Over the past decade, the Leipzig PhD Summer School has established itself as an important meeting place for the interdisciplinary discussion of transnationalization and transculturalism as well as emerging trends in the research of globalization. The 2015 edition of the Summer School is organized by the Graduate School Global and Area Studies of the Graduate Centre Humanities and Social Sciences at the Research Academy Leipzig in cooperation with the PhD programme "Global and Area Studies with a Special Emphasis on Peace and Security” (Addis Ababa University/ University of Leipzig) and the bilateral research project "Repositioning Greece in a Globalizing World” (University of Athens/ University of Leipzig).