SaFe Lecture Series 2025

The DFG-funded research impulse ‚Shaping Future Society‘ (SaFe) warmly
invites you to the 2025 lecture series ‚Researching Community‘. The
research impulse explores the nexus between future-oriented practices
and processes of communitizationacross various areas of life. The
lecture series will feature both German and international guest speakers
and will beheld in English (except for the first lecture). All lectures
will be followed by discussionsandtake place on Tuesdays from 4:30 - 6
p.m. No registration is required.

*May 13*, Room 32.006

*Dr. Laura Behrmann*, University of Wuppertal, Germany

/Gesellschaftliche Krisen und Kausalitäten////–////Warum qualitative
Forschung  jetzt umdenken muss///(This event will be exceptionally held
in German)

*May 20*, Room 10.001

*Prof. Dr. Paolo Boccagn**i*, University of Trento, Italy

/Homing Revisited – Approaching Ordinary Struggles and //Emerging
Dilemmas of Future-Oriented Mobilities/

*June 17*, Room 10.001

*Prof. Dr. Margaret Gichuru*, State University of New York, USA

/How Teachers Bring Cultural Relevance into Early Childhood Education
for Low-Income Families/

*July 1*, Room 32.006

*Prof. Dr. Francesca Forno*, University of Trento, Italy

/Beyond Food – Food Democracy as a Catalyst for Active Citizenship and
Governance/

*July 15*, Room 10.001

*Prof. Dr. Joanna Pfaff-Czarnecka*, University of Bielefeld, Germany

/Belonging and Un/certainty in Collective Constellations – Perspectives
from Asia/