Study Programme

The study and qualification model consists of a combination of transdisciplinary, practice-oriented training and research-related courses, promoting practical acquisition of knowledge and experience. The study programme is the result of many years of experience at Hildesheim in the supervision of post-doctoral and PhD students, and is designed so that both interdisciplinary and subject-specific courses are offered. The form and closeness of supervision varies over the course of the PhD: to begin with, the focus is on the inter- and transdisciplinary positioning of the student’s own PhD project and engagement with the academic methods and issues specific to the training group, while nearer the completion of the PhD intensive collaboration with a supervisor becomes increasingly important.

In addition to the interdisciplinary meetings of all participants, the colloquia and the annual conference organised by the PhD students, both of which provide a forum for the interdisciplinary exchange of ideas, the study programme comprises three further levels. First, research participation in the semester-long collaborative project unique to Hildesheim (“Projektsemester”), which takes place every two years and in which aesthetic-practice projects are developed and enacted, underlines the relevance of the reciprocal relationship between academic reflection and aesthetic practice for the students’ own research projects. Second, close supervision in decentralised subject groups helps students focus on their own individual research perspective. Finally, e-learning facilities enable students to carry out work and research outside of Hildesheim as well. The programme is rounded off by the teaching of key skills for the students’ academic careers by supervising professors and lecturers, and accompanying reflection on and discussion of academic practice.

Events within the Framework of the Study and Qualification Program

Events of the Current Semester

 

Winter semester 2023/24

 

Reading workshop: Benjamin's visual practices

15 - 17.02.2024, Kulturcampus

 

Methods Workshop: On making visible - visualization as an aesthetic practice

27.01.2024

with Laura Ohmes (Oldenburg) and Paul Heinicke (Potsdam)

 

Workshop to ensure good scientific practice

08.12.2023, online

External trainer: Dr. Kathrin Ruhl

 

Methods Workshop: Describing aesthetic practices

09 - 11.11.2023, Kulturcampus

 

Methods Workshop: Practices of listening and meditation

08.11.2023, Kulturcampus

with Diane Barbé

 

Guest Lecture: The "i" in Gender Studies. On the Importance of Experience and Experiencing for the Critique of the Gender Order

08.11.2023, Kulturcampus

by/with Prof.*in Dr.*in Tomke König (Bielefeld)

 

Methods Workshop: "Speaking about - Speaking from"

09.11.23, Kulturcampus

with Prof.*in Dr.*in Tomke König (Bielefeld)

 

Fourth Intensive Meeting with the Second Doctoral Cohort of the Research Training Group "Aesthetic Practice" (Retreat)

04.-06.10.2023, House Sonnenberg, St. Andreasberg

Past Events

2023

Competence Workshop Publishing in Science

09.06.2023

External trainer: Dr. Barbara Handke


Competence Workshop (optional): Writing workshop on focusing the research question and outline

07./08.06.2023

External trainer: Dr. Sven Arnold

 

Methods Workshop Translating as Aesthetic Practice

03./04.06.2023

at the Künstlerhaus Edenkoben

 

Third Intensive Meeting with the Second Doctoral Cohort of the Research Training Group "Aesthetic Practice

11./12.05.2023

 

Methods Workshop on Critical Fabulation in the Context of Postcolonial Black Theory (Saidiya Hartman)

20.01.2023

with Dr. Ines Kleesattel (Zurich University of the Arts)

 

2022

Talk on internal university research networking

26.10.2022
Prof. Dr. Stefanie Diekmann (Media Studies), Prof. Dr. Britta Hoffarth (Center for Gender Studies)

 

Second Intensive Meeting of the Research Training Group

17.-19.11.2022
First Intensive Meeting with the Second PhD Cohort of the Research Training Group "Aesthetic Practice" (Retreat)

 

Competence Workshop (optional): Equal opportunities in science

24.11.2022
External trainer: Dr. Anna Welpinghus

 

Research Seminar

Fridays 14:00-18:00, House 3
Dates: 22.04/ 06.05/ 20.05/ 03.06/ 17.06/ 24.06/ 01.07/ 15.07

 

Competence Workshop (optional): Designing the doctorate as a project

18./19.05.2022
External trainer: Dr. Sarah Weber

 

Competence Workshop (optional): Communication, Cooperation and Conflict in Doctoral Studies

14.06.2022
External trainer: Dr. Andreas Egeling

 

Talks on professional activity/career between science and art

28.01.2022 (online)
Guests: PD. Dr. Sybille Peters (Fundus Theater Hamburg), Prof. Dr. Maike Gunsilius (Hildesheim) and JProf. Dr. Fiona McGovern

 

Intensive work meeting of the Kollegiat:innen / writing retreat

10.-14.01.2022
Academy Waldschlösschen

2021

Intensive working meeting of the junior scientists

12.-16.12.2021
Newhaus Dierhagen

 

 
Lecture/Discussion and Theory/Practice-Workshop "Body as Instrument"

02./03.12.2021
with Anna Huber (dancer and choreographer), Valeska Gert Visiting Professor Academy of Arts Berlin

 

 
Competence Workshop (Equal Opportunity) "Feminist Critique of Science via the Way of the Body"

29./30.11.2021
Cooperation with the AK Feministische Kritik of the Center for Gender Studies and the Equal Opportunity Office of the University of Hildesheim
External trainer: Sunny Graff
further information

 

 
Methods Workshop "Theory and Practice of No-Theater in Zeami's Text ,Kakyō' (The Flower Mirror)"

26.11.2021 9:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.
with Prof. em. Dr. Ryōsuke Ōhashi

 

 
Conversation on intra-university research networking

25.11.2021 14:00 - 16:00 (online)
with Prof. Dr. Britta Hoffarth and Dr. Susanne Richter (Center for Gender Studies)

 

 
Competence workshop "Voice and presence training" (for female scientists)

03.08.2021 (online) with Heike Hofmann (Body&Speech)

 

 
Workshop Postcolonial Aesthetics: Theory Building, Photography and Museum

09.07. / 10.07 (online) with Christopher Nixon
further informationen

 

Competence Workshop "Basics of Moderating"

06.07. / 07.07.2021 (online) with Heike Ahlsdorff 

 

Methods Workshop "Describing Aesthetic Practice"

23.04.2021 (online) Deepening of the workshop from 20.11.2020, focus: working on own text examples in small groups, use of feedback methods (DasArts)

 

Fourth Interdisciplinary Meeting of all Participants of the Research Training Group "Aesthetic Practice"

22 - 24.03.2021 (online) Focus: working in small groups on text drafts for the dissertation

 

Competence Workshop "Publishing in Science"

15 + 17 + 19.02.2021 (online) with Barbara Handke

 

Theory/Practice Workshop on Teaching Peformance Art

22. - 23.01.2021 (online) with Johannes Deimling

 

2020

Methods Workshop "Describing Aesthetic Practice"

20.11.2020 (online) internal

 

Third Interdisciplinary Meeting of all Participants of the Research Training Group "Aesthetic Practice"

05 - 07.10.2020, Bildungshaus Zeppelin & Steinberg e.V., Goslar
Topic: Interim review (first cohort of PhD students), research under the conditions of the covid pandemic

 

Competence Workshop to Maintain Good Scientific Practice

10.07.2020 (online asynchronous/synchronous) with Dr. Kathrin Ruhl (QualitätsZirkel Promotion)

 

Competence Workshop: Writing for PhD Students

31.03.20 (online) with Dr. Beate Richter ( Scientific Writing Workshop Berlin), focus: elaboration of a scientific question (objective) and development of a stringent text concept; application of creative writing methods

 

Practical Research Seminar in Cooperation with Kunstverein Via 113

09.01. + 23.01. + 06.02.2020 with Oliver Dressel

 

Theory Research Seminar

10.01. + 24.01. + 07.02.2020 internal

2019

Competence Workshop Equal Opportunities

08.11.2019 Cooperation with the initiative Solidarity at the Theater

 

Methods Workshop "Phenomenological Analysis of Borderline Situations"

07.11.2019 with Prof. Dr. Claudia Peter (Goethe University Frankfurt/M.)

 

Second Interdisciplinary Meeting of all Participants of the Research Training Group "Aesthetic Practice".

25.10.2019, Emphasis on the focus of the research projects

 

Competence Workshop "Self-Organization for Doctoral Students"

16.06.2019 with Dr. Katharina Ludewig (Ludewig.Team)

 

First Interdisciplinary Meeting of all Participants of the Research Training Group "Aesthetic Practice".

13./14.05.2019 Focus: Presentation of the research projects/qualification projects. 

 

Research Colloquium

Fridays 2:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.