BGHS

Visiting researchers

The Graduate School doctoral programme is enriched each semester by lectures and courses by numerous renowned German and international researchers. Guest researchers are proposed by the doctoral candidates themselves and round off the BGHS doctoral programme with lectures, seminars and workshops

Winter Term 2011/12

Donald Tomaskovic-Devey (Amherst)

Short Course on Organizational Inequality (9-13 January 2012)

University of Massachusetts - Amherst
Department of Sociology
Tomascovic-Devey@soc.umass.edu

Vita & Publikationen
Donald Tomaskovic-Devey is a professor of sociology and the current chair of the Sociology Department at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst. He studies processes of workplace inequality, particularly discrimination and segregation, as well as topics in economic sociology more generally. His long-term agenda is to work with others to move sociological studies of inequality to a more fully relational and organizational stance. He is advancing this agenda through studies of jobs and workplaces, as well as social relationships between jobs within workplaces and the social relationships that link organizations to each other.

• Kevin Stainback, Donald Tomaskovic-Devey, and Sheryl Skaggs. 2010. "Organizational Approaches to Inequality: Inertia, Relative Power, and Environments." Annual Review of Sociology. Posted on-line March 18, 2010
  http://arjournals.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev-soc-070308-120014.
• Dustin Avent-Holt and Donald Tomaskovic-Devey 2010. "The Relational Basis of Inequality: Generic and Contingent Wage Distribution Processes." Work and Occupations. 37:162-19.
• Donald Tomaskovic-Devey, Gender and Racial Inequality at Work: The Sources and Consequences of Job Segregation. Ithaca, NY: ILR Press, 1993.

Alexandru Preda (Edinburgh)

Seminar: "Action, Strategy and Markets" (17.-21.10.2011)

University of Edinburgh
Sociology, School of Social and Political Science
A.Preda@ed.ac.uk

Bio and publications
Alexandru Preda works at the School of Social and Political Science at the University of Edinburgh. He has studied in Bukarest, received his PhD at the Faculty for Sociology at Bielefeld University and received his habilitation at the University of Konstanz. His research is primarily related to economic sociology and the sociology of finance, but studies like his work on decision making and cognitive processes in online markets, for instance, show many overlaps with the sociology of knowledge, science and technology.

• Framing Finance: The Boundaries of Markets and Modern Capitalism (University of Chicago Press, 2009)
• Information, Knowledge, and Economic Life: An Introduction to the Sociology of Markets, (Oxford University Press, 2009)
• AIDS, Rhetoric, and Medical Knowledge (Cambridge University Press, 2004)

Summer Term 2011

Ewa Morawska (Essex)

Seminar: "The Global, the Glocal, the Local, and the Mixed: Investigating the Mulitfarious Faces of the Contemporary World " (27 Jun. - 01 July 2011)

University of Essex
Sociology Department
emorawsk@essex.ac.uk

Bio and publications
Ewa Morawska is professor at the Sociology Department at the University of Essex. She achieved her Masters degree in both History and Sociology at Warsaw University in 1972 and 1973 and finished her PhD at Boston University in 1976. Her scholarly research focuses on comparative-historical sociology of international migration, ethnicity, and citizenship (past and present, North America and Europe).

• A Sociology of Immigration. (Re)Making Multifaceted America, Palgrave Macmillan, 2009
• International Migration Research: Constructions, Omissions, and Promises of Interdisciplinarity. Co-edited with Michael Bommes, Ashgate Press, 2005
• Toward Assimilation and Citizenship in Liberal Nation-States. Co-edited with with Christian Joppke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2003

Winter Term 2010/2011

Peter Becker (Linz)

Block seminar: "On the Materiality of the State and the Agency of Tools. Inspirations from science and cultural studies for a fresh look at state, politics, and public administration" (24 - 26 Nov.2010)

Johannes Kepler University Linz
Institute of Modern and Contemporary History
peter.becker@jku.at

Hanno Pahl (Zurich) and Lars Meyer (Bremen)

Theory seminar: "Funktionale Differenzierung und Kapitalismustheorie" (Functional Differentiation and the Theory of Capitalism) (17-18 Dec. 2010 as well as 21-22 Jan. 2011)

Hanno Pahl
Ethics Center of the University of Zurich
pahl@ethik.uzh.ch

Lars Meyer
lmeyer@uni-bremen.de

Reiner Keller (Koblenz-Landau)

Method und theory seminar "Entwicklungen der Diskursforschung: Das Programm der Wissenssoziologischen Diskursanalyse" (Developments in Discourse Research: The programme of the sociology of knowledge discourse analysis) (25-29 Jan. 2011)

University of Koblenz-Landau (Campus Landau)
Institute for Social Sciences
Sociology Department
mailto:keller@uni-landau.de

Summer Term 2010

Andrew Abbott (Chicago)

Seminar "The Social Process" (15 - 18 Jun. 2010)

Lecture "On Writing The Social Process"

Peggy Levitt (Cambridge)

Seminar "Culture in Motion: Optics, Methods, and Impacts" (10 - 12 Jun. 2010)

Yuval Millo (London)

Seminar "Networked Organizations: Regulation, Social Networks and Systemic Risks" (23 - 27 July 2010)

Winter Term 2009/10

Lars Meyer (Bremen) and Hanno Pahl (Zurich)

Seminar "Kapitalismustheorie: Klassische und zeitgenössische Positionen" (11 - 12 Dec. 2008 as well as 15 - 16 Jan. 2009)

Ulrich Oevermann (Frankfurt)

Niklas-Luhmann Visiting Professor (December 2009 - February 2010)

Summer Term 2009

Gorm Harste (Aarhus)

Individual Tutoring, Lecture "Die strukturelle Kopplung zwischen Politik und Krieg: eine unwahrscheinliche Kommunikation" (5 May 2009)

Peter Kivisto (Augustana College, Rock Island)

Seminar "Major Themes in Social Theory" (27 - 31 Jul. 2009)

Andreas Reckwitz (Frankfurt (Oder))

Seminar "Kultur und Materialität" (9/10 as well as 15/16 July 2009)

Dmitri Zakharine (Konstanz)

Seminar "Soziologische und historische Zugänge zur Analyse von Interaktionen in Alltag, Wirtschaft und Politik" (08/09 as well as 29/30 May 2009)

Winter Term 2008/09

Maria Dettenhofer (Munich)

Seminar "Europäische und Chinesische Antike im Vergleich. Politische und gesellschaftliche Strukturen im Römischen Reich und in China der Han-Dynastie" (14-15 Nov. 2008 as well as 23-24 Jan. 2009)

Alois Hahn (Trier)

Niklas-Luhmann Visiting Professor (November 2008 - February 2009)

Mareike Menne (Stuttgart)

Seminar "Das Konzept "Kulturtransfer" und seine Funktion in der historischen Forschung" (12-13 Dec. 2008 as well as 16-17 Jan. 2009)

Lars Meyer (Bremen) and Hanno Pahl (Zurich)

Seminar "Geschichte und Aktualität der Kritischen Theorie" (18-19 Dec. 2008 as well as 08-09 Jan. 2009)

Dmitri Zakharine (Konstanz)

Seminar "Mit gutem Benehmen zum Erfolg - Soziologische und historische Zugänge zur Analyse von Face-to-Face Begegnungen im Alltag, in der Wirtschaft und Politik"
(02-07 Feb. 2009)