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Visiting Chair in History and Sociology
As a rule, once a year the BGHS invites a guest professor from Germany or abroad as Visiting Chair in History and Sociology. The visiting chair enriches the intellectual life of the Graduate School for one or two semesters with lectures, seminars and block courses and individual counselling. Seminars and lectures are usually on topics at the intersection between history and sociology and thus strengthen the culture of interdisciplinary discourse at the BGHS. Individual counselling is available in particular for doctoral candidates who wish to delve deeper into specific aspects of their thesis topics.
Summer Term 2012: Ludmilla Jordanova
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Vita and Publications
Ludmilla Jordanova is Professor of Modern History at the King's College London. Previously, she was Director of the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities at the University of Cambridge. She has taught at the Universities of Essex, York and East Anglia, is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and has been President of the British Society for the History of Science. Between 2001 and 2009 she was a Trustee of the National Portrait Gallery, London, and is currently a Trustee for five museums connected with science, medicine and technology, including the Science Museum in London. She has recently completed a book for Cambridge University Press, "The Look of the Past: Visual and Material Evidence in Historical Practice", to be published in August and is currently preparing the third edition of History in Practice. Her research interests are cultural history in Early Modern and Modern Europe, portraiture and identity in Britain from the seventeenth century to the present day and history of science and medicine.
- Ludmilla Jordanova (2006): History in Practice, Hodder Arnold.
- Ludmilla Jordanova (2010): 'Public History and the Public Understanding of Medicine: the Case of Embryology' in: History Workshop Journal (70), pp. 217-221.
- Ludmilla Jordanova (2011): 'What's in a Name? Historians and Theory', in: English Historical Review: CXXVI (523), pp. 1456-1477.
Classes
History in Practice (4 - 27 June)Lectures
Winter Term 2010/11 and Summer Term 2011: Alan Lessoff
Department of HistoryIllinois State University
Campus Box 4420
Normal, IL 61790-4420
In the Winter Term 2010/11 and in the Summer Term 2011, Alan Lessoff, Professor of History at the State University Illinois, was Visiting Chair in History and Sociology. His research interests focus on the "Gilded Age" in the United States and on comparative urban history.
During the two terms, he held the class "Reform, Progress and the Modern in the United States", which focused on the time to 1898 in the Winter Term and on the 20th century in the Summer Term. Furthermore, he organised the seminar "American Urbanism in Transnational Context" and the workshop "The United States as a Developing Society: Analytical Perspectives" (together with Anna-Lisa Müller). He also offered individual counselling to BGHS doctoral candidates in sociology and history
Summer Term 2010: Kay Junge
PD Dr. Kay Junge
University of Konstanz
Focus History and Sociology
Department of Sociology
D-78457 Konstanz
e-mail: kay.junge@uni-konstanz.de
Kay Junge was Visiting Chair in History and Sociology at the BGHS during Summer Term 2010. Dr. Junge works at the University of Konstanz in the fields of sociological theory and historical sociology.
At the BGHS he led a seminar informed by recent works by Brian Skyrms: "The Evolution of Communication and Social Structures: A Mechanism Based Approach" as well as a block seminar on "Social Differentiation and the Evolution of Society", that focused on Niklas Luhmann's sociological theory. In his series of talks on "Historical Sociology", Kay Junge examined issues ranging from "Neo-Paleolithic religion" to the "Evolution of Finance" and "Communication, Culture, and Institution". He also offered individual counselling to BGHS doctoral candidates in sociology and history and participated in the Interdisciplinary Seminar.
Winter Term 2009/10: Domink Schrage
PD Dr. Dominik Schrage
Dresden University of Technology
Institute of Sociology
Chemnitzer Straße 46a
D-01187 Dresden
Homepage: www.dominikschrage.de
During Winter Term 2009/2010 the first Visiting Chair was invited to the Bielefeld Graduate School in History and Sociology. We were pleased to welcome Dominik Schrage from the Institute of Sociology at Dresden University of Technology as a guest professor. His research interests are the transformation of attitudes during the 20th century in light of the mechanisation and commoditisation of the modern "Lebenswelt". His works connect cultural sociological investigations with questions from sociological and historical theory. In Winter Term 2010/2011 he became Chair of Cultural Sociology at Leuphana University in Lüneburg.
During his BGHS sojourn, Dominik Schrage offered a seminar on "Subjectivity and Society" and enhanced the degree programme with a lecture series on "Revolutions in attitude during the 20th century". He also offered individual counselling to BGHS doctoral candidates in sociology and history and participated in the Interdisciplinary Seminar, the Interdisciplinary Colloquium and the Annual Seminar.
