In the location's words:

The Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities Essen (KWI) is an interdisciplinary research college for the humanities and cultural studies in the tradition of international Institutes for Advanced Study. As an inter-university college of the Ruhr-Universität Bochum, the Technical University of Dortmund and the University of Duisburg-Essen, the Institute works together with the academics of its sponsoring universities and with other partners in NRW and abroad. Within the Ruhr region, the KWI offers a place where the results of ambitious cultural studies research can be shared and discussed with interested parties from the city and the region.

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