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
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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
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