HGGS Research Forum
The HGGS Winter Forum initiates the academic year with a keynote lecture and invites new doctoral members of the HGGS to showcase their research projects. It is an opportunity for scholars in the humanities, law and social sciences to network with peers and professors from Heidelberg University. Supervisors and doctoral candidates of the six member faculties usually attend both the Winter Forum and the Summer Forum of the HGGS. Visiting scholars from abroad and guests are always welcome to join this exchange across disciplinary borders.
The HGGS Summer Forum is an interdisciplinary conference organised by doctoral members of the HGGS in collaboration with the managing director. It permits members of the Graduate School to discuss in depth central academic questions from different disciplinary angles and to re-think their own academic work in the dialogue with experts and invited guests from leading research universities in Europe and abroad. In recent years, Forum topics included cross-disciplinary concepts, such as Mobility, Space, Change, Communication, and Identities.
PROGRAMME 14 JUNE 2024
The Heidelberger Graduiertenschule für Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften (HGGS) invited doctoral candidates, postdocs and professors in inter- and transdisciplinary studies to participate in the 2024 HGGS Forum: Bridges and Crossings. Participants from over 25 different countries discussed presentations on how various Bridges and Crossings are formed to challenge and navigate the intersections of identity and culture and how research within the humanities, law and social sciences both challenge and embrace bridges and crossings within its own positionality. To support international mobility, the HGGS awarded travel grants to PhDs from eight different countries.
HGGS members and invited scholars experimented with different visions of expressing and communicating scholarly findings, including a classical paper presentation, a flash-talk video presentation, or creative output of their research (poetry, photography, collage work) that was compiled in a zine and shared at the Forum.
Zine notes (cont.) on "Composing Images of Migration"
Videos
Video presentations on the relationship between agency and time, and how these themes interact in the humanities, law and social sciences. The HGGS encouraged experimenting with different visions of expressing and communicating scholarly findings:
Matias Lennart Castrén, SAI Political Science, Heidelberg University, Timing is Crucial: Examining India’s Prospects for Greater Agency in Global Politics.
Milena Dietz, Law, Heidelberg University, The Agency of States in the Centralisation of Taxes - 100 years Ago and Today.
Erika Mosebach, Political Sociology, Heidelberg University, Policy change and path dependencies in European prostitution policy - Germany as an extreme case.
Sara Ibáñez-O´Donnell, Transcultural Studies & Ilaria Pinzo, Classical and Modern Literature, Heidelberg University, Body and Bodies.
Marco Del Din, Transcultural Studies, Heidelberg University & Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Dance the Virus Away: Artistic Responses to AIDS from Sakyō-ku, Kyoto.
Julian Tobias Klar, Political Science, Heidelberg University, John Dewey’s unified perspective on the political difference examined – politics versus the political in Dewey’s writings.
Allyson Duarte Vela, Philosophy, Texas A&M University, Refracted Undocumented Agency in Time.
Juliette Ortiz & Ariel Zulueta, Psychology, Havana University, Irene Ramirez, Education & Ricardo Ruiz, Anthropology, University of the Andes, The Transformative Power of Education.
Poster Session
The HGGS Forum hosted poster presentations on the relationship between agency and time, and how these themes interact in the humanities, law and social sciences.
Selection of Posters
Juliette Ortiz & Ariel Zulueta, Psychology, Havana University, Irene Ramirez, Education & Ricardo Ruiz, Anthropology, University of the Andes, The Transformative Power of Education.
Cristian Camilo Cuervo, English Literature, Heidelberg University, The Uchronian Machine.
Minh Doi Nguyen, Political Science & Carlos Fabris, Sociology, Heidelberg University, Agency in Social Transformation.
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