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Apr 14, 2025
Working Paper 01/2025 published: „Infrastructures of Feeling: Digital Mediation, Captivation, Ambivalence“
Rebecca Coleman proposes a concept of infrastructures of feeling, building on Raymond Williams’ work on structures of feeling and contributing to current work on digital media/tion, affect and time.
Jan 13, 2025
Ernst-Reuter-Prize for Laibor Kalanga Moko
Our colleague Laibor Kalanga Moko was awarded with this year's Ernst Reuter Prize for his dissertation ‘Sensing the Colonial Order of Things: Maasai Materialities and Ethnographic Museums’ (Supervision: PD Dr Paola Ivanov, Prof. Dr Kai Kresse). We are very pleased and congratulate him!
Dec 12, 2024
Dissertation award for Laibor Kalanga Moko
Dr. Laibor Kalanga Moko, who has been a research associate at the CRC Affective Societies in our sub-project "Contested Property" since 2019, has been awarded this year's doctoral prize of the Berlin Scientific Society.
Jul 30, 2024
Workshop on Affective Excess
"It is through feeling that we know, or rather sense , the brownness of the world and of each other". This observation on the affective nature of brownness was made by José Esteban Muñoz, a Cuban-American academic in the field of performance studies. A workshop organized by CRC Affective Societies Fellow Milagros Pellicer Planells will explore what it means to exist outside the dominant white affective code, to feel and sense the imposed other.
Jul 10, 2024
Job Offer: Research assistant (Postdoc) at the Institute of Sociology
The Institute of Sociology is searching for a full time PostDoc. The application deadline is July 22th.
Jul 05, 2024
Methods workshop "Understanding Mobilization on Social Media: Methodological Approaches to Activists' Affective and Networking Practices": July 4-5, 2024
How can researchers address and analyze the role of emotions and affect in protest mobilization on social media? How do they go about handling vast amounts of multimodal data, rapidly changing digital infrastructures, and data security laws? What are the challenges and opportunities of computational methods, and how can qualitative methods be applied to social media data? On July 4-5, a methods workshop titled "Understanding Mobilization on Social Media: Methodological Approaches to Activists' Affective and Networking Practices" will address these questions from a multidisciplinary perspective.
Jun 10, 2024
"Faces of Affective Injustice" - International Workshop at Freie Universität Berlin
Together with Jakob Huber (and his junior research group ‚Democratic Hope‘) and Alfred Archer (Tilburg), Jan Slaby is hosting a philosophical workshop entitled ‚Faces of Affective Injustice‘.
May 31, 2024
Sociologist Elgen Sauerborn with a blog post on the emotional politics surrounding the Columbia University protests
"Safety Within and Without" - Sociologist Elgen Sauerborn has written an article on the emotional politics surrounding the protests at Columbia University (New York).
May 15, 2024
"Emotions- und Affektsoziologie. Eine Einführung" has been published by De Gruyter
The book "Emotions- und Affektsoziologie. Eine Einführung", edited by Veronika Zink and Aletta Diefenbach, has now been published by de Gruyter. Numerous (former) members of the SFB 1171 were also involved.
May 10, 2024
The report of the research project "The new vietnamese Berlin" has been published!
The project report of the research project " The new Vietnamese Berlin " was recently published in Refubium.
May 10, 2024
An interview with sociologist Aletta Diefenbach by Tagesspiegel
Sociologist Aletta Diefenbach was interviewed by Tagesspiegel to talk about Emotions in political debates.
May 10, 2024
New Release: Featured Article in Special Issue on "Collective Care in Three Vietnamese Contexts"
Subproject D03 is represented with a new article in the Journal of Southeast Asian Studies .
May 03, 2024
Working Paper: #FrauenSagenNein – Bridging the Divide
#FrauenSagenNein – Bridging the Divide. Analyzing the Affective Network of Gender-Critical Alliances (2024) by Margreth Lünenborg and Pauline H. Zahn has now been published. The paper was written on the basis of the Master thesis of Pauline H. Zahn.
Apr 30, 2024
Working Paper: „Seelenheil und Sozialkritik. Eine emotionssoziologische Analyse der Achtsamkeit“
In this working paper, Elgen Sauerborn, Nina Sökefeld and Sighard Neckel explore Western-influenced concepts of mindfulness and their critiques.
Apr 30, 2024
D02 presents “Beyond arguments? Affect-theoretical concepts of public spheres using the example of (anti-)feminist discourses”
On March 15, 2024, Ana Makhashvili, Annabella Backes and Margreth Lünenborg from the D02 project gave a lecture at the 69th Annual Conference of the German Communication Association (DGPuK) “Visions for the ‘good life’: Media and Communication in Tomorrow's Society” at the University of Erfurt.
Mar 22, 2024
Publication of the thematic focus "Affective Regimes of Care beyond Humanitarian Crisis," edited by Heike Drotbohm & Hansjörg Dilger, has been released.
In a thematic section of the journal Focaal (vol. 98/1, 2024), the focus is on the expansion and differentiation of various forms of humanitarian aid, deeply rooted in contemporary political and social order.
Feb 26, 2024
New publication of the book 'Affektive Dynamiken der Gegenwart. Formen, Wirkungen, Erfahrungen', edited by Doris Kolesch
Neofelis Verlag recently published the book "Affektive Dynamiken der Gegenwart. Formen, Wirkungen, Erfahrungen", edited by Doris Kolesch, was recently published by Neofelis Verlag. It deals with the role and significance of affects in social change processes.
Feb 23, 2024
Maren Wirt on affects in collaborative research
In a blog post for the German Centre for Cultural Loss (Deutsches Zentrum für Kulturverlust), Maren Wirth reports on affects in collaborative research on colonial collections.
Feb 23, 2024
