Sascha Sistenich M.A.

Winter Semester 2026/2027

Teaching and Research Project Tales of the City. Queere Erzählungen und Erinnerungen kollaborativ erfahrbar machen. (M.A. Empirical Cultural Studies / Cultural Anthropology)

Summer Semester 2026 

Empirical methods of cultural anthropology / Empirical cultural studies (SoSe 2025) (B.A. Culural Anthropology/Empirical Culture Studies)

Summer Semester 2025

Projektseminar (M.A. Transcultural Studies/Cultural Anthropology)

Empirical methods of cultural anthropology / Empirical cultural studies (SoSe 2025) (B.A. Culural Anthropology/Empirical Culture Studies)

Introduction to scientific work (B.A. Ancient American Studies and Ethnology)

Winter Semester 2024/25

Engaged Anthropology: Reimagining Social Transformation through Collaborative Research (M.A. Empirical Cultural Studies / Cultural Anthropology)

Empirical cultural analysis of everyday life (M.A. Empirical Cultural Studies / Cultural Anthropology)

Winter Semester 2023/24

Queering the Archive - Queering the Museum: Historische Kulturanalyse marginalisierter Positionen (B.A. Empirische Kulturwissenschaft/ Kulturanthropologie) (WiSe 2023/24)

Summer Semester 2023

Rethinking Relations. Familie, Freund*innenschaft und Fürsorge in kulturanthropologischer Betrachtung (B.A. Empirische Kulturwissenschaft/ Kulturanthropologie) (SoSe 2023)

Einführung in das wissenschaftliche Arbeiten & Angeleitetes Selbststudium (Altamerikanistik & Ethnologie) (SoSe 2023)

Winter Semester 2022/23

Queering Gender. Ethnologische Forschungen zu Geschlechterkonstruktionen in globaler Perspektive. (M.A. Transkulturelle Studien/ Kulturanthropologie) (WiSe 2022/23)

Summer Semester 2022

Introduction to Academic Writing (B.A. Ancient American Studies & Ethnology) (Summer Semester 2022)

Guided self-study for the practical exercise Introduction to Scientific Work (summer semester 2022)

Sistenich, Sascha (2024): Queer Identities? Autobiographical Negotiations of Nonbinary Genders. Westfälisches Dampfboot Verlag, Münster.

reviewed by Martina Röthl in: Zeitschrift für Empirische Kulturwissenschaft Bd. 122 Nr. 1 (2026), 242-244.

Sistenich, Sascha (in publication): Caring through Frictions: Queer Activism and Prefigurations of Caring Solidarity. In: Friderieke Faust et al. Tagungsband der 19. Arbeitstagung der Kommission für Geschlechterforschung und Queere Anthropologie der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Empirische Kulturwissenschaft "Friction. Spannungen, Spaltungen und produktive Störungen aus Geschlechterperspektive" 19.-21.06.2025, Göttingen. Berlin: Berliner Blätter.

Sistenich, Sascha; Trümner, Louise (in publication): “Engaged Anthropology – The Lunch Lecture Podcast” – ein partizipatives Studienprojekt zur Wissenschaftskommunikation. In: Manuel Bolz, Stefanie Mallon, Paula Muhr, Tim Schaffarczik, Philipp Schrögel (Hg.): Wissenschaft und Technologie kommunizieren. Kontroversität, Dialog und Partizipation. transcript Verlag.

Sistenich, Sascha (2026): Queer. Care. Conflict – Zwischen Safer Spaces und Solidarität als Alltagspraxis queerer Communities. In: Agnieszka Balcerzak, Birgit Erbe, Miriam Gutekunst, Ananya Mehra, Alexandra Rau (Hrsg.): Mapping Gender Struggles. Geschlecht als Konfliktfeld sozialer Bewegungen der Gegenwart - Gender as Field of Conflict in Contemporary Social Movements. Westfälisches Dampfboot, Münster.

Sistenich, Sascha (2026): Queering the Crisis: Fragile Ver/Ordnungen und fürsorgliche Widerständigkeit queerer Communities in (post-)pandemischen Erzählungen. In: Felix Gaillinger, Julia Böcker, Manuel Bolz, Maya Halatcheva-Trapp und Lisa Yashodhara Haller (Hrsg.): Doing Law in familialen und verwandtschaftlichen Kontexten. Zum Verhältnis von Recht und Sorge im Alltag. transcript Reihe »Care – Forschung und Praxis«.

Sistenich, Sascha, jJsmith, hørmie (2026): Caring Resistance – Caring Solidarity. Ko-Artikulationen queerer Fürsorge als Text-Podcast-Assemblage. In: Kuckuck. Notizen zur Alltagskultur. Ausgabe „Care & Aktivismus“ (2/2025), Graz.

Sistenich, Sascha (2025): Caring Ethnography - für_sorglich-solidarische Kollaborationen in queer-aktivistischer Ethnografie, in: das.bulletin, 29.10.2025, URL: https://ekws.ch/de/bulletin/post/caring-ethnography.

Sistenich, Sascha (2022): Geschlechtliche Vielfalt und Nichtbinarität in wissenschaftlichen Texten. In: Hamburger Journal für Kulturanthropologie (15): Anthropology of Sex, Gender and Bodies. Kulturwissenschaftliche Perspektiven auf Alltägliches (=Tagungsband der 33. Studierendentagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Empirische Kulturwissenschaft (DGEKW) "Sex.Sex.Sex. Kulturwissenschaftliche Höhepunkte & Abgründe", 13-16 Mai 2021, Universität Hamburg". Hamburg 2022, pp. 73-86.
 
Sistenich, Sascha / Brüggemann, Marie / Geis, Natascha / Meisen, Alexandra / Offergeld, Felicitas (2021): Gender*n und Sprache. Ein interaktiver Workshop als Möglichkeit der kulturanthropologischen Betrachungen eines transdisziplinären Feldes. In: Maren Sacherer (Hg.): Überfällig - Überflüssig. Beiträge der Studierendentagung 2019 (=Veröffentlichungen des Instituts für Europäische Ethnologie, Bd. 50). Wien 2021, pp. 76-85.

Schuch, Elke; Sistenich, Sascha (2020): Gay Consumers as a niche market: Changing representations of male homosexuality in German advertisements from 2000 to the present. Journal of Creative Industries and Cultural Studies - JOCIS, 5(1), 50-67. https://doi.org/10.56140/JOCIS-v5-3

Lobe, Jana Paulina; Möller, Lena; Sistenich, Sascha; Weichselbraun, Anna (2025): Guide for Instructors on "Generative AI in Teaching", Workshop findings from the 2025 B.A./M.A. Conference of German Society for Empirical Cultural Studies in Tübingen.

Sistenich, Sascha (starting in 2025): Engaged Anthropology – The Lunch Lecture Podcast. (In collaboration with Louise Trümner and students from the course „Engaged Anthropology – Reimagining Social Transformation through Collaborative Research“). Available online at: https://open.spotify.com/show/7emb026yFgKFzJt5SvguQ7

Worth, Maria-Anna; Sistenich, Sascha (2021): Online-Selbstlernmodul "Geschlechtergerechtes Formulieren in wissenschaftlichen Texten. Ein Special zum wissenschaftlichen Stil.", Schreibzentrum TH Köln.

Stronger Together? On Solidarity and Cooperation in Our Community. Workshop at Aidshilfe Köln, October 8, 2026, Cologne

Allyship—Alliances and Solidarity, and Allyship—Solidarity with and from gay and queer men*. Lecture and workshop at the 2026 BISS Conference “Gay and Queer—Across Generations. In Solidarity. Taking Action,” September 25, 2026, Cologne.

Resisting Violence through Care – Queer Safer Spaces as Prefigurative Practices of Caring and Solidarity in Coexistence. Lecture at the 31st Conference of the Austrian Society for Empirical Cultural Studies and Folklore (ögekw), September 18, 2026, Innsbruck.

Critical Masculinity and (Queer) Feminist Solidarity. Workshop for the Green Youth of Düsseldorf, July 23, 2026, Düsseldorf.

Queer Futuring—Utopias of Care & Solidarity. Workshop at the Fusion Festival, June 24–28, 2026, Kulturkosmos Lärz.

Resisting Violence through Care—Queer Safer Spaces as Prefigurative Practices of Caring and Solidarity in Coexistence. Lecture for the writing and interpretation workshop “Between Field and Text” on spaces, emotions, and ethnographic practice at the Department of European Cultural Anthropology, Saarland University, June 12, 2026, Saarbrücken.

Prefigurations of Queer Solidarity as a Practice in Times of Crisis. Lecture for the institute colloquium “Futures (in) Crisis” hosted by ISEK—Institute for Social Anthropology and Empirical Cultural Studies—Popular Cultures, May 6, 2026, Zurich.

Temporal Entanglements – On the Intertwining of Memory Politics and Utopian Practices in Queer Activism. Lecture at the “Queering Public” colloquium hosted by the Institute for Empirical Cultural Studies in Hamburg, November 5, 2025, Hamburg. Includes an interview with PINK Channel about the lecture.

“We are not yet queer” – Prefigurations of queer visions of everyday life in LGBTQIA* movements. Paper presented at the conference “Surprise, Chance, Contingency.” 45th Conference of the German Society for Empirical Cultural Studies (DGEKW), October 1–4, 2025, Kiel.

Queer Activism as Future Practice: Productive Frictions and Transformative Utopias in Times of Crisis. Paper presented at the conference “Friction: Tensions, Divisions, and Productive Disruptions from a Gender Perspective.” 19th Workshop of the Commission for Gender Studies and Queer Anthropology of the German Society for Empirical Cultural Studies (DGEKW) June 19–21, 2025, Göttingen.

Queering Knowledge Production: Activist Research in Queer Communities in Western Germany. SIEF Conference 2025 “Unwriting,” June 3–6, 2025. June 6, 2025, Aberdeen, Scotland.

Chosen Families and Communities of Care: Queer Perspectives on “Family” in a Diverse Society, with a panel discussion on the session “You get to pick your family.” Diversity Days at the University of Bonn, May 26, 2025, Bonn.

AI in Empirical Cultural Studies: Research and Teaching, a workshop with Anna Weichselbraun (European Ethnology, University of Vienna), Sascha Sistenich (Empirical Cultural Studies and Cultural Anthropology, University of Bonn), Jana Paulina Lobe (European Ethnology, University of Bamberg), Lena Möller (Comparative Cultural Studies, University of Regensburg) as part of the 2025 B.A./M.A. Conference of the German Society for Empirical Cultural Studies (DGEKW), May 17, 2025, Tübingen.

“We are not yet queer” – Prefigurations of Social Transformation in Queer Movements & Activism in Germany. EASA Network for the Anthropology of Gender and Sexuality (NAGS) Workshop – LGBTIQ+ Feminist Resistance and Empowerment Against Conservative Ideologies. March 10 & 11, 2025, Madrid.

Do We Need a New Perspective on “Family”? A podcast with Sascha Sistenich on family justice and care from a queer perspective. Podcast by the Office for Equal Opportunity and Diversity at the University of Bonn, May 16, 2024.

"Between Political Activism and Everyday Practice: Queer Care as a Resistant Practice," Gender and Diversity Research Colloquium at the University of Bonn, 15. April 2025

"Between Political Activism and Everyday Practice: Queer Care as a Practice of Resistance" Contribution to the conference "Mapping Gender Struggles: Gender as a Field of Conflict in Contemporary Social Movements" organized by the Commission for Gender Studies and Queer Anthropology of the German Society for Empirical Cultural Studies (DGEKW) from November 23-25, 2023, in Munich.

"AI in Research and Teaching." Workshop on the possible uses, potentials, and potential consequences of AI tools in higher education teaching and cultural anthropological research for the annual networking meeting of Austrian university institutes for European Ethnology/Cultural Anthropology/Cultural Analysis at the Institute for European Ethnology at the University of Vienna on October 20, 2023.

"Movimientos y resistencia queer. Un panorama general histórico." Beitrag zur Summer School “Nuevos feminismos en América Latina” des Interdisziplinären Lateinamerikazentrum (ILZ) der Universität Bonn am 18.07.2023 (engl. Contribution to the Summer School “Nuevos feminismos en América Latina” of the Interdisciplinary Latin American Center (ILZ) of the University of Bonn on 18 July 2023)

"Gender and Culture: Gender Diversity in Language and Everyday Life Using Non-Binary Gender as an Example", contribution to the lecture series "Intercultural Communication" of the Institute for Translation and Multilingual Communication at the TH Köln on 1 June 2023

"Social Situation of Writing" Short Input for the Writing Week 2023 of the Writing Center of the Competence Workshop, TH Köln, and the Competence Center for Writing at the University of Cologne, 27 February - 3 March 2023

"Queer Practices of Care. Marginalizations and Queer Boundary Dissolution Practices in (Post)Pandemic Times", contribution to the lecture series "Gender Dialogues. Ethnological-Cultural Anthropological Conversations on Gender" of the Department of Empirical Cultural Studies and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Bonn on January 18, 2023

"Gender-fair language and research in the context of gender diversity using the example of non-binary gender(s)" at the 33rd dgv Student Conference "Sex.Sex.Sex. Highlights & Abysses in Cultural Studies" from May 13-16 - Digital
 
"The Myth of the Gay Man: Gay Consumers as a Niche Market: Changing Representations of Male Homosexuality in German Advertisements from 2000 to the Present" at the 33rd dgv Student Conference "Sex.Sex.Sex. Highlights & Abysses in Cultural Studies" from May 13-16 - Digital