PhD Projects:
Artsy Rust Belts: Narratives of the Creative Class in Post-Industrial Cities from a Transatlantic Perspective
Green Metropoles: Conserving Whose World? Sustainability Standards in the U.S. and Germany
Social Change for Engaging Cities: Translating Urban 'Collective Impact' Initiatives between the Rust Belt and the Ruhr
Jazzing Up the Climate-Friendly City: Scripts for Sustainable and Climate-Friendly Rehabilitation in Detroit and the Ruhrgebiet
Scripts of Diversity Gardening: The Inclusive Green City Plot in Portland (Oregon) and Essen
Raising Ethnic Voices: Counter-Discourses in the Contemporary Cultural Scenes of New York City and Los Angeles
Waterfront Reconquista: Conflicting Scripts for Waterfront and Port Developments in Inland Harbor Cities
Postdoctoral Project:
Trivial Pursuits: The Practices and Politics of Prioritization in Postindustrial Urban Spaces
January 25-29: Theme week "Scripting Urban Space during COVID-19" in cooperation with In Media Res
January 28: Talk by Joern Langhorst in Scripts Colloquium
February 11: Talk by Florian Freitag in Scripts Virtual Colloquium
February 15: (Virtual) Book Launch for Charting Literary Urban Studies (Jens Martin Gurr)
March 8-12: RUDESA Spring Academy "Transatlantic City: Intersection of Race, Class, and Gender"
May 20: Talk by Barbara Buchenau at KU Eichstätt
September 9-12: City Scripts Symposium “Transatlantic Rust Belts” in Detroit