25 – 27 June 2025 Eichstätt, Germany
Please find our Call for Papers here. If you would like to attend the conference in person, please get in touch with us via gk-practicingplace@ku.de. We will publish more information about remote access in the upcoming weeks.
Main Venue (June 26-27)Kapuzinerkloster (KAP), room 209 Kapuzinergasse 2 85072 Eichstätt
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Wednesday, 25 June 2025: Pre-Conference Programme
16:30-18:00 Walking Tour, meeting point: Domplatz 8
19.00 Pre-Conference Dinner
Dom Cafe: https://www.eichstaett.de/gastronomie/dom_cafe-47/
Thursday, 26 June 2025: Conference Day 1 (KAP 209)
8:30-9:00 Registration
9:00-9:30 Welcome Coffee and Opening Remarks by Jessie Martin and Nikita Sazonov
9.30-11:00 Keynote 1: Rumya Putcha (Univ. of Georgia): Ecologies of Yoga: Somatic Orientalism and Imaginations of India
Chair: Ulla Stackmann
11:00-11:30 Coffee Break
11.30-13:00 Panel 1: UN_BELONGING
Chair: Sarah Earnshaw
Bitari Wissam (FLHS, Cadi Ayyad Univ.-Marrakech-Morocco): Displacement as Home in Arab Women’s Writings
Madhav Dubey (Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee): Disrupting Place Attachment and Navigating Geotrauma in Nayomi Munaweera’s Island of a Thousand Mirrors
Jakob Bierwagen (Catholic Univ. Eichstätt-Ingolstadt): Beyond “Paradise” – Making Place for Politics within Brandenburgian Reception Facilities
13:00-14:30 Lunch Break
14:30-16:00 Panel 2: UN_IDENTIFYING
Chair: Franziska Imhoff
Kamelia Sofia El Ghaddar (Univ. of Bologna): Undoing Arabness: Deterritorialisation and Displacement in Alya Mooro and Salma El Wardany’s Novels
Luis Peña (Univ. of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt): Unveiling Everyday Spatial Practices: A Methodological and Empirical Inquiry into Surveillance, Conflict, and Place-Making
Meena Venkataramanan (Brown Univ.): “That Indian Fellar”: Indianness as Specter in Samuel Selvon’s The Lonely Londoners.
16:00-16:30 Coffee Break
16:30-18:00 Panel 3: UN_HUMAN
Chair: Natalia del Carmen Eduardo
Jana Wieser (Univ. of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt): Hairscapes: Haircutting as a Territorial(ising) Practice
Lucy Rogers (Univ. of Westminster): The Arctic as a Contested Place of Myth in Ursula Schulz-Dornburg’s ‘Memoryscapes’
Rania Elshabassy (Cairo Univ.): The Sea as an Agent of Transformation: Undoing Emplacement through Water in selected Arab Women’s Fiction
19.30 Conference Dinner
Gutmann: http://www.gutmann-eichstaett.de/
Friday, 27 June 2025: Conference Day 2 (KAP 209)
9:30-10.00 Welcome Coffee
10:00-11:50 Panel 4: UN_STRUCTURING
Chair: Nikita Sazonov
Juliana Yat Shun, Kei (Liverpool School of Architecture):“Where are you from?” Structures of Urban Ex-Porting
Mingyue Li (Free Univ. Berlin): Protest as Spatial Agency: Civil Autonomy and the (Un)Doing of Extractivism in Europe
Feliciana Chiaradia (Univ. of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt): Resilient (Form of) R-Existence: Placing and Displacing Remembrance
Ayşegül Boyalı (Sakarya Univ.): Contesting the Public Green: Undoing Neoliberal Urban Greening Through Everyday Practices of Resistance
12.00-13.30 Lunch Break
13.30-15:20 Practitioners Panel 5: UN_IMAGINING
Chair: Jessie Martin
Emma Patchett (Northumbria Univ.): “No more time, No More Places”: (Un) Making Utopia in Law and Literature
Shanyn Fiske (Rutgers Univ.), Kat Hash, Kaja Brix: Fragments from the Filmmakers‘ Manifesto
Daria Syvakos (Berlin Univ. of the Arts) and Wren Bisley (Berlin Univ. of the Arts): (Un)doing Belonging: A Dialogic Performance on Practices of Displacement
15:20-15:35 Wrap up and Closing Remarks by Gabriela Randig and Leonie Unkel