Inaugural Lecture by Professor Scheel
10. Jan
The Dean' Office of the School of Culture and Society cordially invites to Professor Scheel's inaugural lecture:
Wednesday, 10 January 2024
Start: 18:00 hrs
Location: Forum of the Leuphan Central Building
Opening address by the Presidential Committee
Laudatory speech by the Vice Dean Research
Inaugural Lecture by Prof Dr Stephan Scheel: "Doing Digital Identities. Reconfiguring Citizenship, Territory and Sovereignty"
Prof. Dr Stephan Scheel holds a professorship for "Political Sociology" at the Institute for Sociology and Cultural Organisation (ISKO) of the School of Culture and Society since October 2022.
Stephan Scheel studied Political Science, Latin American Studies and Modern German Literature at the University of Hamburg and obtained a PhD at the Open University, Milton Keynes in 2014 with the thesis "Rethinking the Autonomy of Migration: On the Appropriation of Mobility within Biometric Border Regimes". His PhD thesis was awarded the Michael Nicholson Prize of the British International Studies Association for the best doctoral thesis in the field of international studies in 2014. After his PhD, Stephan Scheel was working as a post-doctoral researcher on the ERC-funded project "ARITHMUS - How data make a people" (led by Prof. Evelyn Rupert) at the Department of Sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London from 2014 to 2018. In 2017, he started to work as a post-doc on another ERC project called "Processing Citizenship" at the University of Twente in the Netherlands. Towards the end of 2018, he was appointed as a Junior Professor for "Transnational Cooperation and Migration Research" with tenure at the Institute of Sociology of the University of Duisburg-Essen.
Among Prof. Dr Scheel's research achievements, the successful acquisition of an ERC Starting Grant for the project "DigID - Doing Digital Identities", on which he is working together with a team of 2 PostDocs and 2 PraeDocs at Leuphana's Centre for Digital Cultures (CDC), stands out.
Further Information:
about Prof. Dr. Stephan Scheel
about the Institute of Sociology and Cultural Organisation
about the CDC