Sociology Colloquium WiSe 2025/26
News from Oct 08, 2025
The Research Colloquium serves as a platform for doctoral candidates, visiting scholars, and lecturers to present their research.
This semester, it takes place on Mondays from 4 to 6 p.m. (Garystr. 55, Seminar Room 121).
The events are open to everyone; no registration is required. For inquiries, please contact Prof. Dr. Katharina Bluhm.
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13.10.2025 – Introduction – what is a synopsis? 
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20.10.2025 – Synopsis defenses from the winter semester 
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27.10.2025 – Catalin Buzoianu, PhD project “The ambivalent intervention of migration counseling: Mediation, representation, and legal mobilization in the case of Romanian labor migrants” 
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03.11.2025 – Basic structure of a master's thesis 
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10.11.2025 – Alexander J. Klein, PhD project (Scripts) “Under Huntington’s Shadow – Civilizationism in the War in Ukraine” 
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17.11.2025 – Hypothesis formation in quantitative and qualitative research designs 
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24.11.2025 – Aleksandr Lange, PhD project, “Dating Apps: Between Digital Capitalism and Berlin Queer Utopianism” 
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01.12.2025 – Qualitative Interviews I & Sampling 
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08.12.2025 – Dr. Tetiana Kostiuchenko “Researching Social Capital in Disrupted Society: Framework and Methodological Challenges” 
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15.12.2025 – Qualitative Interviews II, Coding and Content Analysis 
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05.01.2026 – Typologies 
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12.01.2026 – Nataliia Lomonosov, PhD project “Caring for the State: Municipal Social Workers, Resilience, and Responsibility in the Post-Socialist Welfare State” 
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19.01.2026 – Case studies 
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26.01.2026 – Alexei Voronkov, PhD project, Exploratory Analysis of Russian Local Social Media 
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02.02.2026 – Individual consultations by appointment 
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09.02.2026 – Presentation of idea sketches and synopses 
