GSGG

At the start of May, Sabine Karger joined the Team as secretary. We’re looking forward to our cooperation with her.
Our lines of funding “allowances for conference trips” and “allowances for research trips” are still postponed. We will inform you the instant we can fund trips again.
http://newsletter.uni-goettingen.de/blog/2020/05/20/ausnahmegenehmigung-von-dienstreisen-aktualisierung-authorisation-of-business-trips-update/ … Weiterlesen

Your feedback on researching under pandemic conditions

We received some extensive feedback to our questions in the last newsletter how the pandemic influences your situation as a PhD student. Core areas were the access to libraries (we will forward your suggestions regarding improvement of the situation collectively), the compatibility of research and childcare and the financial situation. We will keep you up to date and look forward to further feedback at gsgg@uni-goettingen.de. … Weiterlesen

Registration

Registration for our new members take place via zoom at the moment. Please contact us at gsgg@uni-goettingen.de for an appointment. You will then receive an e-mail with the details in time for the registration meeting. … Weiterlesen

Wie(so) Promovieren? Informational event for students

English: June 9, 6:00-7:30 p.m., Zoom
German: June 10, 6: 00-7: 30p.m., Zoom
Please inform interested students about this course, which takes place every semester and in which we provide information about all aspects that should be considered in advance of a PhD program. The zoom link will be made available to all those who register by email in good time. … Weiterlesen

General Meeting

At 2 p.m. on June 23, our general meeting will take place, in which you will elect your representatives to the Executive Board. This year, the representatives will be elected online, the meeting itself will take place via zoom. The zoom link will be made available to all those who register by email in good time. … Weiterlesen

GSGG Day

The GSGG Day on November 5 will, for the first time since 2010, take place without the insights into the Humanities, since we only received two registrations due to the lack of reasonable predictions regarding the state of the pandemic in November. The Christian-Gottlob-Heyne-Preis, however, will still be given out this year. … Weiterlesen

Course programme

We repositioned our course programme for the summer semester into online workshops. Furthermore, we introduced two new offers for which you can register starting now.
Fairschreiben – Gute wissenschaftliche Praxis und wissenschaftliches Schreiben (June 25, 2020)
Gemeinsam statt einsam: Doktorand*innen-Austausch (starts June 3,2020)
Coaching während der Promotion (summer semester 2020) (offered in German only)
Note: these workshops are in German. … Weiterlesen

GGG Methodensommer

Like last year, you can register for the four online workshops of the GGG Methodensommer (due to current events, the GGG does not offer a compact, presence based Methodenwoche, but a series of online workshops).
Methods to Measure, Analyze, and Understand Poverty around the World (July 20 – 23, 2020)
Textual Analysis: An Introduction to Technique, … Weiterlesen

Hetairos programme

Unfortunately, the Hetairos programme for the winter semester 2020/21 had to be cancelled; we cannot yet foresee whether and how it will be continued. We are in talks with the Hochschuldidaktik about further perspective of the programme and will inform you on the decisions. … Weiterlesen

Elections to the university’s doctoral student representation

The university’s doctoral student representation advises on questions regarding PhD students and gives suggestions to the university’s committees (senate and faculty councils). Its members will be elected by all PhD students at the University of Göttingen, subdivided by faculties. Nominations can be handed in until June 12, 2020, the election itself will take place via postal vote (the documents will automatically be sent to your GWDG email addresses). … Weiterlesen

Digital lecture series by the seminar for Medieval and Modern History: „Resilienzen – Über den Umgang des Menschen mit Pandemien und anderen Katastrophen in der Geschichte“ (every Wednesday, 6.15 PM)
Virtual lecture series: “Ein Virus verändert die Welt. Göttinger Wissenschaftler*innen zur Corona-Pandemie“ (every Tuesday, 6.15 PM) … Weiterlesen

International colloquium “Zwischen Ritus und Mythos: Karneval in der europäischen Kultur”

(November 16/17, 2020, Florence)
The colloquium is organized by PhD students from the international graduate school “Europäische Gründungsmythen in Literatur, Kunst und Musik”; all disciplines in the humanities are invited to submit contributions in German, Italian or French. Proposals for contributions can be sent in the form of a short abstract to the following address by June 1, … Weiterlesen

digital humanities & religionswissenschaft

Workshop by the Arbeitskreis für Mittelbau und Nachwuchs (AKMN)
(September 9 – 11, 2020, Göttingen)
Central to this workshop is the approach to the variety of digital methods, which occurs via inputs and practical exercises with experts, small tours, and spaces for open discourse (planned topics: topic modelling, WebScraping, 3D-recording of objects, network analysys of texts, … Weiterlesen