The theme of culture and identity plays an important role in all European philologies as well as in musicology, theatre, film and media studies, and in linguistics. An intensive exchange is maintained with other humanities and social sciences in this field. The large number of disciplines that focus on the cultures, identities, languages and literatures also of the smaller European countries is an outstanding feature of the Faculty, and rarely found in other European universities. The language profile of Slavic studies and Romance studies is indeed highly diversified. Musicology researches complex questions relating to music, the history of music as well as the perception and effects of music, and it does so from the perspectives of history, philology, cultural anthropology, cultural studies, sociology, science and psychology.

All of the above disciplines promote the process of reflection on European identities and cultures. Moreover, they respond to the process of global cultural diversification by intensifying the examination of the worldwide influence of European culture and the way it is represented outside Europe.