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 […]
In early 2023, our fellow Fabian Ebeling travelled to England for a research stay. In the text below, he describes his stay, the insights he gained, and the sources he examined: In March 2023, I visited the Buckinghamshire Archives in Aylesbury. The archives host the vast collection of materials and documentation produced by the Milton […]
Our fellow Shruti Malik visited India for a research stay at the beginning of this year. She began her stay with an interdisciplinary conference at the Indian Institute of Technology where she presented a paper. Read here about Shruti’s experience at the conference: In February 2023 I got the chance to present my work in […]
This summer we were happy to welcome Rob Shields (University of Alberta) and Tim Cresswell (University of Edinburgh) as Mercator Fellows in Eichstätt. The DFG offers this fellowship to scholars that closely collaborate with and offer long-term support to research training groups. In June, Rob travelled to Eichstätt and stayed for three weeks, followed by […]
In this episode of our GraKo’s Podcast, Ph.D. fellow Fabian Ebeling talks with Jennifer Ang, an Associate Professor at the Singapore University of Social Sciences and currently principal investigator of the Southeast Asia Neighborhoods Network 2.0. The conversation revolves around how Singaporean urban landscapes change under the influence of smartification and technologization, and in how […]
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 […]
In this episode, Johanna Lederer is joined by Richard Costa, a doctoral candidate and research assistant at the University of Alberta. Guided by their research interests, they discuss habitat studies in the first section of the episode and Indigenous resistance in the second section of the episode. They focus on magpies, the question of non-human […]
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 […]
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 […]