all these fields, which enables co-operation across disciplinary and departmental borders.
Postgraduate applications are submitted to the Faculty of Arts.