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Ten sessions in three days

The Graduate School's interdisciplinary Open Workshop "Socio-environmental Dynamics over the last 12.000 Years: The Creation of Landscapes II" in March features numerous scientific highlights. "For example, session 1 assembles experts in tell research from Kiel with their colleagues coming from as far as Budapest or Chicago. It's one of the most important meetings on settlement mounds in 2011", states Oliver Nelle, Scientific Coordinator of the GS. In session 8, which deals with faunal remains and the reconstruction of landscape, the British take over. The scheduled speakers from London, Cambridge, Nottingham, Durham, and Cardiff nearly outnumber their German fellows. But this session is not the only truly international part of the event. 85 of the 172 speakers contributing to the ten sessions of the workshop come from abroad.

Along with the established scientists, many doctoral students of the Graduate School are going to use the Workshop to present and discuss the results of their work. Numerous first generation PhD candidates of the GS are about to finish their dissertations this spring. Some of them even took the chance to co-organize one of the ten sessions, while others present their projects on one of the 20 posters.

Gerhard Fouquet, President of the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, will welcome the participants of the Workshop on March 14th at 1:30 p.m. Hans-Dieter Bienert of the German Research Council (DFG) is then going to talk about the Excellence Initiative with a specific look at graduate schools before GS Junior Professors and international guests throw light on some of the main research fields which the sessions will deal with. Day one ends with an icebreaker at the Leibniz Laboratory. After three days of scientific exchange in talks, discussions and posters, two concluding field trips will be offered. One trip takes the participants to Lübeck, the other to the district of Ostholstein.

Information online: www.uni-kiel.de/landscapes/allgemein/workshop.shtml

On Monday evening participants of the International Workshop will come together for an "icebreaker" at the Leibniz Laboratory.

Text by Jirka Niklas Menke, Photo by F. Bauer