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PhD Candidate<\/p>\n
Georgenstr. 47
\n10117 Berlin<\/p>\n
sofie.fingado@uni-potsdam.de<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Sofie Fingado studied Cultural Theory and History as well as Social Sciences at Humboldt University of Berlin and its partner universities in Tel Aviv and Copenhagen. She completed her M.A. studies in February 2022 with a thesis titled \u00bbTroubled Masculinities at Guant\u00e1namo Bay. Distant Relatives and the Peripheries of the \u203aGlobal War on Terror\u2039\u00ab. After the completion of her studies, she received a Research Track scholarship by the Humboldt Graduate School. Since October 2022, she is a PhD candidate at the research training group \u00bbminor cosmopolitanisms\u00ab at the Universities of Potsdam and Melbourne. In her PhD project, she is working on incarceration in the \u203aWar on Terror\u2039 and the U.S. prison industrial complex. The project engages with the question how relations between incarcerated and non-incarcerated people as well as between (offshore) detention camps and (domestic) prisons can become the grounds for abolitionist thinking.<\/p>\n
At the department of Cultural History and Theory, Sofie Fingado has been working as a student assistant at the chair for Kulturwissenschaftliche \u00c4sthetik und Kulturtheorie<\/i> as well as an academic tutor for the introductory course Einf\u00fchrung in das Kulturwissenschaftliche Arbeiten<\/i>.<\/p>\n
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Publications<\/strong><\/p>\n With Neela Janssen: \u00bbCollective Reading as Practice. On Reading the Far Right\u00ab, in: Sofia Varino (Ed.): A Minor Cosmopolitan Collective: Collaborative and Reparative Interventions <\/i>(upcoming 2027).<\/p>\n \u00bbBeyond the Carceral Archive. Relations, Hauntings and Fugitivity in the American Prison Writing Archive\u00ab, in: Maxi Albrecht, Marcel Hartwig, Daniel Stein (Eds.): Archiving America\/American Archives<\/i> (upcoming 2027).<\/p>\n With Iris D\u00e4rmann, Andreas Gehrlach & Waldemar Isak (Eds.): Gegenkr\u00e4fte \u2013 Gegenk\u00fcnste. Widerspenstige Perspektiven der kulturwissenschaftlichen \u00c4sthetik<\/i>. Berlin: Kadmos (upcoming 2026).<\/p>\n With Waldemar Isak: \u00bbNicht-Wollen und die Zwischenr\u00e4ume der Ausrede\u00ab, in: Iris D\u00e4rmann \/ Sofie Fingado \/ Andreas Gehrlach \/ Waldemar Isak (Eds.): Gegenkr\u00e4fte \u2013 Gegenk\u00fcnste. Widerspenstige Perspektiven der kulturwissenschaftlichen \u00c4sthetik<\/i>. Berlin: Kadmos (upcoming 2026).<\/p>\n With Sven Angene \/ Camille Buscot \/ Neela Janssen \/ Miriam Machein \/ Undine Mothes \/ Wagener Ulrike \/ Jonathan Wilby: Einf\u00fchrung in das kulturwissenschaftliche Arbeiten. Eine Handreichung<\/i>. Berlin: Humboldt University of Berlin 2025.<\/p>\n \u00bbLeben geben, giving birth. Schwangerschaftsabbruch und unbedingter Empfang,\u00ab in: Absalon et al. (Eds.): Empfangen. Die andere Seite der Gabe<\/i>. Berlin: De Gruyter 2023, pp. 65\u201372.<\/p>\n \u00bb\u203a[…] denn wer alles verliert, verliert auch leicht sich selbst\u2039. Beh\u00e4ltnisse des \u00dcberlebens bei Primo Levi\u00ab, <\/i>in: Laura Busse \/ Andreas Gehrlach \/ Waldemar Isak (Ed.): Selbstbeh\u00e4ltnisse. Orte und Gegenst\u00e4nde der Aufbewahrung von Subjektivit\u00e4t<\/i>. Berlin: Neofelis 2021, pp. 211\u2013229.<\/p>\n Conference report \u00bbSelbstbeh\u00e4ltnisse. Orte und Gegenst\u00e4nde der Aufbewahrung von Individualit\u00e4t\u00ab, 15.11.\u201316.11.2019 Berlin, H-Soz-Kult<\/i>, 22.04.2020, www.hsozkult.de\/conferencereport\/id\/tagungsberichte-8728.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Presentations<\/b><\/p>\n \u00bbCarceral Relations. Tending to a haunted counter-carceral archive\u00ab, Annual Conference of the German Association of American Studies (GAAS), Archiving America\/American Archives<\/i>, University of Siegen, June 2025.<\/p>\n Moderation and Organisation of the panel \u00bbCollective Reading as Intervention. On Fascism and Alt-Right Literature(s)\u00ab, \u00a0conference A Minor Cosmopolitan Intervention<\/i>, University of Potsdam, Humboldt University of Berlin, Freie Universit\u00e4t Berlin; hosted at Spore Initiative, May 2025.<\/p>\n \u00bbInterrelated Bodies in the Peripheries of Captivity\u00ab, conference Embodied Histories <\/i>of the <\/i>International Society for Cultural History (ISCH), University of Potsdam, September 2024.<\/p>\n \u00bbThinking Infrastructural Relations. The Case against Exceptionality in the U.S. Prison and Detention Complex after 9\/11\u00ab, conference Postcolonial Infrastructure,<\/i> German Association of Postcolonial Studies (GAPS), University Konstanz, May 2023.<\/p>\n \u00bb\u203aLet\u2019s Make These Prison Walls Quake And Tumble Until They All Fall Down.\u2039 Politisches Schreiben und Abolitionistische Gef\u00e4ngnispolitiken\u00ab, lecture series Kulturwissenschaftliche \u00c4sthetik<\/i>, Humboldt University of Berlin, May 2023.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" PhD Candidate<\/p>\n Georgenstr. 47 –
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