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The event will provide a festive setting for this year’s Bachelor’s and Master’s graduates, who will receive their graduation certificates. In addition, two outstanding Master’s theses will be honoured with the Richard van Dülmen Prize. The annual ceremony will also mark a change of leadership within the Student Council for the Cultural Studies in Historical Perspective degree programmes. Furthermore, two alumni will talk about their careers and experiences since graduating.
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Marvin Hey, a graduate of the Master’s programme in Applied Cultural Studies and press officer at the Saarland Ministry of Finance and Science, will talk about his career path and give the new graduates an insight into day-to-day life in public relations. Helen Tepper, a graduate of the Master’s programme in History-Oriented Cultural Studies, leads the EU-funded LEADER project ‘Traces of Women in the Saarpfalz District’ for the Saarpfalz District Council, in which she researches the lives and work of significant women from the region and makes their biographies accessible to a wider public.
The highlight of the annual ceremony is the presentation of the Richard van Dülmen Prizes, which are being awarded for the seventeenth time this year. Named after the cultural historian and co-founder of the HoK degree programmes, the prizes recognise outstanding Master’s theses. Thanks to the support of the Saarland Chamber of Labour and the ME Saar Foundation, awards of 500 euros each can once again be presented this year. The Student Council of the HoK degree programmes honours one female and one male graduate of the Master’s programme in Applied Cultural Studies:
Anna Katharina Petri submitted an innovative and incisive Master’s thesis on the renaissance of tapestry from a comparative perspective, which impressed the jury with its methodological rigour and originality.
In his thesis, Patrick Schweitzer examines the hitherto little-researched relationship between the Catholic Church and Franco’s Spain – a topic which, according to the jury, urgently requires greater academic attention.
The award-winning Master’s theses demonstrate the depth of subject knowledge and versatility of the training provided by the Master’s programmes in History-Oriented Cultural Studies and Applied Cultural Studies. At the same time, they demonstrate the graduates’ ability to tackle complex cultural studies issues independently. Students are encouraged to develop their own individual profiles, pursue their own research ideas and test innovative methodological approaches.
As part of the annual celebrations, a significant change in leadership is also being marked: Professor Gabriele B. Clemens, holder of the Chair of Modern History and Regional History, is stepping down as the first spokesperson for the HoK degree programmes, which she has shaped and developed over the past nine years. Her successor, Professor Fabian Lemmes, holder of the Chair of Cultural and Media History at Saarland University, will take over as chair of the HoK degree programmes’ council of spokespersons.
Within the framework of the two-tier Bachelor’s/Master’s system, History-Oriented Cultural Studies comprises three interdisciplinary, practice-oriented and cross-faculty degree programmes: the Bachelor’s in History-Oriented Cultural Studies and the two Master’s programmes in Applied Cultural Studies and History-Oriented Cultural Studies.
Poster: https://www.uni-saarland.de/fakultaet-p/hok/aktuelles.html
Contact:
Dr Ines Heisig
Academic Research Associate
Historically-Oriented Cultural Studies
Tel.: 0681 302-3136
Email: hok@mx.uni-saarland.de
www.hok.uni-saarland.de/