The SFB short film:

About property in transition and the work of the SFB.

This film is the work of Catharina Göldner and Katharina Hamann.

The members of the Collaborative Research Centre in summer 2023

Image: Marlen van den Ecker

Welcome to the website of the Collaborative Research Centre TRR 294 "Structural Change of Property"!

The Collaborative Research Centre pursues the goal of investigating the fundamental structural change of property that could be observed at the latest since 1989.  The Collaborative Research Centre contains a total of 23 subprojects at five locations in Germany: Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena (Sprecher*innenhochschule), Universität Erfurt, Freie Universität BerlinCarl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Technische Universität Darmstadt.

While private property has gained in importance worldwide since 1989 under conditions of increasing concentration and deregulation, the resulting property system has proved to be both crisis-prone and highly controversial in the face of new economic, political and technological challenges. It isn't challenged only by the global financial and economic crises, but also by political conflicts over the appropriation, distribution and containment of private property, as well as by the dynamics of the knowledge and bio-economies, which are linked to alternative concepts of common property, shared use and free access to resources.

News

We are now also on Bluesky!

You can now also find out about our events and other news from the SFB on Bluesky!

Lunch Lecture Contested Property

Silke van Dyk will give a lecture at the University of Vienna on May 21 on the question “Infrastructures in the field of tension between private and collective property: A new politics of the public?” The occasion is a lunch lecture on the book Nach dem Privateigentum.

New Working Paper online!

In this new Working Paper, we present key research results of the CRC 294 "Structural Change of Property" from the first funding phase (2021 to 2024).

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New publication!

Sofia Bianchi Mancini's paper on "Narrating Divine Property: The Case of Sacred Groves in Statian Poetry" has just been published open access.

New publication!

Maria Pfeiffer and Marco Sonnberger published a new article titled "Rushing for the gold of the energy transition: An empirical exploration of the relevance of landownership for the wind energy expansion in Germany" in Energy Research & Social Science.

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New publication!

Jan Dirk Harke published "Die Geburt des Eigentums", a new volume of the SFB-series, with Campus Verlag.

Event information

The projects B08, C05 and JRT06 will be hosting the workshop "Umkämpfter digitaler Kapitalismus: Neofeudalismus, Geopolitik und soziale Konflikte" on March 13 and 14 in Jena. Register via email to Florian Schadwinkel (florian.schadwinkel@uni-erfurt.de).

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Events

Universität Erfurt; Erfurt

Keynote by Adrian Daub: "What Tech Calls Governing"

As part of our semester opening, Adrian Daub (Stanford University) will be our guest and deliver an online lecture. Everyone is welcome.

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Kino am Markt; Jena

Movie series „Property in view"

On May 13, we will show the movie Two to One (D 2024).

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FU Berlin; Berlin

Koloniale Erbschaften? Geschlecht, Eigentum und die Reproduktion rassistischer Ordnungen im deutschen Kontext

Lecture by Hannah Vögele (University of Brighton, FU-BEST), chaired by Abibi Stewart.

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Kino am Markt; Jena

Movie series „Property in view"

On June 10 we will show the movie Barbie (USA 2023).

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