HGGS Colloquium Interdisciplinary Research Colloquium
Doctoral members of the HGGS are invited to present their doctoral projects at the Interdisciplinary Research Colloquium. Participation is kindly required of all members in their 1st year and in their 2nd or 3rd year. Guests are always welcome. Colloquium presentations normally focus on individual doctoral projects, initial chapters or work-in-progress. Members can also try out new ideas and concepts at the colloquium.
At the colloquium, HGGS members will be speaking to peers from different research cultures; it is thus essential to
- explain key concepts of their discipline,
- discuss the methodology of their work,
- highlight the interdisciplinary approaches or connections of their project.
Presentations are in English to allow our international members to participate in all meetings. If one´s working language is German, presenters may use German ppt-slides and explain them as far as possible in English. The HGGS can assist with translations. The audience will have a chance to ask questions at the end of the presentation and to make constructive criticism. Presentations are thus limited to 15 minutes, followed by 15 minutes of discussion.
Initial meeting dates: Wednesdays, 12 noon - 1 pm, 4/11/18/25 November 2026. Further dates will be announced later this semester.
Location: HGGS, Voßstr. 2, Room 104. Building of the Museum "Sammlung Prinzhorn“.
It´s a lunchtime session and participants can bring food and drinks.
Winter Semester 2026/27
HGGS Members can now sign up for the initial dates in November!
Wednesdays, 12 noon - 1 pm: 04 / 11 / 18 / 25 November 2026. Presentation spaces are still available on the 11th and 25th.
Please, read the details about the format above and send your presentation title no later than 23 October 2026 to Dr. Astrid Wind astrid.wind@hggs.uni-heidelberg.de
4 November 2026
Evidence of pain. The significance and function of images in pain medicine.
Carolin Fröschle, Faculty of Philosophy
Memoirs of a Disenchanted Society: Voices of Women Leaders and Environmental Activists in Colombia.
Valentina Pernett Plazas, Faculty of Behavioural and Cultural Studies
11 November 2026
“Rewriting the Margins: Queer Identity in 1928 Literature”
Margherita Lanza, English Department, Faculty of Modern Languages
18 November 2026
Seeing the Invisible: Augustine on Perceiving God.
Heindrikje Kuhs, Faculty of Theology
Connection through movement: planning a dyadic dance movement therapy intervention for people living with dementia and their partners.
Clara Cornaro, Faculty of Behavioural and Cultural Studies
Summer Semester 2026
26 May 2026
“Remembering the ‘never again’: the entanglements of memories of the Holocaust and the Asian-Pacific War in Japanese perspective towards Holocaust memory in the post-witness era”
Hikari Bun, Institute of Japanese Studies, Faculty of Philosophy
“The Concept of Values in Classic Social Theory: a comparison between Max Weber, Talcott Parsons and Jürgen Habermas“
Carlos Fabris, Max-Weber-Institut for Sociology, Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences
Moderation: Carlos Fabris and Astrid Wind
19 May 2026
“The Message Beyond the Message: Implications of Text in Contemporary Russian Street and Public Art”
Mariia Korneeva
Institute for Slavic Studies
Faculty of Modern Languages
“Hope: An Ecological Concept”
Anna-Zoë Herr
Institute of Anthropology
Faculty of Behavioural and Cultural Studies
Moderation: Brando Mesa
12 May 2026
“The Acquisition of Start-Up Companies in European Merger Control Law”
Sinan Barış Yaşar, Faculty of Law
“A social and intellectual history of Indian socialism”
Prateek Pankaj, Department of History, South Asia Institute, Faculty of Philosophy
Moderation: Gauncheng Li
5 May 2026
“Structural Priming as Implicit Learning driven by Prediction Errors during Second Language Acquisition in German”
Elizaveta Savina, Institute of German as a Foreign Language, Faculty of Modern Languages
“Between two worlds. Edition and commentary of early medieval visions in the Life of St. Aldegund"
Eva Marie Heimers, Medieval Latin Philology, History Department, Faculty of Modern Languages
Moderation: Hikari Bun
28 April 2026
“Rewriting the Margins: Queer Identity in 1928 Literature”
Margherita Lanza, English Department, Faculty of Modern Languages
"The Reception of Napoleon I in the Context of Western European Integration, 1952-1973"
Lisa Fahrni, History Department, Faculty of Philosophy
Moderation: Dr. Astrid Wind
