Anna-Sophie Schönfelder
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- Anna-Sophie Schönfelder
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Research Associate
DFG Collaborative Research Centre/ Transregio 138 »Dynamics of Security«
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Justus Liebig University Giessen
Department of Political ScienceKarl-Gloeckner-Strasse 21E
D-35394 Giessen
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Philosophikum II Room E113
☎ +49 641 99-23054
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by appointment via e-mail
- Competent Secretariat
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Philosophikum II Room E115
☎ +49 641 99 23071
Fax +49 641 99 23079
Research
- Research
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Focus in Research
- Critique of Political Economy/ Marx Studies
- The authoritarian and the bourgeois State
- Arendt Studies
- Critique of Antigypsyism and Antisemitism
- Psychoanalytic Social Theory
- History and Critique of liberal Thought
Research Projects
Between Minority Protection and Securitization: Roma Minority Formation in Modern European History
- Subproject C10 at the Collaborative Research Centre (SFB) 138 »Dynamics of Security. Types of Securitization from a Historical Perspective«
- Funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG)
- Project directors: Prof. Dr. Regina Kreide and Prof. Dr. Huub van Baar
- Duration: 1.1.2022–31.12.2025
The Political Economy of Antigypsyism: Securitization of informal work (working title)
- PhD project at Justus Liebig University Giessen
- Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Regina Kreide
Marx and the ›criticism in a hand-to-hand fight‹. On a genealogy of modern critique of society
- Funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG)
- Project director: Prof. Dr. Matthias Bohlender
- Duration: 1.6.2014–30.04.2019
Membership
- Gesellschaft für Antiziganismusforschung e.V. (GfA) (Society for Anti-Gypsyism Research)
- Giessen Graduate Centre for Social Sciences, Business, Economics and Law (GGS)
- Research Network 31 "Ethnic Relations, Racism and Antisemitism" within the European Sociological Association (RN31)
CV
- CV
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since
03/2022Research Associate and PhD candidate
at the DFG Collaborative Research Centre/Transregio 138 »Dynamics of Security«, subproject C10 — Between Minority Protection and Securitization at the Chair of Political Theory and History of Ideas, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen
4/2014 – 9/2021 Associate lecturer for Political Theory and the History of Ideas
at the Universities of Osnabrueck (Chair of Political Theory, Matthias Bohlender), Lueneburg (Chair of Political Theory and Policy Analysis, Thomas Saretzki) and Hamburg (Chair of History and Theory of Political Thought, Olaf Asbach)
6/2017
Winner of the David Riazanov Prize 2017, awarded by the Association for the Promotion of the MEGA Edition, for the article »Die Register der Kritik in Marxʼ Journalismus der 1850er Jahre« 6/2014 – 4/2019 Research Associate
at the DFG Research Project Marx and the ›criticism in a hand-to-hand fight‹. On a genealogy of modern critique of society at the Chair of Political Theory, Osnabrueck University10/2012 – 8/2013 Graduate Research Assistant
at the Chair of Political Theory, Osnabrueck University
5/2011 – 9/2012 Student Research Assistant
for the equal opportunities commissioner at the Department of Social Sciences, Osnabrueck University
10/2009 – 3/2011 Teaching Assistant
at the Department of Social Sciences, leading tutorials for introductory courses in Sociology and Political Science, Osnabrueck University
10/2008 – 9/2012 Masterʼs Studies at Osnabrueck University: Democratic Governance and Civil Society
Masterʼs thesis: Limits and Conditions to political Action in Karl Marx and Hannah Arendt
9/2006 – 3/2007 Visiting Student of modern Greek language and literature, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
11/2005 – 6/2006 Student Assistant at the Department of English language and literature, Osnabrueck University
10/2003 – 6/2008 Bachelorʼs Studies at Osnabrueck University: European Studies (Majors: History, French language and literature. Minor: social sciences)
Bachelorʼs thesis: The ›Neue Weltbühne‹ and the German Antifascist Peopleʼs Front
Publications
- Publications
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Monographs
- Bohlender, Matthias/ Schönfelder, Anna-Sophie/ Spekker, Matthias: Wahrheit und Revolution. Studien zur Grundproblematik der Marxʼschen Gesellschaftskritik. Transcript. Bielefeld 2020.
English language translation:
Bohlender, Matthias/ Schönfelder, Anna-Sophie/ Spekker, Matthias: Truth and Revolution in Marxʼs Critique of Society. Studies on a Fundamental Problematique. Palgrave Macmillan. Cham 2023.Editor
- Bohlender, Matthias/ Schönfelder, Anna-Sophie/ Spekker, Matthias (Eds.): Kritik im Handgemenge. Die Marxʼsche Gesellschaftskritik als politischer Einsatz. Transcript. Bielefeld 2018.
Essays and Reviews
- Zwischen Krautjunkern und Bonapartisten. Marx und die »praktischen Details«. In: Krüger, D. M. (Ed.): Karl Marx in der Geschichte. Entstehung und Rezeption der Marx’schen Kritik. Transcript. Bielefeld 2024 [forthcoming].
- (with Matthias Spekker and Matthias Bohlender) Introduction. In: Bohlender, M./ Schönfelder, A.-S./ Spekker, M.: Truth and Revolution in Marx's Critique of Society. Studies on a Fundamental Problematique. Palgrave Macmillan. Cham 2023, pp. 1-33.
- Declining or Modern Forms of Rule? Marx on Revolution and Restoration in Europe. In: Bohlender, M./ Schönfelder, A.-S./ Spekker, M.: Truth and Revolution in Marx's Critique of Society. Studies on a Fundamental Problematique. Palgrave Macmillan. Cham 2023, pp. 89-130.
- Karl Marx - Werk und Wirken. In: LeMo - Lebendiges Museum Online. Online-Portal des Deutschen Historischen Museums. Berlin 2022.
- Gesellschaftstheorie unter Spannung: Marx und die Revolution. In: Gross, R./ Herres, J./ Kritter, S. (Eds.): Karl Marx und der Kapitalismus. Katalog zur Ausstellung im Deutschen Historischen Museum. Wbg Theiss. Darmstadt 2022, pp. 85-94.
- Untergehende oder moderne Herrschaftsformen? Marx über Revolution und Restauration in Europa. In: Bohlender, M./ Schönfelder, A.-S./ Spekker, M.: Wahrheit und Revolution. Studien zur Grundproblematik der Marxʼschen Gesellschaftskritik. Transcript. Bielefeld 2020, pp. 77-116.
- Ein Auftakt aus zwei Auftakten. Review of: Hannah Arendt. Complete Works. Critical Edition. Vols. 3 and 6 [Vol. 3: ›Sechs Essays. Die verborgene Tradition‹. Ed. by B. Hahn, B. Breysach, C. Pischel. Göttingen 2019. And: Vol. 6 ›The Modern Challenge to Tradition‹. Ed. by B. Hahn, J. McFarland, I. Kieslich, I. Nordmann. Göttingen 2018.] In: Zeitschrift für politische Theorie, Vol. 10, No. 1 (2019), pp. 133-142.
- Politics contra the functionalisation of man - Hannah Arendt’s problematic investigation of ideology and labour. In: Zeitschrift für kritische Sozialtheorie und Philosophie. Vol. 5, No. 2. Berlin/Boston 2018, pp. 338-369.
- Ruhe nach dem Sturm. Louis-Napoléon als zu korrigierender Fehler der Geschichte. In: Bohlender, M./ Schönfelder, A.-S./ Spekker, M. (Eds.): Kritik im Handgemenge. Die Marxʼsche Gesellschaftskritik als politischer Einsatz. Transcript. Bielefeld 2018, pp. 97-137.
- Die Register der Kritik in Marxʼ Journalismus der 1850er Jahre. In: Marx-Engels-Jahrbuch 2015/16. Ed. by Internationale Marx-Engels-Stiftung Amsterdam. De Gruyter Akademie Forschung. Berlin/Boston 2016, pp. 160-191.
- (with Matthias Spekker) Spurenlesen – Über die Formierung der Gesellschaftskritik im Handgemenge bei Marx. In: Ehlers, J./ Gerr, U./ Köhler, E./ Stolzenberger, S./ Vialon, M. (Eds.): Kritik und Versöhnung - Beiträge im Handgemenge Kritischer Theorie. BIS. Oldenburg 2016, pp. 317-341.
- Mangel inmitten von Überfluss. Reichtum und Herrschaft in Karl Marxʼ Kritik der politischen Ökonomie. In: Grözinger, G./ Reich, U.-P. (Eds..): Entfremdung – Ausbeutung – Revolte. Karl Marx neu verhandelt. Jahrbuch Ökonomie und Gesellschaft, Vol. 24. Metropolis. Marburg 2012, pp. 241-256.
- Sigmund Freuds Weiblichkeitsbild. Mythos und Realität der ›kastrierten‹ weiblichen Sexualität. Osnabrück 2010.
Journalism
- Stereotype Männlichkeit als Zumutung. Commentary on the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women. In: Osterholzer Anzeiger, 19 November 2021.
- Austragen statt ignorieren. Review of the exhibition »Conflicts« at the Hamburg Museum of Labour. In: taz nord, 16 November 2021.
- Hinschauen lernen im Algenwald. Review Essay on the documentary film »My Octopus Teacher«. In: Versorgerin, No. 130, June 2021.
- Ruth Klüger ist tot - ein Nachruf. Obituary for the literary scholar Ruth Klüger. In: Osterholzer Anzeiger, 8 October 2020.
- Face the Fritz. The reportages of Margaret Bourke-White, Janet Flanner and others about Germany after 1945. In: Jungle World, No. 19/2020.
Teaching
- Teaching
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Summer Term 2021 Theories of the State (B.A., Leuphana University of Lueneburg)
Theories of the State (Compact Course, B.A., Leuphana University of Lueneburg)
Winter Term 2020/21
Truth and Politics (B.A./M.A., University of Osnabrueck) Summer Term 2020
Power and Domination (B.A./M.A., Leuphana University of Lueneburg)
Winter Term 2019/20
What is Social Theory? (B.A./M.A., University of Hamburg) Winter Term 2018/19 Introduction to the Political Thought of Hannah Arendt (B.A., University of Hamburg)
Summer Term 2018 Political Theories of Tolerance (B.A./M.A., University of Hamburg)
Winter Term 2017/18 Political Liberalism – a Matter of Debate (B.A., University of Hamburg)
Summer Term 2017 Theories of the State (B.A., Leuphana University Lueneburg)
Summer Term 2015
Karl Marx – Introduction to the Development of his Critique of Society (B.A./M.A., University of Osnabrueck) Summer Term
2014Theories of Democracy (B.A., University of Osnabrueck)
Talks
- Talks
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The talks held in English are listed here. For the German language talks see the subpage »Vorträge« by clicking onto the German flag in the top right corner.
- How can a materialist theory of racism contribute to the critique of antigypsyism? Talk at the 16th biannual conference of the European Sociological Association »Tension, Trust, and Transformation«, August 27-30, 2024, Porto, Portugal.
- Commentary on Hauke Brunkhorst's book manuscript »Digital capitalism without democracy? The transformation of mass media through proprietary markets«. Book workshop, June 27, 2024, Justus-Liebig-University Gießen.
- Free movement of workers in the EU and antigypsyism – a case of institutional change that stabilizes the status quo of intra-European hierarchies. Talk at the International Conference on »Change«, June 12-15, 2024, Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, Univerzitet u Beogradu, Serbia.
- What is the position of Roma in ›racial capitalism‹? Talk at the International Academic Conference »Racism and Romani Studies«, September 14-15, 2023, Universitatea de Vest din Timișoara, Romania.
- What is the Economic Effect of Antigypsyism? Talk at the Research Network »Ethnic Relations, Racism and Antisemitism« Mid-Term Conference of the European Sociological Association, September 7-8, 2023, Universidade do Minho, Braga, Portugal.
- Arendt reading Marx – an encounter that shapes her relationship to Critical Theory. Talk held at the Second Istanbul Critical Theory Conference »Arendt and Critical Theory Today«, July 13, 2017, Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg.
- Karl Marx and the Idea of Retaliation Emanating from the Margins of the Capitalist World. Talk held at the Oxford Graduate Political Theory Conference »Political Theory at the Margins«, May 8, 2015, University of Oxford, England.
Conferences/Workshops
- Conferences/Workshops
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2024
Concept and Organization (together with Dr. Laura Tittel): Workshop »Capitalism and Insecure Positions of Minorities. Racism, Antisemitism, and Antigypsyism seen through the Lens of Materialist Critique«, November 4-5, Justus-Liebig-University Gießen.
Chair: Panel »What is Missing?« at the Workshop »Human Rights in Times of Insecurity«, September 3-4, Justus-Liebig-University Gießen.
Panel Chair: »Whose crises? Under-development, marginality and peripherality in and from Southeast European perspectives« at the EASA conference »Peace, conflict, and security in times of existential crises: Critical, interdisciplinary, and public engagements«, March 21-22, Philips-University Marburg.
2023
Concept and Organization (together with PD Dr. Yvonne Robel, Dr. Pavel Brunssen): Autumn Meeting of the German Society for Research on Antigypsyism, December 8-9, Forschungsstelle für Zeitgeschichte Hamburg.
Concept and Organization (together with Thomas Szymcyk, Philipp Horstmeier): Master Class »Utilising the Concept of Racial Capitalism for Understanding the Central Violences of our Time« with Prof. Gargi Bhattacharyya, June 13-14, Justus-Liebig-University Gießen.
Organization and Moderation (together with Prof. Dr. Regina Kreide, Dr. Laura Tittel, Hannes Kaufmann, Sofie Koch and Lilith Schmidt): International Conference »Democracy in Uncertain Times«, June 12-13, Justus-Liebig-University Gießen.
2020
Book Launch (together with Prof. Dr. Matthias Bohlender, Matthias Spekker, PD Dr. Jan Gerber): »Wahrheit und Revolution – Studien zur Grundproblematik der Marxʼschen Gesellschaftskritik«, 15 December, online.
2017
Concept and Organization (together with Prof. Dr. Matthias Bohlender, Matthias Spekker): Conference »Marx und die ›Kritik im Handgemenge‹. Zu einer Genealogie moderner Gesellschaftskritik«, 3-4 March, University of Osnabrück.