International Graduate Academy and Hermann Paul School of Language Sciences to Fund Four Networking Projects for Doctoral Candidates

In order to promote national and especially international networking among doctoral candidates of the University of Freiburg, the HPSL and the IGA are teaming up to promote four promising projects proposed by doctoral candidates in Freiburg.

The first project is the international physics workshop “Quantum Coherence in Photosensitive Processes,” organized by Jochen Zimmermann (Freiburg), Cathal Smyth (Toronto), and Aaron Tynes Hammack (Berkeley). The organizers hope to establish a long-term partnership between junior researchers in Freiburg, Toronto, and Berkeley.

The proposal submitted by the sociologists Alexander Lenger and Florian Schumacher aims to establish a network of young Bourdieu researchers from various research areas. The project includes a series of networking meetings with doctoral candidates from across Germany as well as a joint publication.

German linguists Jana Brenning and Ina Hörmeyer will hold an international workshop with the “Network of Young Conversation Researchers.” The workshop will give doctoral and postdoctoral researchers from Freiburg as well as doctoral candidates from other universities the opportunity to discuss their research projects in data sessions, clarify methodological questions, and establish personal networks.

The fourth project is the graduate philosophy conference “Being Free, Acting Free,“ planned for spring 2012. The international organizational team consists of Tobias Keiling, Diego D‘Angelo, Sara Fumagalli, Sylvaine Gourdain, Choong-Su Han, Jakob Keller, and Nikola Mirkovic. The organizers hope to establish a tradition of graduate conferences at the University of Freiburg.