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The Master's degree, which is offered by the Graduate School for the Humanities, is linked to excellent, multidisciplinary research which is carried out at the Groningen Research Institute for the Study of Culture (ICOG) and the national research schools.

Research MA students are required to participate in seminars, courses and summer schools organized by the Dutch national research schools. These 'schools' are organized for the training of PhD students, but some activities are open to or specially set up for you. These events give you, as a Research MA student, the opportunity to deepen your disciplinary profile and to become acquainted with top researchers in your field. You can participate in the following research schools:

• OIKOS (Netherlands Research School for Classical Studies, currently hosted at the University of Groningen)
• Medieval Studies
• Huizinga Institute for the Research of Cultural History

Students may also be given the opportunity to do excellent research in a Master's placement which will be awarded with ECTS.

Classical, Medieval and Early Modern Studies takes part in the International Summer School Things That Matter, a collaborative U4 Project with the University of Uppsala and Durham University. Things That Matter focuses on digital humanities and addresses the tension between the materiality of sources and their digitization.

Students of Classical, Medieval and Early Modern Studies participate in many research projects that also reach a wider public. They regularly curate virtual exhibitions based on the treasures of their academic libraries, an example of which can bne found on the Special Collection site of the University of Groningen. You may also like to browse through the other virtual exhibitions on the site.

Every year, CMEMS students organize a conference as part of the course. In 2023 the topic was ‘Facets of Feelings’.