3GO Newsletter, August 2026
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3GO Newsletter, August 2026
Between relaxation and preparation
… As the new semester approaches, we would like to draw your attention, dear PhD students and supervisors, to a few exciting events.
Warm regards from the 3GO
"A PhD after your degree?!" is being offered again in the winter semester
Information programme for Master’s students from Schools I–IV who are interested in pursuing a PhD
3GO has once again successfully secured study quality funds for the ‘Going on to a PhD after your degree?!’ programme, meaning we will be able to offer the programme again from the winter semester onwards. The programme is aimed at Master’s students from Schools I to IV (excluding Computing Science) who are in the final stages of their degree. It provides guidance on academic careers and PhD study, and aims both to impart fundamental knowledge about the PhD phase (funding opportunities, working techniques and strategies, living arrangements, etc.) and to create a space for students to test and reflect on their own strengths and weaknesses.
Are you thinking of doing a PhD but aren’t quite sure where or how to go about it?
Do you already have a dissertation topic but no idea how to fund your research?
Would you like to apply for a PhD position or a scholarship and need to write an exposé?
Would you like to clarify for yourself whether, and under what conditions, a PhD would be the right choice for you?
Then our programme ‘Do a PhD after your degree?!’ is just right for you!
Detailed information on this, as well as an application form, can be found on the programme’s website. Robert Mitschke and Rea Kodalle from the 3GO Graduate School will be happy to answer any questions you may have at . The application deadline for the winter semester is 4 October.
If, in the course of your work, you’ve come across students who are interested in a PhD or whom you would advise to pursue one, please feel free to pass this information on to them.
From Domain Logic to Algorithms – Algorithmic Thinking and a Python Workshop for the Digital Humanities
Workshop for PhD students with no prior programming experience
Everyone’s talking aboutthe Digital Humanities – but how do I move from my humanities research to a computer-assisted operationalisation? Which of my questions can be operationalised with the aid of a computer? How can I break down my question(s) into smaller parts? This workshop focuses on the process of translating between disciplinary logic and algorithmic thinking. Over four face-to-face sessions, participants will work together – using their own research projects as a basis – to explore how humanities research questions can be translated into algorithmic steps. Using the Python programming language, basic concepts such as sequences, conditions and loops will be introduced, which can be applied directly to participants’ own materials.
In parallel, an online workshop format is offered, in which participants can optionally acquire the basics of the Python programming language through a self-study course and exchange ideas. This is because anyone who applies their own research questions to text corpora, metadata or historical sources regularly encounters structural limitations with existing tools: The categories are predefined, export options are restricted, and customisation is limited. This workshop provides the initial foundations for overcoming this dependence by helping participants understand the logic behind the applications. Web-based analysis tools (Catma, Voyant, etc.) become easier to use through algorithmic thinking and a basic knowledge of programming languages, and researchers learn to recognise when a custom script works more effectively than predefined interfaces.
A key outcome of the 3GO event is the creation of individual scripts that combine explanations, code and personal notes, serving as a basis for independent further work. The target audience is researchers without programming knowledge; the aim is not to achieve full programming proficiency, but rather to develop skills in operationalising humanities research questions through an understanding of algorithmic logic.
Dates:
- Workshop: 15 October, 12 November, 17 December 2026 and 21 January 2027, 2.00–6.00 pm on each occasion
- Optional / please set aside time for self-study: approximately two hours of online practice every other week (to be organised collectively)
Structure:
Part 1 | 4 face-to-face workshops | Thursdays, 2.00 pm–6.00 pm (compulsory attendance)
- Basics of Algorithmic Thinking
- Breaking down example projects and your own projects into steps
- Testing different approaches
- Developing a concept for operationalisation
Part 2 | Optional online Python workshop | Time to be confirmed depending on interest
- Discussion of lessons from the self-study course
- Discussing challenges and error messages
- Co-working
advisor:
Lina Blank completed her PhD in Dutch Literature at the University of Oldenburg, focusing on literature in the Dutch Parliament. She studied Dutch, English and Art in Oldenburg, Groningen and Ghent.
The Politics of Revenge: Critical Perspectives from Philosophy, Psychology and Theology
Interdisciplinary workshop organised by the Institute of Philosophy in co-operation with the University Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy
The theme of revenge is gaining significance in the current rise of authoritarianism. At this interdisciplinary workshop, the theme of revenge will be critically examined from the perspectives of philosophy, theology and psychology. Revenge is an act of retribution and is accompanied by feelings of hurt, xenophobic resentment, hatred and satisfaction. On the one hand, drawing on these academic disciplines, the workshop will address the question of what revenge is: what drives feelings of revenge? Why is revenge perceived as just? Why, nevertheless, is it unjustifiable? Secondly, the workshop will examine the role that revenge plays in authoritarian discourses, movements and policies. What makes revenge so appealing to anti-democratic positions?
Date and venue:
3 and 4 September 2026, Karl-Jaspers-Haus Oldenburg, Unter den Eichen 22
Organisers:
Tilo Wesche (Institute of Philosophy, University of Oldenburg) and Sebastian Spanknebel (University Clinic for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Oldenburg)
Programme:
3 September
1.15–1.30 pm Welcome
1.30–3.00 pm Vera King (Sigmund Freud Institute, Goethe University Frankfurt): The Memory of Revenge
3.15–4.45 pm Philipp Schmidt-Boddy ( Section for Phenomenological Psychopathology and Psychotherapy, Heidelberg University Hospital): On Feelings of Revenge: Psychological Functions and the Relevance of Emotional Abilities
5.00–6.30 pm Sebastian Spanknebel (University Clinic for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Oldenburg): Revenge as a means of avoiding grief
4 September
9.00–10.30 am Gertrud Koch (Institute for Theatre Studies, Free University of Berlin and Leuphana University of Lüneburg): The Back Stairs of Revenge. On the Interplay of Nature and Technology in Cinematic Fiction
10.45 am–12.15 pm Tilo Wesche (Institute of Philosophy, University of Oldenburg): Times of Revenge. On the temporal structure of retribution
1.15–2.45 pm Wolfgang Palaver ( Institute for Systematic Theology, University of Innsbruck): Revenge and Religion: Approaches from the Perspective of René Girard’s Mimetic Anthropology
3.00–4.30 pm Lisanne Teuchert ( Institute for Systematic Theology, Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg): The Politics of Revenge as Anti-Modernity: A Symptom of a Reductive View of Humanity?