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The Graduate School for East and Southeast European Studies explores the political, cultural and social dimensions of historical change in Eastern and South Eastern Europe. Particular attention is given to the entanglement of this region with other areas of the world. In addition to the core subjects of history and Slavic studies, several other disciplines in the humanities and social sciences are incorporated into the curriculum.

The Honours Master’s program for East European Studies aims at building up regional expertise on East Central, Eastern, and South Eastern Europe. The programme is run jointly by LMU Munich and the University of Regensburg. Each university offers a different combination of courses. At LMU Munich, the programme is hosted by the Institute of East and Southeast European History. It emphasizes interdisciplinary study, and students may choose between specialising in East and Southeast European history, Slavic language and literature, political science, European ethnology, Jewish, and Turkish and Ottoman studies. The programme is research-oriented and thus part of the Elite Network of Bavaria.

The DFG-funded Centre for Advanced Studies (KFG) researches universalist and particularist models of order in contemporary European history from the 1970s to the present. In doing so, it concentrates on three areas by examining orders of the economy, the religious/secular and human rights. The KFG's theoretical programme consists of an intensive dialogue between the historical sciences and the social sciences. The research group is led by Martin Schulze Wessel (Eastern European History), Kiran Patel (European History) and Andreas Wirsching (Contemporary History).