26.06.25 – 27.06.25 Conference

Conference: Contesting Place – Practices of (Un)Doing

25 – 27 June 2025 Eichstätt, Germany

Please find our digital booklet with all the abstracts here. If you would like to attend the conference in person, please get in touch with us via gk-practicingplace@ku.de.  The keynote is accessible remotely! Email us or subscribe to our newsletter to receive the link!


Main Venue (June 26-27)

Kapuzinerkloster (KAP), room 209

Kapuzinergasse 2

85072 Eichstätt

 

 

 



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

The keynote is accessible remotely! Email us or subscribe to our newsletter to receive the link!


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