How thinking is changing

Broad and multi-layered promotion of young talent: four of the university's Schools are currently inviting Master's students, doctoral candidates and postdocs to the first "Oldenburg School" for the humanities and social sciences. A series of events is open to all interested parties. European refugee policy or critical discourse analysis, context-oriented cultural studies or relationships between humans and animals - with various workshops and lectures, summer schools and masterclasses, the two-week "Oldenburg School" covers a wide range of topics. It brings together the diverse programmes for young academics under the umbrella of the Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences(3GO). What does "good academic practice in human studies" look like? The Chair of the Commission of the Senate for Ethics and Research Impact Assessment, psychologist Prof. Dr Christiane Thiel, will give a lecture on this topic on Thursday, 8 September, from 2 p.m. in Lecture Hall Centre A14 (Room 0-031). The event is also intended to help clarify individual questions of research ethics; registration is not required. "Oldenburg's past as a Nazi stronghold" is the focus of the city tour "Thirteen Brown Years" offered by Oldenburg historian Dr Ingo Harms on Monday, 12 September at 4.00 pm. Interested parties can find out more about the event as part of the autumn workshop "Interpretative Research Methods" by email Those interested in the Alumni Summer School "Critique of Self-Education" on 13 and 14 September can also still register by email. Why does Hamlet actually see a ghost? How are comics and social discourse interrelated? How do diaries of private individuals help me to situate Goethe's "Werther" in the discourse on suicide? Why might my till receipts be of interest to future historians? And what does Google have to do with it? These and similar questions will be addressed in the masterclass "Re-reading New Historicism as a method of context-oriented cultural studies" on Tuesday, 13 September, 2.00 to 6.00 p.m., which will be offered by Oldenburg Americanist Prof. Dr Martin Butler together with literary scholar Prof. Dr Moritz Baßler from the University of Münster. Registration is still possible for last-minute participants. There are also still a few places available for the 3GO workshop on critical discourse analysis with Regina Wamper and Isolde Aigner from the Duisburg Institute for Linguistic and Social Research. Anyone interested in learning about the method and its theoretical context can apply for one of the remaining places for the workshop on Friday, 9 September, from 10.00 to 16.00. How do perception, thinking, personal encounters and conversations change in our increasingly fast-paced world? How can we respond meaningfully to the increasing number of interrupted beginnings in our everyday lives? The Bremen-based "Theater der Versammlung" will address these questions on stage in the interactive click performance "C COPY A, verschlüsselt" on Thursday, 15 September at 5 p.m. in the lecture theatre centre A14, followed by a panel discussion. Due to limited space, registration by email is required. The numerous public lectures organised by the organisers from School I to IV can be attended spontaneously. Experts will be discussing European refugee policy in a round table discussion in the library hall on Friday, 9 September from 4.00 pm. Berlin-based ancient historian Prof. Dr Wilfried Nippel will also be giving a lecture on "Relieving the burden of participation: representation instead of assembly democracy" (17 September, 9.00 a.m., Senate meeting room). Freiburg cultural sociologist Prof. Dr Ulrich Bröckling will discuss "Paradoxes of an education for freedom" under the heading "We always have to do what we want" (14 September), and Düsseldorf historian Prof. Dr Achim Landwehr will give a lecture on "Sich zeiten. Present and absent times - and the constitution of the subject" (13 September, both at 6.30 pm in the library hall). Further public lectures can be found in the programme. The doctoral programme "Cultures of Participation", the DFG Research Training Group "Self-Formations", the Center for Migration, Education and Cultural Studies(CMC), the project "Research-based Learning in Focus"(FLiF) and the Erasmus Mundus degree programme "European Master in Migration and Intercultural Relations"(EMMIR) are involved in the "Oldenburg School". The EWE Foundation, the Oldenburg University Society (UGO), the General Students' Committee (AStA) and the Schools I to IV made the large number of events possible with their financial support.