12 of the 19 doctoral researcher, who start in the summer terms at the BGHS. Foto: Thomas Abel

On Wednesday, 18 April the BGHS Welcome Day took place. Dr. Sabine Schäfer, the executive manager of the BGHS, welcomed the new colleagues and international guests and informed the about the structure and the programme of the BGHS and introduced the staff of the BGHS office. The Doctoral Representatives also took the chance for a warm welcome. In the following coffee break in the BGHS-Lounge the doctoral researchers and guests got to know each other.

Getting Started

In the second part of the Welcome Day the new doctoral researchers of the BGHS received some more information concerning the doctorate: information on the study programme and BGHS specific formats (Dr. Sabine Schäfer), on financial support and applications for travel- and mobility grants (Dr. Miriam Kanne), on transferable skills and career services (Melanie Eulitz) and on former and planned public science- and Art&Science-projects (Thomas Abel). Information on technical questions and the infrastructure at the BGHS (Frank Leitenberger) completed the session. The Welcome Day ended with a short campus tour.

The new doctoral researchers at the BGHS

19 new colleagues are starting their research projects at the BGHS in summer term: Four female and three male historians, and five female and seven male sociologists.

The new doctoral researcher and their projetcs:

• Robert Eberhardt (History): Praktiken der paarweisen Zusammenstellung von Bildern im 18. und frühen 19. Jahrhundert
• Luise Fast (History): Decentering Cultural Encounter Interpreters as Transcultural Brokers in the 19th Century
• Franz Jakob Kather (History): Südpalast. Microhistory of a globalization
• Anna Maria Neubuert (History): Research Foundations and their Influence on the Digital Transformation of Arts and Humanities
• Agnes Piekacz (History): The Colonists‘ Old Clothes. Altkleiderhandel im British Empire, ca. 1850-1910
• Simon Siemianowski (History): Inclusion individuality and the relational self - A comparative study of Iberian and Italian diaries and family books of the 15th and 16th century
• Mira Claire Zadrozny (History): Images of Ruins. (New) Comparative Viewing in Mid-19th Century Paris
• Lisa Baßenhoff (Sociology): Leistungskunst? Die historische Genese von Rankings in der bildenden Kunst
• Isabell Diekmann(Sociology): Anti-Islam sentiment and anti-Muslim prejudice - on the relationship between religion and individuals
• Patrick Kahle (Sociology): Collective and the (Figures/Figurations of the) Third: On Construction of Collective Identities in Triads
• Bernd Kappel (Sociology): Gender self-conception under the condition of the diversification of Gender conceptions. By taking into consideration the experiences and life styles of teenager and young adults.
• Georg Kessler (Sociology): The Late-Bloomers in the Third Life-Decade - Relevance for Criminological Theory and Methodology
• Rebecca Knecht (Sociology): Thinking Masculinity. Care Staff’s Ascriptions of Belonging in Working with Minor Refugees
• Mohamed Haikel Fansuri Bin Mohamed (Sociology): Contested Masculinity in Southeast Asia – Social Media as a Canvas for Belonging
• Karlson Preuß (Sociology): The unwritten Constitution as an intersection between global law and world politics
• Yannick Schöpper (Sociology): Renewable energy policy between continuity and change - The regulation of the German and British Electric Power Industry in comparison
• Tabea Schroer (Sociology): Un-/known inequality? On the (de-)differentiation of belonging among students at Grandes Écoles in times of internationalization
• Andrea Schwarz (Sociology): Analyzing delinquency in panel studies considering attrition patterns
• Mathias Wetzel (Sociology): State-Citizen Relation through Taxation. A Fiscal Sociological Study of German Public Finances

For further information about the research projects of the new colleagues and an overview about all doctoral researchers at the BGHS and their projects, please see:
http://www.uni-bielefeld.de/(en)/bghs/Personen/Promovierende/

International guests at the BGHS: Start-up Scholars and Visiting Fellows

This years international guests – six Start-up Scholars and three Fellows – will stay for four month at the BGHS. During that time the Start-up Scholars will work on proposals for their planned dissertation projects. The Research Fellows use their time at the BGHS to work on their dissertation projects, discuss their works with BGHS colleagues and network with researchers at Bielefeld University.

The Start-Ups (f.l.t.r.:) Nicolás Gómez, Mezgebu Mengistie, Olga Olkheft, Sundara Hannah Shirley Jeyakumar Christdoss, Yordanos Estifanos and Moynul Haque. Picture: Thomas Abel

Start-up Scholars and their planned projects:

• Yordanos Estifanos (Ethiopia): The Political Economy of Transnational Migration: Ethiopian Irregular Migrants
• Nicólas Gómez (Chile): Transnational Labour Discipline: British management and the workers in the sheep farming industry of Magallanes (Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego late nineteenth and early twentieth century)
• Moynul Haque (Bangladesh): Nonviolent Resistance in Bangladesh
• Sundara Shirley Jeyakumar Christdoss (India): Socio-economic inequality and infant morbidity in India
• Mezgebu Mengistie (Ethiopia): Ideal Masculinity and Retaliation among the Knife Fighting People of Raya Kobo District, North Wollo Zone of Amhara Region, North Eastern Ethiopia
• Olga Olkheft (Russia): Russian Avant-Garde Art as the art of Russian Revolution: The history of re-conception of Russian art of the beginning of the 20th century through the international art exhibitions in 1970-1980

For an overview about the Start-ups 2018 and all Start-up scholars since 2013, please see:
http://www.uni-bielefeld.de/(en)/bghs/Personen/Fellows/startup_fellows.html

Visting Fellows and their projects

• Rodrigo Mota (Brazil): Individualisms and Individuations: Georg Simmel and the Sociology of the Individual
• Anastasie Zaplatina (Russia): Veneral Diseases in the Red Army in 1941-1945: Gender and Epidemiological Aspects
• Gabriel Ferreira da Fonseca (Brazil): Tensions between law and economy in the Housing Finance System: A reconstruction from the systems theory.

For an overview about the Visiting Fellows 2018 and all Visiting Fellows since 2009, please see:
http://www.uni-bielefeld.de/(en)/bghs/Personen/Fellows/visiting_fellows.html