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.

• 13.10.2025 – Introduction – what is a synopsis?

• 20.10.2025 – Synopsis defenses from the winter semester

• 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”

• 03.11.2025 – Basic structure of a master's thesis

• 10.11.2025 – Alexander J. Klein, PhD project (Scripts) “Under Huntington’s Shadow – Civilizationism in the War in Ukraine”

• 17.11.2025 – Hypothesis formation in quantitative and qualitative research designs

• 24.11.2025 – Aleksandr Lange, PhD project, “Dating Apps: Between Digital Capitalism and Berlin Queer Utopianism”

• 01.12.2025 – Qualitative Interviews I & Sampling

• 08.12.2025 – Dr. Tetiana Kostiuchenko “Researching Social Capital in Disrupted Society: Framework and Methodological Challenges”

• 15.12.2025 – Qualitative Interviews II, Coding and Content Analysis

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• 05.01.2026 – Typologies

• 12.01.2026 – Nataliia Lomonosov, PhD project “Caring for the State: Municipal Social Workers, Resilience, and Responsibility in the Post-Socialist Welfare State”

• 19.01.2026 – Case studies

• 26.01.2026 – Alexei Voronkov, PhD project, Exploratory Analysis of Russian Local Social Media

• 02.02.2026 – Individual consultations by appointment

• 09.02.2026 – Presentation of idea sketches and synopses