Early Career Lounge - Abelina Junge and Petra Kolb

Abstract

The Standing Group on Citizenship is thrilled to present its Early Careers Lounge – a series of FREE virtual meet-ups for PhD students and early career scholars interested in citizenship, civic education, political participation, migration and other related topics. The series aims to create an inspiring space for regular exchange of ideas in an informal and supportive environment. In this session we will have the pleasure to host two lectures by wonderful speakers - Abelina Junge and Petra Kolb. Abelina Junge studied Governance and Public Policy at the University of Passau and History at the Leibniz University of Hanover. She has been working as a research assistant at the Institute for the Didactics of Democracy at the Leibniz University of Hanover since 2022. Lecture: Political self-education and (self-)reflection of young people on social media: new perspectives and challenges Abelina's research focuses on public history and historical-political education with digital media, especially social media and VR/AR. Petra Kolb studied at both the University of Vienna and the University of Florence. She currently holds a pre-doctoral position at the University of Vienna, where she is writing her thesis on protests as a form of radical self-formation. Lecture: Protests as a form of political prefiguration. Petra's research interests entail theory of democracy (especially radical democracy), protests and social movements, urbanism, discourse analysis and civic education.