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

May 20, Room 10.001

Prof. Dr. Paolo Boccagni, University of Trento, Italy

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

June 24, Room 32.006

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