Practicing Place is currently accepting applications to be considered for a postdoctoral position. We invite applicants from across the humanities and social sciences who have a keen interest in interdisciplinary work. The deadline for applications is October 31st, 2025. You can find out more about the offer here, or refer to the pdf in German […]
We are delighted to share that our postdoc, Sarah Earnshaw, has published her first monograph. “Human Rights and Sovereign Standards in US Security: Freedom Will Be Defended” is now available from Routledge as part of the Advances in American History series. The age of human rights ushered in by the establishment of the post-WWII liberal international […]
We are thrilled to share the news that our research training group has been approved for a second funding period by the German Research Foundation (DFG). Practicing Place was established in 2021 and will be extended until the 31st of March 2030. There are many thanks owed to everyone who helped us through the review […]
We are excited to share the call for papers for the mid-term conference ‘Contesting Place: Practices of (Un)Doing’ which will be held in Eichstätt on June 26-27, 2025. You can read the call below or click here for the pdf. Please submit your abstract (max. 300 words) with a short bio by March 10th to: conference_pp@ku.de We […]
In this episode, two of our fellows, Jessica Balling and Nina Welters sit down for a stimulating conversation with Tim Cresswell, who holds the Oglivie Char of Geography at the University of Edinburgh. Together, they follow Tim´s personal and academic journey and shed a particular light on the development of his research interests in place […]
Huge congratulations to one of our associate members, Nicole Schneider, who received this year’s dissertation prize of the Bavarian American Academy. Schneider’s dissertation, “Visual Protest, Viral Images, and Virtual Participation: Protest and Photography in the Contemporary Movement for Black Lives” deals with press photographs of the current #BlackLivesMatter protests in the USA. The work considers […]
In the episode, Practicing Place PhD fellow Gustavo Adolfo Gutierrez Hernandez is joined by professor Juan Ricardo Aparicio (Universidad de los Andes, Colombia) to talk about the project “Movement, Migration, and the Arts”. Bringing together classes from Colombia and Germany (Bard College, Berlin), the term ended with an art installation, “Borders, Migrations, Refugees”. The discussion […]
We are delighted to share the call for papers for the mid-term conference of GRK ‘Practicing Place’. ‘Here, There, and Somewhere in Between: Placing, Practicing, Configuring’ will be held on the 10th and 11th of November 2022, please submit your abstracts by June 15th – we are looking forward to reading your submissions. PDF version of […]
In this episode, host and Ph.D. fellow Shruti Malik addresses a peculiar practice of moving through the city, walking through the city in the form of guided walking tours. She interviews famous historian, author, filmmaker and walk leader Sohail Hashmi to talk about how walking together in a group makes places and is a means […]
In this episode, your host, PhD fellow David Kempf, takes on the beautiful game. Joined by his guest, sports-scientist and sociologist Kristina Brümmer – currently a visiting professor at Goethe Universität, Frankfurt am Main – they tackle the proliferation of video analysis as a practice in professional football, questioning the perspectives of ‘Watching Movement from […]