The RTG “Practicing Place” is organising a conference in collaboration with the America Institute, LMU Munich on the topic of UN/COMMON PLACE(S), at Catholic University Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, and the Ludwig Maximilians University Munich, GermanyFebruary 10th – 12th, 2027. Confirmed keynote speaker ist Fred Moten, NYU, and Martina Tazzioli, Università di Bologna. Please find the call here. […]
In the latest episode of our podcast series, PhD fellow Zahra Chhapra sits down for a stimulating conversation with Professor Dr Rumya Putcha. Rumya is an Associate Professor in Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Georgia’s Franklin College of Arts and Sciences. Together, they trace Rumya’s personal and academic journey and reflect on the development of […]
Feliciana Chiaradia, February 2026 Venice welcomed us with a stunning sunset over the lagoon. As our train from Munich passed across the water, we could see the mirrored sun reflecting through both windows: a perfect prelude to our journey. The RTG trip to the Biennale of Architecture began early that morning, and everyone was enjoying […]
Listen to the interview our faculty member Jens Temmen gave on Deutschlandfunk Kultur on thursday Febuary 5th. He speaks about “The new belief in progress among tech billionaires” investing in colonies on Mars instead of climate protection on Earth, selling space travel as a promise of salvation for the future. Real earthly problems are being […]
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 […]
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 to Eichstätt a wealth of research experience in Germany and abroad, with a focus on topics such as astro-culture and US imperialism. At the same time, Temmen emphasizes: “American Studies is […]
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, […]