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Institute for Advanced Study | Part of the Research Alliance Ruhr, Germany #UARuhr
www.college-uaruhr.de

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🔔 Job opening: The College is looking for an office management assistant (f/m/x) to support our research groups in administrative matters (75%; permanent). Advanced proficiency in German is required.

Application deadline: 10 Dec.
Complete job profile (in German): www.college-uaruhr.de/calls
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November 18, 2025 at 9:51 AM
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#FellowFriday: Our Senior Fellow Tulin Sener is Prof. of #EducationalPsychology at Ankara University, Turkey. An expert in developmental #psychology, she focuses on culturally contextualised perspectives.
Learn more about her research & her motivation in the Q&A on LinkedIn: t1p.de/h54fm
#Devpsy
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November 14, 2025 at 8:36 AM
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📅 CONF: The #Politics of Limits: #Sustainability and #Democracy in Times of Changing Climates | 8–9 Dec.

This interdisciplinary conference explores the relationship between freedom and equality & restricting economic growth.
Register by 30 Nov.: www.college-uaruhr.de/events
#Polisky
November 13, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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📢 CfP: Sensorische Re-Situierungen: Die Sinne in techno-ökologischer Veränderung

Conference on #senses in techno-ecological transformation – with @theoriesektiondgs.bsky.social @dgsoziologie.bsky.social

Submit your abstract by 15 Dec.: www.college-uaruhr.de/calls

#Soziologie #SensoryStudies #STS
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November 11, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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The workshop 'Growth (In)Dependencies' last week offered a space for scholars from different disciplines to openly discuss how societies could rely less on, or even function entirely without, continuous economic #growth.
Read the short recap on LinkedIn: t1p.de/ldifz

#sustainability #governance
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November 10, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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📅 CONF: Ordinary Men. Perpetrator Memory in Spanish Culture
4–5 Dec. | Essen

How do Spanish literature, film & culture represent perpetrators in the context of the Civil War & Franco Dictatorship? The conference explores concepts of complicity, bystanding & perpetration in Spanish cultural memory.
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November 7, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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💡 NEW FEATURE | Event Review
Therapeutic Encounters: Social and Ethical Implications of AI Chatbots in Mental Healthcare

Read here how the organisers of the symposium ‘Therapeutic Encounters with Chatbots’, @benjaminmarent.bsky.social and Sebastian Merkel, reflect on key insights: t1p.de/h341s
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October 29, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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#FellowFriday: Meet our fellow Ingo Heidbrink from Old Dominion University, USA. A maritime historian, he is a specialist for inland #WaterwayHistory, fisheries and whaling history, and polar history. Learn how his historical research is relevant for us today in this Q&A (LinkedIn):
t1p.de/5f8p9
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October 24, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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Welcome, Tamara Mercante Thierauf!
Tamara joined the research group ‘Sweat – #Sociology of Transpiration in the Age of Global Warming’ as a doctoral researcher. Her research explores sweating with a focus on the entanglements of bodies, data infrastructures, and global warming.
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October 23, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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Welcome, Bjarne Behrens! He joined the research group ‘Political Economy of Inequality’ as a doctoral researcher. Bjarne's research focuses on the role of public discourse in preference formation, with particular interest in climate policy & distributive implications of environmental transitions.
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October 21, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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📅 WORKSHOP: Sweaty Matters. Körper, Medien, Kühltechniken
13 Nov. | hybrid | in German

Der Workshop setzt sich mit Körperflüssigkeiten, Kühltechniken, „schwitzenden Medien“ & feministischen Infrastrukturen auseinander. Dabei geht es auch um methodische, materielle & politische Fragen.
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October 20, 2025 at 7:57 AM
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#FellowFriday: Daniel Feierstein is Director of the Center of #GenocideStudies at National University of Tres de Febrero, Argentina. In the Q&A (LinkedIn), he explains the need for transdisciplinary research and the benefits of the tandem partnership with a #UARuhr researcher: t1p.de/ff-feierst
Collage with a portrait photo of Daniel Feierstein and a quotation: “It can be challenging but also beneficial to work with someone who scrutinises your reasoning and your views. Our general consensus is the need to question the essentialisation of concepts like ‘perpetrators’, ‘victims’, ‘bystanders’, ‘identities’, ‘memories’.”
October 17, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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📅 WORKSHOP: Social Memories and Collective Identities in the Context of Genocide
25–26 Nov.

This transdisciplinary workshop challenges different approaches to social memories and collective identities in the context of genocidal social practices.

Register by 20 Oct.: t1p.de/q8pvw

#SocSci
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October 15, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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📬 A new issue of our newsletter COLLEGE CONDENSED is out, bringing you up to date about recent news and activities at the College. Read it in your browser: sh1.sendinblue.com/ae7mfz67wlpf...

📧 Subscribe here: www.college-uaruhr.de/newsletter
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October 13, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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📅 WORKSHOP: Was heißt Schwarze Archivpraxis?
21–22 Oct. | in German
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Ausgehend vom Nachlass der afrodeutschen Musikerin & Friedensaktivistin #FasiaJansen (1929–1997) thematisiert die Veranstaltung die Lebendigkeit und Widersprüche einer Schwarzen #Archivpraxis.
#BlackHistories
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October 10, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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Unique opportunity for postdocs from the University Alliance Ruhr #UARuhr working in the social sciences and/or the humanities: with its #PostdocLab programme, the College for Social Sciences and Humanities offers funding for cross-university working groups.
🔔 Call: www.college-uaruhr.de/postdoclab
October 1, 2025 at 8:50 AM
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We warmly welcome Dr Nesrin Tanç and Jenny Oliveira Caldas as new members of the College for Social Sciences and Humanities. They recently joined the research professorship 'Curating Digital Objects of Cultural Knowledge and Memory' led by Prof. Tahani Nadim.
#UARuhr
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September 24, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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NEW PUBLICATIONS:

📄 Elena Beregow: 'Thermische Intrasubjektivität. Eine Soziologie des Schwitzens', Berliner Journal für Soziologie

📄 @mattkranke.bsky.social: special issue of Global Environmental Politics (ed.) & intro article 'Global Green Visions and World Order in the Anthropocene'
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September 17, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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#CfP
Call for papers for the conference ‘Ordinary Men: Perpetrator Memory in Spanish Culture’, 4-5 December 2025, Essen

Submit your abstract by 8 October 2025:
www.college-uaruhr.de/calls

Thanks for sharing! @fidromanistik.bsky.social
#HispanicStudies #Romanistik #MemoryStudies #OrdinaryMen
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September 16, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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We warmly welcome our new Senior Fellows!

Eight distinguished researchers from universities in Argentina, Bangladesh, Mozambique, Turkey, the UK and the USA form the fourth cohort of our international Senior #Fellowship Programme. #UARuhr

Learn more: t1p.de/0xvnv
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September 11, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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💡 NEW FEATURE | Essay
World Champions of Forgetting. Remorseless American Exceptionalism

In his essay, William Donahue discusses how memory culture has metamorphosed into a forgetting culture, made in the #USA.

Read the essay here: t1p.de/zly8y

#USA #Germany #Erinnerungskultur #memoryculture
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August 20, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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We are taking a summer break and will only post sporadically for the next three weeks. We will be back fully recharged on 8 September.
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August 15, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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#FellowFriday: Meet Barış Uslu, Prof. of Higher Education Policy and Management from Turkey, who collaborates with Liudvika Leišytė from @tu-dortmund.bsky.social during his fellowship. Learn more about his research and what impressed him about the #Ruhr region & #UARuhr (LinkedIn): t1p.de/ff-uslu
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August 15, 2025 at 10:28 AM
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📅 WORKSHOP: Editing Journal Literature | #Journalliteratur edieren
23–24 Sept. 2025 | Essen

This workshop initiates a discussion between #JournalLiterature research & #EditorialPhilology with a focus on 19th-century literature.

Please register by 17 Sept.: www.college-uaruhr.de/news-events/...
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August 14, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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💡 NEW FEATURE:
The #Sociology of Public Sitting: What Essen’s Benches Reveal About #Intergenerational Relationships

Our fellow, sociologist Imran Sabir, reveals the social dynamics behind seemingly mundane act of #sitting on public #benches in this humorous blog post.
www.college-uaruhr.de/features
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August 4, 2025 at 12:49 PM