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Dr. Larissa Fleischmann

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Dr. Larissa Fleischmann WiMi

Junior Research Group Leader, Team A6 “Diversity in Socio-Ecological Transformations: Migration, Demographic Change, Environment”, European Center of Just Transition Research and Impact-Driven Transfer (JTC) Anthropogeographie

Mail: larissa.fleischmann@geo.uni-halle.de Tel: +49 (0)345 55 26005 Webseite: JTC Innovationsteam A6 "Vielfalt in sozial-ökologischen Transformationen" - Dr. Larissa Fleischmann Raum: H4 2.32 Sprechzeiten: nach Vereinbarung

Forschung

Dr. Larissa Fleischmann is a human geographer whose work is situated in the fields of political geography, environmental geography, and migration and border studies. Her current research focuses on the politics and power structures shaping human–environment relations in the context of planetary transformations. Through this work, she seeks to contribute to the development of more-than-human political geographies. In particular, she pursues three main areas of research:

First, she examines the unruly mobilities of nonhumans, such as animals and pathogens, as well as governmental efforts to contain, control, and restrict them through territorial bordering practices. She is particularly interested in the material manifestations of borders, such as veterinary fences, but also in other empirical contexts in which borders are produced, negotiated, or disrupted through multispecies encounters.

Second, she investigates how abject lives or waste animals are produced through biopolitical and thanatopolitical regimes of governance. Her work examines how violent technologies of power cut across species divides and differentiate between lives to be protected and those rendered threatening, exploitable, or disposable. Empirically, she explores these processes through the governance of infectious animal diseases and the production of biosecurity, as well as through broader forms of nonhuman exploitation in the Capitalocene.

Third, she explores less-studied aspects of low-carbon energy transitions. She examines how water, subterranean spaces, and more-than-human relations co-produce, complicate, or disrupt renewable-energy projects. In this context, she is currently developing a new project on geothermal energy production using water from former underground copper mining soughs. She is also interested in how energy transitions are practiced “from below”, as civil society actors negotiate, implement, and contest transition processes and develop alternative visions of regional futures. This includes investigating how energy transitions unfold within increasingly diverse societies shaped by migration and how transition projects become sites of conflict and right-wing extremist mobilisation.

In her habilitation project, Animals, Power and Space: More-than-Human Political Geographies of Animal Health, Larissa examines how the governance of infectious animal diseases materialises in practices of bordering and territorialisation, while approaching animals and viruses as co-constitutive of these processes. The project is funded by a research grant awarded through the German Research Foundation (DFG). Drawing on research on African swine fever in Germany and foot-and-mouth disease in Namibia, she explores three practices—fencing, zoning, and culling—and examines how biosecurity regimes unfold through (post)colonial forms of veterinary governance that are continually contested by humans and nonhumans alike.

Dr. Larissa Fleischmann currently leads the junior research group Diversity in Socio-Ecological Transformations at the Just Transition Center. Together with her team, she conducts transdisciplinary research on how migration, civil society, and human–environment relations shape transformations in the Central German mining region.

She received her PhD in Social and Cultural Anthropology from the University of Konstanz in February 2019. During her doctoral studies (2014-2018), she worked as a research associate at the Cluster of Excellence Cultural Foundations of Social Integration. Her dissertation is published open access with transcript entitled Contested Solidarity: Practices of Refugee Support between Humanitarian Help and Political Activism. In her book, she examines refugee-support initiatives in Germany following the summer of migration in 2015. The dissertation received the Award for Outstanding Dissertations from the Section on Migration and Ethnic Minorities of the German Sociological Association.

 

 

  • Animals, Power and Space: More-than-Human Political Geographies of Animal Health (since 2021)

funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG): https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/450048046   

In my recent research project, I look at the spatial politics of animals and viruses in contemporary Europe. I investigate political attempts to control African Swine Fever (ASF) – currently considered as the most threatening global animal disease –through the implementation of different more-than-human governing practices: (1) Fencing – the construction of fences in order to immobilize viruses and ‘risky’ wild animals, classified as disease reservoirs, (2)Zoning – the demarcation of zones with different biosecurity levels and regulations and (3) Mapping – the creation of geographical maps to visualize zones, fences and ‘risky’ (im)mobilities, (4) Killing – the elimination of animals considered disease vectors. By doing so, the project investigates how the production of animal health (re)produces, shifts or subverts current spatial and political orderings in Europe. For this purpose, the project considers animals and viruses themselves as political actors and asks how they continuously challenge governing practices and how they reveal inconsistencies in existing spatial and political orders. Conceptually speaking, the project focuses on the tension between animals, power and space and thus contributes to a more-than-human political geography. Empirically speaking, the project builds on qualitative-ethnographic fieldwork throughout Europe, especially in the German-Polish borderlands, and southern Africa. This multi-sited research design allows a differentiated understanding of the spatial production of animal health by taking into account (post)colonial and transregional interrelations.

  • The Contested Solidarities of Refugee Support : Actions between Humanitarian Help and Political Activism (2014-2018)

In my dissertation project, I investigated the manifold practices in support of refugees that emerged around the so called “European refugee crisis” in 2015. This historical point in time mobilized an unprecedented number of residents to “help”. They engaged in volunteering practices and founded numerous citizens’ initiatives in support of refugees in different European countries. During 20 months of qualitative and ethnographic fieldwork in Southern Germany, I conducted interviews and participant observations with different actors involved. My research project revealed how helping practices developed in an ambivalent space between (supposedly) ‘apolitical’ forms of humanitarian helping and political activism. Moreover, it showed that volunteering with refugees is deeply intertwined with questions of power and can have ambiguous and unintended effects. Solidarity with refugees is thus embedded into differing, at times conflictive, aims and interests. Yet, it also comes with visions of a ‘better society’ bringing about political possibilities for more inclusive ways of living-together in an age of intensified migration.

Vita

Juli-August 2025 „Erasmus Plus Fellowship Universitas Indonesia“

Seit Dezember 2024 Wissenschaftliche Teamleiterin des Innovationsteams A6 „Vielfalt in sozial-ökologischen Transformationen“ im European Centre of Just Transition Research and Impact-Driven Transfer (JTC), MLU Halle-Wittenberg

2018-2024 Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin in der Fachgruppe Anthropogeographie, MLU Halle-Wittenberg

2014-2018
Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin und Doktorandin im Exzellenzcluster „Kulturelle Grundlagen von Integration“ und Lehrstuhl für Ethnologie und Kulturanthropologie, Universität Konstanz.

Promotion zum Doktor der Sozialwissenschaften (Dr. rer. soc.)

Titel der Promotion „The Contested Solidarities of Refugee Support in Germany: Actions between Humanitarian Help and Political Activism“ (verteidigt mit summa cum laude im Februar 2019, ausgezeichnet mit dem Förderpreis 2021 der Sektion Migration und ethnische Minderheiten der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie)

2013–2014
Masterstudium „Human Geography – Space, Politics and Power“ (MRes) an der University of Glasgow, Großbritannien.

Titel der Masterarbeit “The European Union under Pressure: The 2013 Lampedusa Migrant Boat in British, German and French Newspaper Accounts”

2010–2013
Studium der Geographie (B.Sc.) an der Universität Bayreuth

2009–2013
Studium der Geographischen Entwicklungsforschung Afrikas (B.A.) an der Universität Bayreuth

Publikationen

Monographien

Fleischmann, Larissa (2020): Contested Solidarity. Practices of Refugee Support between Humanitarian Help and Political Activism. Reihe: Kultur und Soziale Praxis. Transcript Verlag, Bielefeld. E-Book Open Access verfügbar: https://www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-5437-0/contested-solidarity/?number=978-3-8394-5437-4&c=311000011

Herausgeberschaften

Larissa Fleischmann, Wisse van Engelen (unter Vertrag, erscheint Januar 2027): Open Access Edited Volume „Critical Animal Health Studies: Infectious Disease, Veterinary Governance and Borders“, Routledge, Book Series „Multispecies Encounters” herausgegeben von Samantha Hurn und Chris Wilbert

Larissa Fleischmann, Tino Petzold (in Arbeit, erscheint 3-4/2027): Special Issue „Hydropolitical Geographies: Critical Perspectives of Water in a Changing Climate”, in Geographische Zeitschrift

Larissa Fleischmann, Kristine Beurskens, Bettina Bruns, Jonathan Everts (2024): Special Issue „More-than-human Borderlands and Mobilities“. In: Die Erde. Journal of the Geographical Society of Berlin.

Larissa Fleischmann, Jonathan Everts (2023): Virtual Special Issue „Abject Lives. Rethinking Sovereign Power in More-than-Human Worlds“ in: Political Geography: https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/political-geography/special-issue/101V4G8PBL7

Artikel (in peer-reviewed Journals)

Hafid Setiadi, Nurul Sri Rahatiningtyas, Nurrokhmah Rizqihandari, Larissa Fleischmann, Julia Ostertag, Jonathan Everts (2026): Managing Floods along the Citarum River in Indonesia: Hydrosocial Geographies and Community Politics in Bandung Basin, West Java. In: Erdkunde, https://doi.org/10.3112/erdkunde.2026.03.02

Larissa Fleischmann, Bettina Bruns, Kristine Beurskens, Jonathan Everts (2024): Editorial: More-than-Human Borderlands and Mobilities, Die Erde – Journal of the Geographical Society of Berlin 155/3-4: https://www.die-erde.org/index.php/die-erde/issue/view/61 (letzter Zugriff 13.08.2025)

Larissa Fleischmann (2024): Bordering through Biosecurity: Wild Boars and Veterinary Fences in the German-Polish Borderlands. In: Die Erde – Journal of the Geographical Society of Berlin 155/3-4: https://www.die-erde.org/index.php/die-erde/article/view/695 (letzter Zugriff 13.08.2025)

Larissa Fleischmann, Elisa Kornherr, Lukas Adolphi (2024): Töten und Überleben in der mehr-als-menschlichen Stadt: Die Produktion „abstoßender“ Tiere in Frankfurt und Halle. In: sub/urban: Zeitschrift für kritische Stadtforschung 12/2-3, S.43-67 https://zeitschrift-suburban.de/sys/index.php/suburban/article/view/961

Lukas Adolphi, Larissa Fleischmann (2024): Placing Animals in the Plantationocene: The Plantation After/Lives of Nutria in Eastern Germany. In: Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space 7/4, S.1482-1503
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/25148486241256547

Larissa Fleischmann, Jonathan Everts (2024): Abject Lives: An Introduction. Guest Editorial in Political Geography 111, 103102 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0962629824000519

Larissa Fleischmann (2023): More-than-Human Political Geographies: Abjection and Sovereign Power. In: Political Geography 107, 102949. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0962629823001270

Larissa Fleischmann, Yelva Auge, Florian Ringel (2023): „Dieses Ossi-Ding representen“. Deutschrap als Aushandlungsfeld räumlicher Repräsentationen und p(ost)migrantischerZugehörigkeiten in Ostdeutschland. In: Themenheft „Post-migrantische Perspektiven? – Gesellschaftliche Pluralisierung und regionalbezogene Forschung in ‚Ostdeutschland‘“. In: Berichte. Geographie und Landeskunde. https://doi.org/10.25162/bgl-2023-0007

Auge, Yelva & Ringel, Florian & Fleischmann, Larissa & (2023): Deutschrap als innovatives Instrument des Regionalmarketings? Die Vermarktung geographischer Imaginationen Ostdeutschlands in Rapmusik. In: Standort – Zeitschrift für angewandte Geographie. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00548-023-00849-y

Robin Vandevoordt, Larissa Fleischmann (2021): Impossible Futures? The Ambivalent Temporalities of Grassroots Humanitarian Action. In: Critical Sociology 47/1 S. 187-202.  https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0896920520932655

L;. Olsevskis, E.; Rijks, J.M.; Schulz, K.; Thulke, H.H.; Viltrop, A.; Stahl, K. (2020): Application of the World Café Method to Discuss the Efficiency of African Swine Fever Control Strategies in European Wild Boar (Sus scrofa) Populations. In: Preventive Veterinary Medicine 185. Online verfügbar unter: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016758772030862X

Larissa Fleischmann (2019): Making Volunteering with Refugees Governable. The Contested Role of Civil Society in the German Welcome Culture. In: Social Inclusion 7/2, Issue “The European Refugee Controversy: Civil Solidarity, Cultural Imaginaries and Political Change”. S. 64-73. Online verfügbar unter: https://www.cogitatiopress.com/socialinclusion/article/view/1979

Larissa Fleischmann (2017): The Politics of Helping Refugees. Emerging Meanings of Political Action around the German ‘Summer of Welcome’. In: Mondi Migranti 3/2017, S. 53-73. Online verfügbar unter: https://www.francoangeli.it/Riviste/Scheda_Rivista.aspx?IDarticolo=60913

Larissa Fleischmann, Elias Steinhilper (2017): The Myth of Apolitical Volunteering for Refugees: German Welcome Culture and a New Dispositif of Helping. In: Social Inclusion 5/3, Issue „Perspectives on the European Border Regime: Mobilization, Contestation, and the Role of Civil Society“, S. 17-27. Online verfügbar unter: https://www.cogitatiopress.com/socialinclusion/article/view/945

Artikel in Sammelbänden

Larissa Fleischmann, Julia Ostertag (fertiggestellt, erscheint 2026): More-than-Human Thanatopolitics and the Killability of Nonhuman Lives. In: Anstett, Elisabeth; Ferrandiz, Francisco: The Routledge Handbook of Necropolitics, Routledge, Abingdon.

Larissa Fleischmann (fertiggestellt, im Erscheinen): More-than-Human Bordertextures. Thinking Viruses and Animals as Border Agents. In: Wille, Christian; Fellner, Astrid; Nossem, Eva: Bordertextures – A Complexity Approach to Cultural Border Studies. Transcript Verlag, Bielefeld. Preprint online verfügbar: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/352838206_More-than-Human-Bordertextures_Rethinking_Animals_and_Viruses_as_Co-Constitutive_Border_Agents

Larissa Fleischmann (2025): Veterinary Fencing in Eastern Germany: The More-than-Human Borderlands of Afircan Swine Fever. In: Pohl Harrison, Annika; Eilenberg, Michael: Fences and Biosecurity. The Politics of Governing Unruly Nature. Helsinki University Press, Helsinki.

Larissa Fleischmann (2025): Mehr-als-menschliche Geographien der (Im)Mobilität. In: Runkel, Simon; Everts, Jonathan; Kauer, Dominique: Die Geosoziale Frage. Zur Gegenwart und Zukunft sozialgeographischer Forschung. Transcript Verlag, Bielefeld

Larissa Fleischmann (2024): Umkämpfte Praktiken der Solidarität: Zivilgesellschaftliche Aushandlungen um Teilhabe und Zugehörigkeit in Migrationsgesellschaften. In: Mayer, Ralf; Schäfer, Alfred; Schüll, Maren (Hg.): Umstrittene Solidarität. Spannungsfelder und Praktiken eines Kampfbegriffs, Transcript Verlag, Bielefeld. Online verfügbar:https://www.researchgate.net/publication/376619121_Umkampfte_Praktiken_der_Solidaritat_Zivilgesellschaftliche_Aushandlungen_um_Teilhabe_und_Zugehorigkeit_in_Migrationsgesellschaften

Larissa Fleischmann (2020): Mehr-als-menschliche Grenzen: Die Neuverhandlung des europäischen Grenzregimes im Kontext der Afrikanischen Schweinepest. In: Caesar, Beate; Hollstegge, Julian; Weber, Florian; Wille, Christian (Hrsg.): Geographien der Grenzen. Räume – Ordnungen – Verflechtungen. Springer VS, Heidelberg. S. 249-267. Online verfügbar unter: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-658-30950-3_11

Larissa Fleischmann (2020): Zivilgesellschaftliches Engagement in der postmigrantischen Gesellschaft: Annäherung an eine vielschichtige Praxis. In: van Rießen, Anne; Jepkens, Katja; Scholten, Lisa; Deinet, Ulrich (Hrsg.): Integration im Sozialraum, Springer VS, Heidelberg. S. 385-399. Online verfügbar unter: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-658-28202-8_25

Jonathan Everts, Kim Anna Juraschek, Larissa Fleischmann, Florian Ringel (2020): Ostdeutschland multikulturell und postmigrantisch. In: Naumann, Matthias; Becker, Sören (Hrsg.):  Regionalentwicklung in Ostdeutschland. Perspektiven und der Beitrag der Humangeographie. Springer Spektrum Verlag, Heidelberg. S. 235-247. Online verfügbar unter: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-662-60901-9_19

Larissa Fleischmann (2015): „We will rise“ – Die Stimmen der Geflüchteten in der aktuellen Willkommenskultur hören. In: Bogerts, Lisa; Schmertz, Martin (Hrsg.): Wie unsere Zukunft entsteht – Kritische Perspektiven zu Flucht und Migration nach Europa. S. 77-86. Online verfügbar unter: http://www.sicherheitspolitik-blog.de/files/2015/12/Wie_Unsere_Zukunft_Entsteht.pdf

Sonstiges

Larissa Fleischmann (2024): Book Review: Mehr-als-menschliche Geographien. Schlüsselkonzepte, Beziehungen und Methodiken. In: Geographica Helvetica 79, S. 61-63. Online verfügbar:https://gh.copernicus.org/articles/79/61/2024/

Larissa Fleischmann (2023) Radiobeitrag bei „Von unten im Gespräch“: Grenzbau durch Wildschweine, Radio Helsinki: https://helsinki.at/program/118244/

Larissa Fleischmann (2017): Bürgerengagement muss manchmal ungemütlich sein. Interview im Clustermagazin „Themen-Thesen-Texte“ 6/2017. Online verfügbar unter: https://www.exc16.uni-konstanz.de/fleischmann-fluechtlingshelfer.html

Larissa Fleischmann (2016): Vom Flüchtling zum Mitbürger: Welchen Beitrag kann die Zivilgesellschaft in Zukunft leisten? In: Kurzdossier Migration, Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung. Online verfügbar unter: http://www.bpb.de/gesellschaft/migration/kurzdossiers/228570/zivilgesellschaft-uind-integration

Larissa Fleischmann (2014): The European Union under Pressure – The 2013 Lampedusa Migrant Boat in British, German and French Newspaper Accounts. Masterarbeit online veröffentlicht auf: http://kops.uni-konstanz.de/bitstream/handle/123456789/32260/Fleischmann_0-306726.pdf?sequence=3&isAllowed=y

Vorträge

 2026: Waste not, Want not: Towards Political Ecologies of Animal Waste / Waste Animals. Vortrag auf der POLLEN Conference in Barcelona

2026: Subterranean Hydropolitics: The Utilisation of Underground Mine Waters for Energy Transitions in Eastern Germany, Hydropolitical Geographies Workshop, JTC Legal Tech Lab Halle

2026: Umwelt(de)kontamination als gesellschaftliches und politisches Thema, Impuls-Vortrag JTC Dialog „Pollutions & Solutions“

2026: Just Transitions Below Ground? Subterranean Transformations in Southern Saxony-Anhalt. Votrag im JTC Colloquium, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg

2026: Contested Infrastructures of Control: Veterinary Fencing in Postcolonial Namibia. Workshop “Un/Bordering Animal Health. Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Spatial Politics, Colonial Legacies and Multispecies Entanglements of Animal Disease Control”, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg.

2026: Abject Animals in the City: More-than-Human Thanatopolitics between Killability and Survival. Vortrag auf dem Annual Meeting der Association of American Geographers, San Francisco.

2025: Subterrane Transformationen im südlichen Sachsen-Anhalt: Der (post-)industrielle Untergrund als hydropolitischer Raum. Vortrag für die interuniversitäre Online-Ringvorlesung „Energie und Wasser als Schlüsselthemen der Transformation. Wissenschaftliche und anwendungsorientierte Perspektiven auf Strukturwandel und Transformation“ WiSe 25/26.

2025: Umkämpfte Veterinärzäune. Politische Geographien der Tiergesundheit am Beispiel der Afrikanischen Schweinepest. Konferenz Partizipative Wissenschaft, Leipzig.

2025: Bordering through Biosecurity: Controlling African Swine Fever in the Eastern German Borderlands. Vortrag für den Hybrid International Workshop: „Geographies of Transformation in Times of Planetary Change: Perspectives from Indonesia and Germany”, Jakarta, Indonesien.

2025:(Un)sichere Zäune? Materielle Grenzinfrastrukturen und mehr-als-menschliche (Im)Mobilitäten. Vortrag für die Tagung des AK Politische Geographie, Universität Freiburg.

2025: The Postcolonial Borders of Animal Health: Veterinary Fencing in Germany and Namibia. Vortrag in der Online Seminar Series Globalising Animal Geographies, RGS Animal Geographies Working Group.

2023: The Postcolonial Dimensions of Animal Health: The Case of Veterinary Fencing in Namibia. Vortrag im Research Colloquium der Basler Afrika Bibliographien, Basel.

2023: Critic im Rahmen der Authors meet Critics Session zu „Mehr-als-menschliche Geographien: Schlüsswerke, Beziehungen und Methodiken“ Deutscher Kongress für Geographie, Frankfurt/Main.

2023: Bordering Europe through Biosecurity. Veterinary Fencing and the More-than-Human Dimensions of Border-Making. Lecture Series “Bordering Europe”, Universität Graz.

2023: More-than-Human Borderlands of Disease. African Swine Fever in the Eastern German borderlands. Online Lecture Series der Borderland Working Group, University of Lund.

2023: Europas ‘Schweinekrise’: Mehr-als-menschliche Politische Georaphien der Afrikanischen Schweinpest. Tagung Neue Kulturgeographie in Halle (Saale).

2023: Discussant des Keynote Vortrags von Farhana Sultana „Decolonizing Climate Coloniality and the Importance of Cultural Practice. Tagung Neue Kulturgeographie in Halle (Saale).

2023: Umkämpfte Solidaritäten: Zivilgesellschaftliche Aushandlungen um Zugehörigkeit in Migrationsgesellschaften, Vortrag (online) im Rahmender Vortragsreihe „Zugehörigkeiten – Mobilisierung und Marginalisierung in der Migrationsgesellschaft“ am Zentrum für Flucht und Migration der Katholischen Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt.

2022: The splintering of a more-than-human border: African Swine Fever and the Erection of Veterinary Fences in the German-Polish Borderlands, Vortrag auf dem EEGA Workshop “More-than-Human Mobilities and Borderlands in Central and Eastern Europe”, Leipzig.

2022: „The Compartmentalized Border. Animal Disease and Veterinary Fences in the Eastern German Borderlands”, Vortrag auf dem Workshop “Fencing and Biosecuity”, Aarhus University, Sandbjerg Estate, Dänemark.

2021: „Mehr-als-menschliche Geographien der (Tier-)Gesundheit“, Vortrag auf der digitalen Geo-Woche.

2021: „‚It’s not a Swine Fever, it’s a Fence Fever!‘ – The Proliferation of Animal Health Borders in Europe“, Vortrag für das Annual Meeting der American Association of Geographers.

2021: „Schweine und Grenzen. Mehr-als-menschliche Politische Geographien der Tiergesundheit“, Vortrag im Geographischen Kolloquium der Universität Bayreuth.

2021: „Politische Geographie jenseits ihrer Komfortzone? Macht und Grenzen in mehr-als-menschlichen Welten“, Vortrag für die Jena Talks in Economic Geography, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena.

2021:  „Mehr-als-menschliche Bordertexturen. Tiere und Viren als Grenzsubjekte denken“, Vortrag im ‚Atelier Bordertextures‘ des UniGR – Centre for Border Studies.

2020: „Bürgerschaftliches Engagement in Migrationsgesellschaften“ Online-Vortrag BDDI-Dialogakademie „Einmischen erwünscht – Status Quo Zivilgesellschaft und bürgerschaftliches Engagement“.

2020: „Tiere, Macht und Raum: Mehr-als-menschliche Politische Geographien der Tiergesundheit“. Kolloquium des Forschungsnetzwerks Cultural and Literary Animal Studies, Forschungskolleg der Goethe-Universität in Bad Homburg.

2019: „Zäune, Zonen, Grenzen. Die räumliche Produktion von Tiergesundheit in Europa“. Mitteldeutsche Tagung der Humangeographie, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg.

2019: „Fencing, Zoning, Bordering. The Spatial Governance of ‘Risky’ Animal Mobilities“. Workshop „Emigrating Animals, Migratory Humans“, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prag.

2019: „Machtsensible Tiergeographien. Die umkämpften Politiken mobiler Wildschweine“. Deutscher Kongress für Geographie, Kiel.

2019: „Making Volunteering with Refugees Governable. The Contested Role of Civil Society in the German Welcome Culture”. Workshop “Humanitarianism past and present”, Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford.

2019: „Mehr-als-menschliche Migration: Wildschweine im europäischen Grenzregime“ Tagung Neue Kulturgeographie 16, Katholische Universität Eichstätt.

2018: „Boar(der) Control. Governing Mobile Wild Boars in the European Border Regime.” Workshop “Porcine Futures 1: Re-Negotiating ‘Wilderness’ in More-than-Human Worlds”, Prag, Tschechien.

2018: „Responding to a Moral Imperative to Act: The Mobilization of Solidarity for the Plight of Refugees in Germany”, ISA World Congress of Sociology, Toronto.

2017: „The Role of Civil Society in the Reception of Asylum Seekers. The Case of Germany”. Vortrag im Rahmen des Workshops „The Humanitarian and Migration Crisis in Europe: A challenge for EU borders?”, Jean Monnet Netzwerk, Université de Strasbourg.

2016: „Ambivalente Hilfe. Flüchtlingsengagement zwischen staatstragender Wohltätigkeit und politischer Transformation“. Vortrag im Rahmen der Ringvorlesung „Europa – Wie hast Du’s mit der Migration?“, Pädagogische Hochschule Schwäbisch Gmünd.

2016: „Zwischen Solidarisierung und Subversion: Widerständige Praktiken der Geflüchteten aus Sicht der ‚Helfer‘“, Konferenz des Netzwerks Flüchtlingsforschung, Universität Osnabrück.

2016: „Refugees Welcome in Germany? The Role of Civil Society in the Reception of Asylum Seekers.“ Vortrag an der National Odesa Law Academy, Odessa, Ukraine.

2015: „Mehr Anerkennung, weniger kurzfristige Hilfe. Zur Zukunft der Willkommenskultur“ Vortrag im Rahmen der Veranstaltung „Willkommenskultur: Wie geht es weiter?“ der Partnerschaft für Demokratie Bremen-Nord, Bremen.

2015: „De-Securitizing ‚Fortress Europe‘: The Shifting Discourses on Europe, its Border and the non-European ‚Other‘” Paper presented at the International Conference of Critical Geography 2015, Ramallah, Palestine.

2015: „Gesellschaftliche Einstellungen gegenüber Flüchtlingen und daraus ableitbare Handlungsempfehlungen für Staat, Zivilgesellschaft und Wirtschaft“ Vortrag im Rahmen der ExpertInnendiskussion der Phineo gemeinnützige AG, Berlin.