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New publication

Helena Gräf and Stefan Schmalz have published a new article entitled “Avoiding the China Shock: How Chinese State-backed Internationalisation Drives Changes in European Economic Governance”. The article has been published in the journal Competition & Change and is available Open Access.

Event information

Workshop Critical Theory in Berlin with the participation of Jacob Blumenfeld, Klaus Dörre and Silke van Dyk. The event will be held in German and registration is not required.

Date: 08-09 December 2023
Location: Auditorium, Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm Centre, Humboldt University of Berlin
Title: “Vergesellschaftung des Gesellschaftlichen”

For further information on the content and programme, please see the following link.

New blog post!

A new blogpost has been published!

Title: “Holidays as divine property: Moving symbols of ownership from the countryside into the city”
Author: Jörg Rüpke

SFB book launch “Die Rechte der Natur”

For some time now, nature, such as rivers, has been granted its own rights. In his new book "Die Rechte der Natur. Vom nachhaltigen Eigentum", Tilo Wesche explores fundamental questions about the justification, status and scope of these rights.

The Collaborative Research Centre "Structural Change of Property" at the Universities of Jena and Erfurt cordially invites you to the digital book launch on 07.12.2023 from 16:00-18:00. With comments by Carsten Herrmann-Pillath (Erfurt) and Judith Möllhoff (Berlin), moderated by Hartmut Rosa (Jena/ Erfurt).

Please register at: koordination.sfb-eigentum@uni-jena.de

In dialogue with Matthew Thompson

Matthew Thompson has been a Mercator Fellow at the SFB since the end of October. We spoke to him about his understanding of property and property structures and their significance for his research.

Event information

Panel discussion with Silke van Dyk as part of the series “Wege aus der linken Krise” of the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation Saxony.

Date: 27.11.2023 06:30 p.m.
Location: Trade union centre Zwickau
Title: “Die Eigentumsfrage stellen”

Further information can be found at the following link.
Registration is requested.

Event information

Stefanie Graefe, Irina Herb and Susanne Lettow from subproject C02 are organising a lecture series in the winter semester 2023/24 entitled “Bodies, power and property in transnational reproductive economies”. 

Next date: 22.November 2023 4-6 p.m. online
Title: Amrita Pande (Department of Sociology, University of Cape Town): “Labour, Property and the fertility industry: Notes from Dalit and Black feminist thought”

Interested parties are very welcome!

ZEIT-Ranking Placement for Tilo Wesche

Tilo Wesche's book "Die Rechte der Natur. Vom nachhaltigen Eigentum" ranked 9th on the ZEIT-Sachbuchbestenliste for the month of november.

Conference Presentation

Marlen van den Ecker is giving a presentation "Gehirne bleiben relevant" about Artificial Intelligence, precisely Large Language Models (LLM) and the remaining difficulties that come with trying to work under avoidance of the brain at the conference  „Was tun mit KI: Sozialismus aus dem Rechner oder Techno-Dystopie?" (11.11.) held by the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung.

Event information

Scientific publication cultures in the age of open access 
Data control, reputational competition and the commercialisation of scientific publishing from the perspective of the disciplines. 

Joint event organised by the Thuringian University and State Library Jena (ThULB) and the SFB 294 Strukturwandel des Eigentums.

Date: 30.November and 01.Dezember 2023
Ort: Lecture room of the ThULB (Bibliotheksplatz 2)

New blog post!

A new blogpost has been published!

Title: “Wem gehört die Biodiversität? Von Global Commons über intellectual property rights zu open access”
Autors: Anne Tittor, Eduardo Relly, Maria Backhouse

Matthew Thompson as guest at SFB

The SFB welcomes Matthew Thompson to his Mercator Fellowship. Today and tomorrow he will participate in the workshop “Local self-governance and urban property relations: Historical and present perspectives“.Furthermore, he will participate in the colloquium programme in the coming weeks.

New publication

Silke van Dyk and Markus Kip have published a new article entitled “Rethinking Social Rights as Social Property: Alternatives to Private Property, and the Democratisation of Public Politics”. The article was published in Critical Sociology and is available via Open Access.

New publication

Robin K. Saalfeld and Sylka Scholz have published a new article entitled “Wer das Geld hat, hat die Macht? Verhandlungen von Property Gaps in Paarwelten.” has been published. This contribution is part of the volume “Polarisierte Welten”, which contains all contributions to the negotiations of the 41st Congress of the German Sociological Association in Bielefeld 2022.

Conference presentation

Amelie Stuart and Lydia von der Weth take part in the conference “Pass on. Generational Wealth Transfers from the 16th to the 20th Century“ and give a lecture on “Faded Gold: Inheritances within Families in Erfurt between 1700-1750“.

Date: 28.10.2023 9:45 a.m.
You can register under the following link. Online participation is possible.

New blog post!

A new blogpost by Karlotta Böthig entitled “Die Stiftung als Instrument zur Perpetuierung von Vermögen” has been published. This contribution is Part V of the series “Verfügung über Dinge”

Event information

As part of the workshop "Local self-governance and urban property relations: Historical and present perspectives" there will be a public lecture including a discussion by Dr. Ralf Hoffrogge.

Date: 26.10.2023 06:15 p.m.
Venue: Auditorium zur Rosen, Johannisstraße 13, Jena
Title: “From the Factory into the Living Room: The Roots of Socialisation and Its Recent Return”

The lecture is in German with English translation.

New blog post!

A new blogpost by Anna Möllers entitled “The figure of the ‘savage’ and landed property in colonial contexts” has been published. This contribution is Part IV of the series “Verfügung über Dinge”

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.