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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K’Universale lecture series “Fascist Spaces” – Lecture by Alberto Toscano – Nov 9, 2026

We would like to cordially invite you to the opening lecture of our  K’Universale Lecture Series “Fascist Spaces“ co-organized by Imke von Maur and Jens Temmen at KU Eichstätt-Ingolstadt in collaboration with the RTG “Practicing Place”. The speaker will be Alberto Toscano (Simon Fraser University) with  a paper on “Fascism without the West?“   When: November 9th, […]

Jessica Balling’s dissertation “Nationalpark und Nation” published with transcript

Jessica Balling, fellow of the 1st cohort and now researcher at the Working Group “Glokale Entwicklung und Nachhaltigkeitsforschung” at the University of Innsbruck, published her dissertation on “Nationalpark und Nation. Sozial-räumliche Aushandlungen durch Naturschutz und Kulturerbe in Argentinien und Slowenien” with transcript.   This is the blurb of her book: “National parks are far more than […]

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 […]