Document Actions

Anna-Sophie Schönfelder

Home

Adress

Justus Liebig University Giessen
Department of Political Science

Karl-Gloeckner-Strasse 21E

D-35394 Giessen

Contact

Philosophikum II Room E113

☎ +49 641 99-23054

Office Hours

by appointment via e-mail

Competent Secretariat
Contact

Philosophikum II Room E115

☎ +49 641 99 23071

Fax +49 641 99 23079

Research

Research

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

 

CV

CV

since
03/2022
  

Research 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 University

10/2012 – 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

 

Monographs

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

 

Essays and Reviews

 

Journalism

 

Teaching

Teaching

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
2014
Theories of Democracy (B.A., University of Osnabrueck)

Talks

Talks

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

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.