Upcoming events

Events held (selection)

This year's conference of the Junior Research Group Environmental Sociology entitled "TRANSFORMATION for whom?//by whom?//with whom? *** Episteme_Agencies_ Institutions_political economy & [_]". Organised by Lina Hansen, Lea Zentgraf, Leonie Reuter, Marvin Neubauer and Ronja Schröder.

Symposium "Music and Society" on 07.10.2022 in the BIS Hall of the University of Oldenburg. Organised by students and staff of the University of Oldenburg.

Sociological imagination revisited: How much innovation does sociological theory need and tolerate (Section conference of the Sociological Theory Section; 30 June/01 July 2022 at the University of Bonn); organised together with Daniel Witte.

Theorizing polarised worlds (Section event at the 41st Congress of the DGS 2022 in Bielefeld); organisation together with Heike Delitz, Robert Seyfert and Daniel Witte.

Open conference of the Sociological Theory Section (Section conference of the Sociological Theory Section; 18-19.11.2021); organisation together with Heike Delitz, Robert Seyfert, Jasmin Siri and Daniel Witte.

The Ecological Question. Herausforderung für die Soziologie (Sektionstagung der DGS-Sektion Soziologische Theorie im digitalen Format; 21.-22.01.2021); organisation together with Andreas Folkers and Katharina Hoppe.

Presence, Communication and Interaction in the Space of Digitalisation (2nd conference of the working group "Digitalisation as a Challenge for Sociological Theory" in digital format; 03.-04.12.2020); organisation together with Jörg Pohle, Sascha Dickel and Gesa Lindemann. We kindly ask for a binding registration until 1 December 2020 at: www.hiig.de/events/raum-der-digitalisierung/

Basic concepts under tension: How digitalisation challenges concepts of actors and communication (ad hoc group at the 40th Congress of the DGS in Berlin, 14-25 September 2020); organisation as spokesperson of the working group "Digitalisation as a challenge for sociological theory" together with the co-spokespersons of the working group Sascha Dickel, Gesa Lindemann, Jörg Pohle.

Infrastructure and Normativity - a Relationship under Tension (ad hoc group at the 40th Congress of the DGS in Berlin, 14-25.09.2020); organisation together with Jonas Barth, Johanna Fröhlich, Gesa Lindemann.

Is the unavailable a new key category in sociology? (Ad hoc group at the 40th Congress of the DGS in Berlin, 14-25.09. 2020); organisation together with Thomas Alkemeyer.

Zwischen Sorge und Kontrolle - die ökologische Gesellschaft unter Spannung (Ad hoc group at the 40th Congress of the DGS in Berlin, 14.-25.09. 2020); organisation together with Franziska Dahlmeier, Lisa Henke.

Ecology 2.0 - What contribution can philosophical anthropology make to solving the ecological crisis? (Workshop at the University of Bremen; 13.-14.02.2020); funded by the Helmuth Plessner Society.

Digitalisation as a Challenge for Sociological Theory (founding conference of the working group "Digitalisation as a Challenge for Sociological Theory" of the DGS section Sociological Theory at the Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG) in Berlin; 06.-07.12.2019); organisation together with Jörg Pohle.

Critical Social Theory or Theory of Critical Society? (Workshop at the Guest House of the Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg; 14.11.2019); organisation together with Jonas Barth.

Farewell or Renaissance of the Power of Control? Sustainability and the Un/availability of Social-Ecological Society Design (Forums "Fields of Transformation" at the DGS Regional Conference "Great Transformation" at Friedrich Schiller University Jena; 23.-27.09.2019); organised together with Anna Henkel and Björn Wendt.

Stress. Phenomenological perspectives on a social problem (4th annual conference of the working group "Interdisciplinary Working Group Phenomenologies and Sociology (IAPS)" of the DGS section Sociological Theory at the University of Passau; 27-28.06.2019); organised together with Robert Gugutzer and Anna Henkel.

Actuality and Potential of Double Aspectivity and Unfathomability. Perspectives and figures of the unavailable following Helmuth Plessner (workshop at Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg; 21-22-06.2019); funded by MWK.

Sustainable Mobility (DFG Network Meeting of the Scientific Network "Sociology of Sustainability" at Humboldt University Berlin; 21.-22-03.2019); organised together with Matthias Schloßberger.

Umweltsoziologie als Soziologie der Nachhaltigkeit? (Section event of the Environmental Sociology Section at the 39th Congress of the German Sociological Association: Complex Dynamics of Global and Local Developments; University of Göttingen; 24-28.09.2018); organised together with Matthias Groß.