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| June 17/24 | 12:15 p.m. | SCH 121.519

Information events on the Master's degree programs in Sociology

Two information events on the IfS Master's degree programs will take place on 17 and 24 June. All students interested in studying sociology in Münster are invited to attend.

► Master of Arts Sociology »Diversity and Social Inequality«

  • The event is aimed at anyone interested in the new Master's degree course, which starts in the winter semester 2025/26. The content, study focus and application modalities will be presented.
  • Tuesday, June 17, 2025 | 12:15 p.m. | Room SCH 121.519
  • Participation is also possible online via Zoom. (If you are interested in participating via Zoom, please send a short e-mail to the Service Office).

► Master of Arts Sociology »Antinomies of Social Dynamics«
  • This course is aimed in particular at students of sociology and social sciences who are interested in the specialization »Antinomies of Social Dynamics«. The structure, focus and application requirements are also presented here.
  • Tuesday, June 24, 2025 | 12:15 p.m. | Room SCH 121.519
  • Participation is also possible online via Zoom. (For the access data for online participation, a short e-mail to the service office is sufficient).
If you have any questions, please contact the Service Office.

| on June 25, 2025
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Institute Colloquium | Dr. Nagehan Tokdogan

On Wednesday, June 25, 2025, the next Institute Colloquium of the Institute of Sociology will take place at 14:00 c.t. in the conference room of the Institute.

Our guest is Dr. Nagehan Tokdogan, who will give a lecture entitled »The Unlikely Alliance: Exploring Emotional Motivations behind Turkish-Origin Migrants' Support for the Alternative for Germany (AfD)«.

The colloquium is open to the public. All interested parties are cordially invited.

| June 18 | 6 p.m. | Auditorium
Poster for the summer debate 2025 “Feindbild Diversität?” on June 18 with Isik, Rademacher, Tezcan. Moderation: Späte. University of Münster. Institute for Sociology
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Summer Debate 2025: Diversity as the enemy?

On Wednesday, June 18, 2025, at 6 p.m. c.t., the Institute of Sociology invites you to this year's summer debate in the lecture hall (SCH 121.5). Under the title »Feindbild: Diverstität?« [»Diversity as the enemy?«], the question of what diversity actually means today - and why the term is increasingly coming under pressure - will be raised.

Diversity means treating each other with respect and appreciation, regardless of characteristics such as skin color, gender, sexual orientation or physical ability. While the new Master's degree course »Diversity and Social Inequality« starts at the IfS next winter semester, political movements are forming worldwide - in the USA, Hungary, Turkey and also in Germany - that are specifically questioning diversity as a social model or trying to push back progress that has already been made.

  • What does this development mean for the democratic promise of equality and freedom?
  • What are the consequences for the reduction of social inequalities?

Hevidar Isik, M.A., Laura Rademacher, M.A. and Prof. Dr. Levent Tezcan, moderated by Dr. Katrin Späte, will discuss these issues.

After the discussion, the IfS invites you to a get-together where you can continue the discussions in an informal setting.

All interested parties are very welcome to attend.

Diversity climate at the University of Münster | Results of the survey published

On the occasion of Diversity Day on May 27, the Rectorate published the results of the Diversity Climate Survey at the University of Münster. The survey was conducted under the leadership of Prof. Dr. Stefanie Ernst and analyzes student and employee assessments of how diversity is handled at the University of Münster.

The results are now available online in compact form:
www.uni-muenster.de/profil/diversity/befragung.html

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Lecture by Dr. Lisa A. Henke


The Chair of Theory Formation and Social Cohesion cordially invites you to a lecture by Dr. Lisa A. Henke (University of Mainz).

Under the title “Das geteilte Selbst. On the social constitution of inner experience”, the speaker will explore the question of how subjective inner worlds become socially shaped, narratable and memorable.

The event will take place on Thursday, May 22, 2025, at 4 p.m. c.t. in the conference room of the Institute of Sociology.

All interested parties are cordially invited.
 

| New Chair | Methods

Prof. Dr. Nicolas Legewie returns to the Institute

On June 1, 2025, Prof. Dr. Nicolas Legewie will take over the professorship for Methods of Empirical Social Research at the Institute of Sociology at the University of Münster. He has already stood in for the professorship in the winter semester 2023/24 and in the summer semester 2024 and can now be reached again at his previous e-mail address (nlegewie@uni-muenster.de).

We are delighted to welcome him back and look forward to working with him in the future!

| from WS 25/26
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New Master's program »Diversity and Social Inequality«

The new Master's degree course in »Diversity and Social Inequality« at the Institute of Sociology at the University of Münster will start in the winter semester 2025/26. With its clear focus on the application of diversity in organizations, the Master's course addresses the currently highly controversial topic of diversity from a scientific-empirical perspective. Graduates of the Master's programme will be able to supplement normative-political discourses on diversity with empirical findings as well as evaluate existing and planned measures to strengthen diversity in organizations.
Information on the approach of the Master's program, target groups, ideal course of study, module descriptions, opportunities for your own empirical work and stays abroad as part of the Master's program will be published here.

Result of the seminar allocation process

Due to the high number of registrations, an allocation procedure was carried out for some seminars. Please refer to the published list to see whether your registration was successful. You have been allocated a place in the seminars not listed and in all lectures if you have registered in the LSF portal.

In addition, there are still free seminar places which are allocated on a first-come, first-served basis. You can recognize these by the fact that the “registration/deregistration function” in the LSF is still active.

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workshop »Going the full distance in understanding meaning - II«

On March 20 and 21, the working group on »macroanalytical depth hermeneutics« invites you to the workshop »Going the full distance in understanding meaning - II« in Münster. Participants can look forward to an intensive professional exchange in the ballroom of Münster Castle.

Interested parties can register at short notice.
Please contact the organization team with any questions.

We look forward to exciting discussions!

| on 2/10/25

Information event on the certificate program »Religion and Politics«

The Cluster of Excellence “Religion and Politics” invites you to an information event about the interdisciplinary certificate program on Monday, February 10, 2025 at 4 p.m. c.t. The event will take place at Robert-Koch-Str. 40, 48149 Münster in room RK40.13.

The certificate, which is co-designed by the Institute of Sociology and others, enables students from all disciplines to acquire additional subject-specific skills in the field of “Religion and Politics” from the winter semester 2024/25.

If you would like to find out more about the content, process and benefits - the certificate coordinator will be happy to answer your questions.

| Registration until 03.02.25

Invitation to the final conference “Resentment as the affective basis of radicalization”

The IfS kindly invites you to the closing conference of the project »Resentment as an affective basis of radicalization«. The project was funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) as part of the funding line »Social Causes and Effects of Radical Islam in Germany and Europe«.

The conference will take place on February 13 and 14, 2025 in the format of a lunch-to-lunch event at the University of Münster and marks the conclusion of the project, which was conducted under the direction of Prof. Mouhanad Khorchide, Prof. Detlef Pollack, Prof. Levent Tezcan and Dr. Olaf Müller.

The focus of the event is the scientific examination of the role of resentment as the affective basis of radicalization processes. The varied program offers lectures, discussion rounds and exciting impulses from leading experts.

Participation is free of charge. If you are interested, please register informally by email by 03.02.2025. We look forward to your personal participation as well as forwarding the invitation to interested parties.

Further information and the complete program can be found in the attached document.

| Registration until 16.3.25

Dates for rewriting exams

Registration for the rewriting exam with your matriculation number by 16.3.2025 (cut-off deadline) via the service office (ifs.beratung@uni-muenster.de)

Date 1: Thu, 20.3.2025, 10 am c.t. (admission from 10:00 am), room SCH 121.554 (or lecture hall SCH 121.5):

  • Fundamentals and basic concepts of sociology, Karstein

Date 2: Tue, 25.3.2025, 10 a.m. c.t. (admission from 10:00 a.m.), room SCH 121.554 (or lecture hall SCH 121.5):
  • Social structure, culture and social practice, Tezcan
  • Statistics I, Rosta

Date 3: Thu, 27.3.2025, 10 a.m. c.t. (admission from 10:00 a.m.), room SCH 121.554 (or lecture hall SCH 121.5):
  • Methods of empirical social research I, Rosta
  • Family, school, youth - socialization in childhood and adolescence, Heimken

| Professorship for Work and Knowledge

Announcement | Lecture series ‘Encountering forms of discrimination at the university’

In the winter semester 2024/2025, the lecture series »Encountering forms of discrimination at the university« will take place at the University of Münster. The lecture series is organised by the Centre for Islamic Theology (ZIT) in cooperation with Departments 6, 8 and 9, with the IfS represented by Prof. Dr. Ernst.

The lectures will take place on Tuesdays from 18:00 to 20:00 in lecture hall H3 (Schlossplatz 46) and via livestream. Experts from all over Germany will address key topics such as racism, sexism and other forms of discrimination.

| Professorship for Sociology of Religion

IfS welcomes Dr. Uta Karstein as deputy professor

Dr. phil. habil. Uta Karstein will be deputizing for the Chair of Sociology of Religion in the winter semester 2024/2025. As a research assistant at Leipzig University, she heads the Department of Cultural Management and Sociology of the Cultural Field. She deals with art, religious and architectural sociological topics and in this context is interested in forms of organization, lines of conflict and actor constellations in the cultural field. Dr. Karstein qualified in 2023 with the thesis “Religion in the 19th century: Aesthetics - Publicity - Autonomy”.

As part of the substitution, Dr. Karstein will be responsible for the lecture »Grundlagen und Grundbegriffe der Soziologie«, the seminar »Religion als Kultur: Akteure, Objekte, Kontexte«, the seminar »Sozialformen des Religiösen« and a colloquium (date to be announced).

The IfS is looking forward to the cooperation and important impulses for research and teaching.

| Professorship for Methods and Social Structure Analysis

IfS welcomes Dr. Gergely Rosta as deputy professor

Dr. Gergely Rosta will be filling the professorship for Methods and Social Structure Analysis in the winter semester 2024/2025. Dr. Rosta brings his expertise in the fields of sociology of religion, the relationship between religion and political attitudes as well as quantitative research methods. His research also focuses on the sociology of youth. Among other things, Dr. Rosta worked in the Cluster of Excellence »Religion and Politics«.

Dr. Rosta will substitute for the lecture Research Methods I, the lecture Statistics I and the seminar Religious Change in Central and Eastern Europe.

The IfS is looking forward to the collaboration and valuable impulses in research and teaching.

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