News

The SFB in the media

Sebastian Sevignani speaks on Deutschlandfunk Kultur about the supremacy of digital and private-sector platforms in our current public sphere.

"Der Stand der Dinge. Theorien der Aneignung und des Gebrauchs"

Together with Jan Beuerbach and Kathrin Sonntag (Leipzig), Amelie Stuart has edited the anthology of the same name. It contains contributions by SFB members Christoph Henning and Niklas Angebauer, among others.

Participation of the SFB at the DGS Congress in Bielefeld

The SFB participates at the 41st Congress of the German Sociological Association (26-30 September).

Privateigentum auf dem Prüfstand. Fünf Vorträge mit Diskussion zur aktuellen Eigentumsfrage

Event note: Silke van Dyk will give a lecture on the topic at the conference "Private Property on the Test Stand" on 17 September: „Wem gehört das Öffentliche?“. You can find the flyer for the conference here. 

“De-Privatizing Municipal Services and Public Infrastructures: Instituting the Urban Commonfare?“

Silke van Dyk and Markus Kip organise and moderate three panels at the conference "Ordinariy Cities in Exceptional Times".

„Mehr Wettbewerb!“

Carsten Herrmann-Pillath with a critical guest article in the Frankfurter Rundschau on the mantra of economics.

New podcast episode “Appropriate“

In the fifth episode of our podcast Eduardo Relly talks with Petra Gümplová about "Blood Oil Commodities".

Award for Helen Gibson

Congratulations to Helen Gibson for winning the 2022 Rolf-Kentner-Dissertation-Prize!

The Economics of Gender in China

Sisi Sung's dissertation (published by Routledge) is now available via open access.

New blog post!

A new contribution of the SFB blog is online (Author: Carsten Herrmann-Pillath). Title: „Ecology and More-than-human Property“

New podcast episodes of the SFB-podcast appropriate online

The three new episodes are a mini-series about the topic of social property.

Eigentum verpflichtet

Silke van Dyk talks about current SFB topics in the NDR Info science podcast „Synapsen“.

„Die Super League ist noch nicht vom Tisch“

Mike Geppert was interviewed by the Börsenzeitung on ownership in European football.

„Access to Labor and Leisure in Cars: Early Black Motorists’ Automotivity in Miami“

Helen Gibson has published a new article.

Diskursᶟ – „Sharing is Caring – Ist Teilen das neue Haben?“

Henrike Katzer lectures in Jena on the topic of car sharing.

„Russia’s Blood Fossil Fuels“

A new contribution by Petra Gümplová is available online.

„Im Schatten des Commons: Soziales Kapital, Umwelt und die Deutsche Auswanderung im Südbrasilien“

Eduardo Relly has published a new book in Brazil (in Portuguese).

„Good climate needs good work: How Fridays and Verdi do eco-class struggle.“

Steffen Liebig and Kim Lucht are on the taz's Dissens-Podcast with their new book.

„Fahren wir zusammen?“

A new publication by Kim Lucht and Steffen Liebig.

„Die Ordnung der Wirtschaft neu gestalten“

A new publication by Carsten Herrmann-Pillath in Ökologisches Wirtschaften.

Panel at the EASR annual conference

Sofia Bianchi Mancini and Maria Dell'Isola are organising a panel on "Boundary Violation Between Property and Freedom".

„Wem gehört die Erde?“

Carsten Herrmann-Pillath wirft in dieser Kolumne in der Frankfurter Rundschau einen kritischen Blick auf die Theorie der Eigentumsrechte.

Tagung „Eigentum, Medien, Öffentlichkeit“

Die Tagung findet statt unter Mitgestaltung von Sebastian Sevignani, Marlen van den Ecker, Tilman Reitz und Niklas Angebauer.

„The Politics of Private Property“

Moana Jean Packo has published a publication review of Simone Knewitz's „The Politics of Private Property“.

Taz Lab 2022

Christoph Henning, Yann Schosser were speakers (on the topic of property) at the taz lab.

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Der Streit um das Wohnen

Eine Interviewreihe anlässlich des Berliner Volksentscheids, veröffentlicht von Teilprojekt A07 im Online-Magazin Soziopolis.

launch of first podcast episode of the new sfb podcast

The first podcast episode is now available. The topic of the episode is conflicts around sustainable mobility.

Teilen als Alternative – zu was? Teil 1: Ambivalenzen der Sharing Economy am Beispiel von Autos

A new blogpost (in German) is online. Author: Christoph Henning.

The start of the semester is coming up!

The programme for the semester kick-off is online now.

New article from JRT02

Philipp Köncke and Stefan Schmalz published an article on "Das Weltsystem der Impfstoffnutzung" as part of JRT02.

Lecture

Helen Gibson will speak on 30 March 2022 in Hanover about "Der Geist der Poēsis in der Kunst von Kameelah Janan Rasheed".

Veranstaltungsbericht

Transferforum: Konflikte um nachhaltige Mobilität – Perspektiven aus Klimabewegung, Gewerkschaft und Betrieb

Unfassbar geistloses Eigentum

Marlen van den Ecker schreibt über die digitalen Spekulationsobjekte „NFTs“ und Probleme des geistigen Eigentums. Click here for the article.

„Mine or Yours: Is Private Property Crumbling?“

SFB Deputy Speaker Silke van Dyk as a guest on MDR's podcast „The Big Picture“.

Racial Capitalism

A collective review on Racial Capitalism has been published on HSK, edited by Felix Krämer.

Race and Propertization

The conference report on the workshop "Race and Propertization" from 18.11.2021-19.11.2021 in Erfurt has been published on HSK.

"Omnipotence and powerlessness - our digital attitude to life."

Speaker Hartmut Rosa as a guest of Richard David Precht. One of the questions discussed was: Does digital technology make us more free and powerful or more dependent? Click here for the contribution.

Call for Papers

Topic: "Nomad Properties. Political Anthropologies of Nomadism from the 18th Century until Today"; Deadline: February 12th 2022

Call for Papers

Workshop: "Transformations of Property in Post-Socialist Eastern Europe."; Submission deadline: 28 February 2022

„Academic piracy. Researchers and students sometimes take illicit paths to access scientific texts“

A new blogpost by Georg Fischer is online.

Hartmut Rosa in the podcast Wortmelder of the University of Erfurt

On the sociological aspects of the "sharing economy": what impact do property and sharing have on the 'good life'?

„How the transition to Open Access is changing scientific publishing“

A new blogpost by Deputy speaker Tilman Reitz is online.

Jörg Rüpke receives honorary doctorate from Karl Franzens University Graz

On 27 October 2021, Jörg Rüpke was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Graz.

"We need a new form of society. The old programme has been exhausted."

Speaker Hartmut Rosa in Spiegel on a new centre and the way out of the frenzied standstill of late modernity (Paywall)

"Who owns the wind?"

Deputy Speaker Tilman Reitz in conversation with the FAZ

„Die untere Hälfte besitzt nichts“

Silke van Dyk interviewed by taz. Social inequality is on the rise in Germany and is solidified by current ownership structures.

The structure of the SFB explained

Historical perspectives, current conflicts, and alternatives to current property relations. Tilman Reitz in an interview with Neues Deutschland.

Science and practice as dialog

How can we think (social) science and practical experience together?

"Property is resilient like the Alps"

Lively discussion about Gunnar Folke Schupperts book "Eigentum neu denken. Ein Rechtsinstitut zwischen Wandel und Resilienz"

Inauguration event: Bringing the topic of property back into sociology

Academics and practitioners exchanged ideas on the topic of property at the inaugural event on July 8 and 9.