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Hannes Kaufmann

Doctoral Researcher
at the Professorship for Political Theory

Adress

Justus Liebig University Giessen
Department of Political Science

Karl-Gloeckner-Strase 21E

D-35394 Giessen

Contact

Philosophikum II room E114

☎ +49 641 99-23072

Consultation Hours

Due to the current situation, office hours will be conducted online via Cisco Webex. Individual appointments can be made via Email.

Competent Secretariat
Contact

Philosophikum II Room E115

☎ +49 641 99 23071

Fax +49 641 99 23079

CV

CV

05/2020 - now      

Junior Researcher at the Chair of Political Theory and the History of Ideas (Prof. Dr. Regina Kreide), Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen

 

2016-2017          

Academic assistant at the Graduate Centre for Life Sciences (GGL), Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen

 

2016                     

Student assistant at the Institute for Political Science, J.W. Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main

 

2012-2016          

Student assistant at the Chair for Political Theory (Prof. Dr. Sandra Seubert), Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe-Universität Frankfurt

 

2012-2016          

Studies in Political Theory  (Master of Arts), Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, TU Darmstadt, Universität Warschau

 

2009-2012          

Studies in Political Science and History (Bachelor of Arts), Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main

 

Scholarships and Funding

2017-2020         

Doctoral-Scholarship, Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung

 

2016-2019          

Membership at the Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture (GCSC), Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen

 

Memberships

AG „Theorie, Gesellschaft, Politik“, Heinrich Böll Stiftung (Coordinator)

Section „Human Rights and Democracy“ of the Graduate Centre for Social Sciences, Business, Economics and Law (GGS), Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen (Speaker)

Deutsche Nachwuchsgesellschaft für Politik- und Sozialwissenschaften (DNGPS)

Research

Research

Research interests:

Critical Theory/ Social Theory

Theory of law and state

Authoritarianism

(In-)equality and (in-)justice

Exclusion and violence

 

Research project:

Doctoral Dissertation: Critique of law or Ciritque of Legal Culture? Approaching a materialist Theory of Law emanating from Adorno and Horkheimer

Publications

Publications

Articles:

Transformations of liberal reason. Migration politics and shifts in cultural self-interpretation" in OnCulture 10, 2020.

„When Silence Speaks Louder than Words: Tracing moments of ‚Verfremdung‘ in Contemporary Political Protests” (together with Gerlov van Engelenhoven). In: ecibs. Communications of the International Brecht Society 1/2019

 

Book and Conference reviews:

The code of capital: How the Law Creates Wealth and Inequality by Katharina Pistor Princeton/Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2019 [Rezension]". In: Constellations. An International Journal for Critical and Democratic Theory 30/1, 2023, 98-100.

„Gerechtigkeit(stheorien) provinzialisieren. Bericht zum Workshop ‚Decolonizing Justice? Bringing Political Theory and Postcolonial Theory into Conversation’” (together with Sebastian Garbe). In: Zeitschrift für Politische Theorie 1/2018.

„Legal Disruptions. Reconciling Dissent or Dissenting Reconciliation in and through Law?” [Review on: López Lerma, Mónica; Etxabe, Julen (Hrsg.): Rancière and Law. Abingdon, Oxon/ New York: Routledge, 2018.]”. In: KULT_online 54 (2018).

„Tackling the Crises (with and within Critical Theory)” [Review on: Deutscher, Penelope and Cristina Lafont (Hrsg.): Critical Theory in Critical Times. Transforming the Global Political & Economic Order. New York: Columbia University Press, 2017.]”. In: KULT_online 53 (2018).

Talks

Talks

Talks and Workshops: 

10/2019: „From the destruction of nature to destructive naturalization”. Conference: Marx 2019 – climate change and the end of capitalism, Stockholm (Schweden)

07/2019: „Imagining Sovereignty“. Workshop: Migration and Imagination, Prato (Italien)

06/2019: „Verfremdung contra Entfremdung – Political Protests and the role of (stage) direction”. Conference of the International Brecht Society, Leipzig

05/2019: „Beyond ‚Tragedy’ and ‚Farce’. Critical Theory against authoritarian critiques of rights”. International Critical Theory Conference, Rom (Italien)

02/2019: Moderation of the Opening-Keynote-Lecture (Timothy Peters) and the Panel „Constructing Villains in the Media Discourse: Extremists and Radicals“.  Conference: Villains! Constructing Narratives of Evil, Gießen

12/2018: Conducting a workshop on „Vom Recht auf Kritik zur Kritik des Rechts“, Jahreskongress des Bundesarbeitskreises kritischer Jura-gruppen, Frankfurt am Main

06/2018: „When silence speaks louder than words: Theatricality and dramatization in contemporary Brechtian political protests” (together with Gerlov van Engelenhoven): Workshop. Baustelle Brecht II/Working with Brecht II, Berlin

05/2018: „‚All reification is forgetting.’ Adorno and Horkheimer on law and reification”. International Critical Theory Conference, Rom (Italien)

12/2017: „‚I fought the law and… the law won!’ On law’s alienating effects and the silencing of dissent”, Jahreskonferenz der Law, Literature and the Humanities Association of Australasia, Melbourne (Australien)

Seit 2017: Organisation and Coordination of regular Seminars of the AG „Theorie, Gesellschaft Politik“ at Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung (including seminars on Karl Marx, Sigmund Freud, Simone de Beauvoir, Jessica Benjamin, Judith Butler, on Populism, Authoritarianism and Emotions in Politics)

12/2016: Input and Moderation of the Panel „Political Violence/ Terror and Space” at the Reading Retreat on „Spatializing Terror and Insecurity”. Gießen

04/2016: Conducting a Workshop on „Rechtskritik(en). Zum Rechtsdenken bei Marx, Bloch und Neumann“, TU Darmstadt

Teaching

Teaching

Winter term 2021/22:

Seminar: Einführung in die Kritische Theorie, Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen


Winter term 2020/21:

Seminar: Recht und Kritik,  Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen

Proseminar: "Der Anteil der Anteillosen": Ungleichheit und Politik von den 'Rändern',  Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen

 

Summer term 2020:

Proseminar: Gerechtigkeit – Eine Einführung, Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen

 

Summer term 2018:

Proseminar: Einführung in die Politische Theorie, Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen

 

Winter term 2016/17:

Autonomes Tutorium: Kritik(en) des liberalen Rechtsdenkens, TU Darmstadt