Welcome Day Winter Semester 2023/24

::20 new doctoral researchers at the BGHS::

On Tuesday, 17 October, the BGHS Welcome Day for the winter semester 2023/24 took place. The BGHS directors Klaus Weinhauer and Ruth Ayaß welcomed the new doctoral researchers, who had the opportunity to introduce themselves and get to know the doctoral representatives and the BGHS office staff. Sabine Schäfer then introduced the BGHS training and study programme. We wish all new members a wonderful start to their doctorate at the BGHS.

The new BGHS doctoral researchers and their projects:

Anastasia Serikova (History): Difficult Heritage in Ireland and Kazakhstan: Famine Interpretations in Museums

Sophie Jasmin Spliethoff (History): Polemik in katholischer und Protestantischer Flugpublizistik in der Englischen Reformation, 1485-1603. Hate Speech Detection zwischen Geschichtswissenschaft und Informationstechnologie

Ole Bunte (History): Vom Krieg erzählen. Kulturgeschichte des Krieges im 15. Jahrhundert am Beispiel der Konflikte in Mittel- und Ostmitteleuropa

Yukun Sun (Sociology): Moralizing Platform Work: An Ethnographic Investigation of Ethical Experiences and Subjectivities Among Platform Workers

Markus Buderath (Sociology): Making the good cop: Policing, nation branding and human rights in Scotland

Julia Pfau (Sociology): Membership Categories as tactical terms in political discourses. Isms inspired by politicians in world politics

Basak Naz Simsek (Sociology): Jus in bello: a fundamental element of the passage towards a world society

Nicole Sommer (Sociology): The Institutionalization of People of African descent as a global social category in international politics

Adolfo Zambrano (Sociology): Rebalancing World Politics? China the US and the emergence of a differentiated international economic and financial Regime in Latin America

Christina Zschieschang (Sociology): Outer Space as the Next Frontier? The Influence of Spatial Extension on the Mode of Observation Within World Society

Kenan Kadic (Sociology): The emergence of World Politics in 20th century Europe from the perspective of international organizations and global elites

Siir Cinar Uysal (Sociology): The Conceptual Space of a newly emerging Research Arena: The Sociology of Aging and its Semantic Networks from the 1960s to the 2020s

Yixuan Liu (Sociology): How genetic variation, gene transcription and educational processes shape the health trajectories from childhood to early adulthood

Jonas Feldmann (Sociology): Der Straßentransportsektor Deutschlands, Polens und Litauens seit den 1990er Jahren. Zur sozialen Konstitution eines transnationalen Arbeitsmarktes

Dmitry Kuznetsov (Sociology): Long-Term Epigenetic and Immunological Consequences in Adversity-Divergent Twins (Immunotwin)

Ruyan Luo (Sociology): A longitudinal examination of the associations and psychosocial mechanisms between stressful life events and mental health: evidence from the German TwinLife study

Vidyasagar Sharma (Sociology): Space, Belonging, and Everyday Negotiations in University Campuses: a Study of Delhi University, India

Saba Mirhosseini (Sociology): God’s Spirit Meets “the Great Satan”: The Implications of the Iran-U.S. Political Conflicts for Iranian Women Between 1980 and 2001

Lena Wittenfeld (Sociology): A Theorization of Feminist Foreign Policy

Cherie Audrey Desiderio Alfiler (Sociology): Higher Education Navigation and Belonging Through Student Lifestyles in the Philippines

You can find the Welcome Day presentation here.