Events

At the College for Social Sciences and Humanities, academic events in various formats take place on a regular basis. You will find lectures, conferences, workshops, or panel discussions linked to different fields of research within the social sciences and humanities. Open science formats addressing the general public are also part of the portfolio.

Most events are planned by resident researchers and Senior Fellows, organised with support from the College’s event coordinator. Moreover, the College hosts select events offered by other members of the University Alliance Ruhr working in the social sciences and humanities.

The following list provides an overview of upcoming and past events at the College.

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Lecture
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Brazil's Long Struggle: Dictatorship, Conflict, and the Challenges of Plurality

20/11/2024, Essen

Public Lecture by Prof. James N. Green (Brown University)

Organiser: Research Network 'Cultures of Compromise'

In this lecture, Prof. James N. Green will examine Brazil’s modern history regarding questions of conflict regulation, for example through compromise.

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Inclinations: Männerfreundschaften / Frauenfreundschaften

21/11/2024 - 23/11/2024, Essen

This international conference sheds light on literary and cultural representations of queer intimacies and inclinations in German-language literature and culture. How do we theorise the complex relationships between desire, eros, power, and representation in Männerfreundschaften and Frauenfreundschaften? By looking to periods preceding the mid-19th-century solidification of terms purporting to…

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Workshop
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Emerging Scholars Workshop: GENDER ∩ DIVERSITY ∩ QUEER STUDIES

25/11/2024, Essen

The primary goal of this workshop is to facilitate the sustainable networking of international doctoral and postdoctoral researchers focusing on topics related to Gender, Diversity and Queer Studies, and their intersections. The workshop offers a platform for early-career scholars to discuss their current research projects, present (interim) results, and explore potential synergies.

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Past Events

Workshop Senior Fellows
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LGBTQI+ People and the "Triple Nexus" of Development Cooperation, Humanitarian Action and Peacebuilding

22/08/2024 - 23/08/2024, online

The workshop will bring together international scholars and practitioners who work on the inclusion of sexual and gender minorities in development cooperation, humanitarian assistance and peacebuilding activities. Together, they will consider how integrating LGBTQI+ concerns contributes to the latest thinking about how those areas are intrinsically connected.

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Decolonial Ecology: Literary and Cultural Representations in the Global South

25/07/2024 - 26/07/2024, Essen | hybrid

To think ecology from the perspective of colonially repressed ideas and practices is to deconstruct the epistemological hierarchy of environmental humanities. The workshop seeks to deepen the dialogue between ecology and decoloniality in the context of indigenous knowledges and practices of the Global South, examining how literary and cultural artists represent, interpret, and foreground their…

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Seminar Senior Fellows
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From Manuscript to Masterpiece: Getting Published in the Social Sciences

18/07/2024, Essen

Writing for publication and securing research funding are crucial skills for academics and researchers. In this two-part seminar with a focus on the areas of education and the sociology of work, senior and junior academics, journal editors, and grant application panel members provide insights and advice on how to successfully plan for and navigate publication and grant application.

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Getting Funding in the Social Sciences: What I Wish I Knew

18/07/2024, Essen

Writing for publication and securing research funding are crucial skills for academics and researchers. In this two-part seminar with a focus on the areas of education and the sociology of work, senior and junior academics, journal editors, and grant application panel members provide insights and advice on how to successfully plan for and navigate publication and grant application.

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Workshop Senior Fellows
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Bureaucracy Old or New? A Comparative Perspective on the Administrative Burdens Placed on Academic Staff in National University Systems

11/07/2024, Essen

The administrative workload placed on academic staff varies internationally. This workshop compares key findings from recent studies about the three university systems of Germany, Czech Republic, and Australia, which represent different traditions and approaches to the organisation and governance of academic work. Increasing administrative burden is a critical policy and governance issue because…

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Ambitious Goals, Sober Reality? Feminist Foreign and Development Policy Put to the Test

25/06/2024, Essen

In recent years, numerous governments have adopted a "feminist foreign policy", a contested effort to bring about a paradigm shift in how their country engages with the rest of the world. In this public panel discussion, experts from government and academia will address various facets of feminist foreign and development policy, drawing on the experiences of Germany and other countries.

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Reading Session and Book Chat with Sule Emmanuel Egya (E. E. Sule)

20/06/2024, Essen

The renowned Nigerian writer and scholar Sule Emmanuel Egya, publishing under the pen-name E. E. Sule, will read from his first novel “Sterile Sky”, for which he received the Commonwealth Book Prize Africa Region in 2013, and from his unpublished poetry collection.

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Workshop Senior Fellows
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Creative Writing Workshop with Sule Emmanuel Egya

20/06/2024, Essen

Students have the unique opportunity to hone their skills in writing poetry and fiction in this workshop with renowned Nigerian writer and scholar Sule Emmanuel Egya (pen-name E. E. Sule), followed by a reading session and book chat.

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German Influence on Turkish Economic Thought and Policy in the 19th and 20th Centuries

20/06/2024 - 21/06/2024, Essen | hybrid

The workshop retraces German influence on Turkish economic thought and policy in the 19th and 20th centuries, with a focus on the one-way flow of economic knowledge from Germany to Turkey, before Anglo-American mainstream economics almost entirely dominated economics as a social science after the Second World War.

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Fashion, Image, Exile: The Rediscovery of Theatre Photographer Elli Marcus (1899-1977)

12/06/2024 - 13/06/2024, Essen

The recently rediscovered work of theatre photographer Elli Marcus serves as the starting point for a broader discussion of fashion and theatre photography in this two-day workshop, co-organised by Senior Fellow Mila Ganeva and Gudrun M. König (TU Dortmund University). Its specific focus is on the fate of fashion and theatre photography in exile and the challenges associated with curating…

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Event Coordination

Laura Ziewitz

Event Coordinator

Phone: +49 201 183 - 6545

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