In Memory of Professor Michael F. Zimmermann

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 […]

„Practicing and Placing Imaginaries“ Published

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, […]

Stories of Texas Petro-Geographies and an American Imaginary by Jessie Martin

The dominance of oil as an energy source persists because of how the substance has been and continues to be culturally imagined. In September last year I visited the U.S. state most associated with oil production, and ‘energy capital of the world’, Houston, Texas, to explore how a ruling imaginary of oil has materialised through […]

CfP: ‚Contesting Place: Practices of (Un)Doing‘ Mid-term Conference *Deadline extended: March 10th*

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 […]

Uganda and Germany: Differences in Practices

In 2024, Hannah Mayinza joined our team as a student assistant. In the blog post below, she describes the differences in practices between Germany and her home country, Uganda. Thereby, she shows from an everyday perspective how places are shaped by practices and how practices are shaped by places. The two states being different is […]

Episode 01/S03: Coming Home To Eichstätt

In this episode, three doctoral candidates of the new cohort, Gabriela Randig, Jakob Bierwagen and Jessie Martin reflect on what it means to practice Eichstätt as their place of research. Bringing very different experiences and relations to Eichstätt into discussion with each other, the three of them delve into the peculiarity of ‘a small Bavarian […]

Conference „Welcome to Retrotopia? Placing Visions of ‘Britishness’ in the Long Twentieth Century” (KU Eichstätt-Ingolstadt)

In the text below, our fellow Leonie Unkel writes about the conference „Welcome to Retrotopia? Placing Visions of ‘Britishness’ in the Long Twentieth Century“ that the KU Eichstätt hosted  in July 2024. She also presented her own work in the course of the conference. ‚Retrotopia’ is a concept coined by the British-Polish sociologist Zygmunt Bauman […]

Pre-Semester Get-Together at „Practicing Place“

One week before the official start of the winter term, our team got together for a two day workshop to discuss our future plans, the upcoming review by the DFG, and the research that our PhDs conducted during the break. On the first day, we got together in our offices, and every team member had […]

“Respect for Reality – Unfeeling and Grief in the Ecological Crisis” Lecture and Workshop with Henrike Kohpeiß (FU Berlin)

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 […]

Rob Shields: On Urban, Virtual and the Household

Rob Shields is Professor and Henry Marshall Tory Endowed Research Chair at University of Alberta, Canada. In June 2022, he joined us in Eichstätt as a Mercator fellow. During this time, he shared his current research on Practical Aesthesis. Our fellow Shruti Malik also had the opportunity to record a podcast episode with Robert Shields. […]