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Doctoral programme 2TI

This new doctoral programme at the EHESS (ED286) entitled: « Terrains, textes, interdisciplinarity » (2TI) (Field investigation, textual corpuses, interdisciplinarity) is mainly aimed at students who have completed two multidisciplinary master’s programmes at EHESS: Etudes asiatiques (Asian Studies) and Sciences des religions et sociétés (Social and Religious Sciences), both of which are co-accredited with EPHE/PSL. However, the programme is open to candidates working on a wide variety of subjects and methods of investigation, neither exclusively on Asian studies nor on religious issues. It welcomes doctoral research projects that study a wide range of situations and questions, both current and past. Whether examining systems of thought, belief and representation, political institutions, social organizations, the spatial configurations of activities or other topics, projects are expected to draw on several traditions and disciplinary debates by applying them and confronting them with sources acquired either through field investigation, archival sources, or the critical reappraisal of textual corpuses. The pedagogical team is composed of faculty who are specialists in various cultures and periods and who work in several disciplinary fields. This team will ensure a coherent supervision, in particular to accompany the thorny phases of the thesis between data collection, processing and analysis, and the final phases of writing, publication and restitution of the results of the research.

The doctoral programme 2TI allows the preparation of PhD theses in the following disciplines and specialities:

  • Social anthropology and ethnology
  • Visual studies
  • Political studies
  • Urban studies
  • Geography
  • History and civilizations
  • Literary studies
  • Social sciences and gender
  • Socio-economy of development
  • Sociology

Main research centers related to the 2TI training programmes:

Admissions Calendar

Admissions for the 2020-2021 2TI Doctoral program is open from June 15 to October 15, 2020. Applications can be submitted online on the EHESS application platform (eCandidate), accessible on the EHESS website.

Click here for the admission procedures for the 2TI Doctoral program 2021-2022.

The student will be responsible for having his/her registration file and thesis charter signed by both his/her thesis director and the head of the research laboratory in which he/she will participate before sending it to the 2TI Doctoral Training Administration Office, no later than October 15, 2020.

A registration packet will then be automatically sent to your home address by the school department.

Incomplete applications will not be processed, nor will those submitted after October 15, 2021.

More information on the EHESS website.