Academic Track Outside Europe: Europe in a Global Context

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The Erasmus Mundus Master Euroculture is rooted in the critical study of Europe in a global context. The Academic Track Outside Europe embodies this ambition by enabling students to spend their third semester at leading universities beyond the European continent. Rather than positioning Europe in isolation, this track situates European culture, politics, history and society within broader global entanglements.

Across Asia, North America, and Latin America, partner institutions contribute distinct regional perspectives while sharing a common commitment: interdisciplinary excellence, critical inquiry, and engagement with cultural dynamics in a rapidly changing world. Together, our four non-European partners form a coherent global pathway that extends Euroculture’s intellectual mission beyond Europe’s borders — fostering comparative thinking, transregional dialogue, and cross-cultural competence.

Though geographically dispersed, these four partner universities share fundamental affinities with Euroculture:

  • A commitment to interdisciplinary humanities and social sciences

  • Engagement with cultural change in contemporary societies

  • Strong regional expertise combined with global outlook

  • Institutional excellence in research and teaching

Together, they transform the Academic Track Outside Europe into a structured global extension of the programme’s intellectual core. Students move beyond studying Europe from within to studying Europe in relation: to Asia’s modernities, Latin America’s regional identities, South Asia’s plural societies, or North America’s political and cultural frameworks.

In doing so, the Euroculture master’s programme affirms its central premise: that Europe can only be fully understood within the wider world to which it has always been historically and culturally connected.

Postcolonial Perspectives and Plural Societies: University of Hyderabad – India

As a new partner in the Euroculture Consortium (from 2026 onward), Hyderabad expands the programme’s Asian presence and deepens engagement with South Asian perspectives. Recognized for its research-intensive environment and interdisciplinary orientation, the university offers an emerging exchange track that will further develop Euroculture’s comparative focus.

Studying in Hyderabad allows students to explore Europe in dialogue with Indian political thought, postcolonial studies, cultural pluralism, and development debates. The South Asian context introduces critical reflections on democracy, diversity, memory, and social change — themes central to Euroculture’s curriculum.

As this partnership develops, it strengthens the programme’s commitment to examining Europe not as a closed entity, but as a participant in global intellectual and historical processes.

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Cultural Dynamics and Interdisciplinary Innovation: The University of Osaka – Japan

Since 1948, the Graduate School of Humanities at Osaka has built a strong reputation for high-level research and teaching across philosophy, history, literature, languages, and the arts. Within this structure, the Division of Studies on Cultural Dynamics represents a particularly strong intellectual match with Euroculture’s objectives. Established to address the cultural challenges emerging from rapid societal change, this division promotes interdisciplinary approaches that transcend traditional humanities boundaries.

Students joining the Academic Track in Osaka are immersed in contemporary debates on cultural transformation, identity, and transnational exchange. Advanced language training and critical humanities scholarship equip them to reflect not only on European culture from an Asian vantage point, but also on Asia–Europe interconnections in historical and contemporary contexts.

Through this lens, Europe becomes part of a wider dialogue on modernization, globalization, and cultural change.

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Coordinator: Prof. Eijiro Doyama (edoyama.hmt@osaka-u.ac.jp)
Website: https://www.let.osaka-u.ac.jp/en/erasmus/euroculture

Regional Dialogues and Shared Histories: National Autonomous University of Mexico – Mexico City

Founded in 1551, UNAM is the largest and most influential university in Mexico and Ibero-America. Within it, the Latin American and Caribbean Research Center (CIALC) serves as the academic home for Euroculture students pursuing the track in Mexico.

CIALC is dedicated to the study of Latin America and the Caribbean as a region marked by both shared origins and diverse historical trajectories. Its work investigates converging colonial legacies, parallel development challenges, and evolving cultural identities.

For Euroculture students, this setting invites a powerful comparative exercise: examining Europe alongside Latin American experiences of state formation, regional integration, memory politics, and postcolonial transformation. Mexico City thus becomes a site for understanding Europe’s global connections, both historical and contemporary, within a broader Atlantic and transnational framework.

Through this partnership, Euroculture strengthens its exploration of how regions define themselves — and how their histories remain entangled.

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Politics, Culture, and Transatlantic Perspectives: Queen’s University – Canada

Located in Kingston, Ontario, between Toronto and Montreal, Queen’s University is one of Canada’s oldest and most prestigious research universities and a member of the U15 group of research-intensive institutions.

Euroculture students are formally hosted by the Department of Political Studies, while having access to courses in English, Global Development Studies, Sociology, and Cultural Studies. This interdisciplinary flexibility mirrors the Euroculture philosophy: combining political analysis with cultural and social inquiry.

From Canada — a country shaped by bilingualism, multiculturalism, Indigenous reconciliation debates, and global diplomacy — students gain insight into transatlantic relations and comparative governance. Europe can be studied alongside Canadian approaches to federalism, diversity, migration, and identity politics.

Queen’s thus contributes a North American vantage point that complements Euroculture’s critical engagement with democracy, pluralism, and cultural negotiation.

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