Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg

Activities 2011

Overview

Events

Date/TimeSubject
30.11.2011, 11 am - 4.30 pmPlenary meeting and discussion
Presentation by Prof. Marin Trenk, Goethe University Frankfurt/Main, Topic: "Wenn Speisen reisen"
Venue: Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Advokatenweg 36, Main seminar room, Halle.
29.11.2011, 4:30 pmPublic lecture by Dr. Jörg Niewöhner, Department of European Ethnology, Humboldt University Berlin; Laboratory: Social Anthropology of Science & Technology
Topic: Putting complex worlds into words - by doing comparison, for example
22.11.2011, 4-6 pmCurriculum Vitae Workshop, Graduate School, seminar room, Reichardstr. 6
The purpose of this workshop is to introduce the most important elements of academic CVs (above all those of the humanities and social sciences), identify many of the crucial differences between English language CVs for the Anglo-American and selected European contexts, explore various strategies for organizing CVs, and discuss some of the more frequent CV formats.
16.-17.11.2011Eramus Conference "History and the Present of the european culture".
Venue Date 16.11.2011, 2 p.m.: Uni Löwengebäude, Universitätsplatz, Hörsaal HS XIVc
Venue Date 17.11.2011, 9 a.m.: Graduate School SCM, Reichardtstr. 6, seminar room
18.10.2011, 4.30 p.m.Group discussion and interview to the topic "Equality of opportunity within structured doctoral education at German universities"
11.10.2011, 6 p.m.Semester opening 2011/2012 by Prof. Dr. Monika Wohlrab-Sahr
Topic: Multiple Secularities. Towards a cultural sociology of secularization.
07.07.2011, 14:00-19:00 Uhr5. Sitzung des Wissenschaftlichen Beirats der Graduiertenschule
Ort: Reichardtstraße 6, 06114 Halle, Seminarraum
06.07.2011, 10-2 p.m.Workshop Graduate School "Society and Culture in Motion"
Topic: Questions concerning methodology in structuring research topics and composing scholarly texts
22.06.2011, 4.15 p.m.Public lecture by Mr. Sourav Kargupta, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta (Jadavpur University) Kolkata, India
Topic: Can the brown woman speak? Ethics of representation in the Feminist reconstruction of the `sati` debates
21.06.2011, 6.15 p.m.Public lecture by Prof. Zachary Davis, St. John`s University, Queens, New York, Department of Philosophy
Topic: The Act of Promising, an Act of Solidarity.
11.05.2011, 1-5 p.m.Theory Workshop for PhD Students Graduate School "Society and Culture in Motion"
Participants including associated students register with the post-doctoral fellows in advance. Participants are encouraged to present their theoretical approach within 30 minutes each.
05.04.2011, 6 p.m.Semester opening and inauguration ceremony of our new location. In honor of this occasion, we have invited Prof. em. Dr. Waldenfels from the Institute of Philosophy, Ruhr-University Bochum to give the commencement lecture. The topic of this semester`s lecture is "Fremdheit zwischen Vertrauen und Misstrauen".
31.03.2011, 5-7 p.m.Gastreferent Prof. Dr. M. Wingens von der Universität Bremen, Bremen International Graduate School of Social Scienes zum Thema: Strukturfragen einer Graduiertenschule in Bundesexzellenzförderung

Field and Archival Research and Participation in Conferences

06.-08.10.11Dr. Daniele Cantini: Report on the participation at the DAVO Congress in Berlin, 6-8.10.2011
14.07.-09.10.11Adadow Yidana: Report of field trip to Ghana
24.08.-27.08.11Daniel Kremers: Report on participation on the 13th International Conference of European Association for Japanese Studies (EAJS) in Tallinn from 24.-27.08.11
18.03.-03.04.11Dr. Anna Lissa: Research Trip Report to Tel Aviv
06.02.-02.04.11Stefan Knauss: Forschungsaufenthalt an der Universidad de Buenos Aires zur Durchführung des Projekts "Reflecting Postcolonialism and Feminism: The application of northern concepts in the southern hemisphere."
19.02.-31.03.11Adadow Yidana: Report on the pre-field visit to Ghana

Graduate School Member Related Information

01.10.2011-30.09.2012Dr. James M. Thompson: Guest professor at the Institute of Philosophy at the K.U. Leuven (Belgium). He will be offering a lecture course for the Master's program entitled "Theory of Knowledge as Practice".

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