On Wednesday, 12 july 2017, the new series of events called Interdisciplinary Dialogue takes place at the BGHS. The topic of the First Interdisciplinary Dialogue will be: Grappling with the Global: The Challenge of Boundaries in Interdisciplinary Perspective.

The title is related to this year's Annual Seminar to the topic Grappling with the Global: The Challenge of Boundaries in History and Sociology.

Professores from the Department of History and the Faculty of Sociology will discuss about »the Global« from a variety of interdisciplinary perspectives.

Discussants:

• Prof. Dr. Mathias Albert, Professor of Political Science
• Prof. Dr. Angelika Epple, Professor of History with particular focus on the History of 19th and 20th Century
• Prof. Alan Lessoff, PProfessor of History, Illinois State University, Guest Researcher at the BGHS in summer term 2017
• Prof. Dr. Joanna Pfaff-Czarnecka, Professor of Social Anthropology
• Prof. Dr. Eleonora Rohland, Assistant Professor for Entangled History in the Americas, 1600-1850
• Prof. Dr. Tobias Werron, Professor of Sociological Theory


• Chair: Prof. Dr. Ursula Mense-Petermann, Director of the BGHS

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. Please register: bghs@uni-bielefeld.de

For further information about the First Interdisciplinary Dialogue an the Annual Seminar 2017, please see:

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

www.uni-bielefeld.de/bghs/Programm/Ansem/2017.html

From 27 June till 17 July Professor Alan Lessoff (Illinois University) will be our guest researcher at the BGHS. Alan Lessoff is a historian with focus on American History. At the BGHS he will hold a seminar about public history.

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

The Get-Together takes place on 27 June at 2 p.m. in the BGHS Lounge.

All members of the BGHS are cordially invited.

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

28 -29 June: Seminar
Public and Local History: Methods, Concepts, and Issues
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7 July: Excursion to Mindener Museum, Minden
Menschen, Schiffe und Maloche (Exhibition about Minden Harbors), Museum Minden, time and schedule to be announced. Please register for the trip in the BGHS-office.

12 July: Discussant at the Interdisciplinary Dialogue
Grappling with the Global - First Interdisciplinary Dialogue at the BGHS
18: 6 p.m. - 8 p.m., room: X-B2-103

In 2016 the BGHS has undergone a voluntary evaluation for the second time since 2010. The evaluation aims are to identify BGHS’ strengths and weaknesses. The results of the multi-layered process will fuel the further development of the institution. Thereby perspectives for the continuation after the funding of the excellence initiative runs out in October 2019 are gathered.

The Multistage Evaluation Process

In January / February 2016 the BGHS staff conducted an online survey poll of their doctoral researchers. More than two thirds participated. Subsequently interviews with academic supervisors took place in April and May 2016. Both assessments lay the groundwork for the report Obtaining a doctorate at the BGHS. Report on the findings of the 2016 evaluation survey. On Friday 11 November five experts on the subject of graduate education were invited for an inspection. Prepared with the aid of the above mentioned report they were able to survey the BGHS for themselves. Among others the experts had conversations with doctoral researchers, supervising professors as well as BGHS board members and the vice-rector for research, young researchers and equal opportunities. In addition a tour of the BGHS grounds gave an impression of the surroundings. Based on these various findings the group of experts drafted a ten pages long evaluation report.

Results of the Evaluation

The report highlights the strengths of the BGHS, for example the international networking, the encouragement and funding of mobility, the interdisciplinary communication, the program in general and the infrastructure. But the experts also made recommendations for further improvements. According to them the interdisciplinary communication could be stronger, especially between professors. To the University Directorate the group suggests the continuation of the BGHS and praise it as a suitable model for the University in general.

The evaluation was discussed with the vice-rector for research, young researchers and equal opportunities, representatives of doctoral researchers and the BGHS board. One first step to realize emerged suggestions is the Interdisciplinary Dialogue. This exchange by members of both faculties to one topic will have its premiere on the eve of the Annual Seminar on 12 July 2017. This year’s talking point will be “Grappling with the Global”.

Additional information about the evaluation:

From 7 June – 9 June, the PhD Conference in History: Lund-York-Bielefeld took place. This year the venue of the conference was Lund, Sweden.

During the conference 23 doctoral researchers presented and discussed their research projects, benefetting from an international context. Seven of them were doctoral researchers from the BGHS of the Bielefeld University.

Aside of the presentation and discussion of the research projects, the program also contained two round-table discussions to the topics Writing entangled histories of Europe – breaking away from national histories and Making an academic career. The program of the conference was completed by shared conference dinners, and a tour across the campus of the Lund University, Lund Downtown and the cathedral.

Across national and epochal boundaries, and across historiographical the discussions were very productive, enlightening and amusing.

An overview about the participants from Bielefeld and their contributions:

• Daniel Emmelius: Writing Boundaries. The Pomerium and the Constitution of City Boundaries in the Ancient City of Rome

• Simon Füchtenschnieder: Planning and Organising of Voyages of Research and Voyages of supply Conducted by the Royal Navy in the 18th Century Focusing on the two Breadfruit Voyages by William Bligh abroad HMAV (His Majesty’s Armed Vessel) Bounty and HMS (His Majesty’s Ship) Providence

• Theresa Hornischer: Female Intellectuals in France between the Two World Wars

• Arne Käthner: West-Germany as Neoliberal Pioneer: Transnational Conceptual Struggles about the ‘Good Society’ in the Post-War Period (1945–1963)

• Teresa Malice: The Italian Left and the German Democratic Republic. Trans-Local Contacts, Entangled Views and Reciprocal Imaginations During the Cold War (1950s–1970s)

• Niko Rohé: European Observations and Comparison in Wars of ‘Others’ in the 1890s. British, French and German Imaginations of Imperial World Order

• Rouven Wirbser: Can India also be found in Westphalia? Early Modern Jesuit Acitivity in Westphalia as a Part of the Global Catholic Missions

The young scientists were accompanied by Dr. Levke Harders and Prof. Dr. Peter Schuster from the department of history of the Bielefeld University.

Further information:

Further information about the format of the PhD Conference Lund–York–Bielefeld, about the PhD Conference Lund–York–Bielefeld 2016, which took place in Bielefeld and about the ‚desk exchange‘ Lund-York-Bielefeld, coming up in November 2017, and about the other national and international cooperation partners and formats of the BGHS as well, can be found here:

http://www.uni-bielefeld.de/(en)/bghs/Programm/Workshops/2016

www.belonging.hypotheses.org

https://ekvv.uni-bielefeld.de/blog/bghsnews/entry/phd_conference_lund_york_bielefeld

http://www.uni-bielefeld.de/(en)/bghs/Profil/Kooperationen

On 6 June the exhbition Visualising Research was opened in the main buiding at FH Bielefeld - University of Applied Sciences. The presentation can be visited until 22 June.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The exhibition at FH Bielefeld. Photos by Thomas Abel/BGHS

 

FH Bielefeld is the third place, where the exhibition is shown. It was already presented in December 2016 at the 10. Forum Wissenschaftskommunikation - a conference for science communication. From February till May the Art&Science-Project was shown at the BGHS.

 

 

 

The exhibition at the 10. Forum Wissenschaftskommunikation. Photos by Thomas Abel/BGHS

 

 

 

 

 

 

The exhbition at the BGHS. Fotos: Thomas Abel/BGHS

 

GENIALE

In August 2017 the Art&Science Project will be presented at the science festival GENIALE at Bielefeld University.

Further Informationen

For further information please see: www.geniale-bielefeld.de
https://ekvv.uni-bielefeld.de/blog/bghsnews/entry/visualising_research
https://ekvv.uni-bielefeld.de/blog/bghsnews/entry/exhibition_opening_art_science_project
http://www.uni-bielefeld.de/bghs/Public_Science/Art_Science/illustration.html
http://www.uni-bielefeld.de/bghs/Public_Science/Art_Science/portrait.html