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 […]
Former coordinator of the RTG “Practicing Place” Ulla Stackmann published her thesis on “Sonic Stagings of U.S. Postwar Audiopoetry. Practices, Configurations, and Contexts of Poetry on Sound Carriers (c. 1950s—1980s)” in the Brill series “DQR Studies in Literature”. We are pleased to share that Ulla Stackmann will publish her forthcoming book, Sonic Stagings of U.S. […]
Congratulations to Jessica Balling on the successful defense of her doctoral dissertation on „Placing Nations. Praktiken, Orte und die sozial-räumliche Aushandlung von Nationen durch Nationalparks in Slowenien und Argentinien“. Jessica Balling was fellow in the first cohort of the RTG Practicing Place, and member of the Economic Geography research group. Her supervisor was Prof. Hans-Martin […]
have look here: https://www.ku.de/die-ku/kontakt/presse/presseinformationen-detail/jens-temmen-uebernimmt-professur-fuer-amerikanistik-an-der-ku Prof. Dr. Jens Temmen has held the Chair of American Studies at KU since the summer semester of 2025.The cultural and literary scholar brings with him extensive research experience in Germany and abroad…..
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Text by Feliciana Chiaradia As an expat from Calabria, Italy, I have experienced throughout my life abroad what it means to be away from the things I loved about the place I came from: my family, friends, the mountains rising above the sea… yet less people ever asked me about that. The most common question, […]