eikones, the graduate school for the study of images at the University of Basel, invites applicants for a program of study beginning on September 1, 2016. Since 2005, eikones, the NCCR Iconic Criticism, and its graduate school have explored the power and meaning of images through interdisciplinary research. eikones encompasses forty scholars from different disciplines whose PhD theses and Post-doctoral projects are grouped in modules dedicated to specific lines of inquiry.