Cleovi Mosuela at the VHS Bielefeld. Picture: Thomas Abel

On Tuesday, 16 January 2018, the lecture format “Linie 4” moved on with the lecture of the sociologist and social anthropologist Cleovi Mosuela. Her topic was Who cares? Filipino nurses in Germany. In this frame she spoke about how Philippine-trained nurses experience migration and adjustments as they work in German hospitals. The framework of such migration is made possible by the agreement, also known as the Triple Win Project, between Germany and the Philippines.

Lively dialogue between sociological research and an interested public

The lecture, and more importantly the discussion with the public, focused on how Filipino nurses deliver their "tender, loving care" through performing basic work, such as washing, cleaning the body of the patient, feeding and positioning a paralyzed patient correctly in bed. Smiling and touching the body of the patient in a therapeutic way help define and differentiate Filipino care work which contributes not only to their full integration at the workplace but also to the humanization of the patient.

The referee’s fear of the penalty kick

The next lecture of Linie 4 will be with the sociologist Justus Heck on 6 February 2018. He speaks about the topic The referee’s fear of the penalty kick. Towards an interaction sociology of football games. The lecture will be held in German.

For further information to the open lecture series and the programme please see:
uni.aktuell (in German)
Interview with Theresa Hornischer at campus radio station Hertz 87.9(in German)
Interview with Marcus Carrier at campus radio station Hertz 87.9 (in German)
#Campusminute with Theresa Hornischer (in German)
www.uni-bielefeld.de/bghs/Public_Science/Linie_4/
www.vhs-bielefeld.de

Text: Cleovi Mosuela

The audience of the Interdisciplinary Dialogue. Picture: Thomas Abel

On Wednesday, 17 January 2018, the Interdisciplinary Dialogue took place at the BGHS. The event was entitled What is Modernity? Interdisciplinary perspectives on a contested concept

Sisay Megersa Dirirsa, (History) and Edvaldo de Aguiar Portela Moita (Sociology) - two doctoral researchers of the BGHS - discussed with Joanna Pfaff-Czarnecka, professor for social anthropology at the Faculty of Sociology, Thomas Welskopp, professor for the history of modern societies at the department of history and Katsuo Nawa, professor für socio-cultural Anthropology at the University of Tokyo.

The discussion dealt in an interdisciplinary way with the complex and controversial topic of modernity. Not only theoretical questions were discussed. Also the challenges, problems and opportunities of dealing with the concept »modernity« empirically was one important aspect.

BGHS member Edvaldo de Aguiar Portela (left) and professor Katsuo Nawa. Photo by Thomas Abel

Katsuo Nawa started the discussion with some remarks on modernity from his perspective as an anthropologist, questioning the academic value of this concept. The other participants commented his ideas and added their own disciplinary approaches in the discussion.

Afterwards, the audience had the opportunity to ask questions. The event was chaired by Éva Rozália Hölzle, BGHS Alumna and PhD at the Faculty of Sociology.

Dagmar Herzog. Photo by Thomas Abel

From 9 – 11 January, Dagmar Herzog, professor at the City University of New York, was a guest at the BGHS. Dagmar Herzog is a historian with research interests in Modern Europe, History of Sexuality and History of Religion.

Jana Hofmann, doctoral reseracher at the BGHS, had the idea to invite Dagmar Herzog. “The first time, I met her was at the German Historikertag in Göttingen, where she hold a lecture, and then a second time in the USA.”, she says. “I was impressed of her presence. Also Dagmar Herzog's research focus matches very well to the interests of lots of BGHS members.”

On 9 January, Herzog hold a lecture about How Psychoanalysis Got Sexually Conservative: The “Jewish Science” Crosses the Atlantic. The lecture was organized by the research colloquium Transkulturelle Geschlechterforschung and a broad and interested audience from a variety of disciplines joined the presentation.

The participants of the Methods Class with Dagmar Herzog. Photo by Thomas Abel.

Methods Class about the rediscovery of research areas

From 10 – 11 January, Herzog gave a Methods Class about Psychoanalysis/ Sexuality: New Methodological Challenges. “We were just a small number of people, which made the seminar very fruitful”, Jana Hofmann says. “The core of the seminar was about the idea, that research areas of history, which are already labelled as completed, can be revitalized by choosing different methods and asking different questions.”

At the end of the Methods Class, every participant presented his or her recent research project and discussed it with the participants. According to Jana Hofmann, especially this part was very helpful. “The projects the participants work on are about very different topics." But she had ideas for everybody, for example further literature, names of researchers working in the same field or in form ideas for a different approach to the topic.

Next Guest: Marcelo Neves

The next guest at the BGHS will be professor Marcelo Neves from the University Brasília (Brazil). His main interest concerns the interplay between the legal/constutional theory and social system theory.

www.uni-bielefeld.de/bghs/Programm/Gastlehrendenprogramm

Since this week until 15 February, the adj. professor Kalle Pihlainen (University of Turku, Finland) will be guest at the BGHS. Kalle Pihlainen is a historian, with a focus on on the theory and philosophy of history, narrative theory, embodiment and existential phenomenology. At the BGHS he holds a seminar and can be asked for advice in case of questions concerning the projects of the doctoral researchers.

Within the frame of the event Meet the Guest Researcher all doctoral researchers have the opportunity to meet Kalle Pihlainen and get to know him.

The Get-Together takes place on 15 January at 2 p.m. (s.t.) in the BGHS Lounge.

All members of the BGHS are cordially invited.

More dates with our guest researcher Alan Lessoff and further information:

18 January: Discussion about Pihlainen’s book:
The Work of History: Constructivism and a Politics of The Past
6 p.m. – 8 p.m., Room: X-E1-202

30 - 31 January: Seminar
Violence and legitimacy in 'speaking for others'
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To speak to Kalle Pihlainen in person, there will be of course chance at the Meet the Guest Researcher, or you can come to his office at X-B2-240. It is recommended to make an appointment via [kalle.pihlainen(at)utu.fi].

BGHS doctoral researcher Kerstin Schulte at the VHS Bielefeld. Bild: Thomas Abel

On 19 December 2017, in the last public lecture of the series Linie 4, organized by the BGHS in cooperation with the Volkshochschule Bielefeld, the historian Kerstin Schulte talked in a fully occupied hall about Camp stories from the Senne: Nazis behind barbed wire. The doctoral researcher talked about the two allied camps Staumühle and Stukenbrock where civil functionaries of the national socialis regime were detained waiting for either their trial or their release.

In her talk, Kerstin Schulte gave a detailed insight into the camp life. She managed that by not only showing allied instructional videos concerning the arrest, but also discussed the perception of the camps by the imprisoned people themselves. To do this, she talked in detail about the artistic processing of the experiences of internment in the form of, for example, autobiographies and caricatures.

The audience for the lecture “Nazis behind barbed wire” Bild: Thomas Abel

The lively discussion afterwards involved topics ranging from the supply situation of the internees to women in the camps.

From camp experience to politics of history in the early Federal Republic

In her doctoral theses, the historian compares internment camps in the British and the U.S.-american occupation zone. Especially the internees themselves and their experiences are the focus of her interest. Schulte’s hypotheses is that these experiences had a formative influence on the narratives which later would play a leading role in the politics of history in the early Federal Republic.

With Who Cares? Linie 4 continues in 2018

On 16 January, Cleovi Mosuela will continue the public lecture series with her talk titled Who Cares? Filipino Nurses in Germany. The talk will be held in English.

For further information to the open lecture series and the programme please see:
uni.aktuell (in German)
Interview with Theresa Hornischer at campus radio station Hertz 87.9(in German)
Interview with Marcus Carrier at campus radio station Hertz 87.9 (in German)
#Campusminute with Theresa Hornischer (in German)
www.uni-bielefeld.de/bghs/Public_Science/Linie_4/
www.vhs-bielefeld.de

On Wednesday, 17 January 2018, the next Interdisciplinary Dialogue takes place at the BGHS. The topic will be: What is Modernity? Interdisciplinary perspectives on a contested concept.

Discussants:

• Katsuo Nawa, Professor of Cultural Anthropology (University of Tokyo)
• Joanna Pfaff-Czarnecka, Professor of Social Anthropology (Faculty of Sociology)
• Thomas Welskopp, Professor of History of Modern Society (History Department)
• Sisay Dirirsa, BGHS Doctoral researcher (History Department)
• Edvaldo de Aguiar Portela Moita, BGHS Doctoral researcher (Faculty of Sociology)


• Chair: Éva Rozalia Hölzle, BGHS alumna and postdoc researcher (Faculty of Sociology)

The BGHS cordially invites all doctoral researchers, international guests, and all faculty of the Department of History and the Faculty of Sociology. The discussion will be in English.

For further information about the First Interdisciplinary Dialogue please see:

www.uni-bielefeld.de/bghs/Programm/BGHS_spezifische_Formate/dialog.html