Practicing Place – Socio-Cultural Practices and Epistemic Configurations

About the Research Training Group

The interdisciplinary Research Training Group 2589 “Practicing Place: Socio-Cultural Practices and Epistemic Configurations” is funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) and located at the KU Eichstätt-Ingolstadt. We research the intersections, tensions, and dynamics of place and practice. Every practice is shaped by given places, while it at the same time also designs and produces new places in a performative, ongoing process. Seen this way, places can never be conceived of as singular static entities, in the sense of ‘Heimat’ or a closed life-world; rather, places have to be thought of in terms of a dynamic, multifaceted, dialogical, often controversial, affective, and especially participatory system of relations, informed by aspects of performance, construction, perception, production, experience, recognition, and inscription. Our goal is to unpick the ‘how’ of places in relation to the situatedness of any and all practices.

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News

Lecture series on “Fascist Spaces” in the frame of K’Universale – organised by Imke von Maur and Jens Temmen

This interdisciplinary lecture series, organized by our faculty members Imke von Maur and Jens Temmen, explores the question: How do the new forms of fascism in the 21st century emerge? What spaces do they occupy—digitally, politically, and socially—and how, in turn, are they shaped by these spaces? And how do they transform our conceptions of […]

Faschistische Räume / Fascist Spaces – Vorlesungsreihe im Rahmen der K’Universale organisiert von Imke von Maur und Jens Temmen

Die interdisziplinäre Vorlesungsreihe, organsisiert von unseren faculty members Imke von Maur und Jens Temmen beleuchtet die Frage: Wie entstehen die neuen Faschismen des 21. Jahrhunderts? Welche Räume besetzen sie – digital, politisch und gesellschaftlich – und wie werden sie wiederum von diesen Räumen geprägt? Und wie verändern sie unsere Vorstellungen von Demokratie, Öffentlichkeit und Zusammenleben? […]

Have a look at the interview with our faculty member Miriam Lay Brander on “tv ingolstadt” about the 40th anniversary of the Central Institute of Latin American Studies (ZILAS) at KU Eichstätt.