Liah Förster receives this year’s prize for outstanding bachelor theses for her bachelor thesis A sociological theorization and representation of sexual orientation coding as a communicative display and habitualized practice. The prize is awarded annually by the Institute of Sociology at JGU for outstanding achievements. Congratulations from the entire Body Sociology team!
Please contact Prof. Boll by August 15 at the latest if you would like to write a thesis (BA/MA) at Body Sociology Working Group in the winter semester 2025: boll@uni-mainz.de.
On On September 18 and 19, I am organizing a workshop on autoethnographic positioning analysis together with Prof. Dr. Heike Greschke and Mei-Chen Spiegelberg (both from Bielefeld University). Whether you are just beginning to engage in autoethnographic research or want to deepen your understanding of autoethnographic positional analysis (APA), this workshop will provide a space … Continued
If you would like to write a thesis at Body Sociology Working Group in the summer semester 2025, please contact us with a topic proposal by February 15, 2025 at the latest. We check whether a thesis can be realized at our working group. This depends on the thematic and methodological fit with our working … Continued
In the current issue of the Zeitschrift für Erziehungswissenschaft, Johanna Knebel (Leeds) reports on our workshop “Sex Education: Subjectivities, Materialities, Differences”, which took place at JGU in September 2024(info here). The conference report provides an insight into the discussions, presentations and findings that took place during the event. Link to the current issue of ZSE: … Continued
The junior professorship will be represented at the DGS Congress 2025 at the University of Duisburg-Essen with several substitutions. We look forward to receiving submissions to the calls for papers:
The supervision capacities for Bachelor’s and Master’s theses with completion in the summer semester 2025 at our working group are exhausted, unfortunately we cannot accept any more qualification theses. However, you can already pre-register for the supervision of your qualification thesis in winter 2025. Please send an e-mail to Prof. Boll: boll@uni-mainz.de.
22.11.24, 12:00-13:00 The Section for Methods of Qualitative Social Research together with the Section for European Sociology invites you to the online brown bag seminar “Meet the editors”:
From September 19-21, the working group is organizing the international and interdisciplinary workshop“SEX EDUCATION: Subjectivities, Materialities, Differences” at JGU. The aim of the workshop is to provide a platform for interdisciplinary discourse and critical reflection on the various dimensions of the relationship between sexuality and knowledge(transmission). Often the subject of ongoing heated and often morally … Continued
In this talk Jack Halberstam will offer a compact history of mid twentieth century art by turning to a standoff between a straight man, Gordon Marta-Clark, who introduced ideas of unbuilding into the crowded city scape, and a gay man, Philip Johnson, responsible for some of its most grand skyscrapers. As Matta-Clark studied buildings to … Continued
