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Tuesday 14-15h, Von-Melle-Park 5, Room 2144 or by appointment. Please try to book an appointment here first. If no suitable appointment can be booked or if there are any problems, please contact us by email (transformationdynamics@uni-hamburg.de).

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If required, please contact me by e-mail.

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Tuesdays 17:00 - 18:00 hrs
Please make an appointment in advance by e-mail and send a sketch or exposé (by e-mail) at least 2 days prior to the meeting (valid for BA and MA).

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Please register for the office hours by contacting Anika Hummel: anika.hummel"AT"uni-hamburg.de. She will suggest a possible date.

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Tuesday 16-17h, Von-Melle-Park 5, Room 2139 or by appointment.Please try to book an appointment here first. If no suitable appointment can be booked or if there are any problems, please contact us by email (transformationdynamics@uni-hamburg.de).

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For health reasons, office hours are expected to be canceled until May 20, 2025.

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Please make an appointment via E-Mail!

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by appointment

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To get in touch with Prof. Niesen, please send a message(Peter.Niesen"AT"uni-hamburg.de) for an appointment. Thank you.

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Winter Term 2024-25:
During the winter term the office hours will take place every Tuesday at 4.15 -5.15 pm on site: Allende-Platz 1, room 336, 20146 Hamburg (beginning on December, 3rd 2024).
Please make an appointment on the homepage "Über Uns"
There will be no office hours over Christmas and New Year! Ther first time in the new year wil be January, 7th 2025.
On January, 7th and 14th 2025 the office hours will take place online via Zoom! Please see link below:
https://uni-hamburg.zoom.us/j/96935190768?pwd=VDQ3Y2lKVjZvYk1tZTF2cXpzS2tCdz09
Meeting-ID: 969 3519 0768
Kenncode: 65176358
Schnelleinwahl mobil
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+17209289299,,96935190768#,,#,65176358# Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika (Denver)
Due to an "Opus Magnum Promotion" there will neither be any student consultation nor any teaching untill the 1st October, 2026.
Dr. Helge Schwiertz will replace Prof. Stäheli during this time.


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Appointments only via the secretary's office.
Junior professors

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- Sociology of (In)Security
- Political Sociology
- Migration and Border Studies
- Urban Sociology
- Utopian Studies and Sociology of Futures

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on leave in WS 2024/25
Mondays, 15:00 to 17:00 and upon appointment.
Please send an email.
§17 professors
- Peace and Conflict Studies: Ethnizität, Religion, Ressourcen und Institutionen als Determinanten gewaltsamer Konflikte
- Comparative Politics: Parteien- und Demokratieforschung
- Comparative Area Studies, Mixed Methods
- Sub-Sahara Afrika

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Retired professors / with emeritus status




- PI of the international, collaborative research project AURELIA of the French ANR
- Member of the Bord of Directors of the international Centre for Comparative Social Policy Research (CCWR) at the University of California, Berkeley




Research associates

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- By appointment only

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in March Thursday 15-16 h, April Tuesday 15-16 h, Von-Melle-Park 5, Room 2142 or by appointment.
Consultations take place by appointment only. Please book an appointment via the online appointment tool. The office hour may be held in room 2142 (von-Melle-Park 5) or online.

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- CLICCS B2 - Dynamics of Climate Governance: Norms, Contestation, and Policies

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- Political Management of Risk Technologies (specifically Biotechnology)
- Civil Society Influence on Arms Control Regimes
- The Treaty Regimes for the Prohibition of Biological and Chemical Weapons
- Biotechnology and Conflict
- Use of Open Source Information in Monitoring Arms Control Agreements
- Questions of Ethics and Responsibility in the Natural Sciences

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- Focus in research and teaching: Gender-based violence and gender constructs in armed conflicts Non-state actors of violcence Peace and conflict research
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by appointment

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By appointment.

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Wednesdays 9:30 - 10:30 hrs

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Mondays 14-16 (by arrangement via email)
- Social Theory and Sociology of Culture, Postcolonial Theory, Diaspora, Governmentality, Infrastructuralism, (Post-)Secularism, Critical Shia Studies, qualitative and ethnographic Methods of Social Research


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In the lecture-free period: Appointments by previous arrangement.
by appointment

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Office hours during the semester: Wednesday, 15:00 to 16:00 (upon prior registration by e-mail). Other office hours by appointment.
- social and political theory, migration, racism, social movements, citizenship, solidarity and radical democracy

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Tuesdays, 11:00 - 12:00
Please send me an e-mail with you request in advance.

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Please contact me via Email for an appointment. Thank you.
Teaching staff / instructors

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Privatdozenten and contract university teachers
- Sociology
- (Psychosocial) Counseling

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- European Union
- European integration
- International relations
- Political theory

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Visiting scholars




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Lecturers


Technical, administrative and library staff

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- Please make an appointment: kirsten.cassau@uni-hamburg.de
Kirsten Cassau is available via email at normal office hours and personally on request.
- Coordination Profile Initiative "Violence and Security" and Team Assistent for Prof. Dr. Christine Hentschel, Prof. Dr. Susanne Krasmann, Prof. Dr. Nina Perkowski and Acting Prof. Dr. Nils Schuhmacher
Mon, Wed 12 - 14 (home office) & by appointment
Please use the reservation tool below to book an appointment. After your reservation, you receive a confirmation email with the link for the meeting.
Hints:
- Please send us the document that you would like to discuss at the latest one week before the appointment (glob-gov.wiso[at]uni-hamburg.de). Otherwise the appointment will be canceled.
- In case you would like to write your thesis under the supervision of Prof. Wiener, please draft an exposé before the first meeting. Please adhere to the following guidelines for thesis abstracts (BA and MA).
- Möchten Sie Ihre Abschlussarbeit bei Frau Wiener schreiben, entwerfen Sie bitte vor dem ersten Treffen ein Exposé. Halten Sie sich hierzu an folgende Handreichungen zur Erstellung eines Abstracts für eine BA-/MA-Thesis.
- In case you want to discuss a large project such as a thesis, please book a second time slot.
- Please open the link a few minutes before the appointment starts and wait until you are allowed to enter.
- In case you are not able to keep the appointment, please cancel your reservation. You find the cancellation link in the email.

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- gen. Monday to Thursday, 9 am-2 pm

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ouf of office until June 30, 2025

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- Tuesdays and Wednesdays 09:30 - 11:00 hsr
- or on appointment/via e-mail

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- Tuesdays and Wednesdays 09:30 - 11:00 hsr
- or on appointment/via e-mail

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By appointment.

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By appointment.

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- By arrangement. Please contact me via email (christiane.westendorf@uni-hamburg.de) to arrange an appointment.
Student assistants

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Other

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- Empirical Police Research (in particular Protest Policing and Urban Security)
- Protest and Movement Research
- Cultural Criminology

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