📢 #CfP 'Digital Transformation and Wealth Dynamics in Africa' Early-career researchers and students are invited to contribute to this interdisciplinary workshop (hybrid) fostering dialogue across #Economics, #DevelopmentStudies, #Sociology, #PublicPolicy & #DigitalStudies. 👉 t1p.de/1h6p7

📨 What has been going on at the College? Our newsletter provides you with a digest of recent developments and new publications, lists upcoming events and introduces new College members – including our current Senior Fellows. 👉 Read: t1p.de/x6l0c 📝 Subscribe: www.college-uaruhr.de/newsletter

#FellowFriday: Abdulrazaq Daudu @dauduak.bsky.social (Univ. of Ilorin, Nigeria) specialises in gender and development, digital #agriculture and #RuralTransformation. 👉 Learn more about his research & collaboration with Jakob Kapeller, @ifso.bsky.social (LinkedIn): lnkd.in/p/eSvS2Sye

We warmly welcome @lisaseuberth.bsky.social to the College! Lisa joined the research professorship ‘Public Social Sciences and Humanities’ as a postdoctoral researcher. Her project examines the editing of early American women’s writing through an intersectional lens considering race, gender & class.

💡 FEATURE | Policy Brief Governing for Healthy Ageing: Intergenerational Social Protection in Sub-Saharan Africa Daniel Chigudu & Martina Brandt examine how #governance & #SocialProtection in sub-Saharan Africa can be redesigned and propose an integrated agenda for #HealthyAgeing. 👉 t1p.de/1uj00

Congratulations to Ruhr Innovation Lab on being selected for funding as a University Consortium of Excellence! We are delighted that the joint initiative of @ruhr-uni-bochum.de & @tu-dortmund.de was successful in this highly competitive selection process. #UARuhr

Ruhr-Universität Bochum@ruhr-uni-bochum.de · 2w ago

Wir haben es geschafft! RUB und @tu-dortmund.de werden künftig als Exzellenzverbund „Ruhr Innovation Lab" gefördert. „Unser Erfolg in der Exzellenzstrategie wird dem gesamten Ruhrgebiet einen Schub geben“, sind sich die Rektoren beider Universitäten einig. Zur News: news.rub.de/hochschulpol...

📅 WORKSHOP: Sweat as Method. Explorations of the 'Lower Senses' | 26–27 Nov., hybrid What can sweat reveal about bodies, atmospheres & relations that remains inaccessible to distanced observation? This workshop opens up broader reflections on sensory research. 👉 t1p.de/u3l12 #Sociology #SocSci

📅 TALK: Alles in Ordnung im Archiv? Gespräche über Zugang und Widerständigkeit | 29. Okt. Die Veranstaltung befasst sich aus künstlerischer, gesellschaftspolitischer und wissenschaftlicher Perspektive mit Widerständigkeiten im #Archiv, mit einem Fokus auf Zugang und Zugänglichkeit. 👉 t1p.de/jika5

🔎 New Project: From Web, Library, War to Fire, Garden, Feed Artists and theorists examine how #metaphors shape our perceptions and narratives of the internet and digital infrastructures. The project is part of the Medienkunstfellows programme of Medienwerk NRW. 👉 www.medienwerk.nrw/projects/met...

📆 Global Sustainability Governance: Towards Transnational Planning in the Age of Ecological Crisis | 2–3 Nov. t1p.de/owatl This workshop explores the potential of different forms of #TransnationalPlanning for leveraging transformative change and fosters interdisciplinary dialogue. #SocSci #EnvHum

💡 NEW FEATURE Feel the Heat. Thermal Inequalities and Health Sreeparna Chattopadhyay & Elena Beregow reflect on the impact of extreme #heat on our social lives. The blog post highlights how heat vulnerability is connected with inequalities. 👉 www.college-uaruhr.de/features #SocSci

We warmly welcome ten new Senior Fellows at the College! The distinguished researchers from universities in Australia, Austria, Bangladesh, Ghana, India, Japan, Nigeria, the UK, and the USA have arrived in Essen to start their tandem projects with scholars from the #UARuhr. t1p.de/xawrl

🔎 New Project: Our researchers Florian Fastenrath & Anna Doumanas have started a project that examines social acceptance of wealth social policies, as part of the new collaborative research centre DIFIS-SOFO of @difis.bsky.social. 👉 www.college-uaruhr.de/research/pro... #Sozialpolitik #SocialPolicy

Informationsdienst Wissenschaft - idw@idw-online.de · 2mo ago

How Key Technologies Are Reshaping Social Policy The Collaborative Research Centre of the German Institute for Interdisciplinary Social Policy Research (DIFIS-SOFO) will officially launch on 7 September 2026 with an opening event in Berlin featu... weiterlesen

On 1-2 October this workshop on #ShippingCanals will take place at the College. The Workshop aims to bring together researchers exploring artificial inland waterways throughout history. Register by 24 September. 👇

College for Social Sciences and Humanities | UA Ruhr@college-uaruhr.bsky.social · 2mo ago

📅 WORKSHOP: Canal Dreams. Towards a Critical History of Inland Waterways | 1–2 Oct. This workshop brings together researchers who have worked on the imagination, construction and operation of artificial inland #waterways throughout #history. 👉 Programme: t1p.de/0mh1q #MaritimeHistory #histtech

Researchers at any career stage have the opportunity to present their work in progress on #LGBTQI rights in #InternationalPolitics at this digital workshop, organised by @stephenbrown.bsky.social & Dennis Dijkzeul. Submit your abstract until 20 Sept.! #Polisky #SocSci

College for Social Sciences and Humanities | UA Ruhr@college-uaruhr.bsky.social · 3mo ago

📢 #CfP: LGBTQI+ Rights in International Politics and the Global South This online workshop offers scholars at any career stage the opportunity to present research on diff. aspects of #LGBTQIRights in #InternationalPolitics and/or in the Global South. 👉 t1p.de/tnxkh 📝 20 Sept. 26 #Polisky #SocSci

Summer Break: we are taking a short break and will be back with renewed energy on 7 September.

#FellowFriday: Meet Wivian Weller, Prof. at the U of Brasília (Brazil), whose research focuses on #sociology of education, educational inequalities & comparative #YouthResearch. She shares the outcomes of her #fellowship & what has influenced her academic career (LinkedIn): lnkd.in/p/e_yXcT-r

Tabea Waltenberg, doctoral researcher at the College, has just returned from New York City where she conducted fieldwork at the UN High-Level Political Forum (HLPF) on #SustainableDevelopment. In this short interview she puts her first impressions into context (LinkedIn): lnkd.in/p/eFhJrCby

📻 RADIO-INTERVIEW Im Interview mit dem DLF erklärt Soziologin Elena Beregow, wie #Schwitzen gesellschaftlich gedeutet wird: „Der schwitzende Körper stört eine bestimmte Vorstellung, und zwar die vom vollständig autonomen und kontrollierten Individuum“. 🎧 Hier nachhören: t1p.de/0dk9o #Soziologie

The College looks forward to hosting communication researcher Dr @felixsimon.bsky.social from Oxford University (UK) as Invited Fellow in September. His research focuses on the societal impacts of AI, especially on the information ecosystem, the media, and democracy. Learn more: t1p.de/uj01i

📄 NEW PUBLICATION: 'Data Flow' by Tahani Nadim | t1p.de/97gj0 In her essay, Tahani Nadim reflects on a genome’s transposable elements, or ‘jumping genes’, having witnessed the monocultural landscapes of maize that form the Corn Belt in the Midwestern United States along the Mississippi River.

📣 Work with us! Apply now for our KWI International/Thyssen@KWI Fellowship. Various project formats are possible: spend your time in Essen finishing a book or a special issue, finalising a research proposal, or setting up a research group. ⏰ Apply by Aug 17 🔗 tinyurl.com/ypn2hvpj shorturl.at/ubpFV

📅 WORKSHOP: Canal Dreams. Towards a Critical History of Inland Waterways | 1–2 Oct. This workshop brings together researchers who have worked on the imagination, construction and operation of artificial inland #waterways throughout #history. 👉 Programme: t1p.de/0mh1q #MaritimeHistory #histtech

✍🏻 Du sehnst dich nach Austausch mit anderen Promovierenden? Dann bietet das #KWISchreibwochenende im Okt. einen guten Rahmen, denn es dient dazu, Herausforderungen des eigenen Schreibens auf einer greifbaren Ebene in fachspezifischer Runde zu behandeln. Jetzt anmelden! ⏰ 15.08. ℹ️ shorturl.at/SUbNd

📢 #CfP: LGBTQI+ Rights in International Politics and the Global South This online workshop offers scholars at any career stage the opportunity to present research on diff. aspects of #LGBTQIRights in #InternationalPolitics and/or in the Global South. 👉 t1p.de/tnxkh 📝 20 Sept. 26 #Polisky #SocSci

💡 NEW FEATURE In a blog post, @mattkranke.bsky.social & Tabea Waltenberg reflect on insights from a workshop on how #GrowthDependencies may be rethought and reduced – to make societies more resilient & economies more sustainable. 👉 www.college-uaruhr.de/features/gro... #PostGrowth #Sustainability

We warmly welcome Tanja Literski as a new member of the College! She provides administrative support to the team of the research professorship 'Public Social Sciences and Humanities: Key Societal Debates'. We look forward to a fruitful collaboration!

On the 'MultiDiv' project, two of our researchers are collaborating with international partners to develop new forms of relational governance to address #biodiversity decline. @anjaklein.bsky.social shares her impressions of the first meeting and explains the concept of multispecies assemblages. 👇

Anja Klein@anjaklein.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Here is a short impression from our first MultiDiv project workshop in Zarzis, Tunisia, last month: www.linkedin.com/posts/anja-k... #anthropology #biodiversity #Mediterranean #sts #assemblage #multispecies @college-uaruhr.bsky.social

#FellowFriday: Today, the spotlight is on our current fellow Anna Ohanjanyan, a senior researcher at the Mashtots Institute of Ancient Manuscripts ‘Matenadaran’ (Armenia) who specialises in #HistoricalTheology & #ReligiousStudies. 👉 Learn more about her research & motivation (LinkedIn): t1p.de/7yg9w

#CfP 📣 The workshop “Confessions of Bad Taste” aims to explore the historically & culturally shifting relationships between consumption, status, value judgments, and affect that are articulated through performances of guilty pleasures. Submit your ideas! 🗓️ 2-4 June 2027 📍 KWI Essen 👉 urlr.me/AZqwbf