The BGHS turns 15!

This year, the BGHS celebrates its 15th anniversary. Since 2008, it has organised and coordinated the joint doctoral programme of the Department of History and the Faculty of Sociology, and thus facilitates a variety of opportunities for academic and personal acquaintance and exchange. Interdisciplinarity, internationality and the promotion of individual initiative are the three basic principles on which the work of the BGHS is based. On this basis, the BGHS has become a 'learning community', a community that invites learning and is itself constantly learning.

On Tuesday, 21 November 2023, the BGHS celebrates the anniversary in the BGHS seminar room (X-B2-103). The event starts at 6 pm with a talk between the new rector, Angelika Epple, and the two BGHS directors, Klaus Weinhauer and Ruth Ayaß, about graduate training at Bielefeld University.

At 6.30 p.m. there will be an Interdisciplinary Dialogue in which four professors from different disciplines at Bielefeld University will discuss how to achieve what seems to be self-evident: scientific understanding. Oliver Flügel-Martinsen (political theory), Marie Kaiser (philosophy of science), Lisa Regazzoni (theory of history) and Tobias Werron (sociological theory) will be on the podium. Sabine Schäfer, executive manager of the BGHS, will moderate. And of course, the audience will also join in the discussion.

The event will end with a reception in the BGHS lounge from around 8 p.m.