Welcome Day Winter Semester 2022/23

::20 new doctoral researchers at the BGHS::

On Tuesday, 11 October, the BGHS Welcome Day for the winter semester 2022/23 took place, this time again in person at the BGHS. The BGHS directors Klaus Weinhauer and Ruth Ayaß welcomed the new doctoral researchers, who had the opportunity to introduce themselves and get to know the doctoral representatives and the BGHS office staff. Sabine Schäfer then introduced the BGHS training and study programme. We wish all new members a wonderful start to their doctorate at the BGHS.

New BGHS doctoral researchers and their projects:

Jasper Bendler (Sociology): Die Entwicklung von Normakzeptanz. Eine Untersuchung der Entwicklungsverläufe, Einflussfaktoren und Wechselwirkungen der Akzeptanz von Rechtsnormen bei Jugendlichen und jungen Erwachsenen.

Felix Bitterer (Sociology): The importance of political attitudes for occupational choices and careers in public service

Melina Bonerz (Sociology): Why are we not flooding the streets? A case study of the diffusion of and coalition-building around anti-femi(ni)cide activism in Germany

Felix Gumbert (Sociology): How to Build an Echo Chamber. Virtuelle Ethnographie zur Genese von Kommunikationsräumen in sozialen Medien

Svenja Holste (Sociology): ‘The Arctic We Know?!’ Arctic knowledge, natural scientists’ worldviews and the framing of research agendas

Ricardo Kelm (Sociology): Constructing Identity, Challenging Representations: Hegemonic Struggles in Discourses on ‘European Security Identity’

Stefan Knauff (Sociology): Regionalization of Stereotyping in Online Spaces using Text Based Computational Sociology Methods

Jonas Kramer (Sociology): Das alltägliche Planungsgespräch. Die Herstellung von Zukunft in projektiven Gattungen

Jakob Krusche (History): Gruppen bewaffneter Zivilisten in Mexiko. Historische Einordnung eines Phänomens unter Bezugnahme auf aktuelle Entwicklungen

Talha Minhas (History): Practices of Comparing in late colonial and Modern Nationalist Historiography in Pakistan (1850-1980). Calling for a Global History in Pakistan through a Practice-theoretical Approach to Anti-Nationalist Historiography

Cristóbal Moya (Sociology): The force of injustice and the legitimation of social inequalities

Amelie Nickel (Sociology): Marketization, institutional anomie, and societal consequences

Hoang Long Nguyen (Sociology): Big Spatial Data: Potentials and Limitations for Empirical Social Research

Ingo Pätzold (History): „Wann fangen wie endlich an, nicht nur nachts homosexuell zu sein?“ Die diskursive Verortung der Theatergruppe „Brühwarm“ in der politischen Schwulenbewegung der 1970er Jahre in der BRD. Ein digitales Close Reading ihrer Auftritte

Stefan Rohrhirsch (Sociology): Environmentality. On the Critique of Environmental Reason

Ilgım Şimşek (Sociology): Queer Narratives Throughout Generations in Turkey

Stephan Skolarski (Sociology): Institutional racism in Germany. Intergroup contacts and ethnic prejudices among employees in public institutions

Can David Tobias (Sociology): Nationalstaatenindikatoren in the making – Die Herstellung quantitativer Leistungsvergleiche im Kontext globaler Politik am Beispiel des Financial Secrecy Index

Ragna Verhoeven (Sociology): On Unifying, Communal and Consensual Aspects of Democracy — An Analysis of Potential of the Radical Theory of Democracy

Mikko von Bremen (Sociology): Funding Priorities in Arctic Research – Institutional Structures and Consultation Processes at the Science-Policy Interface

You can find the Welcome Day presentation here:

Edvaldo Moita was awarded two prizes this year for his dissertation successfully defended in 2021. First, the Brazilian Association for Philosophy of Law and Sociology of Law (ABRAFI) – a national section of the Internationale Vereinigung für Rechts- und Sozialphilosophie (IVR) – awarded him the prize for the best dissertation in 2021. In September, he also received the “European Award for Legal Theory”, a prize awarded by the European Academy of Legal Theory (EALT). The award ceremony will take place on 24 November at Goethe University Frankfurt.

Last Year, Edvaldo Moita also prevailed against the competition and received a professorship for legal theory and philosophy of law at Fluminense Federal University (UFF), Brazil's largest university.

Congratulations on these successes!

 (©Edvaldo Moita)

Edvaldo Moita completed his PhD in sociology in 2021 with his dissertation "On the Nature and Impacts of Noncompliance: With a Study of Informality and Street Vending in Brazil".