The participants of the Research Retreat 2017. Foto: Thomas Abel

Research Retreat 2017

A weekend, secluded from the academic everyday work, to be able to focus on the presentation and discussion of new doctoral projects: That is the Research Retreat. The Research Retreat of 2017 took place at the last weekend in Vlotho near Bielefeld. 19 doctoral researchers took the opportunity to present and discuss their dissertation projects. In addition to the new colleagues, Prof. Dr. Ursula Mense-Petermann, Prof. Dr. Thomas Welskopp and Prof. Dr. Oliver Flügel-Martinsen participated in the presentations and discussions of the projects.

Beyond the presentations, the participants of the research retreat had the opportunity to enter into an interdisciplinary dialogue. One of the doctoral researchers, Daniele Toro, highlights the unique atmosphere: “We were able to discuss scientific contents, without being restricted by the formal frames that the university context often carries. We had open and free conversations. If somebody had just seen us without hearing our discussions, he had hardly assumed that we were a group of scholars.”

The yearly research retreat invites first year BGHS doctoral researchers. Besides the presentation and discussion of their dissertation projects the new BGHS colleagues are also welcomed by their doctoral representatives.

For further information about the Research Retreat please see: Research Retreat
You can find an overview of current programmes here: BGHS Programme

The Dissertation Projects of the Participants

• Ina Kiel (History): Fernand Desprès. Ein engagierter Aktivist in internationalen Zirkeln während der Zwischenkriegszeit.


• Stefanie Haupt (History): Völkische Ortungen und Germanische Himmelskunde. Debatten um eine vor- und frühgeschichtliche Astronomie im Deutschland der Zwischenkriegszeit


• Dominik Hofmann (Sociology): Soziologie der Erwartung - Der Wandel der Erwartungsstile und das Phänomen der impunidad in der Weltgesellschaft


• Stefan Roepke (History): Praktiken des Dienens in den Aufzeichnungen Hans von Schweinichens


• Jule Adriaans (Sociology): Bedingungen und Folgen individueller Gerechtigkeitsein-stellungen im internationalen Vergleich – ein Beitrag zur komparativen Gerechtigkeitsforschung


• Susan Krause(History): Blinde Zugänge zur Vergangenheit!? – Empirische Untersuchung zur historischen Imagination von Schüler*innen mit Förderschwerpunkt Sehen als Beitrag zur Inklusion im Geschichtsunterricht


• Anatoly Boyashov(Sociology): World politics: The emergence of political arenas and modes of observation in world society


• Christopher Schulte-Schüren(History): “A strike is nothing but war.” Vergleichspraktiken in der Berichterstattung über Arbeitskämpfe in den USA 1890-1914


• Edvaldo de Aguiar Portela Moita (Sociology): Influxes of subinclusion in the construction of fields of illegality: Analysing street vendors activities in Brazil through legal decisions


• Gladys Vásquez Zevallos (History): The Creation of American Regional Integration and the Origination of the Inter-American System after Independence. The Congress of Panama (1826) and the American Congress of Lima (1847)


• Ayomide O. Kolawole (Sociology): The Politics of Universalism in the Global South: A case study of Pension policies in Kenya, Botswana, and Nepal.


• Daniele Toro (History): Radikalnationalistische Netzwerke im zentraleuropäischen Raum 1917–1934: Verflechtungsprozesse des Faschismus als transnationale soziale Bewegung


• Mehran Haji Mohammadian (Sociology): The Rise of Retirement in Iran A Development from the Margin to the Center of Social Policy?


• Alisait Yilkin (Sociology):To vote or not to vote: The participation and non-participation in turkish election of young generations of Turkish Citizens living in Germany


• Johannes Nagel (History): The American Military during the Global Transformation, 1865-1905


• Sisay Dirirsa (History): The Ethiopian Empire: A Future Past Dialectics


• Abrham Yohannes (Sociology): National Identities versus cultural identities: Beta Israel Communites


• Henning Middelschulte (Sociology): Conceptual Change in Social Science Education: Integrating Epistemology, Neuro-Psychology and Empirical Evidence of Common Knowledge


• Aziz Elmuradov (Sociology): Competing narratives of EU in Russian foreign policy: in search for identity or policy?

From left to right: Cleovi Mosuela (BGHS), Florence Mok (University of York), José Villareal (BGHS) und Susan Krause (BGHS).

While Ida Jansson from Lund University and Joshua Ravenhill from the University of York were guests in Bielefeld, three members of the BGHS, Cleovi Mosuela, José Villareal and Susan Krause went for two weeks for the Desk Exchange to Lund in Sweden.

Within the Desk Exchange in Lund the three young researchers from Bielefeld and their colleague Florence Monk from the University of York had the opportunity to get an insight into the academic system abroad, to come in contact with colleagues and researchers and to create international networks. During their stay the participants had also the chance to take part in the study programme present their dissertation projects and meet with professors.

More information about the BGHS researchers

Cleovi Mosuela is sociologist. Her research project is on Assembling Circulation: Governing the mobility of health professionals from the Philippines to Germany.

The PhD project of José Villareal is located in the field of historical sociology and focuses on the relation between Insurgent Citizenship, State Power and Regional Differences in Ecuador.

Susan Krause is historian and works with visually impaired pupils, their imaginations of the past and new concepts of inclusive schooling.

More about the Desk-Exchange:

About our guests from Lund and York

About the Desk Exchange from last year

On Tuesday, 7 November, the historian Theresa Hornischer held a lecture on the subject of Women against her fatherland France (1918-1939). The lecture was the second part of the open series Linie 4, which aims for a dialogue between historical and sociological research and a wider public. Theresa Hornischer's lecture was about intellectual women in France in the interwar period with special focus on Léo Wanner.

With courage against their fatherland France

As a member of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom she engaged for peace and emancipation. As an intellectual traveller and writer she critized her fatherland France for social problems in the French colonies. Theresa Hornischer drew a precise picture of Léo Wanner: how she discussed the topics peace, freedom and equality and furthermore how she faced up to the problems of other ethnies and minorities.
Additionally, Theresa Hornischer described Wanner a a fighter for the emancipation of women and children's rights. Because the topics which Léo Wanner dealt with in the 1920’s and 1930’s are still relevant today, she can be seen as a role model.

After the lecture, the visitors had the opportunity for questions and to discuss with the historian.

Persecution and recommencement

The next lecture of the open lecture series will be on Tuesday, 21 November, to the topic: Persecution and recommencement: Yezidi women in Germany. The next lecturer will be the sociologist Carla Thiele.

For further information about 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: Carla Thiele, Translation: Andreas Hermwille

The poster session with the BGHS Shortcuts. Photos by Thomas Abel

Interesting research projects from very different scientific fields, approached by young, female scientists: At Meet the Shortcuts the participants of this year's  programme presented and discussed very different fields of research in history and sociology: From street art, to family enterprises, from the interrelation of surreal and commercial photography in France during the interwar period to social networks for foreign students in Germany.

With their posters the young researchers discussed their research ideas, which are meant to become dissertation projects.

Marianne Hösl’s concern are clients of the probationary services in Bavaria in the context of social inequality

Beatrice Adams explains the connection between surrealistic and commercial photography in Paris during the interwar period and models of femininity.

Janina Jäckel shows her poster about gender inequalities and the meaning of social networks for foreign students in Germany.

Charlie Kaufhold describes, how she plans to illuminate the reporting about the NSU-process in her doctoral project.

Mia-Alina Schauf wants to dedicate her doctoral project to family enterprises and their ability of innovating.

For further information, please see: www.uni-bielefeld.de/(en)/bghs/Personen/Fellows/shortcuts.html

Ida Jannsson (Lund University) und Joshua Ravenhill (University of York). Photo by Thomas Abel

From 6 November till 17 November Ida Jansson (University of Lund) and Joshua Ravenhill (University of York) are guests at the BGHS. Their visit is part of the desk exchange Lund-York-Bielefeld program.

Joshua Ravenhill is historian and works in his PhD thesis on migrants experiences in late medieval England. “It is interesting, that the decisions they made are comparable to the decisions migrants have to do today”, he explains.

Ida Jansson, also historian, examines the development of minority rights and minority protection from the First World War until today. Her case study are the Åland Islands, as part of the Swedish-speaking minority in Finland.

Desk Exchange-Programme

The Desk Exchange-Programme offers an opportunity for doctoral researchers from Lund, York and Bielefeld University to gain an insight into the academic system abroad, to come in contact with colleagues and researchers and to create international networks. During their stays the participants have the opportunity to take part in the study programmes of the graduate schools in Lund, York and Bielefeld, present their dissertation projects and meet with professors.

An report about the BGHS doctoral researchers who are in Lund we will we published next week.