Alumni Day 2016

On November 19, 2016, AMUROst e.V., the joint alumni initiative of the Elite Graduate Program for East European Studies (ESG) and the Graduate School for East and Southeast European Studies (GS), organized the "Alumni Day 2016" at the Department of History.

The welcome by Professor Martin Schulze Wessel, spokesman of the ESG and GS, and members of the association's board was followed by a panel discussion on the status quo and current perspectives in East European Studies. As a discussion partner, Professor Hans-Henning Schröder, founding representative of the Federal Foreign Office until the end of September for the "Center for Eastern Europe and International Studies (ZOiS)", Berlin, contributed his many years of experience in research and scientific policy advice in the discussion.

In two subsequent discussions the participants had the oppurtunity to exchange experiences with the committed initiators Tobias Winstel (publishing house manager in the Munich Kösel publishing house) and the Alumna Margarethe Barié (currently: internal sales, CADFEM GmbH, Stuttgart), on topics such as career entry, career planning or professional development. In lively and humorous talks, ways out of the academic field into the private economy were discussed such as concrete aspects of the application process or even the personal work-life balance in everyday working life.

The exchange already started in a relaxed round at a Georgian dinner on Friday evening and was continued at on Saturday night. The supporting program also included a visit to the temporary exhibition "The Persecution of the Sinti and Roma in Munich and Bavaria 1933-1945" at the NS Documentation Center. Here, the alumna and co-curator of the exhibition Sarah Grandke (currently: scientific volunteer, Flossenbürg Concentration Camp Memorial) took the lead.