New PhD-Forum on Theories, Methods, and Topics

How does gender influence international criminal law? What factors explain the harmonization of the EU internal market? Can participatory systems contribute to combating climate change? These are just a few of the questions scholars in the social sciences, economics, and law are asking. The new PhD forum, launching in the 2026/27 winter semester, focuses on tackling such interdisciplinary issues.

Under the auspices of „Schnittstellen schaffen Synergien – Theories, Methods, and Topics in the Social Sciences" PhD candidates will meet weekly in a peer-to-peer format for the discussion of cross-disciplinary issues and gain insights for their own research beyond faculty and institute boundaries. The PhD-Forum is driven by the nuances of our shared social science foundations.

The forum is exactly that: a forum. PhD candidates come together to discuss their research and their perspectives on it. Consequently, the themes of each session serve merely as starting points for exploring nuances. Contrary to what one might expect, the focus is not on the theme itself, but rather on our research and its relationship to that theme. The aim is to examine how our own discipline-specific work relates to the topic and to consider what we can learn from both the commonalities and the differences. Each session begins with an introductory impulse: either a presentation of a participant's research project, a summary of a previously agreed-upon reading, or a guest lecture.

Registration
Interested individuals can sign up for the PhD-Forum via StudIP or register by emailing patrick.marquardt@jura.uni-goettingen.de.

Target Audience
The PhD-Forum is open to all PhD candidates affiliated with the Graduate School. Postdocs are also welcome. The target group size is approximately 15 participants to ensure a diversity of perspectives. The doctoral forum can be conducted in English if participants so desire; it is therefore open to English-speaking doctoral candidates and research projects.

Time and Location
Thursdays at 6:00 p.m. (c.t.), starting October 29, in MZG 13.122 (seminar room of the Institute for International Law and European Law; access via the library on the 12th floor)