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 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. […]
On May 2, we had the pleasure to welcome Jun.-Professor Maria Sulimma for a guest lecture on “Leisurely Gentrification? Conflictual Places and Practices in Contemporary Fiction” at the KU. Jun.-Prof. Sulimma is an American Studies scholar working in the intersecting areas of literary and cultural studies, urban studies, and feminist media studies. Currently, she is […]
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 […]
In this episode, Shruti Malik engages in an organic conversation with Professor Rob Shields from the University of Alberta. Through the podcast, they touch upon various aspects beginning with understanding the difference in perspective on epistemology of space between the fields of architecture and sociology. This then goes on to discuss the course of research […]
Tim Cresswell is Ogilvie Professor at the University of Edinburgh. Trained as a cultural geographer, he is renowned for his extensive works discussing and conceptualizing the role of space, place and mobility in social and cultural life. Amongst the recent academic publications is his book Maxwell Street: Writing and Thinking Place (2019) [1]. Cresswell is […]
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 […]