Conference appearances and guest lectures
Alkemeyer, Thomas / Buschmann, Nikolaus / Hamborg, Steffen / Sulmowski, Jędrzej (2020): The imaginary of practice. Collective subjectivation in the context of sustainable development. Lecture in the section event of the Sociological Theory Section "Collective Identities: Sociological Theo-ry, Analysis, Critique" (Heike Delitz, Jasmin Siri and Robert Seyfert) at the 40th Congress of the German Sociological Association, 14-25 September 2020.
Bosančić, Saša / Hamborg, Steffen (2019): Symbolic Crusades and Discursive Struggles - Analysing Regimes of Power/Knowledge with the Sociology of Knowledge Approach to Discourse. Panel at the 3rd DiscourseNet Congress (DNC) "Knowledge and Power in a Polycentric World", Université de Cergy-Pontoise, Gennevilliers (France), 11-14 September 2019.
Hamborg, Steffen / Bosančić, Saša (2019): Ontological and methodological remarks on the SKAD perspective (with Saša Bosančić). Presentation in the panel "Symbolic Crusades and Discursive Struggles - Analyzing Regimes of Power/Knowledge with the Sociology of Knowledge Approach to Discourse" (Saša Bosančić and Steffen Hamborg) at the 3rd DiscourseNet Congress (DNC) "Knowledge and Power in a Polycentric World", Université de Cergy-Pontoise, Gennevilliers (France), 11-14 September 2019.
Hamborg, Steffen / Bunk, Benjamin (2022): The pedagogy of social movements. Questions of educational science delimitations of gaze and counter-stand. Symposium at the 28th Congress of the German Society for Educational Science (DGfE) "Ent|Grenz|Ungen", University of Bremen, 13-16 March 2022.
Hamborg, Steffen (2022): Education - Change - Utopia. On old and new drafts of a higher education of humanity. Lecture in the event series "Blickwinkel" (guest students/studium generale) in the area "Offene Hochschule" at the University of Oldenburg, probably July 2022.
Hamborg, Steffen (2022): Social movements in the mirror of educational science delimitations. Historical-systematic explorations using the example of ecovillages. Lecture at the symposium "Das Pädagogische sozialer Bewegungen. Fragen erziehungswissenschaftlicher Entgrenzungen von Blick und Gegen-Stand" (Steffen Hamborg and Benjamin Bunk) at the 28th Congress of the German Society for Educational Science (DGfE) "Ent|Grenz|Ungen", University of Bremen, 13-16 March 2022.
Hamborg, Steffen (2022): Education - Power - Transformation. On the topicality and problems of drafts of a higher education of humanity. Opening lecture at the conference "Politische Bildung und gesellschaftliche Transformation" of the Gesellschaft für Politikdidaktik und politische Jugend- und Erwachsenenbildung (GPJE), Foundation University of Hildesheim, 4-5 March 2022.
Hamborg, Steffen (2022): Learning in growth-critical educational projects. Discussant at the Aachener Bildungsgespräche at RWTH Aachen University, 19 January 2022.
Hamborg, Steffen (2021): Education in the (post-)growth society. Guest speaker at the Aachen Education Talks at RWTH Aachen University, 8 December 2021.
Hamborg, Steffen (2021): Showing that it can be done differently. The niche and the pedagogical. Lecture at the online conference "Reiz der Nische - Zeit.Räume der Nachhaltigkeit" of the joint project "Transformation durch Gemeinschaft - Prozesse kollektiver Subjektivierung im Kontext nachhaltiger Entwicklung", University of Oldenburg, 18-20 November 2021.
Hamborg, Steffen (2021): Generativity as a topos of pedagogical utopia, nature and crisis relations. Lecture at the annual conference "Generation und Weitergabe - Zwischen Erbe und Zukunft" of the Kommission Bildungs- und Erziehungsphilosophie der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Erziehungswissenschaft (DGfE), Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, 20-23 September 2021.
Hamborg, Steffen (2021): Institutions of the pedagogical in socio-ecological transformation movements. Empirical localisations and time-diagnostic reconstructions. Presentation at the annual conference "Zwischen Transformation und Tradierung - Qualitative Forschung zum Wandel pädagogischer Institutionen" of the Commission for Qualitative Educational and Biographical Research of the German Educational Research Association (DGfE), Bielefeld University, 15-17 September 2021.
Hamborg, Steffen (2021): Showing that there is another way. Transformative Communities as Late Modern Institutings of the Pedagogical. Presentation at the European Conference on Educational Research (ECER) 2021 "Education and Society: expectations, prescriptions, reconciliations" in Network 30. Environmental and Sustainability Education Research (ESER), Université de Genève (Switzerland), 6-10 September 2021.
Hamborg, Steffen (2020): "Zeigen, dass es anders geht" - Transformative Communities as Late Modern Institutions of the Pedagogical. Lecture at the conference of the working group "Bildung und Soziale Bewegungen", Rauischholzhausen, 20/21 November 2020.
Hamborg, Steffen (2020): Showing that there is another way - Transformative Communities as pedagogic institutions of late modernity. Presentation at the DiscourseNet Conference (DN) 25 "Global Dispositives. Infrastructures and Discursive Imaginaries of Geopolitical Realities", Tyumen University (Russia), 12-13 November 2020.
Rakebrand, Johanna (2021): Sustainability community as a place of longing for modernity? Reflections on the creation of a contemporary niche. Lecture at the online conference "Reiz der Nische - Zeit.Räume der Nachhaltigkeit" of the joint project "Transformation durch Gemeinschaft - Prozesse kollektiver Subjektivierung im Kontext nachhaltiger Entwicklung", University of Oldenburg, 18-20 November 2021.
Rakebrand, Johanna (2021): The Attractiveness of the Alternative. Utopia, Idyll and German Sustainability Initiatives from a Systems Theory Perspective, Idyll and Utopia - Graduate Conference, Princeton University (Remote), October 8 and 9, 2021 (participation cancelled).
Rakebrand, Johanna (2020): F[r]iktion village. Zur gängigen Rede von Stadt und Land, lecture at the opening of the exhibition "Fiktion Dorf? Between Pixel and Brushstroke", on 30 April 2020 at the Landesbibliothek Oldenburg. [Event was cancelled due to the corona pandemic].
Rakebrand, Johanna (2020): Back to the roots? Into the future? Outside of time? Thoughts on how we use "Idyll" and "Utopia" when talking about ecovillages, Graduate Conference "Idyll and Utopia", Princeton University, April 17 and 18 2020. [Event was cancelled due to the Corona pandemic]
Schmeiduch, Lena (2021): The Individual Path to the Niche - Psychological Perspectives on Sustainability Communities. Lecture at the online conference "Reiz der Nische - Zeit.Räume der Nachhaltigkeit" of the joint project "Transformation durch Gemeinschaft - Prozesse kollektiver Subjektivierung im Kontext nachhaltiger Entwicklung", University of Oldenburg, 18-20 November 2021.
Schmeiduch, Lena / Mueller, Karsten (2021). The Role of Past and Future Orientation for Sustainable Engagement in the Context of Sustainability Communities. Conference Time and Sustainability, Berlin, Germany (online conference), 07-08 October 2021.
Schmeiduch, Lena / Betzler, Shirin / Kempen, Regina / Mueller, Karsten (2021): Sustainable development through solidarity agriculture: What factors influence engagement in transformative communities? 12th conference of the Division of Work, Organisational and Economic Psychology of the German Psychological Society, Chemnitz, Germany (online conference), 22-24 September 2021.
Schmeiduch, Lena / Blumenschein, Paula / Betzler, Shirin / Kempen, Regina / Mueller, Karsten (2021): Pathways to sustainable action: Narratives in transformative communities. 20th European Round Table on Sustainable Consumption and Production, Graz, Austria, 08-10 September 2021.
Schmeiduch, Lena / Betzler, Shirin / Kempen, Regina / Mueller, Karsten (2020): Transformative sustainability-oriented communities: Examining factors behind participation in a German community supported agriculture. 52nd Congress of the German Psychological Society, Vienna, Austria, 13-17 September 2020 [Event was cancelled due to the corona pandemic].
Schmeiduch, Lena / Betzler, Shirin / Mueller, Karsten (2020): Transformation by community - Developing an integrative collective action framework to explain participation in transformative sustainable-oriented communities. 4th International SCORAI Conference 2020, Boston, USA (online conference), 10-12 June 2020.
Schulz, Jonas (2021): Science communication as niche communication - a recipe for success? Presentation at the online conference "Reiz der Nische - Zeit.Räume der Nachhaltigkeit" of the joint project "Transformation durch Gemeinschaft - Prozesse kollektiver Subjektivierung im Kontext nachhaltiger Entwicklung", University of Oldenburg, 18-20 November 2021.
Sulmowski, Jedrzej (2021): Contested Transformativity. Designs, images and evaluations of niche-induced social transformation. Lecture at the online conference "Reiz der Nische - Zeit.Räume der Nachhaltigkeit" of the joint project "Transformation durch Gemeinschaft - Prozesse kollektiver Subjektivierung im Kontext nachhaltiger Entwicklung", University of Oldenburg, 18-20 November 2021.
Sulmowski, Jedrzej (2020): The factual power of prototopias. On the Experimental Construction of Reality in Ecovillage Practices. Lecture at the annual conference of the Society for Science and Technology Research "The Experimental Construction of Reality: Art, Facts, and Artefacts" (online), 19-20 November 2020.
Sulmowski, Jedrzej (2019): Practices of Sustainability between Innovation and Exclusion. Lecture at the 20th Conference for Applied Social Sciences of the Federal Association of German Sociologists "Nachhaltig Leben und Wirtschaften. Management of social innovations as a form of social transformation", Munich, 24-25 May 2019.

