The Research Training Group guides and supports early-career researchers throughout their doctoral studies by providing a structured programme of professional development, opportunities for academic exchange and individual support. At the same time, it creates a forum for doctoral candidates to network and provides a space to discuss shared concerns and perspectives within the CRC.
The Research Training Group supports early-career researchers throughout their doctoral studies by offering a comprehensive training programme, interdisciplinary exchange and targeted individual development initiatives. At the same time, it serves as a platform for exchange and networking amongst doctoral candidates and provides a framework for reflecting on and further developing shared research questions, concerns and perspectives within the CRC.
Up to four short-term grants may be awarded each year, covering a funding period of 3–6 months. Applications may be submitted between September and November each year.
Speaker & Principal Investigator B03
Early Modern History
Principle Investigator C01
Early Modern German Literature
Coordinator Research Training Group
PhD candidate & Spokesperson of the Researchers on the Executive Board
Fellow
| Workshops | Date |
|---|---|
| Introductory Seminar | October 2023–February 2024 |
| Voice Training | November 2023 |
| Archives Workshop | November 2023 |
| MaxQDA Training | December 2023 |
| Winter Retreat (Herrsching) | January 2024 |
| Writing Workshop - Part 1 | April 2024 |
| Academic English | May 2024 |
| Paleography | May 2024 |
| Qualitative Doctoral Student Workshop | May 2024 |
| Body Language & Stage Presence | November 2024 |
| Academic Publishing | November 2024 |
| Writing Workshop - Part 2 | March 2025 |
| ChatGPT & AI in Academia | July 2025 |
| Fireside Chat | December 2025 |
| Strategic Career Planning | April 2026 |
| Retreat (Fraueninsel Chiemsee) | April 2026 |
| Writing Mornings (open offer) | Starting in May 2026 |
| Thesis Defense Training | February 2027 |
| Career Workshop 2 // Job Application Training | March 2027 |
| ChatGPT & AI in Academia | April 2027 |
The Masterclass format offers doctoral candidates the opportunity to invite internationally renowned visiting scholars. The invited guests contribute their scholarly expertise to discussions of the dissertation projects being developed within the SFB and provide doctoral candidates with valuable insights for their future work.
11/2024
Evening Lecture: "What we talk about, when we talk about emotions"
Thursday, 27.06.2024, 6 a.m.
LMU Main Building, Geschwister-Scholl-Platz 1, Room A 014
Pia Campeggiani is a professor of moral philosophy and the philosophy of emotions at the University of Bologna. She has authored numerous papers on ‘emotions’ – the subject relevant to this lecture – including works on ancient philosophy, and is also a member of the editorial board of the Bloomsbury series on the History of Emotions, the Syllabus series and the journal Emotion Review.
In her lecture, Pia Campeggiani will address the challenge of defining emotions. She will discuss disagreements over definitions and explore the theoretical assumptions underlying them, whilst offering an alternative approach based on prototype theory and conceptual metaphor theory.
12/2025
Evening Lecture: "Decoloniality and critical social sciences"
Thursday, 11th December 2025, 6 a.m.
LMU, Main Building, Geschwister-Scholl-Platz 1, Room M 109
While the discourse on decolonizing academia and individual disciplines is widespread, it remains far less clear what this actually entails. A critical perspective on agenda-setting in the social sciences and humanities begins with essential conceptual distinctions, such as the relationship between decolonization and decoloniality, as well as between decoloniality and postcolonialism. South Asia has often served as a central example of postcolonialism, and South
America as a key reference point of decoloniality. The lecture will address which other regions these critical approaches tend to direct our attention and which regions risk being overlooked as a result. Another discussion point will explore global perspectives on the modern institution of citizenship and its role in the (re)production of inequalities. Methodological questions will likewise be considered, particularly how decolonial methods can be put into practice within these contexts.
Manuela Boatcă is Professor of Sociology and Head of School of the Global Studies Programme at the University of Freiburg, Germany. She has published widely on world-systems analysis, decolonial perspectives on global inequalities, gender and citizenship in modernity/coloniality, and the geopolitics of knowledge in Eastern Europe, Latin America, and the Caribbean. She is the author of From Neoevolutionism to World-Systems Analysis (Leske+Budrich, 2003), Global
Inequalities Beyond Occidentalism (Routledge 2016), Laboratoare ale modernității. Europa de Est și America Latină în (co)relație (IDEA, 2020) and co-author, with Anca Parvulescu, of Creolizing the Modern. Transylvania Across Empires (Cornell UP 2022).
07/2026
Evening Lecture: "Staying focused on the word - book design principles for medieval prayer"
Wednesday, 8th July 2026, 6 a.m.
LMU, Main Building, Geschwister-Scholl-Platz 1, Room M 109.
Overall, CJ Jones is helping to reshape our understanding of medieval monastic life. Research makes it clear that women were not merely passive recipients of ecclesiastical directives, but actively helped to shape the religious culture of the Middle Ages. Liturgy emerges as a dynamic sphere in which issues of gender, community, spirituality and institutional authority were closely intertwined.
