The Start-Up Scholars (f.l.r.): Yordanos Estifanos, Nicolás Gómez, Moynul Haque, Sundara Hannah Shirley Jeyakumar Christdoss und Mezgebu Mengistie. Not on this picture: Olga Olkheft. Image: Thomas Abel

In summer term two guest programmes took place at the BGHS. The programme for Start-Up Scholars gave six international young MA graduates the opportunity to expand their ideas for an research project to an exposé. Part of the programme are consultations for developing research questions, academic writing workshops, the presentation of their own topics for an interdisciplinary audience and support in finding a supervisor.

The projects of the Start-up Scholars 2018 were the following:

• Yordanos Estifanos (Ethiopia): The Political Economy of Transnational Migration: Ethiopian Irregular Migrants
• Nicólas Gómez (Chile): Transnational Labour Discipline: British management and the workers in the sheep farming industry of Magallanes (Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego late nineteenth and early twentieth century)
• Moynul Haque (Bangladesh): Nonviolent Resistance in Bangladesh
• Sundara Shirley Jeyakumar Christdoss (India): Socio-economic inequality and infant morbidity in India
• Mezgebu Mengistie (Ethiopia): Ideal Masculinity and Retaliation among the Knife Fighting People of Raya Kobo District, North Wollo Zone of Amhara Region, North Eastern Ethiopia
• Olga Olkheft (Russia: Russian Avant-Garde Art as the art of Russian Revolution: The history of re-conception of Russian art of the beginning of the 20th century through the international art exhibitions in 1970-1980

Three Research Fellows

The Research Fellows (f.l.): Gabriel Ferreira da Fonseca, Anastasia Zaplatina und Rodrigo Mota. Foto: Thomas Abel

Beside the Start-Up Scholars, three Research Fellows were guests at the BGHS. Research Fellows already have a doctoral project and can use their time at the BGHS to get in touch with the other scholars and professors in the faculties. The three months are also an opportunity to focus on their projects outside their all-day life.

This year's Fellows and their projects:

• Rodrigo Mota (Brazil): Individualisms and Individuations: Georg Simmel and the Sociology of the Individual
• Anastasia Zaplatina (Russia): Veneral Diseases in the Red Army in 1941-1945: Gender and Epidemiological Aspects
• Gabriel Ferreira da Fonseca (Brazil): Tensions between law and economy in the Housing Finance System: A reconstruction from the systems theory.

For an overview about the Visiting Fellows 2018 and all Visiting Fellows since 2009, please see:
www.uni-bielefeld.de/bghs/Personen/Fellows/visiting_fellows

For an overview about the Start-ups 2018 and all Start-up scholars since 2013, please see: