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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.
Winter Term 2010/11 and Summer Term 2011 - Alan Lessoff
Contact
e-Mail: alan.lessoff@uni-bielefeld.de
Homepage www.ilstu.edu/~ahlesso
Vita & Publications
Seminar
Reform, Progress, and the Modern in the United States, Part 2: The Twentieth Century
Workshop
The United States as a Developing Society: Analytical Perspectives (with Anna-Lisa Müller)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.
