Gesa Lindemann
Gesa Lindemann
Research focus
Social and societal theory, sociology of human rights, medical sociology, science and technology studies
Curriculum Vitae
| 2008/09 | Member of the scientific advisory board of the journal "Ethics in Medicine" |
| Since 1 June 2007 | Professor of Sociology, Institute of Sociology at the University of Oldenburg |
| 17-19 August 2006 | Visiting Professor at the "Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study" as part of the Ernst Cassirer Summer School on "Life Politics" in Helsinki |
| 15-17 March 2006 | Invitation as external expert for the EU project: Challenges of Biomedicine - Socio-Cultural Contexts, European Governance and Bioethics, Meeting at the University of Lund |
| February - March 2006 | Visiting Scholar at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge (USA) |
| Since 2006 | Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Helmuth Plessner Society |
| September 2005 | Visiting Professor at the Instituto de Medicina Social, State University of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) |
| June 2005 | Visiting Professor: ESRC Centre for Genomics in Society, Exeter University, UK |
| From 1 October 2004 | Continuation of the research project "Consciousness and Anthropological Difference. A comparative study of neuroscientific consciousness research in humans and animals" |
| SUMMER TERM 2004 | School of Sociology, Bielefeld University Representation of the professorship for General Sociology and Sociological Theory |
| From 1 December 2003 | Institute of Sociology at the Technical University of Berlin: Scientific director of the DFG-funded research project "Consciousness and Anthropological Difference. A comparative study of neuroscientific consciousness research in humans and animals" in co-operation with Prof. Dr Werner Rammert |
| WS 2003/04 | Lecturer at the Institute of Sociology at the Technical University of Berlin |
| WS 2002/03 | Institute of Sociology at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich Representation of the professorship of Sociology |
| SUMMER TERM 2002 | Institute of Sociology of the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich Substitute for the Professorship of Sociology |
| 27 June 2001 | Award of the Privatdozentur |
| January 2001 | Completion of the habilitation procedure |
| July 2000 | Completion of the research project "The limits of the social" |
| 27.9.-1.10.1999 | Invitation to the interdisciplinary colloquium "Gender Difference and Power", organised by the "Swiss Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences" |
| 1997-2000 | Collaboration in the working group "Dying and Death" of the Academy for Ethics in Medicine (Göttingen) |
| Since 1996 | Liaison lecturer at the Heinrich Böll Foundation |
| 1.4.1996-31.3.1998 | Member of the research committee of the department |
| 1.4.1996-31.3.1998 | Member of the Faculty Council |
| 1.7.1994-30.6.1999 | Research assistant to Prof. Heinz Steinert, Institute for Social and Political Analysis, Department of Social Sciences at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt/Main Collaboration on the main focus - organisation of courses - planning and implementation of a research project on "The Limits of the Social" Intensive participation in the discussions on the restructuring of the department |
| 1993-1994 | Lecturer at the Institute of Sociology, FU-Berlin |
| 1993 | Doctorate (Dr. phil.) at the University of Bremen (summa cum laude) |
| August 1991 | Elaboration of the research project "On the social construction of gender" as a doctoral project |
| 1991 | As a representative of the Magnus Hirschfeld Society, collaboration on the memorandum "In favour of an Institute for Gender and Sexuality Research at the Humboldt University in Berlin". It is presented to the director of the Humboldt University in June 1991. |
| 1990-1992 | Research assistant at the Magnus Hirschfeld Society; planning and realisation of a research project "On the social construction of gender" |
| 1989 | Completion of additional training in social therapy |
| 1987-1988 | Research assistant at the Magnus Hirschfeld Society (Berlin) Development of a concept for an interdisciplinary Institute for Sexual Science. |
| 1986 | Start of a social therapy training programme |
| 1985 | Diploma in sociology |
Publications
Monographs
2014 Weltzugänge, Weilerswist: Velbrück.
2009 Thinking the Social from its Limits, Weilerswist: Velbrück.
2003 Disturbing Certainties. On the Genesis of the Concept of Brain Death, Konstanz: Universitätsverlag.
2002 The Limits of the Social. On the socio-technical construction of life and death in intensive care medicine, Munich: Fink. 1993 The Paradoxical Gender. Transsexuality at the intersection of body, flesh and emotion, Frankfurt am Main: Fischer.
Edited by
Books
2008 Theoretical Empiricism: On the Relevance of Qualitative Research, Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp (edited jointly with Herbert Kalthoff and Stefan Hirschauer).
2006 ‘Philosophical Anthropology in the 21st Century’, Berlin: Akademie Verlag (edited jointly with Hans-Peter Krüger).
1994 ‘Axes of Thought: On the Theoretical and Institutional Discourse on Gender’, Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp (edited jointly with Theresa Wobbe).
Book series
Since 2008 ‘Technology – Body – Society’, Bielefeld: transcript (edited jointly with Werner Rammert).
Since 2005 *Philosophical Anthropology*, Berlin: Akademie Verlag (edited jointly with Hans-Peter Krüger).
Articles
2012 ‘The Contingency of the Boundaries of the Social and the Necessity of a Triadic Concept of Communication’, in: Berliner Journal für Soziologie 22(3): 317–340.
2011 “Differentiation in Modern Society. A Perspective Based on the Theory of Border Regimes”, pp. 135–156, in: Schwinn, Thomas, et al. (eds.): Social Differentiation. Action-Theoretical Approaches in Debate, Wiesbaden: VS-Verlag.
“On Latour’s Social Theory and Theory of Society, and His Contribution to Saving the World”, in: Human Studies 34(1): 93–110.
“The Actors in a Functionally Differentiated Society”, pp. 329–350, in: Lüdtke, Nico; Hironori Matsuzaki (eds.): Actor – Individual – Subject: Questions on ‘Personality’ and ‘Sociality’, Wiesbaden: VS-Verlag.
“Anthropology, Social Border Regimes and the Limits of Personhood”, in: Ethics in Medicine 23(1): 35–41.
“Neuronal Expressivity: On the Road to a New Naturalness”, pp. 69–82, in: Ortega, Francisco; Vidal, Fernando (eds.): Neurocultures. Glimpses into an Expanding Universe, Frankfurt am Main/Berlin/Bern/Brussels/New York/Oxford/Vienna: Lang.
2010 “The Problem of the Other. A Comparison of the Social Theories of Plessner and Scheler”, pp. 149–159, in: Becker, Ralf; Fischer, Joachim; Schloßberger, Matthias (eds.): Philosophical Anthropology in Transition.
A Comparison of Max Scheler and Helmuth Plessner, International Yearbook for Philosophical Anthropology, Vol. 2, Berlin: Akademie Verlag.
“The Emergence Function of the Third – Its Significance for the Analysis of the Order of a Functionally Differentiated Society”, in: Zeitschrift für Soziologie 39(6): 493–511.
“The Lived Human Body from the Perspective of the Shared World (Mitwelt)”, in: Journal of Speculative Philosophy 24(3): 275–291.
“Human Beings, Human Rights and Functional Differentiation”, AST Discussion Paper 5-2010, Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg, Working Unit for Sociological Theory
2009 “Social Border Regimes and Social Differentiation”, in: Journal of Sociology 38(2): 94–112. “From Experimental Interaction to the Brain as the Epistemic Object of Neurobiology”, in: Human Studies 32: 153–181. (co-authored with Sigrid Graumann)
“Medicine as a Social Practice – Social Science Empiricism and Ethical Reflection”, in: Ethics in Medicine 21: 235–245.
2008 “‘Allons enfants et faits de la patrie …’ On Latour’s social and societal theory and his contribution to saving the world”, pp. 339–360, in: Kneer, Georg; Schroer, Markus; Schüttpelz, Erhard (eds.): Bruno Latour’s Collectives. Controversies on the Deboundarisation of the Social, Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp.
“Understanding and Explaining in Helmuth Plessner”, pp. 117–142, in: Greshoff, Rainer; Kneer, Georg; Schneider, Wolfgang Ludwig (eds.): Understanding and Explaining. Perspectives from the Social and Cultural Sciences, Munich: Fink.
‘Neural Expressivity: Towards a New Naturalness’, pp. 85–96, in: Accarino, Bruno; Schloßberger, Matthias (eds.): Expressivity and Style. Helmuth Plessner’s Philosophy of the Senses and Expression, International Yearbook for Philosophical Anthropology, Vol. 1, Berlin: Akademie Verlag.
“Theory Construction and Empirical Research”, pp. 107–128, in: Kalthoff, Herbert; Hirschauer, Stefan; Lindemann, Gesa (eds.): Theoretical Empiricism. On the Relevance of Qualitative Research, Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp. (with Sigrid Graumann)
“Sociology of Medicine”, pp. 295–307, in: Kneer, Georg; Schroer, Markus (eds.): Specialised Sociologies. A Handbook, Wiesbaden: VS Verlag. “The Living Body – Technology – Society”, pp. 689–704, in: Rehberg, Karl-Siegbert (ed.): “The Nature of Society”, Proceedings of the 33rd Congress of the German Sociological Association (DGS), Frankfurt am Main: campus.
2007 “Medicine as practice and culture. The analysis of border regimes and the necessity of a hermeneutics of physical bodies”, pp. 47–58, in: Burri, Regula Valérie; Dumit, Joseph (eds): *Biomedicine as Culture: Instrumental Practices, Technoscientific Knowledge, and New Modes of Life*. New York & London: Routledge.
“A Plea for a Methodologically Pluralistic Monism”, pp. 401–410, in: Krüger, Hans Peter (ed.): German Journal of Philosophy, Special Issue 15: The Brain as Subject. Philosophical Boundary Issues in Neurobiology, Berlin: Akademie.
2006 “The Emergence Function and the Constitutive Function of the Third. Perspectives on the Development of a Critical-Systematic Theory”, in: Zeitschrift für Soziologie 35: 82–101.
“The Transintentionality of the Social. An Essay on Comparative Theory and the Claim of Sociological Theory to Social Relevance”, in: Soziologische Revue 28: 5–13.
“Action, Interaction, Communication”, pp. 67–73, in: Scherr, Albert (ed.): Sociological Basics.
An Introduction for Educators and Other Interested Parties, Wiesbaden: VS-Verlag. (in collaboration with Hans-Peter Krüger)
“Foreword to the Series”, pp. 7–9, in: Krüger, Hans-Peter; Lindemann, Gesa (eds.): Philosophical Anthropology in the 21st Century, Berlin: Akademie.
“Foreword to the inaugural volume”, pp. 10–12, in: Krüger, Hans-Peter; Lindemann, Gesa (eds.): Philosophical Anthropology in the 21st Century, Berlin: Akademie.
“Sociology – Anthropology and the Analysis of Social Border Regimes”, pp. 42–62, in: Krüger, Hans-Peter; Lindemann, Gesa (eds.): Philosophical Anthropology in the 21st Century, Berlin: Akademie.
“The Third Person – The Constitutive Minimum of Social Theory”, pp. 125–145, in: Krüger, Hans-Peter; Lindemann, Gesa (eds.): Philosophical Anthropology in the 21st Century, Berlin: Akademie.
“The ‘You’ Perspective in Brain Research”, pp. 263–285, in: Reichertz, Jo; Zaboura, Nadia (eds.): The Brain as Actor – or the Supposed End of the Acting Subject, Wiesbaden: VS-Verlag.
“The Factual Power of the Normative”, in: Journal of Ethics in Medicine 18: 342–347.
2005 “The Analysis of the Borders of the Social World: A Challenge for Sociological Theory”, in: Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, 35: 69–98.
“Comparative Theory and Theoretical Innovation: A Plea for a Critical-Systematic Perspective”, pp. 44–64, in: Schimank, Uwe; Greshoff, Rainer (eds.): What Does Sociology Explain?, Münster: LIT-Verlag.
“The Methodological Approach of Helmuth Plessner’s Reflexive Anthropology”, pp. 83–98, in: Gamm, Gerhard; Gutmann, Mathias; Manzei, Alexandra (eds.): Between Anthropology and Social Theory. On the Renaissance of Helmuth Plessner in the Context of the Modern Life Sciences, Bielefeld: transcript Verlag.
“The Embodiment of the Social: Theoretical Construction and Empirical Research Perspectives”, pp. 114–138, in: Schroer, Marcus (ed.): Sociology of the Body, Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp.
“The Limits of Self-Determination”, in: *Frankfurter Rundschau*, 30 March 2005. “Drawing Boundaries” (interview), in: *Die Philosophin* 16: 69–83.
“Observations on Brain Research”, in: *Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie* 53(5): 761–781. ** Reprinted in: Krüger, Hans Peter (ed.) (2007): *German Journal of Philosophy*, Special Issue 15: ‘The Brain as Subject: Philosophical Boundary Questions in Neurobiology’, pp. 241–261, Berlin: Akademie.
“Understanding and Explaining in Helmuth Plessner”, Technical University Technology Studies Working Papers, TUTS-WP-4-2005.
2004 “Reflexive Anthropology and the Analysis of the Border Regime – On the Relevance of Plessner”, pp. 23–34, in: Bröckling, Ulrich; Bühler, Benjamin; Hahn, Marcus; Schöning, Matthias; Weinberg, Manfred (eds.): Disciplines of Life, Konstanz: Narr.
“Human Dignity and Vitality”, in: Klein, Eckart; Menke, Christoph (eds.): Human Rights and Bioethics, Publications of the Centre for Human Rights, Vol. 21, pp. 146–173, Berlin: Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag.
2003 “Michel Foucault – The Abnormal”; in: *Frankfurter Rundschau*, 19 August 2003. 2002 “The Living Body — an O-topical Object of Scientific Curiosity”, pp. 211–232, in: Barkhaus, Annette; Fleig, Anne (eds.): The Body as an Interface, Munich: Fink.
“A Critique of Sociology”, in: Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 50: 227–245.
“The Reflexive Anthropology of Gender Difference”, pp. 98–111, in: Brüchert, Oliver; Resch, Christine (eds.): Between Domination and Liberation. Political, Cultural and Scientific Strategies, Münster: Westfälisches Dampfboot.
“Person, Consciousness, Life and Purely Technical Artefacts”, pp. 79–100, in: Rammert, Werner; Schulz-Schaeffer, Ingo (eds.): Can Machines Act? Sociological Contributions to the Relationship between Humans and Technology, Frankfurt am Main & New York: campus.
2001 “The Interpretation of ‘Brain Death’”, pp. 305–330, in: Wiesemann, Claudia; Schlich, Thomas (eds.): Brain Death. On the Cultural History of the Determination of Death, Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp. “Body – Flesh – Gender Difference”, pp. 15–38, in: Brander, Stefanie; Schweizer, Reiner; Sitter-Liver, Beat (eds.): Gender Difference and Power, Fribourg (Switzerland): Universitätsverlag.
“The Reflexive Anthropology of the Civilisational Process”, in: Soziale Welt 52: 181–198.
1999 “Consciousness, Body and Biography. Biographical Communication and the Embodiment of Double Contingency”, in: Alheit, Peter et al. (eds.) Biography and the Body, pp. 44–72, Giessen: Psychosozial-Verlag.
“The Limits of the Social”, pp. 186–208, in: Kaupen-Haas, Heidrun; Saller, Christian (eds.): Scientific Racism. Analyses of a Continuity in the Humanities and Natural Sciences, Frankfurt am Main & New York: campus.
“The Practice of Brain Death”, pp. 588–604, in: Honegger, Claudia; Hradil, Stefan; Traxler, Franz (eds.): A Boundless Society?, Frankfurt am Main & New York: campus.
“Double Contingency and Reflexive Anthropology”, in: Zeitschrift für Soziologie 28: 165–181.
1997 “Differences in the Process of Gender Transition and Gender Differences”, pp. 274–291, in: Stoller, Silvia; Vetter, Helmuth (ed.): Phenomenology and Gender Difference, Vienna: Universitätsverlag.
“Ethics: What For?”, in: Ethics and Social Sciences 8: 154–156.
“How Much Order Is Needed?”, in: Journal of Sexual Research 10: 324–331
1996 “Reflections on the Relationship between Body and Flesh from a Semiotic Perspective”, pp. 146–175, in: Barkhaus, Annette (ed.): Identity, Corporeality, Normativity. New Horizons in Anthropological Thought, Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp.
“The Body of Gender Difference”, pp. 73–92, in: European Journal of Women’s Studies, 3: 341–361, reprinted in: Davis, Kathy (ed.): Embodied Practices. Feminist Perspectives on the Body, London/Thousand Oaks/New Delhi: Sage.
1995 “The Intertwining of Body and Flesh as the Theoretical Foundation of a Sociology of the Body and Bodily Experiences”, pp. 133–139, in: Friedrich, Jürgen; Westermann, Bernd (eds.): Under an Open Horizon. Anthropology according to Helmuth Plessner, Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Bern, New York, Paris, Vienna: Peter Lang.
“Gender and Form. The Body as a Conventional Sign of Gender Difference”, pp. 75–92, in: Koch, Gertrud (ed.): Eye and Affect. Perception and Interaction, Frankfurt am Main: Fischer. ** A revised and expanded version has been published in: Pasero, Ursula; Braun, Friederike (eds.): The Construction of Gender, pp. 115–142, Paffenweiler: Centaurus.
1994 (with Theresa Wobbe) “Foreword”, pp. 7–12, in: Wobbe, Theresa; Lindemann, Gesa (eds.): Axes of Thought. On the Theoretical and Institutional Discourse on Gender, Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp.
‘The Construction of Reality and the Reality of Construction’, pp. 115–146, in: Wobbe, Theresa; Lindemann, Gesa (eds.): Axes of Thought. On the Theoretical and Institutional Discourse on Gender, Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp.
“Social Gender Under the Skin”, in: kea – Journal of Cultural Studies 7: 1–12.
1993 “ Magnus Hirschfeld”, pp. 91–104, in: Lautmann, Rüdiger (ed.): Homosexuality. Handbook of Theory and Research History, Frankfurt am Main & New York: campus. “Against the Exclusion of the Body from the Construction of Gender”, in: Feminist Studies 11: 44–54.
1992 “The Physical-Affective Construction of Gender. Towards a Microsociology of Gender Beneath the Skin”, in: Zeitschrift für Soziologie 21: 330–346.
“On the Social Construction of Gender Identity”, pp. 95–102, in: Pfäfflin, Friedemann; Junge, Astrid (eds.): Sex Reassignment. Essays on Transsexuality, Stuttgart & New York: Schattauer.
“Volkmar Sigusch’s ‘insatiable search’ for the good, or why transsexuals must be morally homosexualised”, in: Journal of Sexual Research 5: 191–284.
“The Differences in the Process of Gender Change and the Differences of Gender”, in: Forum on Sexuality (eds.): Proceedings of the Congress “Sexual Cultures in Europe”, 24–26 June 1992 in Amsterdam, Papers Group C: Sexual Codes and Practices.
1990 “The Construction of Gender”, in: Praxis der Psychotherapie und Psychosomatik 35: 272–283. [top] Recent lectures – a selection
2009 “Mononaturalism and Multiculturalism: The Normative-Cognitive Framework of Modernity and the Problem of Human Rights”, lecture at the Institute of Philosophy, University of Bremen, on 8 January 2009.
“The Analysis of Social Border Regimes and the Analysis of Social Differentiation”, lecture at BIGGS, University of Bremen, on 22 January 2009.
“Social and Cultural Science Perspectives on Bioscientific Practices”, lecture at the conference “Political Anthropology and the New Biosciences” at the IFK Vienna, 12–14 March 2009.
“The Atlantic Development of a Universal Normative Institution: The Living Human Being/Human Rights”, invited lecture, Research Workshop on “Europeanisation and Globalisation”, University of Lancaster, 4 and 5 June 2009.
“Human Dignity and Social Order in Social Theory”, lecture at the conference “The Concept of Humanity and Human Dignity – A Stock-taking” at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research, Bielefeld University, 10–11 July 2009.
2008 “Mononaturalism and Multiculturalism: The Normative-Cognitive Framework of Modernity and the Problem of Human Rights”, lecture at the Institute of Philosophy, University of Bremen, 8 January 2009.
“The Embodiment of the Social”, lecture at the conference “Having Bodies – On the Staging and Instrumentalisation of the Body in ‘Individualised’ Societies”, University of Konstanz, 13–14 March 2008.
“(Artificial?) Bodies in (Social?) Interaction”, lecture at the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pontedera, Italy, 28 May 2008.
“Reflexive Anthropology and the Analysis of Social Border Regimes”, lecture at the conference “Philosophical, Social and Literary Anthropology: Their Critiques, Differences and Connections”, Potsdam, 27–28 June 2008.
"Thinking the Social from its Boundaries", inaugural lecture at the University of Oldenburg, 17 June 2008.
“The Implicit Theoretical Convergence of Action and Systems Theories”, keynote lecture at the “Social Theory” conference of the European Sociological Association, Innsbruck, Austria, 11–13 September 2008.
“Species Ethics and Anthropological Difference: Sociological Perspectives”, lecture at the academic symposium: Must Every Human Life Be Protected? On the possible transformation of bioethical arguments concerning the human species between metaphysical baggage, moral intuition and legal feasibility, 4–6 December 2008 at FEST Heidelberg.
2007 “Methodological Problems in Interdisciplinary Collaboration between Neuroscience and Sociology”, presentation at the conference of the DGS ‘Sociological Theory’ section on the topic ‘Hartmut Esser’s integrative social theory’ on 11–12 May 2007, Institute of Sociology, Open University Hagen.
“The Problem of the Other. A Comparison of the Social Theories of Scheler and Plessner”, lecture at the conference “What is Man? Constellations of Philosophical Anthropology between Max Scheler and Helmuth Plessner”, 30 May – 2 June 2007, University of Dresden.
“Human Dignity and Social Differentiation”, a lecture delivered at the ESF conference: Human Dignity: sociological, ethical and bioethical aspects (Rabat, 26–27 June 2007). “Societal Border Regimes and Social Differentiation”, a lecture delivered at the EUROCORES Programme TECT Launch Conference, Collegium Budapest, Institute for Advanced Study, Budapest, Hungary, 4–7 July 2007.
“Neuronal Expressivity: A New Technology of Innocence”, paper presented at the 2007 Meeting of the International Society for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Biology, University of Exeter.
“Human Dignity in a Sociological Perspective”, lecture at the ESF Research Conference on Pathways of Human Dignity, Vadstena, Sweden, 31 October–4 November 2007.
2006 “The Borders of the Social World”, lecture delivered at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge (MS), on 28 February 2006.
“Rethinking Humanness under the conditions of modern border regimes”, paper presented at the EASST Conference, 2006 in Lausanne. “Being a person – being conscious – being alive – being an artefact”, paper presented at the EASST Conference, 2006 in Lausanne d)
“The Living Body – Technology – Society”, lecture delivered at the 33rd Congress of the DGS in Kassel, 9–13 October.
"The Shifting Boundaries of Personhood: The Use of Humans and Animals", paper presented at the workshop “Animal-Human Boundaries: Disciplinary and Spatial Perspectives”, JFK School of Government, Harvard University, 9 November 2006.
2005 “Theory Construction and Empirical Research”, lecture delivered at the annual conference of the “Methods of Qualitative Social Research” section: “Qualitative Social Research and Sociological Theory Formation”, Bielefeld, 6–7 May 2005.
“A Case Study”, commentary on the lecture by J. Fischer, at the conference of the “Sociological Theory” section: “A Comparison of Comparisons of Theories in German Sociology”, TU Dresden, 17–18 June 2005.
Lectures at the University of Exeter on 20 and 21 June 2005: ‘
“Beyond Foucault: The general perspective of an analysis of societal border regimes”; “Sociological concepts, the analysis of societal border regimes and the necessity of a hermeneutics of physical bodies”.
“The practical limits of the social”, lecture delivered at the conference: Life and Cultures – The Diffusion of the Human, Humboldt University of Berlin, 14–16 July 2005.
2004 “Beyond Recognition”, lecture delivered on 23 March 2004 at the Institute for Humanity, Ethics and Science (Berlin).
“The Third. Perspectives on the Development of a Critical-Systematic Theory”, lecture delivered at the DGS Congress on 8 October 2004 in Munich.
2003 “The Need for Clear Boundaries: Brain Death and Organ Transplantation”, lecture at the conference “Healthy Bodies – Sick Society? Medicine in the Age of Biopolitics”, Institute for Social Research, Frankfurt am Main, 22–25 May 2003.
“Where Do the Criteria for Human Normality Come From?”, lecture at the Potsdam Centre for Human Rights as part of the colloquium “Human Rights and Bioethics”, 4–5 July 2003.
“What do such comparisons of theories achieve? — Perspectives on a critical-systematic comparison of theories”, lecture at the conference of the Sociological Theories Section “Methodologies, Perspectives, Models – What Does Sociology Explain?” on 21–22 November 2003
2002 “Person or System. A Comparison of Simmel’s and Luhmann’s Concepts of Differentiation”, lecture at the 31st Congress of the German Sociological Association, 7–11 October 2002 in Leipzig.
“Reflexive Anthropology and the Analysis of the Border Regime: On the Relevance of Helmuth Plessner”, lecture at the conference “Disciplines of Life”, University of Konstanz, 28–30 November 2002.
2001 “ Reactivity and Relational Complexity: An Attempt at a Critical-Reflexive Observation of Intensive Care Medicine”, lecture at the conference of the Working Group on Qualitative Methods, 4–5 May 2001, Greifswald.
“The Limits of Knowledge”, lecture as part of the research colloquium of the SFB Literature and Anthropology, 30 May 2001, Konstanz.
“A Critique of Sociology”, lecture at the Congress of the Swiss Sociological Association, 19–22 September 2001, Geneva.
2000 “Machine-Supported Subjectivity: The Intensive Care Patient”, presented at the 4S/EASST Conference 2000, Worlds in Transition, 27–30 September 2000, Vienna.
"Plessner’s Theory of Science in the Minefield of the ‘Science Wars’", presented at the conference: Helmuth Plessner — Eccentric Positionality, International Congress, 2–4 November 2000, Freiburg im Breisgau.
Miscellaneous
1998 As a member of the “Dying and Death” working group of the Academy for Ethics in Medicine: Living Will, Care Directive, Durable Power of Attorney. A Guide for Doctors and Carers, Göttingen.
1991 in collaboration with others: “Towards an Institute for Gender and Sexuality Studies at Humboldt University in Berlin – Memorandum”, presented to the Director of Humboldt University in June 1991.
Book reviews and shorter articles in:
Journal of Sex Research
*Psyche*
Der Tagesspiegel
Frankfurter Rundschau
die tageszeitung
Sociological Review