The current program in the summer semester 2026
21.04.2026
28.04.2026
Article "May it be a bit more (radically) democratic?" - Outlining the relationship between Chantal Mouffe's "On the Political" and aspects of political education
Max Barnewitz (University of Siegen)
05.05.2026
BA or MA thesis
Zeynep Aydin
19.05.2026
Master's thesis "Deconstruction, normalization or empowerment? - A trilemmatic analysis of inclusive civic education in the special needs school context"
VildanBölükbas
09.06.2026
PhD: "On the selection of subjects by teachers of civic education" (working title)
Julia Steuber (University of Siegen)
16.06.2026
PhD: "Political subjectivation of female soccer players"
Lea Sorg (University of Cologne)
23.06.2026
Doctorate "Economics of political education". On the desire for the functionality of political education.
Georg Gläser (University of Cologne)
30.06.2026
07.07.2026
14.07.2026
PhD "Conflict-oriented sustainability education between theory and practice"
HannaButterer (University of Siegen)
The self-image of the colloquium
We see the colloquium as a place for collegial consultation and discussion of work and projects relating to civic education in and out of school in the broadest sense.
All interested parties are invited to participate at any time and to present their own work and projects.
Everything at a glance
Programs of the past semesters
28.10.2025
PhD: "The Political in Pierre Bourdieu. On the actualization of materialist state and legal theory." (working title)
Max Meyer (University of Siegen)
25.11.2025
Bachelor's thesis: "Between opinion power, memes and metapolitics: New right action phenomena in the digital space and the associated challenges for digital youth work" (working title)
Felix Retza
Master's thesis: "To what extent is school-based political education related to students' assessment of their own political knowledge, their ability to judge and their willingness to participate - and how does this assessment change in interaction with other socialization instances?"
Pavlos Platanos
02.12.2025
Doctorate "On the selection of objects by teachers of political education" (working title)
Julia Steuber (University of Siegen)
16.12.2025
Doctorate "Conflict-oriented sustainability education: Ethnographic insights"
Hanna Butterer (University of Siegen)
13.01.2026
Doctorate "Football, gender and political education"
Lea Sorg
27.01.2026
PhD "Be/Questions: Can it be a little more (radically) democratic?"
Max Barnewitz (University of Siegen)
03.02.2026
PhD: "Multi-professional perspectives on (inclusive) political education for pupils with special educational needs" (working title)
Yannik Achenbach (University of Siegen)
15.04.2025
PhD "Critical education and the question of nature"
Steffen Pelzel (University of Siegen)
22.04.2025
Master's thesis "Reinforced deviance through education policy: When school reproduces inequality"
Evgenia Avramidou (University of Siegen)
29.04.2025
PhD project "Political education from below - women's soccer as a space for self-empowerment?"
Lea Sorg (University of Cologne)
06.05.2025
PhD Political learning processes in ESD cooperation projects between schools and extracurricular places of learning: ethnographic insights
Hanna Butterer (University of Siegen)
27.05.2025
Practical semester project
Jan-Niklas Kellermann (University of Siegen)
17.06.2025
PhD "Weaponized Neutrality. 'Neutrality' as an appeal to child and youth work and its consequences (working title)
Jana Sämann (University of Siegen)
24.06.2025
Doctoral project
Max Barnewitz (University of Siegen)
08.07.2025
Doctorate "Company organization at political education institutions"
Georg Gläser (University of Cologne)
15.07.2025
Doctorate "Learning opportunities in the context of cooperative democracy education projects - methods for the practical survey of students' perspectives"
Luisa Schmidt
15.10.2024
Habilitation "Social Theory without Society or: Critique of the Zeitgeist - Elements of a Praxeological Theory of Society"
Kenneth Rösen
05.11.2024
Master's thesis "How to kick them out. An empirically based analysis of civil society strategies against extreme right-wing real estate"
Sebastian Zahn
12.11.2024
Presentation DBU project: "On the mediation and appropriation of systemic sustainability contexts between social and natural science perspectives in childhood. Concept and cooperation development for the practice of extracurricular learning venues"
Junior Prof. Dr. Alexander Wohnig, Prof. Dr. Jochen Lange, Hanna Butterer, Manuela Siewert (all University of Siegen)
19.11.2024
Dissertation "Neutrality as a profession-external appeal to child and youth work and its consequences for the professional and self-image of professionals and young addressees"
Jana Sämann (University of Siegen)
10.12.2024
PhD "Political learning processes in ESD cooperation projects between schools and extracurricular learning venues: ethnographic insights"
Hanna Butterer (University of Siegen)
17.12.2024
Dissertation project "A parlor game for children. On socio-analytical work in subject lessons."
Nicola Airo (University of Cologne)
07.01.2025
PhD "Pupils' perspectives on cooperative democracy education projects - extracurricular learning opportunities and their evaluation in practice" (working title)
Luisa Schmidt
14.01.2025
Promotions "... a rebel by nature ..."? - On groping search movements for education in the impossible web of the radical-democratic
Max Barnewitz (University of Siegen)
21.01.2025
Doctorate
Steffen Pelzel (University of Siegen)
07.05.2024
Dissertation "Political education in cooperative youth work associations. Results from the project "Learning from and with each other" [working title]
Jana Sämann (University of Siegen)
11.06.2024
Habilitation
Kenneth Rösen
02.07.2024
Master's thesis "How to kick them out. An empirical analysis of civil society strategies against extreme right-wing real estate"
Sebastian Zahn
09.07.2024
Dissertation "On the (non-)compatibility of ESD, critical-emancipatory political education and cooperation: a theoretical and ethnographic reflection"
Hanna Butterer (University of Siegen)
16.07.2024
Project presentation "Between professional autonomy and state appropriation: A genealogy of the relationship between democracy, governance and civic education in the history of the Federal Republic of Germany"
Steffen Pelzel, Alexander Wohnig (both University of Siegen) and Marlon Barbehön, Hannah Klein (both Heidelberg University)
