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Summer break!
Summer break!
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An exciting, busy semester is coming to an end! Before everyone disappears on holiday or into the intensive writing phase, we would like to take a moment to look back.
Firstly, we would like to warmly congratulate the nine BGHS graduates (all women, in fact) who have completed their doctorates since January 2025. In chronological order, these are:
Zhenwei Wang (sociology): The Gender and Class Dynamics of Families on the Move: An Ethnography on Translocal Kinning and Caregiving in Contemporary China
Maria Guadalupe Rivera Garay (sociology): Indigene Völker und transnationale Migration: Eine Schule der Migration zwischen Widerstand, Anpassung und Rekonzeptualisierungen
Alice Farneti (sociology): Experiencing Institutionalization. An Ethnographic Study of Activism against Sexual Violence in Montreal Universities
Clara Camille Held (history): Raum, Kontakt und Gewalt – sowjetische Kriegsgefangene des Stalag 326 VI K in Zwangsarbeit in Ostwestfalen-Lippe 1941-1945
Yvonne Schellhorn (history): Qualität nach Plan? Die Material- und Warenprüfung der DDR (1945-1964) Eva Kristin Färber-Vogt (sociology): Politische Einstellungen und Orientierungen zu Europa. Eine Studie zu Schülerinnen und Schülern an berufsbildenden Schulen
Alina Isakova (sociology): Do International Organizations Cooperate? Factors Influencing Cooperation among Inter- and Non-Governmental Organizations in Early Warning and Response to Violent Conflicts
Marthe Becker (history): Ethnographie und ἐκκλησία. Überlegungen zum ethnographischen Schreiben in den Kirchengeschichten des 4. und 5. Jh.s
Anna Maria Neubert (history): Towards Mapping the Field. Eine feministische Untersuchung der Rolle drittmittelgeförderter Projekte für die Entwicklung der Digital Humanities in Deutschland (1996-2021)
We are glad that the BGHS could accompany you in the doctoral phase!
We had some great activities on the programme this summer semester: the newly established BGHS Podcast "Chances and Challenges" provides insights into the diverse spheres of the doctorate and allows a wide range of people to have their say. A big thank you to our assistant Nicole Käufler, who initiated the podcast and is driving it forward with great commitment!
BGHS Coordinator Clara Buitrago not only organised and ran "Bridging the Gap", a preparatory programme for international doctoral candidates, but also set up a new study group together with BGHS member Bagus Sugiyono, where international doctoral researchers find a space to talk about their academic activities in German without any stress. She also organised another edition of "BGHS Alumni's Experiences on the Way to a Professorship", with Theo Jung and Dorothee Wilm talking about their very different academic worlds. Clara, you are the best!
Sabine Schäfer, Executive manager of the BGHS, organised the ninth edition of "Linie 4" , the BGHS' public lecture series in cooperation with the VHS Bielefeld, in which BGHS members Christina Zschieschang, Malin Houben and Stefan Roepke discussed their research with a wide audience. A very special highlight was the Interdisciplinary Dialogue "Language, Culture, and Academia", in which the translator Sandra Lustig, the linguist Ingrid Piller and the historian Lisa Regazzoni discussed with Sabine Schäfer their own confrontations with the internationalisation of universities, English as an academic lingua franca and German as an academic language. And with that, the BGHS office has well and truly earned its summer break.
We wish you a wonderful summer and a relaxed lecture-free time!