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Zentralinstitut für Lateinamerikastudien (ZILAS) mit Leiterin und Faculty member M. Lay Brander erhält Auszeichnung

Das Zentralinstitut für Lateinamerikastudien (ZILAS) der KU hat am dies academicus am 21.5.2026 den Preis der Maximilian Bickhoff-Universitätsstiftung in erhalten. Leiterin des ZILAS und gleichzeitig Mitglied der Faculty des GK „Practicing Place“ ist Prof. Miriam Lay Brander. Im Mittelpunkt der Forschung des ZILAS steht Lateinamerika als Weltregion, in der sich viele große Transformationsprozesse in besonderer […]

Jens Temmen on „Wer baut da oben das Dorf“ in the context of the Artemis mission to the moon (Deutschlandfunk, March 30, 2026)

We’ve brought plenty of moon rocks back to Earth. They’ve long since been analyzed, and the moon’s surface has been mapped. Yet NASA is now sending astronauts back up there. What’s it all about? American dominance—on the moon and in space. Our Faculty Member Jens Temmen gives insights into American strategies. You can listen to […]

Workshop with Oliver Marchart, Vienna

We are pleased to welcome OliverMarchart, Vienna, philosopher, sociologist, and professor of Political Theory at the University of Vienna, for a lecture at the RTG.

Call for papers: „Un/common Place(s)“ – International Conference, February 10-12, 2027

The RTG „Practicing Place“ is organising a conference in collaboration with the America Institute, LMU Munich on the topic of  UN/COMMON PLACE(S), at Catholic University Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, and the Ludwig Maximilians University Munich, GermanyFebruary 10th – 12th, 2027. Confirmed keynote speaker ist Fred Moten, NYU, and Martina Tazzioli, Università di Bologna. Please find the call here. […]

Our faculty member Jens Temmen on „Deutschlandfunk Kultur“

Listen to the interview our faculty member Jens Temmen gave on Deutschlandfunk Kultur on thursday Febuary 5th. He speaks about „The new belief in progress among tech billionaires“ investing in colonies on Mars instead of climate protection on Earth, selling space travel as a promise of salvation for the future. Real earthly problems are being […]

Call for papers – EPSSE Pre-conference workshop June 2026 – co-hosted by the RTG

EPSSE Pre-conference workshop June 2026  co-hosted with RTG “Practicing Place” co-organized by Imke von Maur & Robert Schmidt The Power of (Dis-)Placing: Affect, Practice and the Political We are pleased to announce a call for abstracts for the 2026 EPSSE pre-conference workshop on The Power of (Dis-)Placing: Affect, Practice and the Political. The EPSSE is […]

‚Cultural Practices of Place: A Sense of Placing‘ – published!

We are delighted to announce the publication of Cultural Practices of Place: A Sense of Placing, edited by our junior faculty member Sarah Earnshaw and published by Palgrave Macmillan. The volume brings together a range of disciplinary perspectives to propose a sense of placing as an analytical lens to foreground how places are made, contested, taken, […]

Hans-Martin Zademach Appointed Member of Bavarian State Planning Advisory Board

Our faculty member Prof. Dr. Hans-Martin Zademach was appointed a member of the State Planning Advisory Board at the Bavarian Ministry of Economic Affairs, Regional Development and Energy on July 1. The State Planning Advisory Council is the highest advisory body for state and regional planning in Bavaria, it advises on fundamental issues of spatial […]

Publication Announcement: Sonic Stagings of U.S. Postwar Audiopoetry

We are pleased to share that Ulla Stackmann will publish her forthcoming book, Sonic Stagings of U.S. Postwar Audiopoetry, with Brill. It is the second volume of the new book series DQR: Studies in the Lyrical. The book explores the performative and auditory dimensions of postwar American audiopoetry, offering fresh insights into the intersections of […]

A Look Back at our Conference „Contesting Place – Practices of (Un)Doing“

From July 25 to 27, the mid-term conference „Contesting Place – Practices of (Un)Doing“ took place in Eichstätt, preceded by a guided tour through the city as a pre-conference activity. The conference focused on the conflictuality of place by exploring how places are de-stabilised, dis-located, and de-identified. A central guiding question was: How are places […]