Graduate Conference of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities 12-13 July 2018

In July 2018, the Graduate Conference of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities took place for the eleventh time in the Jenny Aloni House. Together with the Dean, Prof Dr Volker Peckhaus, the Graduate Forum team welcomed interested listeners to lectures from various subject areas as well as information and discussion rounds on all aspects of successful academic work.

The dissertation projects presented at the conference provided exciting insights into topics from the fields of movement sciences, philosophy, music, linguistics and literary studies as well as specialised didactics. In the discussions that followed, questions were asked, suggestions made and expertise exchanged. The doctoral candidates' presentations were complemented by a presentation of the habilitation projects of Dr Leonie Süwolto (Comparative Literature) and Dr Sandra Drumm (German as a Foreign Language and Literature), who also answered questions about the postdoc phase and "finding new topics". During the lunch and coffee breaks, as well as over dinner together, there was the opportunity for further dialogue and networking. The conference's supporting programme also attracted a great deal of interest: on Thursday, the Competence Centre for Writing, the Office of Educational Innovation & University Didactics and the University Library held a "Pecha Kucha" to provide information about various offers for doctoral candidates. In a follow-up to the first doctoral candidates' assembly, which took place for the first time in May this year, the participants were able to discuss good framework conditions for doctoral studies in cultural studies. The results of the discussion were then further analysed and deepened on Friday in a round of talks with various Paderborn University officials. In addition, Department 2 provided information on various forms of funding during the doctorate and on the possibility of shorter or longer research visits abroad.

Anda-Lisa Harmening was elected as the new graduate spokesperson. She replaces Nerea Vöing, who has held the position of spokesperson since 2017. Christine Adammek will continue to hold the position of deputy.

Further information: https: //kw.uni-paderborn.de/graduiertenforum-der-fakultaet-fuer-kulturwissenschaften/

Contact: Graduate Forum KW(graduiertenforum-kw@upb.de)

Lisa-Marie Strehle

The Graduate Forum of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities celebrates its anniversary

Conference report by Christine Adammek

On 6 and 7 July 2017, the Graduate Forum of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities took place for the tenth (!) time in the Jenny Aloni House, where 16 early career researchers presented their research projects and exchanged ideas about them on an interdisciplinary basis.

After a welcome address by the Graduate Spokesperson, Dr. des. Nerea Vöing, Prof Dr Volker Peckhaus, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, who launched the forum in 2008 as a contact point and "mouthpiece" for doctoral candidates in cultural studies, gave a welcoming address. He proudly looked back on ten years of the Graduate Forum and spoke about the current opportunities and challenges facing today's early career researchers.

After the first exciting and wide-ranging presentations on the ideas of primary school children about interviewing contemporary witnesses, novels of the war grandchildren's generation, literary-aesthetic learning with simplified texts and global learning in Spanish lessons, representatives of the University Library and the Educational Innovations and University Didactics staff unit presented their programmes for doctoral candidates and teaching staff at Paderborn University.

This was followed by the annual report from Graduate Spokesperson Dr Nerea Vöing, who provided insights into the work of the Graduate Forum and reported on personnel and structural changes. We would like to take this opportunity to thank her for her willingness to 'stand in' as Graduate Spokesperson for Maxi Steinbrück, who has left Paderborn University.

This was followed by the election of the graduate spokesperson, moderated by the deputy graduate spokesperson Claudia Dobrinski. Dr. des. Nerea Vöing agreed to continue as Graduate Spokesperson for the time being; Christine Adammek replaces Claudia Dobrinski as Deputy Spokesperson. Those present were also cordially invited to join the organisation team, as Fabian Hoya, a long-standing team member, will be leaving the forum. We would like to take this opportunity to thank him warmly for his contribution and commitment.

The afternoon was filled with presentations on women and men in gender-atypical degree programmes, on conditional factors for the implementation of school media concepts as an instrument of school development and on a praxeological perspective on multi-professional cooperation in inclusive daycare facilities, before the Chair of the Doctoral Committee, Prof. Dr. Jörg Steigerwald, answered the participants' questions about the work of the Doctoral Committee in a section entitled "In demand", into which he had previously provided a pointed and insightful insight.

To mark the occasion, the organising team hosted a festive reception with a sumptuous buffet in the Jenny-Aloni Haus in the evening, which also served as a forum for exchange and was attended by many former members and lecturers. The photo wall with pictures from past conferences was examined and news was exchanged in a friendly atmosphere, rounding off an exciting day.

Friday morning started with three presentations from the field of school pedagogy on schools in the digital age, the interface between computational thinking and problem solving and a gender-specific study of behavioural process data in the testing of computer and information-related skills and was supplemented before the lunch break with a presentation from the field of comparative literature on eugenic subjects in contemporary literary examples.

It was particularly pleasing that Prof Dr Volker Peckhaus was presented with a jubilee volume in the early afternoon to mark the tenth anniversary, which was celebrated with a champagne toast. Dr. des. Nerea Vöing and Claudia Dobrinski have compiled abstracts, programmes, names of all speakers, photos and other materials from ten years of the Graduate Conference in a volume, one copy of which will be presented to each of the departments of Cultural Studies and to the University Library.

The afternoon was enriched by lectures from German and English literary studies on literary and filmic imaginations of the (anti)Arctic region, on identity and foreignness in English and German literature and on changing images of Africa.

Dr des Nerea Vöing then thanked all participants for a successful conference and concluded by saying that the forum will continue to be open to all doctoral candidates of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities in the future.

The conference programme can be viewed here .