Dec 24, 2022
Our Year 2022 - We Wish You Happy Holidays and a Happy New Year!
We have just started the new semester and the holidays are already upon us. A lot has happened at the professorship in the past twelve months. At the beginning of the year, face-to-face teaching and research were still heavily affected by Corona restrictions, but over the course of the year the regulations were lifted. By the winter semester, there was actually no longer any talk of online teaching. We were very pleased to be able to have more face-to-face exchanges with students and colleagues. So, there were some highlights in 2022 that we look back on with pleasure!
In May, after the Corona break, a team excursion to the Elbe Sandstone Mountains was finally possible again. After the long winter months in home office with zoom calls and e-mails, we explored the surrounding area of Dresden as team. Together we went on a wonderfully sunny day from Rathen over the Lilienstein to Königstein. The whole Institute was also able to celebrate together again in the summer for the first time since the pandemic, which brought the Institute closer together.
As nice as it is that the team has grown closer together over the summer through joint events and more presence at the professorship, we regret all the more the departure of Martin Fischer and Dr Christine Andrä. Dr Andrä is going to Groningen as Assistant Professor for International Relations and Security Studies and Martin Fischer will remain connected to the TU Dresden in another way, as Parliamentary Advisor for Higher Education and Science. In the Saxon State Parliament, he can now have lunch in familiar company with Jonas Böhm, a long-time student assistant who also moved into Saxon state politics after graduating this year. In return, we have gained two great colleagues in Stefanie Gerstenberger and Elias Wittenberg.
Research events were also possible again. For example, Prof. Dr. Anna Holzscheiter travelled to Geneva in May to attend the WHO World Health Assembly. She also took part in the World Health Forum in Berlin together with Dr Laura Pantzerhielm, Maria Weickardt-Soares and Felix Stadelmann. For our research project on youth representation in global health politics, we were able to gain exciting interview partners and make valuable observations during the "field research".
In October, the first meeting of the (almost) complete trinational FRAMENET team took place in Berlin. After 1.5 years of working together, the three teams from Canada (Université de Laval), Great Britain (University of Warwick) and Dresden were finally able to get to know each other.
None of this would have been possible without such fabulous tutors and student assistants who persistently support the professorship in teaching and research - thank you for that. We look forward to the coming year and wish you happy holidays, a happy new year and above all good health for the coming year.