「Courses, Colloquia & Guest Lectures」

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Roundtable

Bridging AI in Higher Education: Transfering the German Experience to Egypt

Wednesday, 12 November 2025; 09.30 a.m. Feldkirchenstraße 21, Room FG1/00.06 

Speaker: Dr. Kareem Ahmed Ragab // Deraya University, Egypt

Kareem Ahmed Ragab is a head of Marketing Department Experienced scholar in marketing, consumer behavior, digital entrepreneurship and business ethics in African context.

This interdisciplinary roundtable invites scholars andeducators to discuss the impact of integrating artificialintelligence in higher education across Egypt and Germany,with a focus on the University of Bamberg.
The session aims to:

• Discuss transferable pedagogical and institutional models for AI integration.
• Discussing AI adoption readiness in higher education context.
• Share innovative teaching practices and curriculum design strategies.
• Foster sustainable academic partnerships between Deraya and Bamberg University.

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Algorithmic Decision Making and Consumer Behavior in Egypt

Tuesday, 18 November 2025; 09.30 a.m. Feldkirchenstraße 21, Room FG1/00.06 

Speaker: Dr. Kareem Ahmed Ragab // Deraya University, Egypt

Kareem Ahmed Ragab is a head of Marketing Department Experienced scholar in marketing, consumer behavior, digital entrepreneurship and business ethics in African context.

This lecture explores how algorithmic decision-making shapes marketing practices and consumer attitudes in Egypt, highlighting the roles of trust, privacy, and generational differences, as well as psychological tendencies such as technophilia, technophobia, and neophobia in shaping digital engagement.

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Entrepreneurial Climate in Africa: Comparative Insights

Monday, 24 November 2025; 09.30 a.m. Feldkirchenstraße 21, Room FG1/00.06 

Speaker: Dr. Kareem Ahmed Ragab // Deraya University, Egypt

Kareem Ahmed Ragab is a head of Marketing Department Experienced scholar in marketing, consumer behavior, digital entrepreneurship and business ethics in African context.

This guest lecture explores key features of the entrepreneurial climate across Africa, comparing how different countries foster innovation and startup growth. We will analyze the challenges entrepreneurs face, and evaluate how policy, culture, and technology shape entrepreneurship in various contexts

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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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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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• Thursday, 28 October, 2025, 1.00 - 2.00 p.m.

Dr Taimoor Khan

Big Data Analyst, GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences

Exploring Computational Methods for Social Science Research. What is methods Hub and How I can Use it?

No registration required

Zoom Meeting:https://uni-bamberg.zoom-x.de/j/66373988444

Password: %hmF1@

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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

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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)

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)

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