The registration for the late registration exam with indication of the matriculation number takes place until 15.9.2025 (Exclusion date) via the service office (ifs.beratung@uni-muenster.de)

Date 1: Tue, 23.9.2025, 10 am c.t. (admission from 10:00 am), room SCH 121.554 (or lecture hall SCH 121.5):

• Inside out - Outside in: Introduction to sociological theory, Prof. Dr. Renn
• Family, school, youth - socialization in childhood and adolescence, Dr. Heimken

• Statistics II, Dr. Heyse
• Societal structure, culture and social practice, Prof. Dr. Michalowski
• Societal structure, culture and social practice, Prof. Dr. Tezcan

From the winter semester 2026/27, there will be a new Erasmus partnership between the IfS and the Uniwersytet Gdański in Poland.

The Institute of Sociology in Gdańsk is one of the most renowned sociological institutions in Poland and offers a wide range of courses in Polish and English (especially in the field of social sciences).

The application deadline is January 31, 2026.

If you have any questions, please contact the Erasmus Advisory Service at IfS Münster.

• Institute of Sociology Gdańsk
• Erasmus Incoming (in Poland)
• current English-language courses

An online information event on the new Master's degree program at the IfS will take place on 8 July. All students interested in continuing their studies in 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, July 8, 2025 | 12:15 p.m. | via Zoom
• Zoom access data can be obtained from the Service Office.

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).

• 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).

• poster for the event

• Poster for the event

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

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!

• Press release from 07 April 2025

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.

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.

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.

• flyer for the closing conference

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

• Social structure, culture and social practice, Tezcan
• Statistics I, Rosta

• Methods of empirical social research I, Rosta
• Family, school, youth - socialization in childhood and adolescence, Heimken

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.

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.

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.

The results of the elections for the Senate and the Faculty Councils are available. They are valid for the term of office from October 1, 2024 to September 30, 2026 (or until September 30, 2024 for students).

• Official website of the University of Münster for the elections in the summer semester 2024
• Results of the elections to the boards of the FB06 institutes

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