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Presentation with BGHS Start-ups
On Wednesday 24 May 2017 the colloquium Meet the Start-ups took place at the BGHS.
Dr. Verena Molitor welcomes all participants in the BGHS seminar room. Photo by Thomas Abel/BGHS
This year’s Start-up scholars from Brazil, Iceland, Italy, Madagascar, Montenegro and Vietnam introduced themselves and their planned research projects with short poster presentations to very different topics among them: politics of the sporting body in Northern Europe from the 1950s until today, transnational radical nationalist networks between Germany and Italy in the inter war period (1918–1933), self-governance and career of Vietnamese workers and career paths of women in Madagascar.
Maria Borba presents her planned project »Stratification, social inequalities and world society: the argument for a peripheral constitutionalism«. Photo by Thomas Abel/BGHS
Hafdis Hafsteinsdottir presents her planned project »The Politics of the Sporting Body. Recreational Sport in Northern Europe 1950-2000«. Photo by Thomas Abel/BGHS
Daniele Toro presents his planned project »Transnational Radical Nationalist Networks between Germany and Italy 1918 – 1933: An Entangled History of ›Fascistisation‹«. Photo by Thomas Abel/BGHS
Daorotiana Rakotondratandra presents his planned project »Social representations, family involvement and servicewomen‘s career paths in Madagascar«. Photo by Thomas Abel/BGHS
Jovana Vukcevic presents her planned project »The price of memory: Commodifying legacies of unwanted heritage in the Balkans«. Photo by Thomas Abel/BGHS
Kim Anh Dang presents her planned project »Self-governance through the concept of career in Vietnamese workers«.
Photo by Thomas Abel/BGHS
The poster presentation session was followed by an informal get-together with the doctoral researchers of the BGHS. All participants had the chance to walk around in the poster exhibition, ask further questions, discuss the planned projects and get in contact.
BGHS Start-ups 2017 and their planned dissertation projects
- Maria Borba Dantas, Brasilien (Sociology): Stratification, social inequalities and world society: the argument for a peripheral constitutionalism
- Hafdis Hafsteinsdottir, Island (History): The Politics of the Sporting Body. Recreational Sport in Northern Europe 1950–2000
- Daniele Toro, Italien (History): Transnational Radical Nationalist Networks between Germany and Italy 1918 – 1933: An Entangled History of ‘Fascistisation’
- Daorotiana Rakotondratandra, Madagaskar (Sociology): Social representations, family involvement and servicewomen‘s career paths in Madagascar
- Jovana Vukcevic, Montenegro (Sociology): The price of memory: Commodifying legacies of unwanted heritage in the Balkans
- Kim Anh Dang, Vietnam (Sociology): Self-governance through the concept of career in Vietnamese workers
About the Start-up Scholars and the programme
The Start-up scholars are MA graduates who are planning a doctorate. They spend four month at the BGHS to work on exposés of their dissertation projects. This year’s Start-ups will stay at the BGHS until the end of July. For further information about the Start-up scholars, the Start-up Programme, about the application process and scholars since 2013, please see:
www.uni-bielefeld.de/bghs/Personen/Fellows/startup_fellows.html
www.uni-bielefeld.de/bghs/Ausschreibungen/startup_scholarships.html
Event: Meet the Start-ups
On 24 May at 2 p.m this year's Start-up Scholars will introduce themselves and their planned dissertation projects in the BGHS seminar room (X-B2-103). The two historians and four sociologists prepared short poster presentations for the event.
After the presentations, which will last for about 30 minutes, there will time for further questions and discussions.
Additional information about the Start-ups and their projects are in our Blog BGHS.NEWS.
All BGHS members are cordially invited.
Event: Meet the Guest Researcher
From 19 May-15 June the sociologist Thien-Huong Ninh (California State University; Cosumnes River College, Sacramento) will be our guest researcher at the BGHS. Thien-Huong Ninh works in the fields of migration and religion and will teach to these topics in particular during her time in Bielefeld.
Within the frame of the event Meet the Guest Researcher all doctotral researchers have the opportunity to meet Thien-Huong Ninh and get to know her.
The event is planned as a Get-Together and takes place on 23 May, 2 p.m., in the BGHS Lounge.
All members of the BGHS are cordially invited.
More dates with our guest researcher Thien-Huong Ninh and further information:
24 May: Lecture
The Virgin Mary With an Asian Face: Religion and Race in the Lives of Vietnamese Catholic Refugees
(4-6 p.m. Room: X-C3-107)
12 - 13 June: Seminar
Religion, Refugees and Relocation
Please register in ekVV.
8th Workshop Notre Dame/Bielefeld
From 4 to 8 May this year’s Notre Dame/Bielefeld workshop for doctoral researchers took place at Notre Dame University (Indiana/USA).
Nine young scholars from the BGHS participated at the international workshop. Dr. Bettina Brandt, the manager of the School for historic research and Prof. Stephan Merl from the Department of History, Philosophy and Theology accompanied the group.
The international workshops focal point were parts and chapters of the still worked on dissertations of the participants. Short introductions by the authors were followed by comments, critics and concluding discussions.
Aside from the intensive textual work the stay at Notre Dame was a great chance to exchange knowledge about historical and sociological questions in general and doctorates in Germany and the US. A sightseeing tour in Chicago and a hike through the dunes of South Bend completed this year’s international workshop.
An overview of the participants from Bielefeld and their dissertation projects:
Marcus Carrier: Methodenwahl in der forensischen Chemie/Toxikologie des 19. Jahrhunderts im deutsch-französischen Vergleich
Jana Kristin Hoffmann: Family and Gender Concepts in American Mainline Protestantism with a Special Focus on the United Methodist Church 1950-1990 (Working Title)
Teresa Malice: Between agreement and dissent. The Italian Left and 'real socialism' in the German Democratic Republic (1949-1976)
Kerstin Schulte: “Volksgemeinschaft” behind barbed wire. The internment camps of the British and American Occupation Zone and their significance for the German postwar society, 1945-1950
Zoltán Simon: History, Presence, Experience: History in Times of Unprecedented Change
Oleksandra Tarkhanova: Transformation of the State Gender Regime: Policy Change and Policy Framing in Post-Soviet Ukraine
Niko Rohé: European Observation and Comparison in Wars of "others" during the 1890s
Paul-Matthias Tyrell: Integrative Utilization of a Border? The National Border between the USA and Canada in the Metropolitan Region of Detroit – Windsor as Mutually Accessed Local Economic Resource
Lili Zhu: Die deutsche Kulturpolitik in China und ihre Auswirkungen-Eine Analyse der kulturellen Expansion des Deutschen Reiches nach China von 1900 bis 1914.
Additional information about the Notre Dame/Bielefeld workshop
Additional information about the Notre Dame/Bielefeld workshops for doctoral researchers, which take place since 2010 at Bielefeld University and at Notre Dame University, about this year’s workshop in particular and BGHS projects with international cooperation partners are available at:
www.uni-bielefeld.de/bghs/Programm/BGHS_spezifische_Formate/notredame
Colloquium: Meet the Fellows
Visiting Fellow Marina Bodnaruk and the audience from the BGHS.
Foto: Thomas Abel
On 10 May 2017 the BGHS Visiting Fellows 2016 introduced their doctoral projects to the BGHS community. The two young researchers, Mariana Bodnaruk (Ukraine), and Andrew Mitchell (U.K.), will use their time at the BGHS to work on their dissertation projects to the topics.
Marina Bodnaruk is a historian from the Central European University in Budapest, Hungary, and does research on „Production of Distinction: The Representation of Senatorial Elites in the Later Roman Empire (306–395)”.
Andrew Mitchell, a sociologist who works at University Kumamato in Japan, covers the topic: „Observing Fukushima: A Case Study of Japanese Nuclear Policy through Luhmann’s Social System Theory“.
Visiting Fellow Marina Bodnaruk presented her research projects about the Senatorian Elites in the Late Roman Empire.
Foto: Thomas Abel
Andrew Mitchell explains which insights can be achieved applying Luhmann’s System Theory to the Japanese Nuclear Policy.
Foto: Thomas Abel
Both of the international researchers from the U.K. and Ukraine are guests at the BGHS until the end of July 2017. Their want to use the great chance to discus their research projects with other doctoral researcher and get connected to other scientists who are located at the BGHS.
Further information about the current Visiting Fellows, the Visiting Fellows who joint us since the start of the program in 2009 and information about the Visiting Fellow program in general:
www.uni-bielefeld.de/%28en%29/bghs/Personen/Fellows/visiting_fellows.html.
Information about the application to become Visiting Fewllow:
www.uni-bielefeld.de/%28en%29/bghs/Ausschreibungen/visiting_fellowships
Meet the Fellows
On 10 May at 2pm (s.t.) the colloquium Meet the Fellows takes place at the BGHS.
- Mariana Bodnaruk (Central European University, Budapest, Hungary): The Representation of Senatorial Elites in the Later Roman Empire (306–395)
- Andrew Mitchell (Kumamoto University, Japan): Observing Fukushima: A Case Study of Japanese Nuclear Policy through Luhmann's Social Systems Theory
The colloquium offers the opportunity for the BGHS visiting fellows to present their dissertation projects and discuss their works with colleagues from the BGHS and from Bielefeld University.
All members of the BGHS are cordially invited to join the event.
Date/Time/Place: Wednesday, 10 May 2017, 2 pm, BGHS-Seminar room, X-B2-103
For further information please see: www.uni-bielefeld.de/bghs/Personen/Fellows/visiting_fellows.html
BGHS Visiting Fellows 2017
Within the Welcome Day on 12 April the new Visiting Fellows were officially welcomed at the BGHS. Mariana Bodnaruk (Ukraine) and Andrew Mitchell (U.K.) successfully applied for the BGHS Visiting Fellowships, addressed to international doctoral researchers to work in an on their thesis discuss dissertation projects within the BGHS community, creating new networks and.
Mariana Bodnaruk, historian and doctoral researcher of the Central European University Budapest (Hungary), came to Bielefeld in order to intensively work on her dissertation with the work title Production of Distinction: The Representation of Senatorial Elites in the Later Roman Empire (306-395). Andrew Mitchell is doing his doctorate at Kumamoto University (Japan), where he works on the dissertation Observing Fukushima: A Case Study of Japanese Nuclear Policy through Luhmann's Social Systems Theory.
Both Fellows will stay at the BGHS until 31 July. On 10 May they will present and discuss their projects within the BGHS colloquium Meet the Fellows. All members of the BGHS are cordially invited.
Welcome Mariana and Andrew at the BGHS!
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More information on the Visiting Fellows are available at: www.uni-bielefeld.de/bghs/Personen/Fellows/visiting_fellows.html
BGHS Start-ups 2017
Within the Welcome Day on 26 April the BGHS welcomed this years Start-up scholars from Brazil, Iceland, Italy, Madagascar, Montenegro and Vietnam. The six MA graduates plan to further develop their dissertation projects in the upcoming four month. To support them in devising a dissertation proposal, the Start-up scholars will attend to workshops, colloquia, and other focused trainings.
Historian Hafdis Hafsteinsdottir (Iceland) will intensively work on a proposal on The Politics of the Sporting Body. Recreational Sport in Northern Europe 1950–2000. Like her Start-ups colleagues she has just moved in her office room on the BGHS floor.
Daniele Toro (Italy) is quite familiar with the History Department at Bielefeld University. The former exchange student returned as a future doctoral researcher from his home university in Bologna and is now accelerating his topic Transnational Radical Nationalist Networks between Germany and Italy 1918–1933: An Entangled History of ‘Fascistisation’.
The four sociologists are also settled on the BGHS floor. Kim Anh Dang (Vietnam) is working on her planned dissertation project Self-governance through the concept of career in Vietnamese workers, while Daorotiana Rakotondratandra (Madagascar) surveys the Social representations, family involvment and servicewomen's career paths in Madagascar.
Aiming on global policy, Maria Borba Dantas (Brazil) will focus in her dissertation project at Stratification, social inequalities and world society: the argument for a peripheral constitutionalism. Her colleague, Jovana Vukcevic (Montenegro), is especially looking forward to discuss her planned project with her peers. She will focus on The price of memory: Commodifying legacies of unwanted heritage in the Balkans in an interdisciplinary perspective.
The Start-ups will present and discuss their planned dissertation projects within the BGHS colloquium Meet the Start-ups on 24 May. All members of the BGHS are cordially invited to join this event.
More information on the Start-up scholars are available at:
Mehr Informationen über die diesjährigen Start-up Scholars sind abrufbar unter: http://www.uni-bielefeld.de/bghs/Personen/Fellows/startup_fellows.html
We cordially welcome the Start-ups and look forward to the upcoming month.