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 Das Soziale von seinen Grenzen her denken, Weilerswist: Velbrück.
2003 Unsettling 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 paradox of gender. Transsexuality in the Field of Tension between Body, Body and Feeling, Frankfurt/Main: Fischer.
Publication
Books
2008 Theoretical Empiricism. Zur Relevanz qualitativer Forschung", Frankfurt/Main: Suhrkamp (ed. together with Herbert Kalthoff and Stefan Hirschauer).
2006 "Philosophische Anthropologie im 21. Jahrhundert", Berlin: Akademie Verlag (ed. together with Hans-Peter Krüger) .
1994 Thinking Axes. Zur theoretischen und institutionellen Rede vom Geschlecht", Frankfurt/Main: Suhrkamp (ed. together with Theresa Wobbe).
Book series
Since 2008 "Technik - Körper - Gesellschaft", Bielefeld: transcript (ed. with Werner Rammert).
Since 2005 Philosophical Anthropology, Berlin: Akademie Verlag (ed. together with Hans-Peter Krüger).
Essays
2012"Die Kontingenz der Grenzen des Sozialen und die Notwendigkeit eines triadischen Kommunikationsbegriffs", in: Berliner Journal für Soziologie 22(3): 317-340.
2011"Differentiation of modern society. Eine grenzregimetheoretische Perspektive", pp. 135-156, in: Schwinn, Thomas, et al. (eds.): Soziale Differenzierung. Action-theoretical approaches in the discussion, 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.
"Die Akteure der funktional differenzierten Gesellschaft", pp. 329-350, in: Lüdtke, Nico; Hironori Matsuzaki (eds.): Akteur - Individuum - Subjekt: Fragen zu 'Personalität' und 'Sozialität', Wiesbaden: VS-Verlag.
"Anthropology, social boundary 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/M./Berlin/Bern/Bruxelles/New York/Oxford/Wien: 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.): Philosophische Anthropologie im Aufbruch.
Max Scheler and Helmuth Plessner in Comparison, Internationales Jahrbuch für Philosophische Anthropologie, vol. 2, Berlin: Akademie Verlag.
"Die Emergenzfunktion des Dritten - ihre Bedeutung für die Analyse der Ordnung einer funktional differenzierten Gesellschaft", 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 Sociological Theory
2009 "Gesellschaftliche Grenzregime und soziale Differenzierung", in: Zeitschrift für Soziologie 38(2): 94-112. "From Experimental Interaction to the Brain as the Epistemic Object of Neurobiology", in: Human Studies 32: 153-181. (together with Sigrid Graumann)
"Medizin als gesellschaftliche Praxis - sozialwissenschaftliche Empirie und ethische Reflexion", 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 Latours Kollektive. Kontroversen zur Entgrenzung des Sozialen, Frankfurt/M.: Suhrkamp.
"Verstehen und Erklären bei Helmuth Plessner", pp. 117-142, in: Greshoff, Rainer; Kneer, Georg; Schneider, Wolfgang Ludwig (eds.): Verstehen und Erklären. Perspectives from the Social and Cultural Sciences, Munich: Fink.
"Neuronale Expressivität: Auf dem Weg zur neuen Natürlichkeit", pp. 85-96, in: Accarino, Bruno; Schloßberger, Matthias (eds.): Expressivität und Stil. Helmuth Plessners Sinnes- und Ausdrucksphilosophie, Internationales Jahrbuch für Philosophische Anthropologie, vol. 1, Berlin: Akademie Verlag.
"Theoriekonstruktion und empirische Forschung", pp. 107-128, in: Kalthoff, Herbert; Hirschauer, Stefan; Lindemann, Gesa (eds.): Theoretische Empirie. On the relevance of qualitative research, Frankfurt/M.: Suhrkamp (together with Sigrid Graumann)
"Medizinsoziologie", pp. 295-307, in: Kneer, Georg; Schroer, Markus (eds.): Spezielle Soziologien. A Handbook, Wiesbaden: VS Verlag. "Lebendiger Körper - Technik - Gesellschaft", pp. 689-704, in: Rehberg, Karl-Siegbert (ed.): "Die Natur der Gesellschaft", Verhandlungsband des 33. Kongresses der DGS, Frankfurt/M.: 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.
"Plädoyer für einen methodologisch pluralistischen Monismus", pp. 401-410, in: Krüger, Hans Peter (ed.): Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie, Sonderband 15: Hirn als Subjekt. Philosophische Grenzfragen der Neurobiologie, Berlin: Akademie.
2006 "The emergent function and the constitutive function of the third. Perspektiven einer kritisch-systematischen Theorieentwicklung", in: Zeitschrift für Soziologie 35: 82-101.
"The Transintentionality of the Social. An attempt at theory comparisons 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.
Eine Einführung für PädagogInnen und andere Interessierte, Wiesbaden: VS-Verlag. (together with Hans-Peter Krüger)
"Foreword to the series", pp. 7-9, in: Krüger, Hans-Peter; Lindemann, Gesa (eds.): Philosophische Anthropologie im 21. Jahrhundert, Berlin: Akademie.
"Vorwort zum Eröffnungsband", pp. 10-12, in: Krüger, Hans-Peter; Lindemann, Gesa (eds.): Philosophische Anthropologie im 21. Jahrhundert, Berlin: Akademie.
"Soziologie - Anthropologie und die Analyse gesellschaftlicher Grenzregime", pp. 42-62, in: Krüger, Hans-Peter; Lindemann, Gesa (eds.): Philosophische Anthropologie im 21. Jahrhundert, Berlin: Akademie.
"Die dritte Person - Das konstitutive Minimum der Sozialtheorie", pp. 125-145, in: Krüger, Hans-Peter; Lindemann, Gesa (eds.): Philosophische Anthropologie im 21. Jahrhundert, Berlin: Akademie.
"Die Du-Perspektive in der Hirnforschung", pp. 263-285, in: Reichertz, Jo; Zaboura, Nadia (eds.): Akteur Gehirn - oder das vermeintliche Ende des handelnden Subjekts, Wiesbaden: VS-Verlag.
"Die faktische Kraft des Normativen", 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.
"Theory comparison and theory innovation. Plädoyer für eine kritisch-systematische Perspektive", pp. 44-64, in: Schimank, Uwe; Greshoff, Rainer (eds.): Was erklärt die Soziologie?, Münster: LIT-Verlag.
"Der methodologische Ansatz der reflexiven Anthropologie Helmuth Plessners", pp. 83-98, in: Gamm, Gerhard; Gutmann, Mathias; Manzei, Alexandra (eds.): Zwischen Anthropologie und Gesellschaftstheorie. On the Renaissance of Helmuth Plessner in the Context of the Modern Life Sciences, Bielefeld: transcript Verlag.
"The embodiment of the social. Theoriekonstruktion und empirische Forschungsperspektiven", pp. 114-138, in: Schroer, Marcus (ed.): Soziologie des Körpers, Frankfurt/M.: Suhrkamp.
"Die Grenzen der Selbstbestimmung", in: Frankfurter Rundschau, 30 March 2005. "Grenzziehungen" (Interview), in: Die Philosophin 16: 69-83.
"Beobachtung der Hirnforschung", in: German Journal of Philosophy 53(5): 761-781. ** Reprinted in: Krüger, Hans Peter (ed.)(2007): Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie, Sonderband 15: "Hirn als Subjekt. Philosophische Grenzfragen der Neurobiologie", pp. 241-261, Berlin: Akademie.
"Verstehen und Erklären bei Helmuth Plessner", Technical University Technology Studies Working Papers, TUTS-WP-4-2005.
2004 "Reflexive Anthropologie und die Analyse des Grenzregimes - Zur Aktualität Plessners", pp. 23-34, in: Bröckling, Ulrich; Bühler, Benjamin; Hahn, Marcus; Schöning, Matthias; Weinberg, Manfred (eds.): Disciplines of Life, Konstanz: Narr.
"Menschenwürde und Lebendigkeit", in: Klein, Eckart; Menke, Christoph (eds.): Menschenrechte und Bioethik, Schriften des MenschenRechtsZentrums, Vol. 21, pp. 146-173, Berlin: Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag.
2003 "Michel Foucault - Die Abnormalen"; in: Frankfurter Rundschau, 19 August 2003. 2002 "Der lebendige Körper - ein ou-topisches Objekt der szientifischen Wißbegierde", pp. 211-232, in: Barkhaus, Annette; Fleig, Anne (eds.): Der Körper als Schnittstelle, Munich: Fink.
"Critique of Sociology", in: German Journal of Philosophy 50: 227-245.
"Die reflexive Anthropologie der Geschlechterdifferenz", pp. 98-111, in: Brüchert, Oliver; Resch, Christine (eds.): Zwischen Herrschaft und Befreiung. Political, cultural and scientific strategies, Münster: Westfälisches Dampfboot.
"Person, consciousness, life and only-technical artefacts", pp. 79-100, in: Rammert, Werner; Schulz-Schaeffer, Ingo (eds.): Können Maschinen handeln? Sociological contributions to the relationship between humans and technology, Frankfurt/M. & New York: Campus.
2001 "Die Interpretation 'hirntot'", pp. 305-330, in: Wiesemann, Claudia; Schlich, Thomas (eds.): Hirntod. Zur Kulturgeschichte der Todesfeststellung, Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp. "Körper - Leib - Geschlechterdifferenz", pp. 15-38, in: Brander, Stefanie; Schweizer, Reiner; Sitter-Liver, Beat (eds.): Geschlechterdifferenz und Macht, Freiburg (Switzerland): Universitätsverlag.
"The reflexive anthropology of the civilisation process", in: Soziale Welt 52: 181-198.
1999 "Consciousness, Body and Biography. Biographical communication and the embodiment of double contingency", in: Alheit, Peter e.a. (eds.) Biographie und Leib, pp. 44-72, Gießen: Psychosozial-Verlag.
"Die Grenzen des Sozialen", pp. 186-208, in: Kaupen-Haas, Heidrun; Saller, Christian (eds.): Wissenschaftlicher Rassismus. Analyses of a continuity in the human and natural sciences, Frankfurt/M. & New York: Campus.
"Die Praxis des Hirnsterbens", pp. 588-604, in: Honegger, Claudia; Hradil, Stefan; Traxler, Franz (eds.): Grenzenlose Gesellschaft?, Frankfurt/Main & New York: Campus.
"Doppelte Kontingenz und reflexive Anthropologie", in: Journal of Sociology 28: 165-181.
1997 "Die Differenzen im Prozeß der Geschlechtsveränderung und die Differenzen der Geschlechter", pp. 274-291, in: Stoller, Silvia; Vetter, Helmuth (eds.): Phänomenologie und Geschlechterdifferenz, Vienna: Universitätsverlag.
"Ethik wozu?", in: Ethics and Social Sciences 8: 154-156.
"Wieviel Ordnung muß sein?", in: Journal for Sexual Research 10: 324-331
1996 "Zeichentheoretische Überlegungen zum Verhältnis von Körper und Leib", pp. 146-175, in: Barkhaus, Annette (ed.): Identität, Leiblichkeit, Normativität. New Horizons of Anthropological Thinking, Frankfurt/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 "Die Verschränkung von Körper und Leib als theoretische Grundlage einer Soziologie des Körpers und leiblicher Erfahrungen", pp. 133-139, in: Friedrich, Jürgen; Westermann, Bernd (eds.): Unter offenem Horizont. Anthropologie nach Helmuth Plessner, Frankfurt/Main, Berlin, Bern, New York, Paris, Vienna: Peter Lang.
"Gender and Gestalt. Der Körper als konventionelles Zeichen der Geschlechterdifferenz", pp. 75-92, in: Koch, Gertrud (ed.): Auge und Affekt. Perception and Interaction, Frankfurt/Main: Fischer. ** A revised and expanded version has been published in: Pasero, Ursula; Braun, Friederike (eds.): Konstruktion von Geschlecht, pp. 115-142, Paffenweiler: Centaurus.
1994 (with Theresa Wobbe) "Foreword", pp. 7-12, in: Wobbe, Theresa; Lindemann, Gesa (eds.): Denkachsen. Zur theoretischen und institutionellen Rede vom Geschlecht, Frankfurt/Main: Suhrkamp.
"Die Konstruktion der Wirklichkeit und die Wirklichkeit der Konstruktion", pp. 115-146, in: Wobbe, Theresa; Lindemann, Gesa (eds.): Denkachsen. Zur theoretischen und institutionellen Rede vom Geschlecht, Frankfurt/Main: Suhrkamp.
"Das soziale Geschlecht unter der Haut", in: kea - Zeitschrift für Kulturwissenschaften 7: 1-12.
1993 "Magnus Hirschfeld", pp. 91-104, in: Lautmann, Rüdiger (ed.): Homosexualität. Handbuch der Theorieund Forschungsgeschichte, Frankfurt/Main & New York: Campus. "Wider die Verdrängung des Leibes aus der Geschlechtskonstruktion", in: Feministische Studien 11: 44-54.
1992 "The bodily-affective construction of gender. In favour of a microsociology of gender under the skin", in: Zeitschrift für Soziologie 21: 330-346.
"Zur sozialen Konstruktion der Geschlechtszugehörigkeit", pp. 95-102, in: Pfäfflin, Friedemann; Junge, Astrid (eds.): Geschlechtsumwandlung. Treatises on Transsexuality, Stuttgart & New York: Schattauer.
"Volkmar Sigusch's 'insatiable search' for the good or why transsexuals must be morally homosexualised", in: Zeitschrift für Sexualforschung 5: 191-284.
"The Differences in the Process of Gender-Change and the Differences of Gender", in: Forum on Sexuality (ed.): Proceedings of the Congress "Sexual Cultures in Europe", 24-26 June 1992 in Amsterdam, Papers Group C: Sexual Codes and Practices.
1990 "Construction of Gender", in: Praxis der Psychotherapie und Psychosomatik 35: 272-283. [back to top] Recent lectures - selection
2009"Mononaturalität und Multikulturalität: Der normativ-kognitive Rahmen der Moderne und das Problem der Menschenrechte", lecture at the Institute of Philosophy, University of Bremen on 8 January 2009.
"Die Analyse gesellschaftlicher Grenzregime und die Analyse sozialer Differenzierung", lecture at the BIGGS, University of Bremen on 22 January 2009.
"Sozial- und kulturwissenschaftliche Perspektiven biowissenschaftlicher Praktiken", lecture at the conference "Politische Anthropologie und neue Biowissenschaften" 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 Lancester 4th and 5th of June 2009.
"Menschenwürde und gesellschaftliche Ordnung in der Gesellschaftstheorie", lecture at the conference "Menschenbild und Menschenwürde - eine Bestandsaufnahme" at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research at Bielefeld University, 10-11 July 2009.
2008"Mononaturalität und Multikulturalität: Der normativ-kognitive Rahmen der Moderne und das Problem der Menschenrechte", lecture at the Institute of Philosophy, University of Bremen, 8 January 2009.
"Die Verkörperung des Sozialen", lecture at the conference "Körper Haben - zur Inszenierung und Instrumentalisierung des Körpers in 'individualisierten' Gesellschaften", 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 "Philosophische, soziale und literarische Anthropologie. Their Critiques, Differences and Connections", Potsdam 27-28 June 2008.
"Das Soziale von seinen Grenzen her denken", inaugural lecture at the University of Oldenburg, Oldenburg, 17 June 2008.
"The implicit theoretical convergence of action and systems theories", keynote lecture at the conference "Social Theory" of the European Sociological Association, Innsbruck, Austria, 11-13 September 2008.
"Gattungsethik und anthropologische Differenz. Sociological Perspectives", lecture at the scientific symposium: Must every human life be protected? Zur möglichen Transformation von bioethischen Gattungsargumenten zwischen metaphysischem Ballast, moral Intuition und rechtlicher Umsetzbarkeit, 4-6 December 2008 at the FEST Heidelberg.
2007"Methodologische Probleme der interdisziplinären Zusammenarbeit von Neurowissenschaft und Soziologie", lecture at the conference of the DGS section "Soziologische Theorie" on "Die integrative Sozialtheorie von Hartmut Esser" on 11-12 May 2007, Institute of Sociology, Open University Hagen.
"The problem of the other. Ein Vergleich der Sozialtheorien bei Scheler und Plessner", lecture at the conference "Was ist der Mensch? Constellations of Philosophical Anthropology between Max Scheler and Helmuth Plessner", 30 May - 2 June 2007, University of Dresden.
"Human Dignity and Social Differentiation", lecture given at the ESF Conference: Human Dignity: sociological, ethical and bioethical aspects (Rabat, June 26-27, 2007. "Societal Border Regimes and Social Differentiation, lecture given 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 Conference of the International Society for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Biology, 2007 Meeting, University of Exeter.
"Human Dignity in a Sociological Perspective", paper presented 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 given at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge (Ms), 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)
"Lebendiger Körper - Technik - Gesellschaft", lecture given 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, November 9th 2006.
2005"Theoriekonstruktion und empirische Forschung" (Theory Construction and Empirical Research), paper presented at the Annual Conference Section "Methods of Qualitative Social Research": "Qualitative Sozialforschung und soziologische Theoriebildung", Bielefeld 6-7 May 2005.
"Vergleich an einem Fall", commentary on the lecture by J. Fischer, at the conference of the section "Soziologische Theorie": "Vergleich der Theorienvergleiche in der deutschen Soziologie", 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".
"Die praktischen Grenzen des Sozialen", lecture given at the conference: Life and Cultures - The Diffusion of the Human, Humboldt University Berlin 14-16 July 2005.
2004 "Jenseits von Anerkennung", lecture given on 23 March 2004, at the Institute Mensch, Ethik und Wissenschaft (Berlin).
"The Third. Perspektiven einer kritisch-systematischen Theorieentwicklung", lecture given at the DGS congress on 8 October 2004 in Munich.
2003 "Der Zwang zur klaren Grenze. Hirntod und Organtransplantation", lecture at the conference "Gesunde Körper - Kranke Gesellschaft? Medicine in the Age of Biopolitics", Institute for Social Research, Frankfurt/Main, 22-25 May 2003.
"Woher stammen die Kriterien menschlicher Normalität" [Where do the criteria of human normality come from], lecture at the Human Rights Centre Potsdam as part of the colloquium "Menschenrechte und Bioethik" [Human Rights and Bioethics], 4-5 July 2003.
"What are the benefits of theory comparisons? - Perspektiven eines kritisch-systematischen Theorievergleichs", lecture at the conference of the Section for Sociological Theories "Methodologies, Perspectives, Models - Was erklärt die Soziologie?" 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. Zur Aktualität von Helmuth Plessner", lecture at the conference "Disciplines of Life", University of Konstanz, 28-30 Nov. 2002.
2001 "Reaktivität und Beziehungskomplexität: Versuch einer kritisch-reflexiven Beobachtung der Intensivmedizin", lecture at the conference of the AG-Qualitative Methoden, 4-5 May 2001, Greifswald.
"Grenzen des Wissens", lecture at the research colloquium of the SFB Literature and Anthropology, 30 May 2001, Constance.
"Kritik der Soziologie", lecture at the Congress of the Swiss Sociological Association, 19-22 September 2001, Geneva.
2000"Machine-Supported Subjectivity: The Intensive Care Patient", held: 4S/EASST Conference 2000, Worlds in Transition, 27-30 Sept. 2000, Vienna.
"Plessners Wissenschaftstheorie im Minenfeld der 'science wars'", held at the conference: Helmuth Plessner - Eccentric Positionality, International Congress 2-4 Nov. 2000, Freiburg i. Br.
Miscellaneous
1998 as a member of the "Dying and Death" working group of the Academy for Ethics in Medicine: Patient Decree, Care Decree, Healthcare Proxy. A guide for doctors and carers, Göttingen.
1991together with others: "Für ein Institut für Geschlechter- und Sexualforschung an der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin - Memorandum", presented to the director of the Humboldt University in June 1991.
Book reviews and shorter articles in:
Journal for Sexual Research
Psyche
The Tagesspiegel
Frankfurter Rundschau
the daily newspaper
Sociological Review