PROGRAMME
「Courses, Colloquia & Guest Lectures」
Please note: The new qualification structure as well as the new guidelines for the structure of the course programme(105.7 KB, 5 pages) of BAGSS have come into effect. Please note that the new course programme guidelines affect only members of BAGSS, whose membership started in the summer semester 2021 or later.
DOCTORAL SEMINARS AND COLLOQUIA
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Guest Lecture
The Politics of Gendered Taxation
Tuesday, 20 January 2026; 4.15 p.m. Feldkirchenstraße 21, Room FG1/00.06
Speaker: Professor Dr Laura Seelkopf // Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
Laura Seelkopf is a Professor of comparative public policy at Geschwister-Scholl-Institute for Political Science of LMU Munich. Her research lies at intersection of international political economy, comparative politics, and public policy. She is also interested in research design, experiments, and quantitative methods.
Governments worldwide continue discrimination of their female citizens. Tax system presents a visible example of such inequity, with women often facing higher tax rates than men. Despite the developments, policies vary widely across and within countries. This lecture presents findings from a survey experiment in four European nations, exploring the roots of gender-based discrimination.
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Semester Colloquium
Students’ Motives for Restricting Academic Freedom: Results of an Adversarial Collaboration
Wednesday, 04 February 2026; 6.00 p.m. Feldkirchenstraße 21, Room FG1/00.08 (hybrid session)
Speaker: Professor Dr Claudia Diehl // University of Konstanz
Claudia Diehl is the professor of Microsociology at the University of Konstanz and a co-speaker of the Cluster of Excellence “The Politics of Inequality”. Her research is concentrated on the integration processes among new immigrants in Europe, xenophobia and ethnic discrimination.
Her lecture explores the ongoing debate about academic freedom by presenting the results of pre-registered experiments conducted among university students. The results show that a significant proportion of German university students are in favour of restrictions on academic debate on university campuses, such as the cancellation of talks, the revocation of teaching positions or the removal of books. Experimental evidence demonstrates that discrimination against speakers presenting conservative viewpoints is an important, though not the only, motive behind this.
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Competence, Personality and Development in Different Learning Environments.
Joint Research Seminar of the Department 1 (Dr Ilka Wolter) and the Director of the Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajectories (Professor Dr Cordula Artelt).
(BAGSS Pillar 1)
Weekly sessions
ORGANISERS: Professor Dr Cordula Artelt and Dr Ilka Wolter
TIME: Wednesdays, 12 a.m. to 2 p.m. (c.t.)
PLACE: LIfBi, Wilhelmspost 3, 95047 Bamberg, Room 02.20
For more information please write an email to courses.bagss(at)uni-bamberg.de or abteilung-1-assistenz(at)lifbi.de
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Joint Paper-Colloquium, BAGSS Pillar 2 and Department 2 (LIfBi)
Weekly sessions
ORGANISER: Professor Dr Steffen Schindler; Professor Dr Corinna Kleinert
TIME: Tuesdays, 10 a.m. to 12 a.m. (c.t.)
PLACE: Online via Zoom
For more information please write an email to courses.bagss(at)uni-bamberg.de or to abteilung-2-assistenz(at)lifbi.de
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Weekly Doctoral Colloquium (BAGSS Pillar 3)
Weekly sessions
ORGANISER: Professor Dr Rasmus Hoffmann
TIME: Tuesdays, 10 a.m. to 12 a.m. (c.t.)
PLACE: Online via Zoom
For more information please write an email to courses.bagss(at)uni-bamberg.de
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Weekly Doctoral Colloquium (BAGSS Pillar 4)
Weekly sessions
ORGANISER: Professor Dr Ulrich Sieberer
TIME: Tuesdays, 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. (c.t.)
PLACE: Hybrid sessions via Zoom and room FG1/00.06 at BAGSS (Feldkirchenstraße 21).
For more information please write an email to courses.bagss(at)uni-bamberg.de.
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In addition to their Pillar Seminars and Colloquia, members of BAGSS can also participate in the
Statistics - Psychometrics Research Seminar
Weekly sessions
ORGANISERS: Professor Dr Claus Carstensen and Professor Dr Christian Aßmann
TIME: Thursdays, 10 a.m. to 12 p.m.
PLACE: Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajecories, Wilhelmspost 3, 96047 Bamberg (& also via Zoom)
For more information please write an email to courses.bagss(at)uni-bamberg.de or abteilung-3-assistenz(at)ifbi.de.
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BAGSS & LIfBi JOINT LUNCHTIME TALKS
BAGSS & LIfBi JOINT LUNCHTIME TALKS
The Lunchtime Talks is the joint series of the Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajectories (LIfBi) and the Bamberg Graduate School of Social Sciences (BAGSS). Meetings take place online via Zoom. Details on how to participate can be found below.
The Lunchtime Talks are open to members of the University of Bamberg and the LIfBi as well as to anyone else interested.
For more information, please contact: weiterbildung(at)lifbi.de; courses.bagss(at)uni-bamberg.de
No registration required!
PLEASE PAY ATTENTION TO FUTURE ALTERATIONS OF THE INITIAL PROGRAMME!
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- Tuesday, 2 December, 2025, 1.00 - 2.00 p.m.
Dr Sebastian E. Wenz
Senior Researcher, GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences
Empowering Social Scientists One Course at a Time. Being a Senior Researcher at GESIS Training
No registration required
Zoom Meeting: https://uni-bamberg.zoom-x.de/j/61515927304
Password: n5j!9P
COURSES AND WORKSHOPS ON METHODS AND RESEARCH DESIGN
WEEKLY COURSES ON METHODS AND RESEARCH DESIGN
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Introduction to Statistics for Social Science
Weekly course
INSTRUCTOR: Anna Neumann
DATE & TIME: Tuesdays, 2 p.m. - 4 p.m.
PLACE: F21/03.01
Participation in the course has to be coordinated with the course instructor. Please inform us about your participation in advance, by writing an e-mail to courses.bagss(at)uni-bamberg.de
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Research Design and Causal Inference
Weekly course
INSTRUCTOR: Prof Dr Ulrich Sieberer & Dr Alexander Herzog
DATE & TIME: Mondays, 10 a.m. - 12 p.m.
PLACE: F21/02.41
Participation in the course has to be coordinated with the course instructor. Please inform us about your participation in advance, by writing an e-mail to courses.bagss(at)uni-bamberg.de
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Workshop Introduction to R
Weekly Course
INSTRUCTOR: Dr Alexander Herzog
DATE & TIME: Block workshop
PLACE: F21/03.02
Participation in the course has to be coordinated with the course instructor. Please inform us about your participation in advance, by writing an e-mail to courses.bagss(at)uni-bamberg.de
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Panel Data Analysis
Weekly course
INSTRUCTORS: Professor Dr Michael Gebel
DATE & TIME: Mondays, 8.00 a.m. - 12 a.m.
PLACE: RZ/00.06
Participation in the course has to be coordinated with the course instructor. Please inform us about your participation in advance, by writing an e-mail to courses.bagss(at)uni-bamberg.de
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Research Design
Weekly course
INSTRUCTORS: Professor Dr Michael Gebel
DATE & TIME: Tuesdays, 10 a.m. - 12 a.m.
PLACE: F21/02.55
Participation in the course has to be coordinated with the course instructor. Please inform us about your participation in advance, by writing an e-mail to courses.bagss(at)uni-bamberg.de
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Methods in Epidemiology and Demography
Weekly course
INSTRUCTORS: Prof Dr Henriette Engelhardt-Wölfler
DATE & TIME: Thursdays, 10 a.m. - 12 a.m.
PLACE: F21/01.20
Participation in the course has to be coordinated with the course instructor. Please inform us about your participation in advance, by writing an e-mail to courses.bagss(at)uni-bamberg.de
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Advanced Mathematical Methods
Weekly course
INSTRUCTOR: Prof Dr Anne Leucht
DATE & TIME: Tuesdays, 08 a.m. - 10 a.m.
PLACE: FG1/00.08
Participation in the course has to be coordinated with the course instructor. Please inform us about your participation in advance, by writing an e-mail to courses.bagss(at)uni-bamberg.de
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Advanced Time Series Methods for Macroeconomic Analysis
Weekly course
INSTRUCTOR: Prof Dr Christian Proaño & Jonas Dix, M.Sc.
DATE & TIME: Tuesdays, 10.00 a.m. - 12 a.m.; Wednesdays, 12 a.m. – 02.00 p.m.
PLACE: F21/02.18, F21/03.02
Participation in the course has to be coordinated with the course instructor. Please inform us about your participation in advance, by writing an e-mail to courses.bagss(at)uni-bamberg.de
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Advanced Macroeconomics
Weekly course
INSTRUCTOR: Dr Naira Kotb & Jonas Dix, M.Sc.
DATE & TIME: Mondays, 12 a.m. - 02.00 p.m.; Mondays, 02.00 p.m. – 04.00 p.m.
PLACE: F21/01.37, F21/03.02
Participation in the course has to be coordinated with the course instructor. Please inform us about your participation in advance, by writing an e-mail to courses.bagss(at)uni-bamberg.de
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Computational Behavioral Macroeconomics
Weekly course
INSTRUCTOR: Prof Dr Christian Proaño
DATE & TIME: Wednesdays, 10.00 a.m. - 12 a.m.
PLACE: RZ/00.07
Participation in the course has to be coordinated with the course instructor. Please inform us about your participation in advance, by writing an e-mail to courses.bagss(at)uni-bamberg.de
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Introduction to Econometrics
Weekly course
INSTRUCTOR: Dr Nora Würz & Niklas Dörner
DATE & TIME: Wednesdays, 12 a.m.– 02.00 p.m.
PLACE: F21/01.37; KÄ7/00.10, F21/02.55
Participation in the course has to be coordinated with the course instructor. Please inform us about your participation in advance, by writing an e-mail to courses.bagss(at)uni-bamberg.de
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Computationally Intensive Techniques / Monte Carlo Methods
Weekly course
INSTRUCTOR: Dr Silvia Förtsch, Universität Trier
DATE & TIME: Wednesdays, Mondays, 02.00 p.m. – 04.00 p.m., 04.00 p.m. – 06.00 p.m.
PLACE: FMA/01.20
Participation in the course has to be coordinated with the course instructor. Please inform us about your participation in advance, by writing an e-mail to courses.bagss(at)uni-bamberg.de
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Statistical Analysis of Incomplete Data
Weekly course
INSTRUCTOR: Dr Florian Meinfelder
DATE & TIME: Mondays, 10.00 a.m. – 12 a.m., 12 a.m.– 02.00 p.m.
PLACE: FMA/01.20
Participation in the course has to be coordinated with the course instructor. Please inform us about your participation in advance, by writing an e-mail to courses.bagss(at)uni-bamberg.de
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Survey Sampling Theory
Weekly course
INSTRUCTOR: Dr Florian Meinfelder
DATE & TIME: Mondays, 10.00 a.m. – 12 a.m., 12 a.m.– 02.00 p.m.
PLACE :FMA/01.20
Participation in the course has to be coordinated with the course instructor. Please inform us about your participation in advance, by writing an e-mail to courses.bagss(at)uni-bamberg.de
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Applied data analysis for psychology using the open-source software R
Weekly course
INSTRUCTOR: Dr Alexander Pastukhov, Otto-Friedrich Universität Bamberg
DATE & TIME:Mondays, 12 a.m.- 02.00 p.m.
PLACE: MG2/01.09
Participation in the course has to be coordinated with the course instructor. Please inform us about your participation in advance, by writing an e-mail to courses.bagss(at)uni-bamberg.de
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Python for social and experimental psychology
Weekly course
INSTRUCTOR: Dr Alexander Pastukhov, Otto-Friedrich Universität Bamberg
DATE & TIME:Mondays, Mondays, 08.00 a.m. - 10.00 a.m.
PLACE: M3N/-1.19
Participation in the course has to be coordinated with the course instructor. Please inform us about your participation in advance, by writing an e-mail to courses.bagss(at)uni-bamberg.de
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The R and RStudio Environment: Handling, Visualisation and Communication of Data in Science
Weekly course
INSTRUCTOR: Prof Dr Judith Vollmer, Otto-Friedrich Universität Bamberg
DATE & TIME: Online
PLACE: Online
Participation in the course has to be coordinated with the course instructor. Please inform us about your participation in advance, by writing an e-mail to courses.bagss(at)uni-bamberg.de
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You can find a list of further available courses here(201.0 KB, 4 pages)
WORKSHOPS ON METHODS AND RESEARCH DESIGN
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BAGSS and LifBi joint workshop
Introduction to Machine Learning with R
5 Day Workshop
INSTRUCTOR: Dr Sandra Jaworeck, Otto-Friedirch University Bamberg
DATE & TIME: Monday, February 23, 2026, 09.30 a.m. to 01.00 p.m. (s.t.) – Friday, February 27, 2026, 09.30 a.m. to 01.00 p.m.
PLACE: BAGSS, Feldkirchenstraße 21, 96050 Bamberg, Room FG1/00.06
To register, please send an email to courses.bagss@uni-bamberg.de by Friday, February 20, 2026. Registration is mandatory. The number of participants is limited to 16.
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The Bamberg Center for Empirical Studies (BACES) offers statistical consulting for the members (students, doctoral members, research fellows, scientific staff) of the University of Bamberg. The offer is free of charge and must be communicated in advance with the main supervisor of the research project. Consultation meetings can be offered either in English or in German. A max. of three meeting per research project must not be exceeded.
Here you can register for a consultation meeting.
Apart from the consultation meetings, BACES offers immediate help for statistical problems in the form of short (20-minute max.) virtual meetings. Meetings can be offered in English or in German and take place every Thursday from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m.. Again, the first supervisor of the research project must be informed in advance and agree on the meeting.
To apply for a short meeting, please contact: beratung.baces(at)uni-bamberg.de
Here you can find more information regarding the statistical consultation of BACES
Here you can find all contact details of BACES.
Head of the Bamberg Center for Empirical Studies: Professor Dr Timo Schmid, Professor for Statistics and Econometrics, University of Bamberg.
This is an offer of the Bamberg Center for Empirical Studies (BACES)
COURSES AND WORKSHOPS ON PROFESSIONAL SKILLS
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Funding Possibilities for Starter Scholarship Holders
Consultation Meetings organised by the Graduate Centre Trimberg Research Academy (TRAc), University of Bamberg
INSTRUCTOR: Dr Marion Hacke
DATE & TIME: By appointment
The meetings cover every step of fundraising, from an overview of the funding landscape in Germany to the funding application process. In order to make your consultation more productive you are advised to send Dr Hacke your questions and ideas in advance, for her to prepare.
To register, please send an e-mail to Dr Marion Hacke: promotion.trac(at)uni-bamberg.de. Registration is mandatory!
After making an appointment, please inform us by writing an e-mail to courses.bagss(at)uni-bamberg.de.
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Career Planning for Postdoctoral Researchers
Consultation Meetings organised by the Graduate Centre Trimberg Research Academy (TRAc), University of Bamberg
INSTRUCTOR: Dr Martin Rehfeldt and Dr Antonia Widmer-Leitz
DATE & TIME: By appointment
The meetings cover every step of planning an academic career after the end of the doctoral studies, including assistance by the application process for third-party funding. In order to make your consultation more productive you are advised to send your questions and ideas in advance.
To register, please send an e-mail to Dr Martin Rehfeldt and Dr Antonia Widmer-Leitz: postdoc.trac(at)uni-bamberg.de. Registration is mandatory!
After making an appointment, please inform us by writing an e-mail to courses.bagss(at)uni-bamberg.de.
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Have a look at the programme of the following institutions as well. To register for offers, please contact the respective institution independently.
- Centre for Higher Education Didactics (ZHD)
- Graduate Centre Trimberg Research Academy (TRAc)
- The Writing Centre
- University Health Management
- Beauftragte für die Gleichstellung von Frauen in Wissenschaft und Kunst
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