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Desk-Exchange: Report from Lund
This november two members of the BGHS, Johanna Paul and Stefanie Haupt, visited Lund, to develop their research and to amplify international networking with others. Now they are back in Bielefeld, having lots of new ideas, which they gained through the two weeks in Lund. A very interesting experience was the entry to the University's Library and the huge archieve, so it became possible to have an insight in exciting correspondences. The University of Lund is one of the oldest ones in Scandinavia and exists for more than 300 years
According to that, also personal conversations were helpful and inspiring for further steps in their research. As Stefanie said: "Those two weeks were so much fun! Everyone was welcoming, showed interest in our projects and supported us excellently. Tack så mycket!"
About the program:
The Desk Exchange-program offers the possibility for doctoral researchers from Lund and Bielefeld to get an insight into the academic system abroad, to come in contact with colleagues and researchers internationally. Therefore they meet during two weeks in Lund and two weeks in Bielefeld.
Participants and projects:
Johanna Paul: Transnational mobilization for memorialization in post-war Bosnia-Herzegovina: Reconceiving diasporans as transnational actors of reconciliation.
Stefanie Haupt: Völkische Ortungen und Germanische Himmelskunde. Debatten um eine vor- und frühgeschichtliche Astronomie im Deutschland der Zwischenkriegszeit.
Further Information:
Anniversary Conference: 10 Years BGHS
This year the BGHS celebrates its 10th anniversary. The programme of the final conference within the jubilee entitled Graduate Training of Young Scholars. Responsibility for the Future on 30 November and 1 December offers many highlights: a panel discussions, a jubilee lecture and various panel session to the conference topic.
At the central panel discussion The Future of Graduate Education the BGHS welcomes as discussants: Peter Strohschneider (President German Research Foundation, DFG), Tilman Reitz (University Jena), Gerhard Sagerer (Rector Bielefeld University), Ursula Mense-Petermann (Director BGHS). Moderator of the discussion is Manfred Götzke from Deutschlandfunk.
The jubilee lecture will be hold by Richard Münch (University of Bamberg) to the topic: Academic Careers. Between Global Competition and National Traditions
The detailed programme is available on the BGHS website
www.uni-bielefeld.de/(en)/bghs/Programm/Jubilaeum/index.htmlIf you are interested attending the conference, please register: 10jahre-bghs@uni-bielefeld.de
On saturday afternoon the BGHS celebrates its birthday with a science slam and a birthday party. All BGHS members and guests are cordially invited.
New issue: InterDisciplines
The InterDisciplines special issue “The body and its Multiple Dimensions is released now. This issues’ focus is understanding the body from different perspectives, such as from physical to metaphysical bodies, to social, to political and economic bodies. The topic evolved for the first time during the Linie 4 series of public lectures hold by members of the BGHS, which took place in 2016. On the occasion of the conference Lund/York/Bielefeld, also in 2016, some of the BGHS members worked out additional papers to approach their ideas of re_thinking the body.
The guest editors of the journal are Cleovi C. Mosuela, , alumna of the BGHS in the faculty of sociology and Britta Dostert, doctoral researcher in the faculty of history. A result is this issue with five articles by young international researchers.
About the topic
Common across the individual articles is an understanding of the body as a sociological and historical category in the center of an analysis of power relations, discourses, social transformations and contested meanings. Some papers demonstrate how biopolitical instruments use the body along intersectional categories for political purposes, which is in line with Foucault’s theory about bodies, being racialized, sexualized and gendered as a part of a biopolitical project.
Along this, Michelle G. Ong investigates aging Filipina migrant bodies in New Zealand. The article questions, how the construction of responsible citizenship is related to a certain healthy body and stabilize social inequalities. She therefore focusses throughout her discourse analysis of migrants’ understanding on health and aging bodies.
Oleksandra Tarkhanova focusses state discourses as well as she takes a critical stance on contemporary Ukrainian welfare and labor policy discourses in their effects on women’s reproductive rights and options. Tarkhanova analyses, how the female body is essentialized as a birth giving material to fulfil its “higher, natural purpose”.
Misogyny as a meaningful structure of gendering bodies, is also part of Susan Lindholms contribution, as she presents her research on the gendered body in the space of hip-hop. In her article she discusses the bodies’ potential of being able or unable to negotiate multiple and sometimes conflicting frames of belonging, such as national, transnational and popular culture.
Dealing with the example of soccer players, Katarzyna Herd argues that the body is a means for constructing narratives. Herd’s analysis signifies how soccer players enlarge their corporealities upon their own agency to impel history writing and the reputation of their team by performing in meaningful connections with their fans.
Also Cleovi C. Mosuela works with the concept of agency in relation to the body. Mosuela inquires into the corporeal element of nursing care in the case of Philippine-trained nurses working in german hospitals. Therefore she points out the significance of “body work” and care work, which leads to a very special, humanized relation to the patient.
About the InterDisciplines
The InterDisciplines, the online journal in editorial responsibility of the Bielefeld Graduate School in History and Sociology (BGHS), is published twice a year to different, the sociology or history concerning topics. Every issue is managed by different guest editors.
You find the current issue here:
http://www.inter-disciplines.org/index.php/indi/issue/view/24
New project: "Non-academic-careers"
Professor Thomas Welskopp, deputy director at the BGHS, welcomed the participants Foto: Thomas Abel
In January 2019 the BGHS will launch the pilot project "non-academic careers". For a three-year term, the project, which is financed as part of the Universities’ strategic budget, supports doctoral researchers with their professional job decisions, nationally and internationally. During the project, a broad network to non-academic partners is going to be established, such as foundations, NGOs, public or economic corporations.
Twelve doctoral researchers from BGHS will have the possibility to gain practical experience in these organizations and will be accompanied by a supervision-program to reflect their experiences. For ten more Graduates there is going to be a Mentoring-Program.
The project stands in line with the recent and past BGHS-events for non-academic career options, which were actively provided in the area of Transferable Skills and Career Service.
Further information:
Programme and Events in Career Service and Transferable Skills:
http://www.uni-bielefeld.de/bghs/Programm/Forschung_Karriere/index.html
Job posting (german):
Review of past events:
Brochure (german):