PROGRAMME
「Courses, Colloquia & Guest Lectures」
Please note: The new qualification structure as well as the new guidelines for the structure of the course programme(105.7 KB, 5 pages) of BAGSS have come into effect. Please note that the new course programme guidelines affect only members of BAGSS, whose membership started in the summer semester 2021 or later.
DOCTORAL SEMINARS AND COLLOQUIA
BAGSS Semester Colloquium
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Global Dignity and “Seeing Others”: Political, Environmental, and Work-Based Recognition Compared
Thursday, 08 May 2025; 6.00 p.m., Feldkirchenstra?e 21, Room FG1/00.08 (hybrid session)
Speaker: Professor Dr Michèle Lamont // Harvard University
Michèle Lamont s a cultural sociologist who studies morality, group boundaries, and inequality. She has tackled topics such as dignity, respect, stigma, racism, and how we evaluate social worth across societies in Money, Morals and Manners, The Dignity of Working Men, How Professors Think, Getting Respect: Responding to Stigma and Discrimination in the US, Brazil and Israel (coauthored), and Seeing Others: How to Redefine Worth in a Divided World (Penguin/Simon & Schuster 2023). She is at work on a book tentatively titled “Recognition Globally.” The recipient of various awards (most recently, the 2024 Kohli Prize for Sociology), she has served as President of the American Sociological Association and is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, the British Academy, and the Royal Society of Canada.
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Discontent and Idiocy: Antidemocracy and Democratic Renewal
Tuesday, 20 May 2025; 6.15 p.m., Feldkirchenstra?e 21, Room FG1/00.08
Speaker: Assistant Professor Dr Matthew Rhodes-Purdy, Clemson University
Matthew Rhodes-Purdy is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Clemson University. His research combines democratic theory with political behavior to study challenges to contemporary democracies, especially populism and extremism.
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Climate Inequalities in the Global South: from Perceptions to Protest
Wednesday, 09 Juli 2025; 6.15 p.m., Feldkirchenstra?e 21, Room FG1/00.08 (hybrid session)
Speaker: Professor Dr Gabriele Spilker // University of Constance
Gabriele Spilker is a Professor of International Politics with a focus on Global Inequalities at the University of Konstanz and Co-Speaker of the Excellence Cluster “The Politics of Inequality”. She completed her PhD at ETH Zurich and she was a Fritz Thyssen Fellow at the Weatherhead Center of International Affairs at Harvard University. She was a postdoctoral researcher at ETH Zurich, as well as Assistant Professor of International Politics and Empirical Research Methods at the Department of Political Science and Sociology of the University of Salzburg.
Her main research interests concern the determinants and the consequences of inequality. In particular, she focuses on the consequences of climate change for migration and conflict as well as inequalities in perceiving globalisation processes.
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Competence, Personality and Development in Different Learning Environments.
Joint Research Seminar of the Department 1 (Dr Ilka Wolter) and the Director of the Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajectories (Professor Dr Cordula Artelt).
(BAGSS Pillar 1)
Weekly sessions
ORGANISERS: Professor Dr Cordula Artelt and Dr Ilka Wolter
TIME: Wednesdays, 12 a.m. to 2 p.m. (c.t.)
PLACE: LIfBi, Wilhelmspost 3, 95047 Bamberg, Room 02.20
For more information please write an email to courses.bagss(at)uni-bamberg.de or abteilung-1-assistenz(at)lifbi.de
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Joint Paper-Colloquium, BAGSS Pillar 2 and Department 2 (LIfBi)
Weekly sessions
ORGANISER: Professor Dr Steffen Schindler; Professor Dr Corinna Kleinert
TIME: Tuesdays, 10 a.m. to 12 a.m. (c.t.)
PLACE: Online via Zoom
For more information please write an email to courses.bagss(at)uni-bamberg.de or to abteilung-2-assistenz(at)lifbi.de
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Weekly Doctoral Colloquium (BAGSS Pillar 3)
Weekly sessions
ORGANISER: Professor Dr Rasmus Hoffmann
TIME: Tuesdays, 10 a.m. to 12 a.m. (c.t.)
PLACE: Online via Zoom
For more information please write an email to courses.bagss(at)uni-bamberg.de
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Weekly Doctoral Colloquium (BAGSS Pillar 4)
Weekly sessions
ORGANISER: Professor Dr Ulrich Sieberer
TIME: Tuesdays, 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. (c.t.)
PLACE: Hybrid sessions via Zoom and room FG1/00.06 at BAGSS (Feldkirchenstra?e 21).
For more information please write an email to courses.bagss(at)uni-bamberg.de.
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In addition to their Pillar Seminars and Colloquia, members of BAGSS can also participate in the
Statistics - Psychometrics Research Seminar
Weekly sessions
ORGANISERS: Professor Dr Claus Carstensen and Professor Dr Christian A?mann
TIME: Thursdays, 10 a.m. to 12 p.m.
PLACE: Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajecories, Wilhelmspost 3, 96047 Bamberg (& also via Zoom)
For more information please write an email to courses.bagss(at)uni-bamberg.de or abteilung-3-assistenz(at)ifbi.de.
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BAGSS & LIfBi JOINT LUNCHTIME TALKS
BAGSS & LIfBi JOINT LUNCHTIME TALKS
The Lunchtime Talks is the joint series of the Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajectories (LIfBi) and the Bamberg Graduate School of Social Sciences (BAGSS). Meetings take place online via Zoom. Details on how to participate can be found below.
The Lunchtime Talks are open to members of the University of Bamberg and the LIfBi as well as to anyone else interested.
For more information, please contact: weiterbildung(at)lifbi.de; courses.bagss(at)uni-bamberg.de
No registration required!
PLEASE PAY ATTENTION TO FUTURE ALTERATIONS OF THE INITIAL PROGRAMME!
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- Thursday, 20 May, 2025, 1.00 - 2.00 p.m.
Mirijam B?hme
Head of Science and Digital Innovations Department of Economic Affairs, City of Aachen
Shaping the Science City: Where Research Sparks Innovation and Urban Transformation
No registration required
Zoom Meeting: TBA
Password: TBA
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- Tuesday, 08 July, 2025, 1.00 - 2.00 p.m.
Tessa Sauerwein
Graduate Librarian, Bamberg University Library
Publication of the Dissertation
No registration required
Zoom Meeting: TBA
Password: TBA
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- Tuesday, 29 July, 2025, 1.00 - 2.00 p.m.
Dr Roos Huttemann
Head of Learning Science & Architecture, Cornelson Verlag
From Academica to Education
No registration required
Zoom Meeting: uni-bamberg.zoom-x.de/j/69675877338
Password: $bR0Y0
COURSES AND WORKSHOPS ON METHODS AND RESEARCH DESIGN
WEEKLY COURSES ON METHODS AND RESEARCH DESIGN
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Introduction to Data Scraping
Weekly course
INSTRUCTOR: David Beck, Otto-Friedrich Universit?t Bamberg
DATE & TIME: Thursdays, 4 p.m. - 6 p.m.
PLACE: F21/03.50
Participation in the course has to be coordinated with the course instructor. Please inform us about your participation in advance, by writing an e-mail to courses.bagss(at)uni-bamberg.de
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Computational Text Analysis for Social Science
Weekly course
INSTRUCTOR: Sergei Pashakhin, Otto-Friedrich Universit?t Bamberg
DATE & TIME: Wednesdays, 10 a.m. - 12 p.m.
PLACE: F21/03.80
Participation in the course has to be coordinated with the course instructor. Please inform us about your participation in advance, by writing an e-mail to courses.bagss(at)uni-bamberg.de
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Multilevel analysis using comparative micro data
Weekly Course
INSTRUCTOR: Professor Dr Michael Gebel, Otto-Friedrich Universit?t Bamberg
DATE & TIME: Mondays, 8 a.m. - 12 p.m.
PLACE: RZ/00.06
Participation in the course has to be coordinated with the course instructor. Please inform us about your participation in advance, by writing an e-mail to courses.bagss(at)uni-bamberg.de
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Advanced regression analysis using Stata
Weekly course
INSTRUCTORS: Professor Dr Michael Gebel, Daniel Zeddel, Otto-Friedrich-Universit?t Bamberg
DATE & TIME: Mondays, 2 p.m. - 6 p.m.
PLACE: RZ/00.07
Participation in the course has to be coordinated with the course instructor. Please inform us about your participation in advance, by writing an e-mail to courses.bagss(at)uni-bamberg.de
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Methods in Epidemiology and Demography
Weekly course
INSTRUCTORS: Professor Dr Henriette Engelhardt-W?lfler, Otto-Friedrich Universit?t Bamberg
DATE & TIME: Mondays, 12 p.m. - 2 p.m.
PLACE: F21/03.03
Participation in the course has to be coordinated with the course instructor. Please inform us about your participation in advance, by writing an e-mail to courses.bagss(at)uni-bamberg.de
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Causal Inference and Policy Evaluation
Weekly course
INSTRUCTORS: Professor Dr Guido Heineck, Otto-Friedrich Universit?t Bamberg
DATE & TIME: Thursdays, 2 p.m. - 4 p.m.
PLACE: F21/03.02
Participation in the course has to be coordinated with the course instructor. Please inform us about your participation in advance, by writing an e-mail to courses.bagss(at)uni-bamberg.de
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Advanced Econometrics
Weekly course
INSTRUCTOR: Michael Mühlbauer, Otto-Friedrich Universit?t Bamberg
DATE & TIME: Tuesdays, 2 p.m. - 4 p.m.
PLACE: FG1/00.08
Participation in the course has to be coordinated with the course instructor. Please inform us about your participation in advance, by writing an e-mail to courses.bagss(at)uni-bamberg.de
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Analysis of Panel Data
Weekly course
INSTRUCTOR: Michael Mühlbauer, Otto-Friedrich Universit?t Bamberg
DATE & TIME: Mondays, 2 p.m. - 4 p.m.
PLACE: FMA/01.19
Participation in the course has to be coordinated with the course instructor. Please inform us about your participation in advance, by writing an e-mail to courses.bagss(at)uni-bamberg.de
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Modern Methods in Survey Statistics
Weekly course
INSTRUCTOR: University of Trier
DATE & TIME: Mondays, 2 a.m. - 6 p.m.
PLACE: FMA/01.20
Participation in the course has to be coordinated with the course instructor. Please inform us about your participation in advance, by writing an e-mail to courses.bagss(at)uni-bamberg.de
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VHB-Seminar: The R and RStudio Environment: Handling, Visualisation and Communication of Data in Science
Weekly course
INSTRUCTOR: Professor Dr Judith Volmer, Otto-Friedrich Universit?t Bamberg
PLACE: Online
Participation in the course has to be coordinated with the course instructor. Please inform us about your participation in advance, by writing an e-mail to courses.bagss(at)uni-bamberg.de
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You can find a list of further available courses here(118.1 KB)
WORKSHOPS ON METHODS AND RESEARCH DESIGN
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BAGSS & LifBi joint workshop
Basics of Agent-Based Modeling
Two day workshop
INSTRUCTOR: Assistant Professor Dr Daniel Mayerhoffer, University of Amsterdam
DATE & TIME: Monday, 19 May 2025, 09.00 a.m. to 05.00 p.m. (s.t.) & Friday, 23 May 2025, 09.00 a.m. to 01.00 p.m. (s.t.)
PLACE: BAGSS, Feldkirchenstra?e 21, 96050 Bamberg, Room FG1/00.06
To register, please send an e-mail to courses.bagss@uni-bamberg.de Registration is mandatory!
The number of participants is limited to 14! Registration deadline: 08 October 2024
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BAGSS & LifBi joint workshop
Evidence Synthesis in Research: Conducting Systematic Reviews
One day workshop
INSTRUCTOR: Dr Liliana Abreu, University of Constance
DATE & TIME: Wednesday, 04 June 2025, 09.00 a.m. to 03.00 p.m. (s.t.)
PLACE: BAGSS, Feldkirchenstra?e 21, 96050 Bamberg, Room FG1/00.06
To register, please send an e-mail to courses.bagss@uni-bamberg.de Registration is mandatory!
The number of participants is limited to 16! Registration deadline: 14 May 2024
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The Bamberg Center for Empirical Studies (BACES) offers statistical consulting for the members (students, doctoral members, research fellows, scientific staff) of the University of Bamberg. The offer is free of charge and must be communicated in advance with the main supervisor of the research project. Consultation meetings can be offered either in English or in German. A max. of three meeting per research project must not be exceeded.
Here you can register for a consultation meeting.
Apart from the consultation meetings, BACES offers immediate help for statistical problems in the form of short (20-minute max.) virtual meetings. Meetings can be offered in English or in German and take place every Thursday from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m.. Again, the first supervisor of the research project must be informed in advance and agree on the meeting.
To apply for a short meeting, please contact: beratung.baces(at)uni-bamberg.de
Here you can find more information regarding the statistical consultation of BACES
Here you can find all contact details of BACES.
Head of the Bamberg Center for Empirical Studies: Professor Dr Timo Schmid, Professor for Statistics and Econometrics, University of Bamberg.
This is an offer of the Bamberg Center for Empirical Studies (BACES)
COURSES AND WORKSHOPS ON PROFESSIONAL SKILLS
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Funding Possibilities for Starter Scholarship Holders
Consultation Meetings organised by the Graduate Centre Trimberg Research Academy (TRAc), University of Bamberg
INSTRUCTOR: Dr Marion Hacke
DATE & TIME: By appointment
The meetings cover every step of fundraising, from an overview of the funding landscape in Germany to the funding application process. In order to make your consultation more productive you are advised to send Dr Hacke your questions and ideas in advance, for her to prepare.
To register, please send an e-mail to Dr Marion Hacke: promotion.trac(at)uni-bamberg.de. Registration is mandatory!
After making an appointment, please inform us by writing an e-mail to courses.bagss(at)uni-bamberg.de.
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Career Planning for Postdoctoral Researchers
Consultation Meetings organised by the Graduate Centre Trimberg Research Academy (TRAc), University of Bamberg
INSTRUCTOR: Dr Martin Rehfeldt and Dr Antonia Widmer-Leitz
DATE & TIME: By appointment
The meetings cover every step of planning an academic career after the end of the doctoral studies, including assistance by the application process for third-party funding. In order to make your consultation more productive you are advised to send your questions and ideas in advance.
To register, please send an e-mail to Dr Martin Rehfeldt and Dr Antonia Widmer-Leitz: postdoc.trac(at)uni-bamberg.de. Registration is mandatory!
After making an appointment, please inform us by writing an e-mail to courses.bagss(at)uni-bamberg.de.
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Have a look at the programme of the following institutions as well. To register for offers, please contact the respective institution independently.
- Centre for Higher Education Didactics (ZHD)
- Graduate Centre Trimberg Research Academy (TRAc)
- The Writing Centre
- University Health Management
- Beauftragte für die Gleichstellung von Frauen in Wissenschaft und Kunst
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