It is with deep sadness that we share the news of the passing of our colleague and friend, Michael F. Zimmermann, who died on April 9, 2025. Michael was a founding member of “Practicing Place” and an integral part of our team. He was a wonderful colleague with great enthusiasm for research, always ready to […]
We are thrilled to announce that our book, Practicing and Placing Imaginaries: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, Conceptual Ideas, and Case Studies is now available. On transcript’s homepage you can download the PDF or get the printed volume. The contributors to this volume explore the intertwined relationship of imagining and practicing from different fields of study (sociology, philosophy, […]
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 […]
On June 25, 2024, we had the pleasure of welcoming Dr. Henrike Kohpeiß to Eichstätt where she held a guest lecture and then led a workshop with our fellows the following day. Henrike is a philosopher and postdoctoral researcher at the SFB 1171 “Affective Societies” at the Free University of Berlin. During her lecture, “Respect […]
Recordings from our final conference “Practices of Imagination – Placings of Imaginaries” are now available on our YouTube channel. The conference was held February 7-10, 2024 in Eichstätt. Click here to find a recording of the keynote lecture by Prof. Dr. Hannes Krämer titled “The Borders of Tomorrow: Imagining the Futures of Europe’s Margins,” our […]
In April 2024, ten new doctoral students started their journey at “Practicing Place.” In the course of a campus tour, a structured onboarding, and our official Welcome Day we introduced them to the KU and our staff! On April 3, we kicked things of with a campus tour guided by our student assistant Chantel Anderson […]
From February 8 to 10, we will host the conference concluding the time of our first PhD group at Practicing Place. The conference will focus on “Practices of Imagination – Placings of Imaginaries” and tackle the multilayered relationship between imagination and practices. The Call for Papers is out now. You can find it here! We […]
We are happy to announce that, in summer 2023, we will welcome two Mercator Fellows in Eichstätt. In mid-June, the Canadian sociologist Rob Shields (University of Alberta) will join our group and introduce our fellows to his research in a workshop on June 22. Rob will stay in Eichstätt for three weeks engaging with our […]
During our summer retreat in May 2023, Robert Schmidt was elected as the 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 […]