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Guest lecturer at the Department of Microsociology
In the summer semester 2025, the team of the Department of Microsociology will be joined by a guest: Dr. Maik Hamjediers will replace Anette Fasang as lecturer for Microsociology and Demography.
Dr. Hamjediers already made important contributions to teaching at the ISW from 2018 to 2024 as a research assistant in the Empirical Social Research department. Students will benefit from his diverse experience as a lecturer and his extensive knowledge of quantitative methods. More information about his research and his person can be found on Dr. Hamjedier's website, his CV and his entry on our homepage.
The team of the Department of Microsociology welcomes Dr. Maik Hamjediers and is looking forward to working with him.
A retrospective in video: The Youth Assembly "Pencum Ndawyi" in Dakar
Background | As part of the SCRIPTS Cluster of Excellence, Prof. Anette Fasang is heading the research project "High Hopes and Broken Promises: Young Adult Life Courses in Senegal". The research project examines the typical biographical experiences of young adults in work and family life in Senegal. To this end, three waves of qualitative autobiographical interviews were collected with young adults in Senegal to trace their biographical experiences and their support for political protest between 2021 and 2024.
The Assembly | The results of the qualitative interviews were discussed with the interview participants in a Youth Assembly in Dakar in October 2024, organized jointly between SCRIPTS and the regional office of the Heinrich Böll Foundation in Dakar. In this three-day event, the participants in our data collection discussed preliminary findings of the research together with local activists, politicians and researchers.
The following video offers insights into day 1 of “Pencum Ndawyi”, the Youth Assembly.
22. Januar 2025: Lecture Series with Prof. Dr. Anette Fasang
The interdisciplinary Lecture series „Beziehungsweise Familie“ („Relationships and Family“) addresses the contradictory reality of the nuclear family model that is widespread today, particularly in Western industrialized countries, and explores alternatives from a global perspective. Renowned academics from various disciplines and subject areas will discuss current research into the potential of alternative family and kinship concepts.
As part of this lecture series, Prof. Dr. Anette Fasang will present an intersection perspective on the life course in her lecture titled “Work and family life – focusing on demography and inequality” on 22nd January 2025." She will shed light on gender and ethnic combinations of work and family life from early adulthood to midlife, and employ a long-term perspective to show how permanent and accumulated disadvantages develop over a period of 20 years.
Prof. Dr. Anette Fasang presents the 2024 Kanter lecture as part of a lecture series
Prof. Dr. Anette Fasang is presenting the 2024 Kanter lecture at Purdue University as the 2023 Kanter Award Winner. We invite you to watch the lecture here.
The award winning paper ("Uncovering social stratification: intersectional inequalities in work and family life course by gender and race") examines the enduring and accumulated advantages and disadvantages in work and family lives, and can be visited here.
Prof. Dr. Anette Fasang is appointed to the Scientific Advisory Board for Family Affairs
The Federal Ministry for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth has been supported by the Scientific Advisory Board for Family Affairs since 1970. In this committee, 20 scientists from various disciplines currently exchange ideas and advise the Ministry independently and on a voluntary basis on family policy issues.
On 28.09.2023, Prof. Dr. Anette Fasang was also appointed to the Scientific Advisory Board at the suggestion of the Advisory Board of the Federal Minister for Family Affairs.
The Department of Microsociology congratulates Prof. Dr. Fasang on her appointment and thanks her for her invaluable commitment.
Receiving the 2023 Rosabeth Moss Kanter Award for Excellence in Work-Family Research
Honoring their article Uncovering social stratification: Intersectional inequalities in work and family life courses by gender and race, Anette Fasang and Silke Aisenbrey were presented with the Rosabeth Moss Kanter Award for Excellence in Work-Family Research. The Research and Teaching Area Microsociology is delighted and congratulates the two prize winners.
The winning selection was also announced by Purdue University as well as the Boston College Center for Work and Family, who award the price together in a yearly collaboration.
Check out news regarding the nomination on LinkedIn and Twitter.