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Upcoming seminars

8 October, 14:00-16:00 (Room 3D415), Michael Corbett, Professor Emeritus at Acadia University, Canada: Rural Literacies: Rural Lifeways as Educational Assets and a Foundation for Learning.

Corbett is one of the leading researchers in the field of rural literacies and is among the authors of books such as Learning to Leave: The Irony of Schooling in a Coastal Community (2007), Rural Teacher Education: Connecting Land and People (2020), and Rethinking Rural Literacies. Transnational Perspectives (2013). The seminar is organised in collaboration with IPS.

15 October, start of the Graduate School 'Best Practice? – A Doctoral School on Subject Didactic Models in Primary Teacher Education', BEPPE.

22 October, 10:00-12:00 (Room 3A340), Garth Stahl, Associate Professor, University of Queensland, Australia: Exploring gender and class inequalities in STEM education.

Stahl is an educational sociologist with a particular interest in issues concerning class and masculinity. He has published books including Ethnography of a Neoliberal School: Building Cultures of Success (2018), Self-Made Men: Widening Participation, Selfhood and First-in-Family Males (2022), and Boyhood in the Digital Age (2025). The seminar is organised in collaboration with IPS.

29 October, 13.00-15 (Room 3B 513), David Mitchell Associate Professor. Title to be announced later.