GSC 1039: Distant Worlds: Munich Graduate School for Ancient Studies

研究生院远程世界的中心目标是通过提供基于慕尼黑古代研究、学科和机构合作的广泛领域的个性化支持，培养博士生。研究生院将提供诱人的工作条件，并在六个学期内提供全面和灵活的指导和培训方案，为毕业生早日实现学术独立做好准备。实现这一目标的工具将是形成研究生院核心结构的七个跨学科研究小组。每个人将由五到八名博士生和一名博士后组成，并将得到导师的支持。他们将在一个在提供支持和自主之间取得平衡的环境中开展研究项目。主要调查人员预计，这些小组将使学生接触国际合作研究，这将得到在各学科内以及在跨学科一级组织的指导和培训方案的支持。这将弥合博士课程和长期学术工作之间众所周知的差距，并解决女性初级研究人员在规划其职业发展方面面临的困难。研究小组将扩大古代学各学科之间的合作机会，开发慕尼黑古代学的潜力，并发展成为产生新研究视角的试验场。慕尼黑与古代研究有关的收藏品和博物馆将在该计划中发挥系统的作用，使他们的收藏品可供研究生院进行研究。就内容而言，七个研究小组围绕七个重点领域构建：(1)规范建设，(2)精英建设，(3)“美”(整体美学)和组织(4)共存，(5)交流，(6)处理不同意见，(7)记忆和遗忘。共同的目标是揭示古代文化的基础、“不言自明”的结构。此外，对不同组织形式的调查探索了在社会中创造变化的动态。研究生院的概念在结构上是创新的，因为(1)它整合了慕尼黑的所有古代研究学科，(2)它利用了古代研究学科的双重性质，(3)研究小组的概念结合了研究生院小组的优势和对个人的最好支持。

The central aim of the Graduate School Distant Worlds is to train doctoral students by providing individually-tailored support based on the broad spectrum of ancient studies disciplines and institutions working together in Munich. Combining attractive working conditions with a comprehensive and flexible mentoring and training programme over six semesters, the Graduate School will prepare its graduates to achieve academic independence at an early stage. Instruments for accomplishing this will be the seven interdisciplinary research groups that form the core structure of the Graduate School. Each will consist of five to eight doctoral students and one postdoc and will be supported by mentors. They will undertake research projects in an environment, which strikes a balance between offering support and autonomy. The principal investigators expect that these groups will expose students to international collaborative research, which will be supported by a mentoring and training programme organised within the disciplines as well as at the interdisciplinary level. This shall bridge the well-known gap between doctoral programmes and permanent academic employment, and addresses the difficulties faced especially by female junior researchers in planning their career progression. The research groups will extend opportunities for collaboration between the various disciplines of ancient studies, exploit the potential of ancient studies in Munich, and develop as a testing-ground for the generation of new research perspectives. The collections and museums associated with ancient studies in Munich will play a systematic role in the programme, making their collections available for the Graduate School's research. In terms of content, the seven research groups are constructed around seven focus areas: constructions (1) of norms, (2) of elites, (3) of "the beautiful" (aesthetics as a whole), and organisation (4) of coexistence, (5) of exchange, (6) of dealing with dissent, and (7) of memory and forgetting. The mutual goal is to lay bare the foundational, "axiomatic" structures of ancient cultures. Moreover, the investigation of the different forms of organisation explores the dynamics, which create change in societies. The Graduate Schools concept is structurally innovative, since (1) it integrates the full range of ancient studies disciplines in Munich, (2) it exploits the dual nature of ancient studies disciplines, (3) the research group concept marries the advantages of a Graduate Schools group dynamic with the best possible support for the individual.