Robert Schmidt Elected New Speaker of “Practicing Place”

During our summer retreat in May 2023, Robert Schmidt was elected as new speaker of our Research Training Group by the faculty members. We congratulate Robert and look forward to continuing our work with him in his new role. Robert holds the Professorship for Process-Oriented Sociology at the KU Eichstätt-Ingolstadt and has been a member […]

“Practicing Place” at the German Congress for Geography

The German Association of Geography will hold its annual congress from the 19th to 23rd of September 2023 in Frankfurt. Our faculty members Hans-Martin Zademach and Christian Steiner will host a panel at the congress on “Place and Placing as Concepts of Geography: Practices and Configurations”. It will tackle the latest debates within Geography regarding […]

Congratulations!

Our faculty member Prof. Hans-Martin Zademach was selected a member of the esteemed ARL – Academy for the Territorial Development of the Leibniz Association. The ARL is a leading research institution in the field of sustainable spatial development and an integral part of the Leibniz research network for “Spatial Knowledge for Society and Environment”. Our […]

Episode 01/S2: Archeology as Practicing Place

In this episode of Thereabouts: The Practicing Place Podcast, Ph.D. fellow Moritz Wischert-Zielke engages in an interdisciplinary conversation with Kilian Vief, an aspiring student of archeology. The discussion focuses on the excavation site as a practiced place whereas the two examine aspects spanning from shoveling dirt and the role of findings to controlled destructions, lost […]

Interview with Art Historian Tanja Schult

Art historian Dr.Tanja Schult (University of Stockholm) visited our research group to talk about Christoph Mayer’s The Invisible Camp – Audio Walk Gusen (2007) in her lecture entitled “What’s in a place? Locating Traces of the Past as a Strategy for Remembering Christoph Mayer’s The Invisible Camp – Audio Walk Gusen”. She discussed the relationship […]

Congratulations!

Our faculty member Dr. Nathalie Aghoro was awarded a three-year Research Position grant by the German Research Association (DFG) for her research project “Common Grounds: Social Justice and Cultural Practice in Shared Places.” and our two associate fellows Dr. Simon Dudek and Dr. Andreas Kallert were also granted three-year Research Positions by the German Research […]

Launch of our first podcast!

Unsere neue Podcast-Serie “Thereabouts” ist gestartet! Wir wünschen viel Vergnügen beim Zuhören! Hier geht es zum PP Podcast.

Auftakt für das Graduiertenkolleg »Practicing Place«

Pressemitteilung der KU Eichstätt vom 19.07.2021

Die Reflexion von Ort und Raum angesichts von globalen Bewegungen, nationaler Abgrenzung und grenzenloser Kommunikation steht im Zentrum des neuen Graduiertenkollegs „Practicing Place: Soziokulturelle Praktiken und epistemische Konfigurationen“ an der KU, das nun mit einer Auftaktveranstaltung offiziell eröffnet worden ist. Coronabedingt fand die Feier als hybrides Format mit begrenztem Präsenz-Publikum statt. Die Nachwuchswissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler, die sich im Kolleg zusammenfinden, stammen unter anderem aus Indien, Mexiko, Brasilien, Kolumbien, Großbritannien, den USA, Frankreich und Spanien.