On October 23, 2024, Dr. Jan Winkler will visit us in Eichstätt to give a guest lecture and teach a workshop for our fellows. Please stay tuned for further information about time, place and topic of his lecture!
Jan Winkler is research group leader at the European Centre for Just Transition Research and Impact Driven Transfer (JTC) at MLU Halle-Wittenberg (Department of Geography). Currently, he is also principal investigator in the research project “Städtische Geographien des Verlusts” (funded by “Bundesverband Wohnen und Stadtentwicklung”) as well as part of the management of the “Franconian Geographical Society e.V.”.
During his Mercator Fellowship at “Practicing Place”, renowned geographer Tim Cresswell (University of Edinburgh) will teach a workshop on the book he is currently writing. Our Fellows and Associates are welcome to join!
Please get in touch with our coordinator to register!
On June 22, our Mercator Fellow Rob Shields will give a workshop for our fellows and associates. He will discuss with them one of his texts and give insights into his own research.
Please get in touch with our coordinator to register!
Save the date! The DFG funded network “Places, Techniques and Practices of Diagnosing” will host a workshop with Martina Löw (TU Berlin), our cooperating partner Prof. Theodore Schatzki (University of Kentucky), and the speaker of the „Practicing Place”-team, Kerstin Schmidt (October 9-10). More information to follow.
We cordially invite all interested to the workshop ‘Cultural Memory and Literature: Research in Dialogue’ that will be held at KU Eichstätt-Ingolstadt on the 13th and 14th of July 2022. The session on July 14th will now be held online.
Organised by fellows Sabine Aretz, Gustavo Gutierrez, and Johanna Lederer, the program will consist of three roundtables with guest participants – Damla Özkan, GRK ‘Life Writing – Life Sciences’ Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz; Alisa Preusser, Universität Potsdam; and Chiona Hufnagel, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg. There will also be a keynote lecture by Lea Espinoza Garrido, Bergische Universität Wuppertal, entitled ‘Post-9/11 Politics of Memory and Politics of Forgetting in Colson Whitehead’s Zone One‘.
To register your participation, please do so via email: sabine.aretz@ku.de
Program:
Wednesday 13/07/2022
Roundtable: 1 – 2 p.m (KAP017): Johanna Lederer and Alisa Preusser
Roundtable: 2.30 – 3.30 p.m (KAP017): Gustavo Gutierrez and Chiona Hufnagel
Keynote lecture: 4 – 5.30 p.m (KAP017): Lea Espinoza Garrido (Bergische Universität Wuppertal) ‘Post-9/11 Politics of Memory and Politics of Forgetting in Colson Whitehead’s Zone One‘
Thursday 14/07/2022
Roundtable: 1.30 – 2.30 p.m (ZOOM): Sabine Aretz and Damla Özkan
https://kuei.zoom.us/j/63255396394
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We hope to see you there!
You can find the poster as a pdf here: PP-Workshop-Poster
*Please note the slight changes to the schedule*