About IGES
Founded in 1994, the Institute for German and European Studies (IGES) is the UK’s leading centre for interdisciplinary research on Europe as a site of intertwined histories, cultures, and languages. As part of a global network of 20 centres funded by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), IGES scholars have specific interests in Germany’s role in Europe, in British-European relations, and in promoting German Studies in the UK
We are based at the University of Birmingham as an interdisciplinary Institute within the College of Social Sciences and the College of Arts and Law. The institute brings together experts on Germany and Europe from a range of departments, including political science, modern languages, history and art history.
An important part of our mission is to support postgraduate and postdoctoral researchers, and to bring them together with experienced scholars and international thinkers on Germany and Europe.
The IGES and the department of German Studies at the University of Birmingham are part of a DAAD-sponsored UK postgraduate training consortium, providing summer schools for postgraduates in German Studies together with the Universities of Edinburgh, Leeds, Manchester, Nottingham, and Oxford, and the IGRS in London.
The Institute is part of a global network of 20 centres, with sister organisations in the United States, Canada, France, the Netherlands, Russia, Poland, Bulgaria, China, Japan, and Israel.