This Friday, the Federal Institute for Culture and History of the Germans in Eastern Europe (BKGE) will host a workshop on "Junior Professorships of the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media (BKM)". With the establishment of three junior professorships, the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media aims to anchor cultural and historical topics relating to Germans in Eastern Europe in current academic discourse, promote young academics and encourage further research.
Dr Aleksandra Lipinska (Berlin), junior professor on "Art History of Eastern Central Europe with a focus on 'Regions of Common Cultural Heritage'", will take part in the workshop, as will Dr Carl Bethke (Tübingen) on "Culture and History of Eastern Europe in the 19th and 20th Centuries with a focus on interethnic relations with special consideration of German minorities in South-Eastern Europe". In addition to the two existing junior professors, Prof Dr Jochen Oltmer (Osnabrück), who is supporting the establishment of the new junior professorship "Migration and Integration of Russian Germans" at the University of Osnabrück, will also take part in the workshop. This position, which was advertised in 2013, is to be filled shortly.
The BKGE - an Institute affiliated with the University of Oldenburg - is a departmental research organisation within the remit of the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media. It is organising the workshop as part of its advisory activities for the BKM. Topics will include the situation and prospects of junior professors as well as their integration and organisational integration into the respective university structures.