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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.