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On Wednesday, 26 April the BGHS Welcome Day took place. Ursula Mense-Petermann, the director of the graduate school, welcomed the new colleagues and international guests. After a presentation about the department of history (by Dr. Bettina Brandt) and the faculty of sociology Dr. Sabine Schäfer, the executive manager of the BGHS, informed the participants 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.

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

17 new colleagues are starting their research projects at the BGHS in summer term: five historians and twelve sociologists. They are from Brasil, Ethiopia, France, Germany, Ghana, Iran and Nigeria.

Neue BGHS Promovierende und ihre Forschungsprojekte:

• Jule Adriaans (Soziologie): Der Einfluss gesellschaftlicher Diskurse auf individuelle Gerechtigkeitseinstellungen im internationalen Vergleich. Ein Beitrag zur komparativen Gerechtigkeitsforschung [A cross-national comparison of the influence of public discourse on individual justice attitudes. A contribution to comparative justice research]
• Edvaldo de Aguiar Portela Moita (Soziologie): Influxes of Subinclusion in the Construction of Constitutional Fields of Illegalities
• Indra Bock (Soziologie): Studien an den Grenzen des Sozialen. Multimodale Analysen der kommunikativen Praktiken zwischen Mensch und Hund [Studies at the borders of the social world. A multimodal analysis of the communicative practices between humans and dogs]
• Sisay Megersa Dirirsa (Geschichte): Ethiopia as a supra national state: An inquiry into the space of Contemporary Ethiopian History [Äthopien als supranationaler Staat – eine Untersuchung der Zeitgeschichte Äthopiens]
• Julia Engelschalt (Geschichte): Ilustrado Scientists, Revolution, and Transformations of Empire in the Philippines, 1872–1916
• Paul Goerigk (Soziologie): Berufsbildung in (Inter-)Aktion. Vermittlung von Praktiken des Werkzeuggebrauchs [Vocational Education in (Inter-)Action. Impartation of Tool Use Practices]
• Mehran Haji-Mohammadian (Soziologie): The Rise of Retirement in Iran. A Movement from the Margin to the Center of Social Policy?
• Simon Hecke (Soziologie): Delegitimizing Empire: Social Sciences and the Demise of Empire as a Legitimate Political Form
• Anja Henkel (Geschichte): Erika Mann. Eine intellektuelle Nomadin? [Erika Mann. An intellectual nomad?]
• Theresa Renana Faye Hornischer (Geschichte): »Les écrivaines-voyageuses« - Reisende Frauen als Intellektuelle in der Zwischenkriegszeit in Frankreich am Beispiel von Léo Wanner [Women travellers as French intellectuals in the inter-war period: The example of Léo Wanner]
• Björn Huß (Soziologie): Machen Kinder glücklich? Auswirkungen von persönlichen, familialen und sozioökonomischen Rahmenbedingungen auf das subjektive Wohlbefinden von Müttern und Vätern [Parenthood and Life Satisfaction. The Impact of Personality Traits and Socio-Economic Conditions on New Parents' Well-Being]
• Ina Kiel (Geschichte): Fernand Desprès. Ein engagierter Aktivist in internationalen Zirkeln während der Zwischenkriegszeit – Un militant engagé dans des cercles internationaux pendant l'entre-deux-guerres [Fernand Desprès - an activist in international networks during the interwar period]
• Ayomide Kolawole (Soziologie): The Politics and Outcomes of Welfare in Developing Economies – A Comparative Analysis of Brazil and South Africa
• Henning Middelschulte (Soziologie): Conceptual change in der sozialwissenschaftlichen Bildung: Zur fachdidaktischen Integration von Wissenschaftstheorie, Lernpsychologie und empirischer Sozialforschung [Conceptual change in social science education: Integrating epistemology, psychology of learning and social research]
• Rodney Buadi Nkrumah (Soziologie): The Politics of Social Protection in Comparative Perspectives. Between Policies, Programmes and the Lived Experience of Vulnerable Children
• Johanna Paul (Soziologie): Transnational mobilization for memorialization in post-war Bosnia-Herzegovina: Reconceiving diasporans as transnational actors of reconciliation
• Aanor Roland (Soziologie): Tax governance in the European Union: Explaining the post-crisis answer of the EU towards corporate tax avoidance

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 two Visiting 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 Visiting 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.

Start-up Scholars und ihre geplanten Dissertationsprojekte:

• Maria Dantas (Brasil): Stratification, social inequalities and world society: the argument for a peripheral constitutionalism
• Kim Dang (Vietnam): Self-governance through the concept of career in Vietnamese workers
• Hafdis Hafsteinsdottir (Island): The Politics of the Sporting Body. Recreational Sport in Northern Europe 1950–2000
• Daorotiana Rakotondratandra (Madagascar): Social representations, family involvment and servicewomen's career paths in Madagascar
• Daniele Toro (Italy): Transnational Radical Nationalist Networks between Germany and Italy 1918– 1933: An Entangled History of "Fascistisation"
• Jovana Vukcevic (Montenegro): The price of memory: Commodifying legacies of unwanted heritage in the Balkans

For an overview about the Start-ups 2017 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

• Mariana Bodnaruk (Ukraine): Production of Distinction: The Representation of Senatorial Elites in the Later Roman Empire (306–395)
• Andrew Mitchell (UK): Observing Fukushima: A Case Study of Japanese Nuclear Policy through Luhmann's Social Systems Theory

For an overview about the Visiting Fellows 2017 and ALL Visiting Fellows since 2009, please see: http://www.uni-bielefeld.de/(en)/bghs/Personen/Fellows/visiting_fellows.html