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A.I. Stingl, PhD alexanderstingl@hotmail.com Galvanistrasse 17, 90459 Nuremburg, Germany
VOCATION
Curriculum Vitae
• Research&Teaching: Medical Humanities, Social Studies of Science&Technology, Critical Thinking
EDUCATION
• Dr. Phil. (PhD), Sociology, FAU Erlangen-Nuremburg, 2008
• MA, Sociology, Philosophy, American Studies/Cultural Analysis, FAU, 2005
• BA-equivalent, Sociology, American Studies and English Linguistics, Philosophy, German Lit. FAU
• Undergraduate Studies Economics, Empirical Social Research, Social Psychology&Anthropology, FAU
• International Baccalaureate/Abitur (Kollegstufe12/13), Biology, Anglo-American Lit.&Cult. (Majors),
History, Social Studies, German Lit., Chemistry (Minors), Sigena-Gymnasium
AFFILIATIONS
• Contract Lecturer, Leuphana University, Lüneburg
• Visiting Fellow
◦ 2012 – 2015 University of Kassel, FB5 Gesellschaftswissenschaften (Faculty for Social Sciences)
◦ 2011 – 2013 European University Viadrina, INTRAG (Inst. for Transcultural Health Sciences)
◦ to be confirmed: Department Theory of Science and Analytic Philosophy, University of Augsburg
• 2005 – 2008 PhD candidate, Friedrich- Alexander University, Institute for Sociology
• Hosts for External Postdoc/Research Funding Options Exploration: Trimberg Research Academy and
Dept. of Philosophy, University Bamberg, Germany; Langer Lab, Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA; STS
Committee, Brown University, Providence, RI; STS Dept. Renssealer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY;
TEACHING INTERESTS
• Sociology and Philosophy of Science, Technology and Medicine
• History of the Life and Human Sciences since 1700
• Cultural Analysis and Qualitative Research Methods
• Studies in Technoscientific Organization and Postdemocratic Leadership
RESEARCH INTERESTS
• The concept of the human body in biomedical science and its publics
• Epistemology and ontology of bio-medical research and technoscientific governance
• Post-democratic societies, inequality and social justice in the age of bio-citizenship&digital divide
• Nü-Pragmatism and semantic agency theory (SAT)
ACADEMIC CONSULTING
• Normalization processes, biases in adopting new technologies and best or better practices using SAT
LANGUAGES
• English (near-native fluency)
• German (native)
• French (elementary reading and listening comprehension)
GRANTS&AWARDS
• EU Regional Development Fund, Leuphana University, 'Innovation Incubator', Funding for Innovative
Teaching for ‘Europe and its Other(s): The Western Ethos and the Postcolonial Perspective’ (Winter
2012/2013), and 'Care, Power, Information’ (Winter 2011/12)
• Fellowship DAAD: (German Academic Exchange Services) Harvard Archives: Pusey Library and Baker
Library; Brown Archives: Hay Library (Euro 3155/$4730) August – October 2008
• Travel Grant DFG: ASA Conference, Boston, MA (Euro 1180/$1770) Aug. 1 st -4 th , 2008
• Fellowship DAAD: Harvard Archives, Brown Archives (Euro3355/$4880) June – August 2007

A.I. Stingl, PhD Galvanistrasse 17, 90459 Nuremburg, Germany
RECENT TEACHING
Contract Lecturer Leuphana University, Lüneburg
Spring 2013 (to be submitted) Clusters “Methods and Models”&“Understanding and Intervening”
1. Interpretative Qualitative Methods: Ableism and Assisted Living Technologies
2. Truth or Dare, Trick or Treat? - Introduction: Science Studies and Philosophy of Science
3. The concept „human Life“ and the human concept of life in science and its publics
(co- taught with Sabrina M. Weiss, STS program Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
Winter 2012/13 Clusters “Knowledge Makes History” &“Understanding and Intervening”
1. Europe and the Enlightenment View of Humanity: Public, State, Science
2. The West and its Other(s): The Western Ethos and the Postcolonial Perspective
Spring 2012 Cluster “Understanding and Intervening” (Verstehen und Verändern)
1.Before the State is after the State: Technoscientific and Post-democratic Governance Winter
Winter 2011/12 Cluster “Knowledge Makes History” (Wissen macht Geschichte).
1. Introduction to Philosophy of Medicine
2. Care, Power, Information: Social Justice, Digitalization, Biopolitics, and Health Care
RESEARCH
CURRENT RESEARCH
• A Heterotopology of the Body in Science and Culture in North America 1846-1898
• The Persuasive Biopower of Digitalization and Medical Imaging in Doctor-Patient Interactions
• Decision-Making and Narrative Empathy in Health, Illness and Lifestyle: Trinary Doctor-
Parent-‘Underage Patient” Interactions, ADHD and Martial Arts in Patient Empowerment
• Nomadic States: Bio-Medicalization, Techno-Scientific Governance & the Political Imagination
• Agency between Ecologies, Vital Materialities, Radical Historicities. (with Sabrina M. Weiss)
PLANNED RESEARCH
• Enabled by Diffraction? The Hegemony of Ableism and Diffractive Body Politics
• Integrative Care Ethics (with Sabrina M. Weiss, STS program Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
FIELD WORK EXPERIENCE
• Ethnography (Grad./Postgrad./Postdoc.): Gastronomy Workers in Germany and US
(to be continued with Gareth Edel, STS program Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
• Ethnography (Postgrad./Postdoc.): Martial Arts, Health, and Development
• Ethnography (Undergrad.): Local HipHop Culture
PAST RESEARCH ACTIVITIES
• Independent Consulting Researcher (Postdoc.,)
Consulting Researcher for Project Developer in Public and Community Health
• Literature Review and Meta-analysis (Postdoc.)
Obesity, ADHD, and Academic Performance: Studies, Lifestyles, and Therapy Pathways
• Original Research (Postdoc.)
The Curious Case of Arnold Bergstraesser: Carl Friedrich versus Der Aufbau (1942-45)
• Original Research (Postgrad./Postdoc.)
The Biological Vernacular in the Humanities and Social Sciences, 18 th to 20 th century
• PhD Research Project
A Conceptual History of Harvard University's Human and Social Relations Movement
• Research Collaboration (Postgrad.)
The Transformation of Victim/Survivor Semantic in Media, Lifeworld and Biographic Narratives
• Research Assistant (Grad.)
Transnational Identities in Border Regions: Austrian/Slovenian/Slovakian, Swiss/German/French
• Research Assistant (Undergrad.)
Consulting Non-Profit Organizations: Staff cantina for workers with physical/mental challenges;
University Evaluation; Medical Examinations of Pre-schoolers Fitness for School

A.I. Stingl, PhD alexanderstingl@hotmail.com Galvanistrasse 17, 90459 Nuremburg, Germany
ACADEMIC/PRIVATE SECTOR GOVERNANCE AND SERVICES
• FPA Brands GmbH, 2006-2009
Member of the board (German ltd. inc.), Coaching, marketing, and personnel development
• Research & Administrative Assistant at Institute for Sociology, FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg, 2002 – 2005
◦ Individual tutoring in sociology, academic writing, academic advising 2003 – 2005
◦ Syllabus creation, bibliographies, and course administration
◦ Library for Sociology, Social Research and Economics: Administration, desk & liaison
◦ Research administration and grant writing
PROFESSIONAL ACADEMIC SERVICES
• Editorial Board MemberBook Series
Studies in Anti-Intellectualism and Academic Disengagement (Rowman&Littlefield; Editor: Michael Lynch)
• Membership Committee
American Sociological Assoc., Section Science, Knowledge and Technology (SKAT)
• Mentoring
American Sociological Assoc., Section Science, Knowledge and Technology (SKAT)
• Founding Editor
Pompeii – Journal for Junior Scholarship in the Arts and Sciences
• Reviewer for various international journals
Recent peer reviewer actions for EÄ and Anthropology & Medicine
• External Examiner, PhD Thesis, School of Sociology, Australian National Univ., Canberra (2012)
• National Correspondent for Germany in 2011 (term expired)
EÄ – Journal of Medical Humanities and Social Studies of Science and Technology
• Independent Expert Writer (2008/2009, contract term expired)
Great Neck Publishing, Our World Series
EBSCO, Point of View Series
• Conference Duties
◦ Stand-in for missing speaker, Roundtable Session, ASA Annual Conference, Denver 2012
◦ Assigned Presider, Roundtable Session, ASA Annual Conference, San Francisco 2009
◦ Liaison for International Keynote Speaker, Symposium Peace and Stability in Europe 2001
SOCIAL SERVICE
• Theater Gruppe 97
Producer & Director, Drama Group , 1997 – 2001
• Social Welfare Service Nuernberger Nothilfe e.V.
Civic Service, “Food for the Poor” & ”Meals On Wheels” Program 1996 – 1997
• Supervising Tutor
Nuremberg Lichtenhof, Lutheran Church, 1996 – 1999 ,
Supervising tutor for different groups of children, adolescents, and older citizens
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
• American Sociological Association (ASA)
Section Memberships: SKAT, History of Sociology, Medical Sociology, Theory
• British Sociological Association (BSA)
• STS Italia – Società Italiana di Studi su Scienza e Tecnologia
• Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction (SSSI)
• Society for Social Studies of Science (4S)
• Northeast Popular Culture Association (NEPCA)
• Kant-Society (Kant Gesellschaft, e.V.)
• History of Science Society (HSS)
• Green Party of Germany (Bündniß’90/Die Grünen) since 2009

A.I. Stingl, PhD Galvanistrasse 17, 90459 Nuremburg, Germany
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Books
(planned for publication in 2015/16, co-authored with Sabrina M. Weiss)
A Bioethics with a Thousand Faces? From fragmented ethics to integrative care.
(in progress planned for publication in autumn of 2013, co-authored with J.I. [Hans] Bakker)
The Unease of the Mind: Radically Historizing the new DSM between Critical Theories in Sociology and Psychology.
(in progress)
Here there be dragons! On the hetero-topological cartography of the uncharted human body and its state.
manuscript in progress
(in progress)
A Critique of Medical Reason: Conceptualization, Images, Narratives & Epistemic Defects in Doctor-Patient Interactions
manuscript in progress
(forthcoming 2013, co-author with Sal Restivo and Sabrina M. Weiss)
Worlds of Science Craft. New Horizons in Philosophical Science Studies. Surrey/London: Ashgate
(forthcoming 2013)
Anthropos's Scaffoldings. Studies in the Co-Evolution of Philosophy, Biology, Medicine, and Sociology.
(with a foreword by Sal Restivo, edited by David Heath) Lampeter: E.Mellen Press, ca. 450 pages
(2010)
Between Discursivity and Sensus Communis: The Co-Evolution of Biology and Social Thought from Kant to Neo-Kantianism,
Pragmatism, and Harvard's Human & Social Relations Movements Erlangen: OPUS, Univ. Erlangen-Nürnberg, 498 pages
(2009)
Aufklärung als Flaschenpost oder Anthropologie der Gegenwart. Horkheimers und Adornos Immanente Kritik und Foucaults
Interpretative Analytik, Saarbrücken: VDM, 253 pages
Edited Books
(planned for publication 2014, co-edited with Sabrina M. Weiss)
The Truth about Barking Cats and Yodeling Dogs. Vital Materialities and Material Vitalities of Anthropocology
(planned for publication 2014)
The Metaphysics of Thirdness: Lacan, Foucault, Deleuze, Serres.
Recent Articles, Chapters, Encyclopedia Entries, Book Reviews (by Topic)
Science, Technology&Medicine Studies
(planned as coauthor with Sabrina M. Weiss and as lead author Ron Eglash)
Unspecified paper on Analog/Digital Information Ecologies and Biomedicalization
(in progress, lead author, with Sabrina M. Weiss, Patrick Mesenbrock, Julia Gaertner)
“The Decolonization of Medical Knowledges and Cultures of Healing: Creating Relational Social Leadership from
Communication Power, Postcolonial Science Studies, and Health Care beyond the Digital Divide.”
(submitted)
„The Many Lives and Truths of the Body: The Body Concept in Kant, Pragmatism, and Functionalism“
Manuscript, 77 Pages, under Review EÄ–Journal of Medical Humanities and Social Studies of Science and Technology
(submission after final editing)
„The Dialectics of Technoscientific Seeing: Medical Imaging Technologies as Persuasive Technologies“
Manuscript, 19 Pages.
(accepted, with Sabrina M. Weiss)
“Digitalization and Health Care”, in: Media Economies, M. Hartwig, G. Suess, eds., 20 pages
(tentatively accepted)
“Medical imaging Technologies as media of persuasion”
Media on the Brain, edited by Michael Grabowski, ca. 20 pages
(tentatively accepted, with Sabrina M. Weiss)
“Digital Fair-Ground: Explorations of the Patient Experience Between Social Justice and the Virtualization of
Health and Illness” Telos, 21 pages
(forthcoming, with Sabrina M. Weiss)
“ADHD and its ecologies and agencies: Before and beyond the label”
Krankheitskonstruktionen und Krankheitstreiberei. Dellwing, Michael, ed., Wiesbaden: VS Verlag
(2011)
“Truths, Knowledge, Narratives of Selves.”
The American Sociologist. Special Issue on Semiotics and Social Science, Vol. 42, 2/3, 2011

A.I. Stingl, PhD alexanderstingl@hotmail.com Galvanistrasse 17, 90459 Nuremburg, Germany
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“Jacques Ellul's Technological Society”in: Impacts of Technological Change (Sociological Reference Guide) Ipswich, MA: Salem
Press: 14 – 24
“Knowledge-Based Economy” in: Impacts of Technological Change (Sociological Reference Guide) Ipswich, MA: Salem
Press: 36 – 44
“Digital Divide” in: Impacts of Technological Change (Sociological Reference Guide) Ipswich, MA: Salem Press: 45 – 55
“The Internet&Society” in: Impacts of Technological Change(Sociological Reference Guide) Ipswich, MA: Salem Press: 56 –
65
“Technology & the Mass Media”in: Impacts of Technological Change (Sociological Reference Guide) Ipswich, MA: Salem
Press: 66 – 72
“Technology and Surveillance”in: Impacts of Technological Change (Sociological Reference Guide) Ipswich, MA: Salem
Press: 119 – 126
“Technology and Medicine” in: Impacts of Technological Change (Sociological Reference Guide) Ipswich, MA: Salem Press:
127 – 137
“Posthumanism” in: Impacts of Technological Change (Sociological Reference Guide) Ipswich, MA: Salem Press: 138 – 145
“The ADHD regime and situating neuro-chemical selves in whole systems”
Kopnina, Helen/Keune, Hans(eds.) Health and Environment, Nova Science, 25 pages
“A note on the question of virtualization of health and illness in the age of biological citizenship”
TelosScope (Telos, Open Access), 5 pages
Philosophy
(previously unpublished ms.)
“In Kantian Space: Deleuze, Foucault, Whitehead as metaphysical astronauts”
manuscript, 48 pages
(tentatively accepted, with Sabrina M. Weiss)
“Between the Shell and the Ghost: A spectral phenomenology and hauntology of zombies ” for :Dellwing, M. ed.,
The Fantastic Other, Springer
(2013)
“Review of The Body Problematic: Political Imagination in Kant and Foucault by Laura Hengehold, Penn State
Press” in: Foucault Studies Vol. 15, 3 pages
(2011 open access, 2012 chapter)
“How to Map the Body's Spaces: Using Foucault's heterotopology for the cartography of corporeal myths.”
Conference Proceedings, History dept. Univ. of Bucharest, Claudia F. Dobre, et al, eds.15 pages.
(2010)
“Review of Money Matters: Economics and the German Cultural Imagination 1770 – 1850 by Richard T. Gray, Univ. of
Washington Press” in: Canadian Journal of History, 3 pages
(2009)
“Søren Kierkegaard”
Great Neck Publishing, Our World. 5 pages
(2008)
“Cultural Scripts”
for EBSCO Notes, 11 Pages
Sociology
(planned)
“Theory of Thirdness and the cultures of empathy: Peirce, Serres, Breithaupt and thje figuration of 'the third'”
(in progress)
“After the State is before the State: Unruly Boundaries and Stately Concepts for Nomadic Governance (with
Braidotti, Deleuze, Foucualt, Meyer, Rokkan, and O'Neill.)”

A.I. Stingl, PhD Galvanistrasse 17, 90459 Nuremburg, Germany
(in progress)
“Organizations and corporations in the age of post-democratic society and techno-scientific governance:
A heterotopological investigation into networked agency, agency collectives and Quasi-states.”
(editing for submission)
“Cultures of Empathy and the Civic Sphere: Integration and systems of care” 42 pages
(2012)
“Globalization”
ResearchStarters: Sociology, EBSCO Publishing
(2012)
“The Melting Pot versus the Tapestry Debate”
The Making of Modern Immigration: An Encyclopedia of People and Ideas. P. Hayes (ed.), Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO
(2008)
“Structural-Functional Analysis of Health and Medicine”
for EBSCO Notes, 13 Pages
(2007)
“The Inelegance of the Economies of Power and Influence” in:
POMPEII Journal for Junior Scholarship in the Arts and Sciences, 49 pages (Original German)
(2007)
“Procedural Memory in Reflexive Modernities:
The Transformation of the “Opfer”-Semantic and the Genesis of the “Opfer”-/Survivor-Narrative in the current
German Discourse”:
Online Publication: www.gradnet.de/events/webcontributions/stingl.pdf, 11 pages
Research Methodology
(planned)
“My B'n'B: On the attitude of 'before and beyond the concept x' in semantic agency theory”
(in progress, submission pending editing of manuscript into two parts)
„Searching for the body in the archive and an m.o. with Michel Foucault.
The concept of the body between the space of reasons and the reasons for space.“
Manuscript, 55 Pages, to be submitted in two parts with Foucault Studies
(2010)
“On Research Proposals. (plus Supplements 1&2)” alexstingl.wordpress.com, ca. 10 pages
(2008)
“Visual Sociology” EBSCO Notes, 13 Pages
Teaching and Higher Education
(editing for submission)
“Problem versus Discipline: The folly of the hegemony the narrow focus of discipline in science and scholarship”
(re-submission after revision, with Sabrina M. Weiss)
“I will help you with your needs not your whims. Note on the late-paper-dilemma”
Manuscript, ca. 15 pages, under revisions for re-review Journal of Teaching in Higher Education
(2010)
“Needs, whims, and the late paper dilemma”, www.alexstingl.webs.com/teaching
(2009)
“Riskantes Sprechen: Replik auf Gumbrecht (Speech Perilous: A Reply)” in:
POMPEII Journal for Junior Scholarship in the Arts and Sciences, 10 pages
Presentations
(proposed for 2014 with Sabrina M. Weiss)
Panel proposal on “The ecology of agency beyond, before and after the humans”, ASA 2014
Panel proposal on “The narrative dialectics of techno-scientific seeing: STS applies semantic agency theory (SAT)”
(Decision and planning pending, tentatively March or April 2013)
Potential Lecture “Postdemocratic state and technoscientific governance”, STS Dept., RPI, Troy, NY, 2013
(submission pending for 2013)
“The techno-aesthetics of patients’ lifecourses” ASA Annual Meting, NYC 2013
(submission pending for 2013)
“Before and beyond the binaries: Postcolonial perspectives on ADHD technologies” 4S 2013
(submission pending for 2013)
“Time, Space, Image: The visual aesthetics of techno-scientific interactions of doctors, patients&publics” SSSI 2013

A.I. Stingl, PhD alexanderstingl@hotmail.com Galvanistrasse 17, 90459 Nuremburg, Germany
(submitted for 2013)
“Medical Imaging, Endocrinology and Sex/Gender”, History of Women's Health Conference, Pennsylvania
Hospital Philadelphia. Sept. 2013
(submitted for 2013)
“Taking Kant seriously, and not only from behind,... he just wanted to play doctor after all. (Post-Deleuzean
Readings)” Jahreskonferenz, Deutsche Gesellschaft für die Erforschung des 18. Jahrhunderts; 9.-11. September 2013
(submitted for 2013)
“A theory of nomadic Statehood” Eastern Sociological Association Boston March 2013
(submitted for 2013)
“ Suffering and being a survivor in the age of mass media: Narratives, myths and metaphor machines”
Postman Conference, Para|Sites: Locations and Dislocations of Media, NYU, Feb. 22, 2013
(submitted for 2013)
“Nomadic Statehood, techno-scientific governance and the question of science's publics producing knowledge,
governing populations September 10 - 13 2013 Ecole Normale Supérieure, Lyon, France
(submission for 2013)
“Suffering and Pain: Constructing and inhabiting narrative semantic sites”, NEPCA 2013
(submitted for 2013)
paper with Sabrina M. Weiss“Thirdness and animacy in Postcolonial ecology and science studies”,
organizer of panel : Deleuze and the State, Deleuze Studies Conference, University of Lisbon, Portugal, July 8-10
(submitted for 2013 with Sabrina M. Weiss)
“Thirdness and the Silent Other: Cultural Context, Agency and Vital Materiality of Ecology”,
'The Politics of Materiality' Annual Sociology Conference, New School for Social Research, NYC, April 6, 2013
(submitted for 2013 with Sabrina M. Weiss)
“Modes of attention and the memory of industry as pathology: How the assemblage of Attention
Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder re-structures the past of body-mind”, Body as Memory Conference, Inst. For
Sociology, University of Munich
(submitted for 2013)
“States of Abundance and The Culture: Theorizing economies and governance beyond growth and austerity with
Iain M. Banks's novels. ”, American Popular Culture Assoc. 2013
(submitted for 2013)
“The Virtual Patient” Symposium: Towards an Ecology of Data, Institut des Sciences de la Communication du CNRS
(ISCC) Paris, February 2013
(submitted for 2013)
“Was leistet ein kategoriales 'Nein!' (The facility request signal of a categorical 'No!' in answering the question for
the usefulness of the concept of 'society' in sociology)”, 1. Muenchner Theoriegespraeche, January 23/24, 2013
(submitted for 2013)
“Hilfe ich bin ein Soziologe, holt mich hier raus!”, Workshop: Weltsichten in prekären Lebenslagen, Universität
Leipzig, 28. February - 2. March 2013
(accepted for 2013 )
“Radical historicity & developing systems: Sex/gender persuasion, medical images, systems biology”,
Systems Biology Panel (organizer: Niki Vermeulen)ICHSTM Manchester, UK, May 2013
(2012)
“Enlightenment, critique, and the nomadic political imagination.” (with commentary by Bernhard Tilg), invited
presentation for seminar 'Aufklaerung und Kritik' (Tilg/Monsorno), Leuphana College, Lueneburg, Dec.1, 2012
(2012 Guerilla Paper)
“Nomadic Statehood”, Guerilla Talk during 4S, October 2012
(2012)
“Semantic gaps, epistemic deficiencies and the cyborg gaze: Medical imaging, gender, in the perspective of
postcolonial philosophy of science.” NeuroCultures-NeuroGenderings II, University of Vienna, 2012
(2012)
“Styles of Suffering and Spaces of Pain: A narrative empathic theory”, Society for the Study of Symbolic
Interaction, Annual Meeting, 2012
(2012)
“The post-democratic body and the bio-scientific state.”, ASA, Denver, August 17-21, 2012
(2012)
“Digitalized Humans in Human Ecology”, Italian Society of Science and Technology Studies, Rovigo, Italy, 2012
(2012)
Invited Lectures “ADHD in the classroom” English Teacher Education, FAU Erlangen-Nuernberg, May 22 , 2012
(paper accepted, but canceled due to scheduling conflict)
“The body concept in images”, BSA, 2012

A.I. Stingl, PhD Galvanistrasse 17, 90459 Nuremburg, Germany
(2011, double conference trip)
”Medical Imaging and its narratives.” Northeast Popular Culture Assoc., Western Conn. State U.
”Medical Imaging as a persuasive technology?” Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) Conf., Cleveland
(2011)
“How to Map the Body's Spaces: Using Foucault's heterotopology for the cartography of corporeal myths.”
Conference on Myth-Making and Myth-Breaking in History, Univ. of Bucharest Romania
(2011)
“Bringing care back into health care: Bio-citizenship & Digital Divide”
Conference on Science and Technology in Political Sociology, Rensselaer Polytech. Inst., Albany, NY
(2011)
“The body in medicine and society in 19 th century America” Research Colloquium, American Studies, FAU
(2010)
“Virtualization of Health Care and Biomedicine and Social Justice”, ASA 2010
(2009)
„Knowing the Normal from the Pathological: The Genealogical Reconstruction of Attention and its Pathologies
under a Whole Systems Frame of Reference.” ASA 2009
(2009)
“The Crisis of the Biological Citizen: ADHD as an Assemblage for the Early 21st century” The British
Sociological Association 2009; Mental Health and Illness Panel
(2008)
“The Constitutive/Regulative Difference in the History of German Physiology and American Sociology and in
Contemporary Debates”, Presentation at the British Sociological Assoc. Annual Conference (BSA) Warwick Uni.,
(2008)
“Talcott Parsons as a Pragmatist? Emerson, James, Meiklejohn and Parsons ”, Paper presented at the Annual
Coference of the American Sociological Association (ASA) Boston, MA, USA
(2007)
“Regulation and Medialitaet: Talcott Parsons Leben und Werk im Rahmen der Ideengeschichte” Invited lecture at
the European Colloquium of the University of Flensburg
(1999)
“Cloning Dolly: Political and Philosophical Implications”, Invited Presentation, AK Politik Sigena.
“The Debate on Cloning”, Invited Lecture, Dept. for Sociology, Empirical Social Research, and Social
Anthropology, WISO Faculty, FAU Erlangen-Nuremburg
Selected Academic Translations
Donald Levine (Ritzma Prof., Former Dean of the College, University of Chicago, IL)
Speech for the Bielefeld Lecture Series on Simmel, Sociology and Lebensansschauung: Two Pathways of the Synthesis
of Kant and Goethe in Georg Simmel (“Soziologie und Lebensanschauung: Zwei Wege der Kant-Goethe-Synthese
bei Georg Simmel) (Forthcoming publication of the translation in Simmel Studies Vol.17/2: 239 – 263), “The Aiki
Way to Therapeutic and Creative Human Interaction” AIKI-Institut für Gesundheitsförderung und
Selbstentwicklung, May 19, 2007 (Eine Alternative therapeutischer und kreativer Interaktion: Der Weg des Aiki)
Hans Bakker (Prof., Sociology, University of Guelph, Canada)
“The Weber-Rachfahl Debate: Calvinism and Capitalism in Holland (Part One)”, “The Execution of
Oldenbarnevelt: The ‘Means of Coercion’ (Weber) in Comparative-Historical Perspective (Part Two)” (Die Weber-
Rachfahl Diskussion um Calvinismus und Kapitalismus in Holland. Auf dem Weg zu einer neo-Weberianischen
komparativ-historischen Soziologie); “A Weberian Analysis of Class-Relations and Servile Labor”
“The New Sociological Imagination, Inana Yoga, and the Web of Life: Gandhi, Grant, Mills, Peirce” (Die
Erneuerung soziologischer Einbildungskraft: Soziologische Vernunft, Inana Yoga und das Netz des Lebens)