Liberal Arts in Humanities Interview Texts

The admission interview is conducted based on the candidate’s Letter of Motivation and compulsory reading. The texts for compulsory reading and discussion can be found on this page.

The candidate must choose two texts to read through in full (unless stated otherwise), think of their meaning, why they are important texts in the particular area, how they represent important aspects of culture, history, anthropology, or literature; what important issues they raise and what is your opinion of these issues; have you read something similar before, is it connected to your areas of interest, etc.  

Texts for compulsory reading

• Agnieszka Graff-Osser "Solidarity with Ukraine, or: Why East-West still Matters to Feminism"
• Nacira Guenif "Building Feminist Coalitions Beyond Nationalism: a “Minority Report” from France"
• Peter Burke "History as Social Memory"
• Thomas Hylland Eriksen "An Overheated World"
• Sara B. Pritchard and Carl A. Zimring "Technology and the Environment in History"
• William Boyd "Making Meat: Science, Technology, and American Poultry Production"
• Bonnie English "A Cultural History of Fashion in the 20th and 21st Centuries"
• Kong Soon Lim "China's Arctic Policy & the Polar Silk Road Vision"
• Ann Marie Leshkowich and Carla Jones "What Happens When Asian Chic Becomes Chic in Asia?"
• Karen Armstrong "A Short History of Myth"
• Justin Petrone "Karksi House"
• Lauri Vahtre "Estonians Inside and Out"
• Philippe Bourgois "Understanding Inner-City Poverty: Resistance and Self-Destruction under U.S. Apartheid"
• Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie "The American Embassy"
• Andrei Ivanov "Jackdaw on a Snowdrift"
• Richard Stites "A Time for Youth" in Russian Popular Culture: Entertainment and Society Since 1900