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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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.
