The participants of the Research Retreat 2017. Foto: Thomas Abel

Research Retreat 2017

A weekend, secluded from the academic everyday work, to be able to focus on the presentation and discussion of new doctoral projects: That is the Research Retreat. The Research Retreat of 2017 took place at the last weekend in Vlotho near Bielefeld. 19 doctoral researchers took the opportunity to present and discuss their dissertation projects. In addition to the new colleagues, Prof. Dr. Ursula Mense-Petermann, Prof. Dr. Thomas Welskopp and Prof. Dr. Oliver Flügel-Martinsen participated in the presentations and discussions of the projects.

Beyond the presentations, the participants of the research retreat had the opportunity to enter into an interdisciplinary dialogue. One of the doctoral researchers, Daniele Toro, highlights the unique atmosphere: “We were able to discuss scientific contents, without being restricted by the formal frames that the university context often carries. We had open and free conversations. If somebody had just seen us without hearing our discussions, he had hardly assumed that we were a group of scholars.”

The yearly research retreat invites first year BGHS doctoral researchers. Besides the presentation and discussion of their dissertation projects the new BGHS colleagues are also welcomed by their doctoral representatives.

For further information about the Research Retreat please see: Research Retreat
You can find an overview of current programmes here: BGHS Programme

The Dissertation Projects of the Participants

• Ina Kiel (History): Fernand Desprès. Ein engagierter Aktivist in internationalen Zirkeln während der Zwischenkriegszeit.


• Stefanie Haupt (History): Völkische Ortungen und Germanische Himmelskunde. Debatten um eine vor- und frühgeschichtliche Astronomie im Deutschland der Zwischenkriegszeit


• Dominik Hofmann (Sociology): Soziologie der Erwartung - Der Wandel der Erwartungsstile und das Phänomen der impunidad in der Weltgesellschaft


• Stefan Roepke (History): Praktiken des Dienens in den Aufzeichnungen Hans von Schweinichens


• Jule Adriaans (Sociology): Bedingungen und Folgen individueller Gerechtigkeitsein-stellungen im internationalen Vergleich – ein Beitrag zur komparativen Gerechtigkeitsforschung


• Susan Krause(History): Blinde Zugänge zur Vergangenheit!? – Empirische Untersuchung zur historischen Imagination von Schüler*innen mit Förderschwerpunkt Sehen als Beitrag zur Inklusion im Geschichtsunterricht


• Anatoly Boyashov(Sociology): World politics: The emergence of political arenas and modes of observation in world society


• Christopher Schulte-Schüren(History): “A strike is nothing but war.” Vergleichspraktiken in der Berichterstattung über Arbeitskämpfe in den USA 1890-1914


• Edvaldo de Aguiar Portela Moita (Sociology): Influxes of subinclusion in the construction of fields of illegality: Analysing street vendors activities in Brazil through legal decisions


• Gladys Vásquez Zevallos (History): The Creation of American Regional Integration and the Origination of the Inter-American System after Independence. The Congress of Panama (1826) and the American Congress of Lima (1847)


• Ayomide O. Kolawole (Sociology): The Politics of Universalism in the Global South: A case study of Pension policies in Kenya, Botswana, and Nepal.


• Daniele Toro (History): Radikalnationalistische Netzwerke im zentraleuropäischen Raum 1917–1934: Verflechtungsprozesse des Faschismus als transnationale soziale Bewegung


• Mehran Haji Mohammadian (Sociology): The Rise of Retirement in Iran A Development from the Margin to the Center of Social Policy?


• Alisait Yilkin (Sociology):To vote or not to vote: The participation and non-participation in turkish election of young generations of Turkish Citizens living in Germany


• Johannes Nagel (History): The American Military during the Global Transformation, 1865-1905


• Sisay Dirirsa (History): The Ethiopian Empire: A Future Past Dialectics


• Abrham Yohannes (Sociology): National Identities versus cultural identities: Beta Israel Communites


• Henning Middelschulte (Sociology): Conceptual Change in Social Science Education: Integrating Epistemology, Neuro-Psychology and Empirical Evidence of Common Knowledge


• Aziz Elmuradov (Sociology): Competing narratives of EU in Russian foreign policy: in search for identity or policy?