Prof Dr Anna Steigemann

Professional Background

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Education

Research Interests

• Urban and spatial sociology, cultural sociology
• Urban, spatial, and social theory
• Neighborhood and community studies
• Social inequality, in-/exclusion processes and stratification research
• Urbanization, urban and social transformation research (e.g. urban-rural relations, translocal practices, globalization, transformation towards sustainability)
• Migration, diversity, gender and the city
• Qualitative and ethnographic research methods
• Infrastructure research
• Actor- and practice-based approaches, critical participation and governnce research in international comparisonresearch interests
• Urban and spatial sociology, cultural sociology
• Urban theories, spatial and social theory
• Neighbourhood and community research
• Social inequality, inclusion and exclusion processes, social structure analysis
• Interdisciplinary urban studies, urbanisation research
• Multi-scale spatial and social transformations (e.g. on urban-rural relationships, translocal practices, globalization, gentrification, sustainability)
• Migration, diversity, gender and the city
• Qualitative social research methods, (collaborative) spatial and ethnographic research methods
• Infrastructure research
• Actor-based and praxeological approaches, critical participation and governance research in international comparison

Current projects

• Fairville
• Transforming Solidarities. Practices and infrastructures in the migration society
• Collaborative Research Centre 1265 "Re-Figuration of Spaces"

Books

(2025) Spaces of Solidarity. With Moritz Ahlert. Jovis

(2024) THE CITY AS A BATTLEGROUND. SITUATED INTERSECTIONS OF INEQUALITY AND VIOLENCE. With Bernroider, L. Born, M. Kurz, C., Un Gang Sung. Routledge 

(2019) The Places where Community is Practiced. How store owners and their businesses build neighborhood social life. Springer. 300 pages.

(2017) Offering “More”? How store owners and their businesses build neighborhood social life. TU Berlin University Press, 330 pages. (dissertation)

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Peer Reviewed Book Contributions

(2022) Homes, Houses, Shelters, Camps? Notions of Conflict and Coexistence in Refugee Accommodations in Berlin and Istanbul.With Hilal Alkan. In Wozniak, U. & Tombas, E. (Eds.). We the City. Cohesion and Conflict in Istanbul and Berlin. Routledge. 25 pages.

(2021) Raumaneignungen an Orten des Asyls. With Misselwitz, P., Dalal, A. in: Hoerning, J./ Misselwitz, P. (Eds.) R?ume in Ver?nderung. Ein visuelles Lesebuch. Jovis, pp. 100 - 116.

(2021) Architectures of Asylum: Negotiating Home-making Through Concrete Spatial Strategies. With Philipp Misselwitz, In: Christmann, Gabriela, Knoblauch, Hubert, & L?w, Martina (eds.). Communicative Constructions and the Refiguration of Spaces. Theoretical Approaches and Empirical Studies. London: Routledge, 22 pages.

(2021) Global-lokaler Alltag unter Bedingungen von Refiguration – Polykontexturales Homemaking in Berliner Unterku?nften fu?r geflu?chtete Menschen. With Philipp Misselwitz. In L?w, M. et al (Eds.). Das Ende der Globalisierung. ?ber die Re-Figuration von R?umen. Bielefeld: transcript, pp. 387 - 413.

(2021) Homemaking through bottom-up arrival infrastructures? An urban studies perspective on (forced) migrants’ making and unmaking of a home in Berlin. In: Paolo Boccagni (Ed): Handbook of Home and Migration. Routledge. 15 pages.

(2021) Homes, Houses, Shelters, Camps? Notions of Conflict and Coexistence in Refugee Accommodations in Berlin and Istanbul. With Hilal Alkan. In Wozniak, U. & Tombas, E.( Eds.). We the City. Cohesion and Conflict in Istanbul and Berlin. Routledge. 25 pages.

(2020/in print) Translocal Practices of Homemaking in Polycontextual Urban Refugee Camps. With Philipp Misselwitz. In Loew, M. et al (Eds.). Das Ende der Globalisierung. ?ber die Re-Figuration von R?umen. Bielefeld: transcript. 20 pages.

(2020) Nachbarliche Ambiguit?ten. Nachbarschaft in der Stadtforschung. In Hamel, H. et al (Ed.) Stadt, Land, Kiez. Eine Digitale Anthologie der Nachbarschaften. Leibniz Zentrum für Literaturforschung. Berlin. 15 pages.

(2020) Home-making in non-homes. Dwelling in refugee accommodations in Berlin and Zaatari. With Amer Darweesh. In Niehaus, I. & Heinz, K. (Ed.). Unbehaust Wohnen: Verheerende wie diskrete Desaster. Perspektiven auf gesellschaftliche Wohnorte und Aufenthalte im Allt?glichen. Bielefeld: transcript, 30 pages.

(2018) First arrivals: The socio-material development of arrival infrastructures in Thuringia. In: Meeus, B., Van Heur, B., Arnaut, K. (Eds.) Arrival Infrastructures. Migration and Urban Social Mobility, Palgrave Macmillan. Cham, pp. 179 – 205.     

(2018) Vom Schrumpfen zur Integration. Alltagsleben von Geflüchteten in Thüringens drittgr??ter Stadt Gera. (From shrinking to integration. Everyday life of refugees in the city of Gera) With Franziska Werner. In Eckardt, F. (Eds.) Ungeliebte Nachbarn. Anti-Asyl-Proteste in Thüringen. Transcript Verlag, pp. 129 – 143.

(2017) Businesses as Neighborhood Contact Sites: Some policy implications. Anja Besecke, Josiane Meier, Ricarda P?tzold, Susanne Thomaier (Eds.). Stadt?konomie – Blickwinkel und Perspektiven, Berlin, Universit?tsverlag der TU Berlin., pp. 128 – 132.   

(2017) Vom Schrumpfen zur Integration? Thüringens Willkommenskultur und die sozialr?umliche Integration von Flüchtlingen in Gera. (From shrinking to integration. Thuringia’s welcoming culture and the socio-spatial integration of refugees). With Franziska Werner, in: Lessenich, S. (Eds.) Geschlossene Gesellschaften. Verhandlungen des 38. Kongresses der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie in Bamberg 2016, Vol. 38, 11 pages.

(2016) Paradigmenwechsel vom Schrumpfen zur Integration? Thüringens ‘Willkommenskultur’ und die Stadtentwicklungspolitik. (Paradigm shift from shrinking to integration? Thuringia’s ‘welcoming culture‘ and urban development policies) Wüstenrot Stiftung: Tagungsband Wohnungsleerst?nde in Deutschland – Ausma? – Wahrnehmung – Reaktionen, pp. 325 – 335.    

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Peer Reviewed Journal Articles

(2020) Tracking Infrastructure Spaces: Die Globale Fabrik/ Die letzte Meile. With Aine Ryan, Christian Haid, Veronica Zaripova. In. ARCH+ Zeitschrift für Architektur und Urbanismus. Berlin Theorie, 2020:241, pp. 194-207.

(2020) Architectures of asylum: Making home in a state of permanent temporariness. With Philipp Misselwitz. Current Sociology. doi.org/10.1177/0011392120927755, 19 pages.

(2020) “Steigemann. ‘Multi-culti’ vs. ‘another cell phone store‘: Changing ethnic, social, and commercial diversities in Berlin-Neuk?lln. In: Cosmopolitan Civil Societies: an Interdisciplinary Journal, 12:1, 83-105. doi.org/10.5130/ccs.v12.i1.6872

(2018) Planning the Ideal Refugee Camp? A Critical Interrogation of Recent Planning Innovations in Jordan and Germany. With Ayham Dalal, Amer Darweesh, and Philipp Misselwitz. In: Urban Planning, Special Issue: European Cities Planning for Asylum. Special Issue, Volume 3, Issue 4, 20 pages.

(2017) Social practices in a café: community through consumption? Geographica Helvetica, 72(1), 45, pp. 45-54.        

(2016) A Welcoming Policy in Post-Socialist East Germany. With Frank Eckardt, Franziska Werner, Forced Migration Review 51, pp. 67-69.

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Other Articles and Publications

(2019) Tempohomes. Untersuchung sozial-r?umlicher Aneignungspraktiken von Geflüchteten in ausgew?hlten Berliner Gemeinschaftsunterkünften. With Misselwitz, P., Dalal, A., Muth C., and TU Berlin students, Research Report in cooperation with Landesamt für Flüchtlingsangelegenheiten LAF.

(2018) New Diversities and Urban Arrival Infrastructures on Sonnenallee in Berlin. With TU Berlin Students. Edited Research Report, 41 pages, habitat-unit.de/files/finalreport.compressed.pdf.
(2015) Willkommensst?dte. Studienprojekt der Werkstatt Sozialraumanalyse. (Welcoming Cities. Research Report of the workshop socio-spatial analysis) With Frank Eckardt, Franziska Werner. Abschlussbericht für den Thüringer Minister für Migration, Justiz und Verbraucherschutz, 41 pages, available via www.uni-weimar.de/fileadmin/user/fak/architektur/professuren_institute/Stadtforschung/Dokumente/Projekt_Willkommenssta__dte_Abschlussbericht_27_7_2015.pdf.

(2013) Kommunikationskonzept Turmstra?e - Bericht zur St?rkung der lokalen Identit?t. Bezirksamt Mitte/Senatsverwaltung für Stadtentwicklung, 60 pages; short version with 12 pages available via www.turmstrasse.de/oeffentlichkeitsarbeit/kommunikationskonzept.html.

(2012) No Strings Attached?! Kontakte im ?ffentlichen Raum, Edited Project Report with MA Students, ISR TU Berlin, 120 pages.

(2009) Book Review on Derek Hyra’s The New Urban Renewal, International Journal for Urban and Regional Research IJURR, pp. 717 -719.

Summer Semester 2025

• Empirical Research Seminar - Maximillianstra?e Revisited
• Space and Society, Cities and Communities
• Social sciences for your humanities thesis? Reworking your project with social sccience theories and methods 

Winter Semester 2024/25

• Cities as Places of Lived Diversity? Empirical Research Seminar
• Space Matters. Community Matters. Writing a Thesis Alone Together With The Help Of Social And Spatial Science Approaches
• Space, Social Stratification and Urban Governance

Summer Semester 2024

• Cities as Places of Lived Diversity? Empirical Research Seminar
• Space Matters. Spatial Theories and Methods for Area Studies Theses
• Space, Social Stratification and Urban Governance

Winter Semester 2023/24

• Urban Research: Let's explore Regensburg "on the ground"!

Summer Semester 2023

• Global Cities, Local Spaces? Introduction Lecture to Urban and Spatial Studies
• Rich Regensburg? A first empirical introduction to social questions and challenges of our university town
• Sociological and Spatial Studies Theories and Methods for Area Studies. A Hands-On Workshop for Doctoral Candidates

Winter Semester 2022/23

• Diversity, Migration, Gender and the City
• Multiperspectivity and Multi-Scalarity in Writing Your Area Studies Thesis. Spatial and Social Science Theories and Methods
• Spatial Politics and Urban Governance in Europe and Beyond

Winter Semester 2021/2022

• Whose City, Whose Spaces? Multi-Scalar Spatial Politics and Urban Gouvernance Processes

Summer Semester 2021

• Migration, Diversity and the City (Seminar)
• Research Methods for Interdisciplinary Area Studies (Doctoral Workshop)

Winter Semester 2020/21

• Theory and Methods Seminar Spatial Studies and Sociology - Concepts, Methods and Approaches (Seminar)
• Urban Governance and Spatial Politics (Seminar)
• Global cities, local spaces. Introduction to urban and spatial studies (Vorlesung)

 

 

Guest lectures and conference presentations

(2025) Spaces of solidarity? Spaces for all?! 3. Regensburg Building Culture Days. Lecture at the opening of the exhibition. M26, Regensburg, April 2.

(2025) Sociological Dimensions of Space in Area Studies. Global Urbanities Workshop and Lecture, University Tübingen, July 3-4 (invited lecture)

(2025) Kiosk of Solidarity. A Tool for Making the City Politiccal? Illiberal Cities: Manifestations of Authoritarianism and Contested Space. HU Berlin, Jan 20&21

(2024) Global Challenges, Translocal Practices, Local Spaces, and Actors. A sociology of the 21st century city, HCU Hamburg, Nov 21 (invited lecture)

(2024) Critical Architecture: For more social responsibility in planning practice from an intersectional perspective. TH Cologne, Nov 5 (invited lecture)

(2024) Architectures of Asylum and Homemaking in Refugee Camps. Public Lecture, Hybrid Lab, TU Berlin, May 31

(2024) Queer Spaces and The Pandemic. CMCI Research Seminar, Kings College London, Feb 7

(2023) Living Community: Networks as Solidarity Infrastructure of a Just Spatial Practice? BDA Berlin Talk: Solidarity and the City, DAZ, Dec 2 (invited lecture)

(2023) Spaces of Solidarity. A collaborative urban studies exploration of solidary infrastructures and practices in Berlin. Solidarity in the Migration Society Conference, DAZ Berlin, Oct 9

(2023) Rathausblock Berlin - a collaborative model for urban development 'from below'. Fairville Project Kickoff Conference, University Paris Nanterre, Feb 21-25

(2023) Global Challenges, Local Spatial Transformation. With Moritz Ahlert. Public Lecture, BTU Cottbus, Jan 6 (invited lecture)

(2022) Queering Spaces? Queering Architecture Education? Public Presentation and Workshop. Werkstadt Studio at TU Berlin, Berlin, Dec 14 (invited lecture)

(2022) Queering Space? Queering Architecture? Public Presentation and Workshop. Chair of Unlearning at Architekturmuseum, Munich, Dec 9 (invited lecture)

(2022) Global Challenges, Local Spaces. Invited Lecture Urban Sociology, HCU Hamburg, Oct 27 (invited lecture)

(2022)The making and unmaking of homes and neighbourhoods through urban arrival infrastructures. RC 21 conference Ordinary Cities in Exceptional Times, Athens, Aug 24-26

(2022) Homemaking and Belonging in Architectures of Asylum in Berlin. Opening Lecture at DAAD COLLABORATIVE DESIGN METHODS Summer School. BUILDING COMMUNITIES THROUGH SPATIAL INTERVENTION. TU Berlin & Universidade Federal Do Rio De Janeiro (invited digital lecture), Aug 20

(2022) Mobilities and Space. Input Lecture, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, 3rd UK German Frontiers of Humanities (UKGFOH) Symposium, Berlin, May 9-10

(2022) Coproducing Urban Spaces. Spatial Politics of Refuge. Public Lecture Series Global City, Local Space. TU Berlin, Jan 11 2022 (digitally)

(2021)The Social Life of Parks in a Pandemic. Lenné Symposium 2021: Challenges of Open Space Planning and Landscape Development - Open Space Today: Is the Pandemic Accelerating the Transformation of Urban Open Spaces? Berlin, Nov 25 2021

(2021) Transforming Solidarities? Corona and neighbourhood. Ad-hoc session: The Atomised City - Urbanity and Morality in the Corona Crisis, DGS/?GS/SGS Congress, Vienna, Aug 23-25 (digitally)

(2021) Migratory Spaces in Berlin. Opening Lecture Summer School 'Making a life in Berlin, Cape Town and Delhi', TU Berlin, July 30 (invited digital lecture)

(2021) Urban Infrastructures and New Modes of Knowledge Production in the City of the 21st Century. Know-In Workshop II: Exploring Trans/Regionality. The Workings of Infrastructures and the Production of Knowledge, University Regensburg. July 1-2 (digitally)

(2021) The City of the 21st Century. Sociological and Spatial Considerations for Multi-Scalar Area Studies. Public CITAS Lecture, University of Regensburg, June 8 (invited digital lecture)

(2021) Sociology of space. Lecture series: Rethinking Area Studies, Producing Space from the 'Global South'? Post/Colonial Perspectives and (G)local Challenges. Public lecture, University of Regensburg, April 29 (digital invited lecture)

(2021) Researching Solidarities in Urbanised Societies. Brownbag Lunch Public Presentation Series, Institute for Architecture, TU Berlin, Feb 2 (digitally)

(2020) Global Processes, Local Spaces. A geography of the 21st century city. Public lecture, TU Dresden, Dec 18 (digitally)

(2020) Space and remembrance. Roundtable Contribution: Your (hi)story matters: the project "ReMember" of the Flossenbürg Concentration Camp Memorial, Dec 8 (digitally)

(2020) Architecture and Society. An Integrated Approach to Theory and Methods for a Socially Responsible Architecture and Spatial Justice. Public lecture, University Liechtenstein, Nov 25 (digitally)

(2020) How to appropriate public space from below? An intersectional approach to public space and art interventions. Input Lectures for Theatre Fragile/ NRW Urbanes Labor, Detmold, Nov 17-20

(2020) What it takes to make a home. Homelessness in Berlin. Canadian Cultural Funding/ Canadian Center for Architecture film screening and lecture event series at Haus der Statistik and feldfünf, Oct 21-23 (invited lecture and discussant)

(2020) Spatial politics in refugee accommodations in Berlin. Special event SFB 1265 goes DGS. 40. Congress of the German Sociological Association: Society under Tension (digital), Sept 14-25

(2020) Building an Academic Career in Times of Crisis: Responding to Pressures and Needs of Early Career Researchers in Sub-Saharan Africa. Southern Africa Cities Conference, , Johannesburg (digital), Aug 31- Sept 4

(2020) Urban Planning and Infrastructures of Consumption. Invited lecture for Shopping 2040 Research Project, Chair of Urban Design and Urbanisation, TU Berlin, June 12 (digital invited lecture)

(2020) Spatial Justice in the 21st Century. Opening Lecture for the 4th WITS-TUB Urban Lab Summer School, Witwatersrand University Johannesburg, South Africa, March 28 (digital key note)

(2020) Qualitative Research Methods for Urban Studies. Interdisciplinary Research Methods Workshop. Witwatersrand University Johannesburg, South Africa (digital invited lecture)

(2020) New Arrival Infrastructures in the City of Berlin, Germany. Faces of the City Seminar. School of Architecture & Planning, Witwatersrand University Johannesburg, South Africa, March 17 (digital invited lecture)

(2020) Housing for the 99% = Housing for Migrants. Housing Lecture. School of Architecture & Planning, Witwatersrand University Johannesburg, South Africa, March 18 (digital invited lecture)

(2019) Stadtentwicklung und soziale Infrastrukturen auf der Karl-Marx-Stra?e (Urban Renewal and Social Infrastructures on Karl-Marx-Stra?e). District Authority of Neuk?lln Senate of Berlin, Dec 6 (invited lecture)

(2019) What is neighbourhood? How does neighbourhood work? On neighbourhood concepts and discussions in urban research. (What is neighborhood? Neighborhood concepts and debates in urban research) Center for Literature Research: Literaturtage, Berlin, Nov 22-23 (invited lecture)

(2019) Interdisciplinary urban research. Current trends and challenges for urban sociology and urban studies. (Interdisciplinary urban research. Current Trends and Challenges for Urban Sociology and Studies) Meeting of DGS Section Urban Sociology, Berlin Nov 15

(2019) 'This is where Community is Practiced.' Local Businesses and Neighbourhood Social Life. German Congress for Geography DKG, Kiel, Sept 23-30

(2019) Spatial Practices and Belonging in New Arrival Cities. Session JS_RN35_RN37_09: Bordering and policing. 14th Conference of the European Sociological Association Europe and Beyond: Boundaries, Barriers and Belonging, Manchester, United Kingdom, Aug 20-23

(2019) Mass Social Housing in Berlin. The Social City. Urban Development and Housing Projects in Berlin and Naples in the post-war area - a comparison: theoretical models, implemented projects, social and political impacts today. University of Naples, June 25-29

(2019) Urban Development and Migration. Planning of Diversity? Dorhuk-Berlin Summer School, DAAD Cooperation with Universities in Iraq, Berlin, June 19-22

(2019) Neighbourhood Diversities and Arrival Cities. Session: Conflict and Coexistence, Conference: "We the City". Plurality and Resistance in Berlin and Istanbul. Humboldt University of Berlin, May 23-25

(2019) Urban Global Governance Futures. Invited Lecture and Expert Roundtable at Hertie School of Governance for the Robert Bosch Foundation Multilateral Dialogues program (GGF), Berlin, May 24 (Invited Lecture)

(2019) Urban Migration and Urban Refugees. Methods of ethnological fieldwork. TU Darmstadt: Berlin Summer School, May 10

(2018) Everyday Diversities in Arrival Cities. Advanced Research Collaborative Seminar, CUNY Graduate Center, New York City, Nov 29 (Invited lecture)

(2018) The Future of Urban Studies. Urban Studies Workshop, CUNY Graduate Center, New York City, Oct 15 (Invited lecture)

(2018) Architectures of Asylum. A glocal perspective from Zaatari, Jordan and Berlin, Germany. Session: Design for Asylum: Architecture, Urban Space and Forced Migration, International Association for Forced Migration (IASFM): Whither Refugees? Restrictionism, Crises and Precarity Writ Large, Thessaloniki, Greece, July 24-28

(2018) Spaces of belonging in architectures of asylum? Urban refugees' agency in the production of space in Berlin, Germany and Zaatari, Jordan. Session: Cities for whom? Exploring urban issues and forced migration with innovative and participatory methods, International Association for Forced Migration (IASFM): Whither Refugees? Restrictionism, Crises and Precarity Writ Large, Thessaloniki, Greece, July 24-28

(2018) Architectures of Asylum - Making a Home in a State of Permanent Temporariness. With Philipp Misselwitz. Session: Researching Home: Choices, Challenges, Opportunities, RC43 Housing and Built Environment, XIX ISA World Congress of Sociology: Power, Violence and Justice: Reflections, Responses and Responsibilities, Toronto, Canada, July 15-21

(2018) Spaces of belonging in spaces of asylum? Urban refugees' agency in the production of space and place in Berlin, Germany and Zaatari, Jordan. Session: Creating welcoming communities: Local immigration and integration policies, AAG Annual Meeting, New Orleans, April 8-14

(2018) Urban refugees' agency in the production of space and place in Berlin, Germany and Zaatari, Jordan - a geography of (dis)integration? With Philipp Misselwitz. Session: Refugees and Immigrants in the City V, AAG Annual Meeting, New Orleans, April 8-14

(2017) Architectures of Asylum - the intersection of technocratic planning and refugees' agency, Session: Migration und Flucht in der Stadt - Dynamiken nach dem langen Sommer der Migration, Deutscher Kongress für Geographie 2017: Eine Welt in Bewegung - Erforschen - Verstehen - Gestalten, Tübingen, Sept 29-Oct 5

(2017) Urban planning and refugees' socio-spatial appropriation practices, Session: Local negotiations and practices of asylum between inclusive education and exclusion, Deutscher Kongress für Geographie 2017: Eine Welt in Bewegung - Erforschen - Verstehen - Gestalten, Tübingen, Sept 29-Oct 5

(2017) Architectures of asylum - a glocal perspective from Berlin. With Philipp Misselwitz. Panel: Urban planning and migrants in the city: glocal and transnational perspectives, RC 21 Conference: Rethinking Urban Global Justice: An international academic conference for critical urban studies, Leeds, Great Britain, Sept 11-14

(2017) Learning from Berlin. Introduction to Berlin as the site for new Urban Management with a focus on Co-Production of Knowledge. WITS-TUB Summer School, July 17

(2017) Survival opportunities of "traditional" crafts in upgrading neighbourhoods: some policy implications, Panel: Regeneration projects and gentrification processes and diversity in entrepreneurship, Divercities: Governing Urban Diversity Conference, Rotterdam, Netherlands, Feb 8-10 (Invited lecture)

(2016) From shrinking to integration? Thuringia's welcoming culture and the socio-spatial integration of refugees in Gera, with Franziska Werner, Section Urban and Regional Sociology: Socio-spatial Integration of Refugees, DGS Congress, Bamberg, Germany, Sept 26-30

(2016) From shrinking to integration?! Thuringia's 'welcome culture' as a paradigm shift in local urban development policy? Conference: Housing Vacancies in Germany - Extent - Perception, Kaiserslautern, Germany, Feb 4-6

(2016) Introduction to Empirical Research Methods in Social Sciences, IGK Methods Workshop, CMS Berlin, Jan 10

(2015) First arrivals in shrinkage. The physical, communication and social development of arrival infrastructures in Thuringia, East Germany, Urban Arrival Infrastructures. An International Workshop on Migration and Cities in the 19th and 21st Century, Brussels, Belgium, Dec 9-12

(2015) Do I need to grow blond hair to become German? Place Making Practices of Business Owners on a "diverse" Berlin Shopping Street, Panel: The Challenge of Diversity: Does Urban Diversity Contribute to the Ideal City? RC21 conference, Urbino, Italy, Aug 27-29

(2015) Place Making Practices of Business Owners in the course of a Berlin Urban Renewal Programme, Panel Networks and encounters in contested spaces RC21 Conference, Urbino, Italy, Aug 27-29

(2015) Do I need to grow blond hair to become German? Place Making Practices of Small Business Owners, 2nd Special Session Retail aspects in Urban Geography and Urban Planning. Immigrant retail geographies, AAG Annual Meeting, Chicago, USA, April 21-25

(2015) 'Behind the curtain, it works' - Small Business Owners' Community Building Practices, 4th Special Session Retail aspects in Urban Geography and Urban Planning, AAG Annual Meeting, Chicago, USA, April 21-25

(2014) The role of commercial/retail activities in place-making. Conference: Frontiers on the Theory of Place-Making (CUNY Student Conference, organised by Sharon Zukin/John Mollenkopf/ Rosemary Wakeman/ Margit Mayer), CUNY Graduate Center, April 3-4

(2014) Local businesses as socially inclusive leisure spaces, Joint Session RC 23/RC 28, International Sociological Association 2014 Conference, Yokohama, Japan

(2014) Shopping for Community? Place Making Practices of Small Business Owners, AAG Annual Meeting, Tampa, USA, April 8-12

(2014) Business Ballet. Ethnography of the Physical and Verbal Interactions in a Neuk?lln Café, CMS International Ethnography Workshop, TU Berlin, Germany

(2014) Shopping for Community?! Local businesses as main features of urban infrastructure and local social inclusion. Conference New Cultural Geography XI: Infrastructures of the City, University of Bremen, Germany, Jan 3-Feb 2

(2013) Walking for community?! Shopping for community?! How local businesses foster walking activity and related social networking for neighbourhood residents, Walk21 International Conference on Walking and Liveable Communities, Munich, Germany, Sept 11-13

(2013) Walking Tour Neighbourhood management and policies in Berlin-Wedding, RC 21 Conference 2013, Berlin, Germany, August 31

(2012) Segregation and Housing Politics in Berlin, Auto-Construction Workshop Mexico/ Weimar/ Berlin, Germany

(2012) Leopoldplatz - Showcase of the new bourgeoisie? (Showcase of a new bourgeoisie) Long Night of the Sciences, TU Berlin, Germany

(2012) Socially Inclusive Planning in Berlin, Urban Management Summer School, TU Berlin, Germany

(2011) Social Housing Policies and Socially Integrative City for CUNY Summer School, HU Berlin, Germany

Conference and panel organisation and moderation

(2024) DIMAS Kick Off Conference: The World in the City, Cities in the World, University Regensburg, Nov 16-17

(2024) DGS Section Meeting on Urban and Regional Sociology, DGS Annual Conference, Bochum Nov 6-8

(2024) Panel: Intersectionality and Sociospatial Conflicts. 6th International Conference of the SFB 1265: Conflicts in Space - Spatial Conflicts. Current Research Perspectives, Oct 10-11

(2023) Autumn Conference of the Section Urban and Regional Sociology in the DGS: "Cities and Regions in Social Change: Spatial Patterns, Causes and Consequences of Fragmentation and Cohesion", Conference Organisation Weimar, Oct 26-27

(2023) Cross Area Conference: "Doing Area Studies in the Polycentric Condition", University Regensburg, Nov 16-17

(2023) Conference: Solidarity in the Migration Society. German Architecture Centre DAZ Berlin, Oct 9-11

(2023) Spaces of Solidarity. Curated Exhibition with Moritz Ahlert. German Architecture Centre DAZ Berlin, Oct 5-Dec31

(2023) Fairville. Facing Inequalities and democratic challenges through co-production in cities. Annual conference. TU Berlin, May 25-26.

(2022) Organising Committee for 'My City is a Battleground - Intersectionality and Urban Violence International SFB 1265 Conference, TU Berlin, Oct 20-22

(2022) Against violence. Intersectional Working Initiatives in Berlin. Panel Moderation with Lucie Bernroider. My City is a Battleground - Intersectionality and Urban Violence. International SFB 1265 Conference, TU Berlin, Oct 22

(2022) Seeing Like a City/Seeing the City Through. Local Organisation with Talja Blokland, Nihad El-Kayed. Research Network Urban Sociology (RN37) Conference, HU Berlin, Oct 5-7

(2022) Diversity and Gender Sensitivity in Architectural Education. Urban Talk Moderation and Organisation. With Christian Haid, Markus Bader (UdK) and Moritz Ahlert. Floating University, July 13

(2022) Queering/Crippling Built Space and Housing. Urban Talk Moderation and Organisation. With Christian Haid, Markus Bader (UdK) and Moritz Ahlert. Floating University, June 29

(2022) Non-conformative Spaces and Integrated Practices. Urban Talk Moderation and Organisation. With Christian Haid, Markus Bader (UdK) and Moritz Ahlert. Floating University, June 1

(2022) Collective Housing. Urban Talk Moderation and Organisation. With Christian Haid, Markus Bader (UdK) and Moritz Ahlert. Floating University, May 18

(2022) Queer-Feminist Housing. Urban Talk Moderation and Organisation. With Christian Haid, Markus Bader (UdK) and Moritz Ahlert. Floating University, May 11

(2022) )Infra(Structures) and Actors of Mobility. Session Moderation. 3rd UK-German Frontiers of Humanities Symposium "Mobilities". May 10(digital)

(2022) 3rd UK-German Frontiers of Humanities Symposium "Mobilities". Steering Committee, May 6, 9-10 (digital)

(2021) Spatial Inclusion & Community. WITS-TUB-UNILAG Summer Conference: Urban Management Across Continents, Dec 14-15

(2021) Homemaking refigured. SFB 1265 International Conference: Spatial Refiguration: dynamics, challenges, and conflicts, TU Berlin, Oct 28-30

(2021) Liveability and disadvantaged neighbourhoods. Autumn Conference of the Urban and Regional Sociology Section of the DGS "Urban Sociological Research Today", Oct 7-8

(2021) Post-industrial urban revivals? DFG/IOZ/IOS International Conference European Rust Belts. West-East Comparisons - and Beyond, University Regensburg, Sep 2-3

(2021) Fuzzy Boundary Making. From Social Practices to (Urban) Spatial Practices. With Nihad El-Kayed and Christian Haid. RC21 CONFERENCE 2020: Shaping & Sensing the city. Power, people, place, Antwerp, Belgium, July 6-8

(2019) Spatialising Contemporary Modernities and the Postcolonial Challenge. Plenary Session 1. with Philipp Misselwitz, First International Conference of the SFB 1265: Re-Figuration of Spaces: Mediatisation, Mobility, Globalization and Social Dislocation, TU Berlin, Feb 20-22

(2019) Urbanity, Migration, Mobility. Session 7. with Philipp Misselwitz, First International Conference of the SFB 1265: Re-Figuration of Spaces: Mediatization, Mobility, Globalization and Social Dislocation., TU Berlin, Feb 20-22

(2018) Cities for whom? Exploring urban issues and forced migration with innovative and participatory methods, with Franziska Werner, International Association for Forced Migration (IASFM): Whither Refugees? Restrictionism, Crises and Precarity Writ Large, Thessaloniki, Greece

(2018) Die Nachwachsende Stadt - The re-growing City. Public Lecture Series on urban systems, climate adaptation, green economies and governing transformation to sustainability at the Floating University Berlin. With Moritz Ahlert, TU Berlin/floating uni berlin

(2016) City of Refuge - Refugee Accommodations and their Spatial and Social Consequences for the Urban, with Franziska Werner, International Association for the Study of Forced Migration Conference, Poznan, Poland