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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BAGSS Semester Colloquium
No political future? Why climate scenarios must integrate political factors
Wednesday, 17 January, 2024; 06.15 p.m., Feldkirchenstraße 21, Room FG1/00.08 (hybrid session)
Invited Speaker: Dr Julia Leininger // German Institute of Development and Sustainability
Dr Julia Leininger is the head of the multidisciplinary and international research programme “Transformation of political (dis-)order: Institution, values & peace” at the German Institute of Development and Sustainability. The colloquium had to be postponed last semester. Therefore, the Bamberg Graduate School of Social Sciences is especially pleased that Dr Julia Leininger will be speaking on the topic of political factors in climate scenarios this semester!
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BAGSS Semester Colloquium
Data-driven Campaigns: Intended and Unintended Consequences for Democracy
Wednesday, 31 January, 2024; 06.15 p.m., Feldkirchenstraße 21, Room FG1/00.08 (hybrid session)
Invited Speaker: Professor Dr Kate Dommett // University of Sheffield
The Bamberg Graduate School of Social Sciences is pleased to announce Professor Dr Kate Dommett as a guest lecturer. She is Professor of Digital Politics in the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Sheffield. As an internationally renowned policy expert she has served as Special Advisor to the House of Lords Select Committee on Democracy and Digital Technologies.
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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) and the Chair of Developmental Psychology of the University of Bamberg (Professor Dr Sabine Weinert).
(BAGSS Pillar 1)
Weekly sessions
ORGANISERS: Professor Dr Cordula Artelt , Professor Dr Sabine Weinert and Dr Ilka Wolter
TIME: Wednesdays, 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. (c.t.)
PLACE: Online via Zoom
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 Pillars 2 & 3 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: Hybrid sessions (via MS Teams and presential)
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 4)
Weekly sessions
ORGANISER: Professor Dr Carina Schmitt
TIME: Tuesdays, 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.
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 and are especially interesting for doctoral and postdoctoral fellows.
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, 12 December, 2023, 1.00 - 2.00 p.m.
Anna Scharl
Software Developer at DB Systel | Deutsche BahnAG
Shaping the digitalisation of Deutsche Bahn: Working as a software developer at DB Systel GmbH
No registration required
Zoom Meeting: https://uni-bamberg.zoom-x.de/j/62876427640
Password: ?6Wq2?
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- Tuesday, 16 January, 2024, 1.00 - 2.00 p.m.
Dr Mathias Huebener
Head of the research group „Educational and Human Potential“ | Federal Institute for Population Research (BiB)
Policy-Relevance instead of Ivory Tower? Insights from Career Paths at Research Institutes (DIW and BiB)
No registration required
Zoom Meeting: uni-bamberg.zoom.us/j/61846003878
Password: e=Mu15
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: N.N.
DATE & TIME: Tuesdays, 12.00 - 2.00; Thursdays
PLACE: F21/03.03; 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 and Causal Inference
Weekly course
INSTRUCTOR: Dr Alexander Herzog, University of Bamberg
DATE & TIME: Mondays, 12.00 -2.00 (Start: 16. October 2023)
PLACE: F21/02.31
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 Text Analysis for Social Science
Weekly Course
INSTRUCTOR: Sergei Pashakhin, M.A., University of Bamberg
DATE & TIME: Wednesdays, 12.00 - 2.00
PLACE: FMA/01.19
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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Applied Panel Data Analysis
Weekly course
INSTRUCTORS: Prof Dr Michael Gebel, Chen-Hao Hsu, M.A., University of Bamberg
DATE & TIME: Mondays, 08.00 - 12.00 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: Prof Dr Michael Gebel, Daniel Zeddel, M.A., University of Bamberg
DATE & TIME: Tuesdays, 10.00 -12.00 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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Mixed-Mode-Surveys
Weekly course
INSTRUCTORS: Prof Dr Mark Trappmann, University of Bamberg
DATE & TIME: Wednesdays, 10.00 - 2.00 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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Algorithms for Economics and Politics & Economics and Politics for Algorithms
Weekly course
INSTRUCTOR: Prof Dr Florian Herold, University of Bamberg
DATE & TIME: Mondays, 10.00 - 12.00 a.m.; Thursdays, 2.00 - 4.00 p.m.
PLACE: F21/03.81; 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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Causal Machine Learning
Weekly course
INSTRUCTOR: FU Berlin, Michael Mühlbauer, University of Bamberg
DATE & TIME: Mondays, 2.00 - 6.00 p.m.
PLACE: FMA/01.19
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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BAGSS and LIfBi Joint Workshop
Mixed Methods for Social Science Research
One day Workshop
INSTRUCTOR: Professor Ingo Rohlfing, University of Passau
DATE & TIME: Monday, 11 December 2023; 09.00 a.m. - 05.00 p.m. (s.t.)
PLACE: BAGSS, Feldkirchenstraße 21, 96052 Bamberg, Room FG1/00.06
To register, please send an e-mail to courses.bagss@uni-bamberg.de
Registration is mandatory! The number of participants is limited to 16!
Registration deadline: 29 November 2023
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BAGSS and LIfBi Joint Workshop
Cluster Analysis and Latent Class Analysis
Two day Workshop
INSTRUCTOR: Professor Dr Robin Samuel, University of Luxembourg
DATE & TIME: Monday, 04 December, 09.00 - 05.00 p.m. (s.t.) & Tuesday, 05 December 2023, 12.00 a.m. - 06.00 p.m. (s.t.)
PLACE: BAGSS, Feldkirchenstraße 21, 96050 Bamberg, Room FG1/00.06
To register, please send an e-mail to courses(at)uni-bamberg.de
Registration is mandatory! The number of participants is limited to 16!
Registration deadline: 8 November 2023
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BAGSS and LIfBi Joint Workshop
Combining R and LaTeX for dynamic document creation
Half day Workshop
INSTRUCTOR: Dr Ariane Würbach, Leibniz-Institute for Educational Trajectories
DATE & TIME: Tuesday, 06 February 2024, 09.00 - 01.00 p.m. (s.t.)
PLACE: LIfBi, Wilhelmsplatz 3, 96047 Bamberg
To register, please send an e-mail to weiterbildung@lifbi.de
Registration is mandatory! The number of participants is limited to 16!
Registration deadline: 23 January 2024
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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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Introduction to the Legal Issues of Doctoral Studies and Good Academic Practice
Asynchronous Learning
INSTRUCTOR: Ass. jur. Florian Kühhorn, University of Bamberg
DATE & TIME: Asynchronous Learning
The course offers an overview on the various legal prerequisites of doctoral studies in Bavaria, based on the Bavarian University and College Act and the Doctoral Degree Regulations of the various faculties of the University of Bamberg. Moreover, the course approaches questions of academic fraud and plagiarism, covering the basic principles of copyright law and good academic practice.
This course is mandatory for all incoming doctoral members of BAGSS as well as for former regular BAGSS members who have not attended the course yet.
To register, please send an email at courses.bagss(at)uni-bamberg.de
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BAGSS & LIfBi & TRAc Joint Workshop
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Own your PhD: Time- and Self-Management
INSTRUCTOR: Dr Christiane Kasack, ck Coaching + Workshops
DATE & TIME: Monday, January 22, 2024, 09.30 a.m. to 05.30 p.m., & Tuesday, January 23, 2024, 01.00 p.m. to 04.30 p.m. (s.t.)
PLACE: BAGSS, Feldkirchenstraße 21, Room FG1/00.06
To register, please send an email to courses.bagss(at)uni-bamberg.de
Registration is mandatory! The number of participants is limited to 12!
Registration deadline: 29 November 2023
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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
- Women's Representative Office at the University of Bamberg
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