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Event information

Discussion on the occasion of the publication of the translation of Daniel Loick's book "Abuse of Property". In addition to Daniel Loick, Brenna Bhandar and Jacob Blumenfeld (moderator) are participating in the discussion. The translation is by Jacob Blumenfeld.

Date: 30.09.23 08:00 p.m.
The event will be streamed via Youtube

New blog post!

A new blogpost by Amelie Stuart entitled “Über die Natur der letzten Verfügung von Frauen in der Frühen Neuzeit” has been published. This contribution is Part III of the series “Verfügung über Dinge”

In conversation with Tilo Wesche

Tilo Wesche has published a new book, “Die Rechte der Natur. Vom nachhaltigen Eigentum”. In this context, we talked to him about his work in SFB 294 and about his new book.

Participation in LABOR.A 2023

Stefan Schmalz and Lea Schneidemesser are involved in LABOR.A 2023 - HOW CAN WE SHAPE THE "FUTURE OF WORK"? and are organising a session on "New players in the transformation to electric cars: challenges for worker participation from chinese battery manufacturers".

Venue: Cafe Moskau, Berlin
Date: 27.09.2023 09:00-17:00

Participation is also possible online!

New publication

Tilo Wesche has published a new book “Die Rechte der Natur. Vom nachhaltigen Eigentum” with Suhrkamp Verlag. Nature is increasingly being granted its own rights by parliaments, governments and courts worldwide. What is the truth about the rights of nature? Can this legal practice contribute to overcoming climate change? How can such rights be justified? And how can they be applied? Tilo Wesche deals with these and other questions.

A book launch is being planned.

Event information: Workshop “Contested Property”

This one-day workshop will address contemporary property conflicts from a variety of sociological, political, and legal perspectives, each highlighting a different aspect of contemporary property as a contested social relation. All members of the SFB294 are cordially invited.

For further information on the event and registration (by 03.10.2023), please see the following flyer.

New blog post!

There's a new blog post by Petra Gümplová on “Common property in seabed minerals is at a critical juncture”.

New publication

Steffen Liebig, Klaus Dörre and Kim Lucht together with Carsten Büchling, have published an article on “Innovation durch Mitbestimmung – auch in der Transformation?” in the monthly magazine Sozialismus.de.

New blog post!

There's a new blog post by Irina Herb and Zelda Wenner on “Who Owns and Controls the Means of Reproduction? Assisted Fertility and Pregnancy as a Multi-Billion Dollar Market”.

New publication

A new article by Bettina Hollstein and Hartmut Rosa has been published in the Journal of Business Ethics. In “Social Acceleration: A Challenge for Companies? Insights for Business Ethics from Resonance Theory” there is an attempt articulate conceptually the normative requirements for a business ethics which are capable of dealing with the problems of social acceleration in corporations with a particular focus on a resonant stakeholder approach.

New blog post!

The blog post “Phänomenologie des Mitfahren” by Christoph Henning has been published.

The SFB in the media

Silke van Dyk was a guest on the podcast "Politisches Feuilleton" on Deutschlandfunk Kultur and spoke about the topic "Aging Society - Life as a Privilege and the Expropriation at the End of Life". Please see here.

The SFB in the media

Carsten Herrmann-Pillath has published a guest article in the Frankfurter Rundschau on “Klimafonds: Hilfe für arme Staaten”. He talks about climate change, which will be the central challenge for national and international economic policy in the coming decades.

New Working Paper!

The Working Paper “Towards a New Language of 'Property'” of Carsten Herrmann-Pillath is now available online.

New podcast episode Appropriate

The new episode features a conversation between Robin Saalfeld and Lisa Adkins about residential property, couples, and new logics of inequality in the asset economy.

New blog post!

In the blog post series “Verfügung über Dinge: Historische und aktuelle Perspektiven des Eigentums im Wandel” a blog post by Jan Dirk Harke has been published: “Ein weiteres Umgehungsgeschäft: die in iure cessio”

In discussion with Solomon Benjamin

Solomon Benjamin Mercator Fellow of the SFB in June an Juli 2023. We talked to him about forms of ownership in the city and his research within the SFB.

New publication

The blogpost “Ecology and the more-than-human property” by Carsten Herrmann-Pillath has been published in German translation in “Humane Wirtschaft. Mehr als eine Zeitschrift”.

Conference presentation

Petra Gümplova will participate in the 27th World Congress of Political Science (15.-19.07.2023) in Buenos Aires and gives a lecture “Sovereign Rights to Ocean's Resources - a Critical Appraisal”.

The SFB in media

Florian Peters was interviewed by Prof. Dr. Felix Wemheuer about his book “Von Solidarność zur Schocktherapie. Wie der Kapitalismus nach Polen kam.” interviewed. The interview is available via Youtube.

New blog post!

A new text entitled "The tragedy of population policies: how Garrett Hardin inspired extreme policies against reproductive choices" by Roman Birke is now available on the SFB blog.

“The ancient critique of luxury and the birth of modern political economy”

Dirk Schuck is represented at the congress of the International Society for Eighteenth-Century-Studies (Rome, 3.-7.7.23) with a panel and a lecture (Republican Themes in the Critique of Luxury of William Hogarth).

The SFB in the media

Felix Krämer was a guest on the hsozkult-Podcast on the topic of “Racial Capitalism”. The concept of “Racial Capitalism” is an attempt to understand the history of capitalism also as a history of racially structured inequality - not only, but especially in the USA.

The SFB in the media

In the current episode of aspekte “Was für ein Verhältnis zur Natur brauchen wir?”, Tilo Wesche argues that nature should be granted or guaranteed the rights of a legal subject. His new book on the rights of nature (“Die Rechte der Natur. Vom nachhaltigen Eigentum”) will be published by Suhrkamp Verlag.

New blog post series!

The new blog post series “Verfügung über Dinge: Historische und aktuelle Perspektiven des Eigentums im Wandel” with the first post “Wie wird ein Ding zu Eigentum? Ein Erklärungsversuch mit dem Ritual der mancipatio” by Lydia von der Weth is online now.

New podcast episode Appropriate

In the new episode, a conversation with Vera Smirnova discusses the topic of property and territory from a Russian perspective.

International annual conference “Conflicts over Property”

The current programme of the annual conference, as well as the registration are now online.

Conference presentation

Petra Gümplova gives a presentation “Governing global commons for global public good” at the conference “Braga Meetings on Ethics and Political Philosophy” (15-16.06.23), in the panel “Under extreme circumstances. Historical and normative perspectives on the public interest in times of emergency”.

Solomon Benjamin as guest at SFB

The SFB welcomes Solomon Benjamin to his Mercator Fellowship. In the next few days, two events will take place as part of this fellowship. On 13 June, a methods workshop will be held with him (in Erfurt) and on 20 June, a Brown Bag Lecture (in Jena) will be held with him. Furthermore, he will participate in the colloquium programme in the coming weeks.

The SFB in the media

Marlen van den Ecker was a guest on the Tagesschau Zukunfts podcast “Leben im Metaverse? Was dann?”. In the podcast episode, a thought experiment is conducted in which the possibilities, but also the problems of the metaverse are presented.

New blog post!

A new text entitled "A toxic culture enabled the recent shootings of innocent young people" by Pia Beumer is now available on the SFB blog.

In discussion with Cecilia Rikap

Cecilia Rikap was a guest at the SFB as a Mercator Fellow. We talked to her about property and her research.

Lecture: “Crisis and Consciousness in Communicative Capitalism”

As part of the Marxist Labour Week anniversary, Jodi Dean will give a talk on 23.05.2023 (06:00 p.m.) in which she will talk about the systemic crisis of capitalism. The event will be held in English. For more information, please see the flyer.

New publication

The first volume of the SFB series has been published by Campus Verlag. Jan Dirk Harke traces in “Pflicht und Freiheit des Erblassers. Pflichtteil und Wahnsinnsfiktion im klassischen römischen Erbrecht” how the right to a compulsory share asserted itself against an initially unlimited freedom to make a will in Roman property law.

The SFB in the media

Carsten Herrmann-Pillath has published a guest article in the Frankfurter Rundschau on “Nutzen wir die Freiheit”. He argues that a productivity boost through AI opens up the opportunity to realise an unconditional basic income for all.

Event report

The conference report on the event “Transformations of Property in Post-Socialist Eastern Europe: Reconfigurations of Ownership and Alternatives to Private Property” by subproject B07 has been published on H-Soz-Kult and is available under the following link.

Keynote by Marcus Vinzent

Markus Vinzent is doing a Keynote at the Conference “Man, Nature, and Society According to the Fathers of the Church (2^nd-5^th c.)” regarding the topic of  “Nature: Private Property or Common Good?”. The conference will take place in Thessaloniki from the 26^th to the 29^th of June. 

New publication

Gunnar Folke Schuppert has published an essay in Archiv des öffentlichen Rechts Jahrgang 147 (2022) entitled “Wandel des Eigentums. Zu seiner Verortung im Dreieck von Struktur-, Funktions- und Auffassungswandel des Eigentums”. The essay is available online in the campus network.

Job advertisement

In the subproject B04, there is a vacancy for a research assistant for a limited period of 6 months from 01.07.2023. The application deadline is 14.05.2023. For further information, please see the following link.

New publication

Florian Peters has published a new book “Von Solidarność zur Schocktherapie. Wie der Kapitalismus nach Polen kam”. It was published by Ch. Links Verlag and deals with how new markets were opened up in Poland in the 1980s, how opposition trade union activists oriented themselves new and how communist functionaries discovered private property for themselves.

Cecilia Rikap as guest at SFB

The SFB welcomes Cecilia Rikap for her Fellowship. In the next few days, two events will take place within the framework of this fellowship. On 02 May a training workshop will take place with her and on 05 May she will give a guest lecture. She will also participate in the colloquium programme this week.

Participation of SFB researchers in the Nucleus Jena project

Bettina Hollstein and Jörg Oberthür are involved in a sub-project of the “Nucleus Jena Transfer. Regional.Nachhaltig.” and are researching sharing concepts and the transfer of knowledge and ideas in relation to sustainability. The focus here is on the cooperation of entrepreneurial, social and university actors.

New Working Paper!

The Working Paper “Between Openness and Exclusion. Property and Profitability in the Information Economy.” von Marlen van den Ecker, Tilman Reitz and Sebastian Sevignani is now available online.

New blog post!

A new text entitled “America’s Original Identity Politics”: On Historical Interconnections of Property, Race and Identity Politics by Jürgen Martschuka is now available on the SFB blog.

The SFB in the media

Marlen van den Ecker was a guest at the Weizenbaum Forum of the Weizenbaum Institute as an expert on intellectual property, on the topic: Beyond Reality - Metaverse and the Platform Society. In the podcast, the following questions, among others, are clarified: What is the metaverse all about? What are the effects of the metaverse on society, democracy, the rule of law and the economy.

Call for Papers

For the workshop “Property and Property Policies in the German Empire and the Weimar Republic” by TP A04.
For information on the guiding questions of the workshop, as well as on how to submit abstracts, please see the following link.

Deadline: 30.04.2023
Contact: roman.birke@uni-jena.de

Guest Essay by Silke van Dyk in Frankfurter Rundschau

The fundamental patterns of distributive, property, and infrastructural policies entail a "redistribution from the bottom to the top," Silke van Dyk observes in her guest essay.

Event information “Questions of Socialization”

Mini-Workshop organised by Jacob Blumenfeld.
The question concerning the socialization of housing, energy, transportation, health care, and the workplace has returned to the political debate in Germany and beyond. But what is the theoretical background to this concept of socialization?
To receive the papers and attend the workshop, please register: koch.heiner@gmail.com