Carolin Zieringer
06/2022 – 06/2025
Doctoral Fellow Research Training Group „Contradiction Studies” University Bremen
10/2021 – 03/2022
Research Associate (Honorary Basis) WoC University Bremen
2018 – 2022
M.A. Political Theory Goethe-Universität Frankfurt/M. und TU Darmstadt
MA-Arbeit: „Haltungsfragen. Versuch einer feministischen körpertheoretischen Perspektive auf die kritische Haltung“ („Questions of Attitude. Attempting a Feminist Body-Theoretical Perspective on the Critical Attitude".)
2019-2021
Project Coordinator and collective curator „Nocturnal Unrest. A feminist festival for theory, performance and radical flâneuserie“ nOu Kollektiv and Künstlerhaus Mousonturm Frankfurt
2017 – 2018
M.A. Anthropology and Cultural Politics Goldsmiths College London
M.A.-Arbeit: “En-Gendering Space. Female Recreational Boxing in South-East London” (won the 2018 Pat-Caplan-Award)
2013 – 2017
B.A. Political Science and Social/Cultural Anthropology University Bremen and Universidad de Salamanca (Erasmus semester)
B.A.-Arbeit: „Die Grenzen der Menschenrechte. Zur Politik des Menschlichen“ („The borders of human rights. On the politics of the human”)
Political Philosophy, especially regarding subject formations and power
(Queer-)Feminist Theories
Radical Democratic Theory, especially Jacques Rancière and Judith Butler
Disability Studies and Crip Theories
Body Politics, relationality and Care
Post/De-Colonial Studies
2021
Poppinga, A; Streinzer, A; Zieringer, C; Wanka, A; Marx, G: Moralische Überforderung und die Ambivalenz des Helfens in der Coronakrise. (Moral Overload and the Ambivalence of Helping in the Corona Crisis) In: Beuerbach et al. (Hg.) Sinn in der Krise. Kulturwissenschaftliche Analysen der Corona-Pandemie. (Meaning in Crisis. Cultural Studies Analyses of the Corona Pandemic). Berlin, Boston: DeGruyter, 75-90.
2021
Streinzer; Wanka.; Poppinga; Zieringer; Marx: Near Co-Laborations. The VERSUS Project as Relational Epistemic Practice to Analyse the COVID-19 Pandemic. In: Eitel et al. (Hg.), Interventions with/in Ethnography. Kulturanthropologie Notizen 83, 73-84. Abrufbar unter: ka-notizen.de (OA)
2020
Streinzer; Poppinga; Zieringer; Wanka; Marx: Familial Intimacy and the ‘Thing’ between Us. Cuddle Curtains and Desires for Detached Relationality. In: Anthropology in Action 27(2), 68-72. Abrufbar unter: www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journals/aia/27/2/aia270210.xml (OA)
2020
Zieringer, C.; Leonhardt, C.: Die Ironie der Politik. Rancière mit queer-feministischen Perspektiven weiterdenken. (The Irony of Politics. Rethinking Jacques Rancière from a queer-feminist perspective) In: Gebhardt (Hg.) Staatskritik und Radikaldemokratie. Das Denken Jacques Rancières (State Criticism and radical democracy. The thought of Jacques Rancière). Baden-Baden: Nomos, 173-190.
2017
‚Was wäre, wenn ich wüsste, wer ich sein könnte?‘ Ein Essay zum Zusammenhang von Wissen und Identität am Beispiel der Identitätsposition ‚Frau‘ ('What if I knew who I could be?' An essay on the interconnection between knowledge and identity using the example of the identity position 'woman'). In: ZKFF Bremen (Hg.) Geschlechterverhältnisse in Wissenschaft & Gesellschaft. Hamburg: Dr.-Kovac, 157-171.
2017
Review: ‘Kritische Kollektivität im Netz‘ (Critical Collectivity on the Web) by C. Wiedemann, In: Surveillance Studies Blog.https://www.surveillance-studies.org/2017/07/rezension-kritische-kollektivitaet-im-netz/ (OA)
2016
My Body that is not mine. What does Judith Butler's Concept of the Body mean for our Understanding of Responsibility? In: Key Issues 17.
2022
Panelist (nOu Kollektiv) „Festivals kuratieren – ein Erfahrungsaustausch“ (“Curating Festivals – Exchanging experiences”), Symposium Undoing Mastery of the Collaborative Research Centre Affective Societies/Institute for Theatre Studies Humboldt University Berlin
2020/21
Conceptualisation and lead Autonomous Seminar Goethe Universität Frankfurt/M.
„Der ‚Lesbische Blick‘ und feministische Politiken der (Un-)Sichtbarkeit ("The 'Lesbian Gaze' and Feminist Politics of (In)Visibility") incl. a workshop with Dr. E. v. Redecker and Dr. L. Duggan.)
2019/2020
Co-Conceptualisation and lead Autonomous Seminar at Technical University Darmstadt
„Frauen* in der Nacht. Von nächtlicher Emanzipation, Flanieren in der Dunkelheit & un(-vorher-)gesehener Performance“ ("Women* at Night. Of nocturnal emancipation, strolling in the dark & un(fore)seen performance”)
2019
Talk „Embodied knowledge and space. Female recreational boxing in South-East London” LOVA (Association for Feminist Anthropology) Study Day Gender Moves, Universiteit Leiden
2019
Talk „Serious Fun. Experimental ethnographic methods for research on humour and joy in feminist activism”, Conference at the Institute for Advanced Studies, University College London
2018
Workshop leader „Ecstatic Bodies. Agency and Responsibility in the work of Judith Butler“
Queer Network of the German Academic Foundation e.V. (Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes e.V.)
2015
Conference conceptualisation and organisation „Critiques of Humanitarianism from the perspective of political sciene and cultural anthropology”, together with Pauline Anton at University Bremen / German Academic Foundation e.V. (Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes e.V.)
Expected Sept/Oct 2022 (tbc).
Working Group Conecption and Lead "Queering Knowledges: queer feminist theory and critique of science". Queer Academy of the Queer Network of the German National Academic Foundation.
SoSe 22
“Lehrbeauftragte” "Introduction to political theory" (“Übung”)| University of Bremen
10/2020 - 04/2021
Autonomous Tutor (AT) | Goethe University Frankfurt/M.
Conception & Lead "The 'Lesbian Gaze' and queer-feminist politics of (in)visibility" incl. workshop with Dr. E. v. Redecker and Dr. L. Duggan
10/2019 - 02/2020
Autonomous Co-Tutor (AT) | TU Darmstadt
Co-conception & co-lead "Women* at Night. Of nocturnal emancipation, strolling in the dark & un(-pre)seen performance"
10/2019 - 02/2020
Tutor "Introduction to the Philosophy of Law" | Goethe University Frankfurt/M.
19/05/2018
Workshop at the Queer Network of the German National Academic Foundation.
Interdisciplinary Workshop "Ecstatic Bodies. Agency and Responsibility in Judith Butler"