Lectures, Workshops and Posters
Lectures
| 11.7.2025 | Cripping Ethnography | 10th Ethnography and Qualitative Research International Conference | Universitá di Trento (Italien) |
| 11.6.2025 | Against scapegoating and retrofits – The perspective of Critical Access Studies | European Forum for Studies of Policies for Research and Innovation Annual Conference 2025 - Shaping societal futures with STI Policies | Technische Universität Dortmund |
| 8.5.2025 | Critical Disability Studies in the context of socio-ecological transformation - by design or by disaster? | 17th Nordic Network on Disability Research Conference: Disability in Local and Global Context | University of Helsinki (Finnland) |
| 8.5.2025 | Accusations of hysteria in long COVID | 17th Nordic Network on Disability Research Conference: Disability in Local and Global Context | University of Helsinki (Finnland) |
| 9.4.2025 | Medicalization of disabled people’s feelings | Disability Theory Colloquium | Stellenbosch University, Kapstadt (SA, online), eingeladen |
| 17.2.2025 | Sustainability and Inclusion – Reflections on a Field of Tension Inclusion – Education – Transformation | Inclusive Education as Transformation – Transformation through Inclusive Education. 38th Annual Conference of Inclusion Researchers | University of Cologne |
| 21.11.2024 | Disabling city | Lecture series "Inclusion and participation of people with disabilities" | HAWK Hildesheim, invited |
| 4.10.2024 | Epistemological reflections on affect-based resistance for inclusive open space planning | EMOGU seminar series (Emotion seminar of Gothenburg University) | Göteborgs Universitet (SE), invited |
| 11.09.2024 | Cripping Age(ing) | Symposium "Cripping & Queering Age(ing)" at the annual DGGG congress & DGG "Ageing without borders" | University of Kassel |
| 3.-5.9.2024 | Sustainability and inclusion? Contested knowledge using the example of open space planning | Leeds Disability Studies Conference | University of Leeds (UK) |
| 3.-5.9.2024 | Disabling affect - Material consequences of ableist feelings between violence, medicalization, and emotion work | Leeds Disability Studies Conference | University of Leeds (UK) |
| 5.7.2024 | Sustainability and inclusion? Contested knowledge using the example of open space planning | 20th Conference of the Junior Research Group Environmental Sociology "Contested Sustainability Knowledge" | University of Würzburg |
| 18.3.2024 | Co-produced ethnography? Epistemological reflections on affect-based barriers to inclusive open space planning | Research questions of participation research IV: Epistemological and socio-theoretical foundations of participation research | Frankfurt/Main |
| 8.2.2024 | Inclusive open space planning as a socio-ecological transformation | 3rd conference for young researchers "Social innovations for social transformation" | Fulda University of Applied Sciences, Center for Society and Sustainability |
| 12.01.2024 | Unremembered difference and inequality. Affect-based barriers towards inclusive open space planning | Transformation and sustainability research workshop | University of Kassel, Kassel Institute for Sustainability |
| 06.11.2023 | Disabling affect. Unequally shared emotional labor as a participation issue | AG Teilhabeforschung, Research Network Social Law and Social Policy | Fulda University of Applied Sciences / University of Kassel (online) |
| 06.10.2023 | On the strategic handling of emotions from the perspective of Disability Studies | Annual conference of the German Interdisciplinary Society for the Promotion of Research for People with Intellectual Disabilities | University of Cologne |
| 29.08.2023 | Emotional repertoires of the dis/ ableist imaginary as a politics of disablement | Summer School "Politics of Disablement" | University of Utrecht (NL, Online) |
| 23.06.2023 |
Passing: Passing as disabled, non-disabled or super-crippled - | Colloquium "Research questions of Disability Studies" | University of Cologne (Online) |
| 09.12.2022 | Between Cripping and Reclaiming. Epistemological implications of Disability Studies' feeling strategies | EMOGU seminar series (Emotion seminar of Gothenburg University) | Göteborgs Universitet (SE, Online) |
| 30.09.2022 | Passing: Passing as disabled, non-disabled or soup cripple. Three facets of a survival strategy in an ableist society | Polarized worlds. 41st Congress of the German Sociological Association | University of Bielefeld |
| 31.08.2022 | Disabling affect - Material consequences of ableist feelings between violence, medicalization, and emotion work | RN 11 "Sociology of Emo-tions" of the European Sociological Association (ESA) midterm conference 2022 | University of Hamburg (Online) |
| 23.02.2022 | Inequalities in academic spaces: academics with disabilities between atypical employment and disclosure dilemmas (with Jana York) | 35th Annual Conference of Inclusion Researchers (online) | University of Innsbruck (AT) |
| 23.02.2022 | Learning from postcolonial studies - a scoping review (with Marianne Hirschberg) | 35th annual conference of inclusion researchers (online) | University of Innsbruck (AT) |
| 12.11.2021 | Emergency medical care of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. A systematic review (with Jana York & Ute Karbach) | 2021 Australasian Society for Intellectual Disability Online Conference | Australasian Society for Intellectual Disability (AUS) |
| 08.10.2021 | Disabling affects in the higher education context Unequally shared emotional labor in an ableist academy | #acertaindegreeofflexibility Conditions of knowledge production between qualification, self-optimization and precarization (online) | Institute for Theory and Empiricism of the Social - Workshop for Social Pedagogical Thinking |
| 06.10.2021 | Postcolonial science. Structural problems of North-South research projects | BdWi Wednesday (online) | Association of democratic scientists and scholars |
| 01.09.2021 | Emotional Disability Studies - A case for comprehensive engagement | 15th ESA conference 2021 (online) | University of Barcelona (ES) |
| 16.07.2021 | Disabling affect. Material consequences of ableist feelings between violence and emotion work | "But Some are More Equal than Others". Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Growing Inequality and the Need for Solidarity. Annual Academic Conference of PhD-Students of the Hans-Böckler-Foundation (online) | Free University of Berlin |
| 11.07.2021 | Disabling affect. Material consequences of ableist feelings between violence and emotion work | Disability Studies Conference (online) | University of Auckland (NZ) |
| 12.06.2021 | "We are here, because you were there" - Research ethical reflections on the colonial present and decolonial future of German-language refugee migration research (with Robel Afeworki Abay) | Global contexts, local interpretations. Critical positionings on scientific and media discourses in the context of flight and asylum (online) | Paris Lodron University of Salzburg (AT) |
| 18.04.2021 | Between Cripping and Reclaiming. Epistemological Implications of Feeling Strategies Promoted in Disability Studies | SDS@OSU Multiple Perspectives conference (online) | Ohio State University (US) |
| 09.04.2021 | Disability Studies and Ableism - What's emotion got to do with it? | 9th ALTER annual conference (online) | Ecole des Hautes Études en Santè, Rennes (FR) |
| 27.10.2020 | Feelings for social change? Emotional strategies promoted in Disability Studies | RN 11 "Sociology of Emotions" of the European Sociological Association (ESA) midterm conference 2020 (online) | University of Barcelona (ES) |
| 22.7.2019 | Feeling posthuman | iHuman symposium Biopolitical, Affect and Posthuman Critical Disability Studies | University of Sheffield (UK) |
| 11.7.2019 | Crip Killjoys, Emotion Work, Political Emotions... Concepts from the Sociology of Emotions and Affect Studies in Disability Studies | Critical Disability Studies Postgraduate Conference 2019 | University of Leeds (UK) |
| 9.7.2019 | The affective practice of ableism. Theorizing affect and emotion in CDS | New Directions in Critical Disability Studies. A Postgraduate Symposium | University of Sheffield (UK) |
| 4.7.2019 | Crip Killjoys, Emotion Work, Political Emotions... Concepts from the Sociology of Emotions and Affect Studies in Disability Studies | The International Conference on Educational, Cultural, and Disability Studies 2019 | Liverpool Hope University (UK) |
| 21.6.2019 | Disability and Postcolonial Studies: Common Ground, Missing Links and Mutual Inspiration | (Post)Colonial Health: Global Perspectives on the Medical Humanities | University of Leeds (UK) |
| 18.12.2018 | Emotional Aspects of Health and Diversity. Between Stigma and Self-Optimization | One Health Workshop | Pwani University (Kenya) |
| 20.10.2018 | (Aversive) emotions in the context of disability | Between emancipation and appropriation - Disability Studies in German-speaking countries, Disability Studies Conference | Humbold University of Berlin & Alice Solomon University of Applied Sciences Berlin |
| 12.9.2018 | Disability Studies & Ableism - What's emotion got to do with it? | 9th Lancaster Disability Studies Conference | Lancaster University (UK) |
| 29.8.2018 | Disability Studies & Ableism - What's emotion got to do with it? | Joint Midterm Conference of the European Sociological Association's Sociology of Emotions Research Network (RN11) and the British Sociological Association's Sociology of Emotions Study Group | University of Edinburgh (UK) |
| 22.2.2018 | Heterophobia and (dis)ableism. Approaching a phenomenon under observation | 32nd International Conference of Inclusion Researchers | Justus Liebig University Giessen |
| 21.7.2017 | Ambulantization in Middle Franconia. Practical research with disability care providers. Active participation in the research workshop "Participatory Research" | 13th Berlin Methodological Meeting Qualitative Research | Free University of Berlin |
| 3.5.2017 | Intersecting (Dis)ability Studies and Postcolonial Studies. Common ground, missing links and mutual inspiration | Nordic Network on Disability Research: NNDR 14th research conference | Örebro University (Sweden) |
| 22.3.2017 | The ICF in qualitative research | 15th International Classification of Functioning (ICF) User Conference | Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main |
| 21.3.2017 | Aversive emotions in the context of disability. Approaching a phenomenon under observation | Hate - an interdisciplinary view of social discord, scientific conference of the doctoral students of the Hans Böckler Foundation | University of Kassel |
| 29.11.2016 | Accounting for Social Impacts of Livelihood Promotion? Potentials and limitations of the Social Return on Investment Approach (Wechuli, Yvonne; Lusweti, Sellah; Shauri, Halimu & Wacker, Elisabeth) | Dis)ability and the Global 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development - Can Community-Based Rehabilitation Serve as a Guideline for Inclusive Sustainable Development? | Pwani University (Kenya) |
| 29.11.2016 | Beyond Economic Impact: Accounting for Social and Emotional Wellbeing as Unintended Out-comes of Livelihood Promotion Programs at the Kenyan Coast (Lusweti, Sellah; Wechuli, Yvonne; Shirazy, Khadija; Maghanga, Christine; Shauri, Halimu & Wack-er, Elisabeth) | Dis)ability and the Global 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development - Can Community-Based Rehabilitation Serve as a Guideline for Inclusive Sustainable Development? | Pwani University (Kenya) |
| 7.10.2016 | Neighborly Assistance. High Expectations of Multi-generation Cohousing Projects | Aging & Society: Sixth interdisciplinary Conference | Linköping University (Sweden) |
| 7.9.2016 | Dis/Ableism and Heterophobia | 8th Lancaster Disability Studies Conference, | Lancaster University (UK) |
| 12.7.2016 | Intersecting (Dis)ability studies and racism research - Potential for mutual learning | 3rd ISA Forum of Sociology | University of Vienna (Austria) |
| 19.2.2016 | Accounting for Social Value? Chances and limitations of the Social Return on Investment approach in the field of livelihood promotion (Kuhnke, Yvonne, Lusweti, Sellah & Shauri, Halimu) | Disability in the SDGs: Forming Alliances and Building Evidence for the 2030 Agenda | London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (UK) |
| 1.10.2015 | Neighborhood support. Expectations for community housing projects (invited) | Inclusion in 2015 - taking stock. Inclusion in education, work, housing and life | Federal Association for Conductive Support according to Petö e.V., Würzburg |
| 17.7.2015 | Social impact assessment of livelihood promotion programs in Coastal Kenya | 7th Symposium International Curative and Special Education | Zurich University of Teacher Education (CH) |
| 6.11.2014 | "Lived" subsidiarity? Neighborhood help in multi-generational homes. Best practice: Presentation of the winners of the ConSozial Science Award | ConSozial, 16th trade fair and congress of the social market | Nuremberg Trade Fair |
| 20.12.2013 | Educação musical inclusiva: O caso do Projeto Piano Inclusive da Universidade de Dortmund [Inclusive music education: The case study "Piano Inclusive" at the Technical University of Dortmund] | Panel discussion "A contribuição das Ciências Cognitivas para a Educação Musical Inclusiva" [The contribution of cognitive sciences to inclusive music education] | Instituto Villa-Lobos, Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) |
| 26.6.2013 | Neighborhood support in a multigenerational housing project. Short report on the results of a master's thesis | Annual general meeting of the tenants' association "Hallo Nachbar e.V." | Hangeneystraße housing project, Dortmund |
| 28.9.2011 | La prise en charge médical des sourds au Cameroun [The medical care of deaf people in Cameroon] | Presentation of a research project in the central region, July - October 2011 | Association Bouche des Sourds d'Afrique, Yaoundé (Cameroon) |
Workshops
Scientific workshops | ||
| 15.09.2023 | Epistemic emotions - positive and negative emotions | ESA Research Network 11 & Emotions and Society Discussion workshp |
| 24.10.2021 | Participatory research as decolonial practice?(with Robel Afeworki Abay) | Decolonization of Knowledge, Conference at the University of Vienna (AT) |
| 2.10.2021 | Between Cripping and Reclaiming Disability Studies' feeling strategies as act of care and resistance | Who Cares? Feminist perspectives on care work, solidarity and economy. Researchers*Workshop of the Hans Böckler Foundation. |
Practice Research | ||
30.9.2017 | Evaluation workshop "Index für Ambulantisierung" with co-researchers*. | District Town Hall Central Franconia |
30.9.2017 | Evaluation workshop "Index für Ambulantisierung" with co-researchers | Central Franconia District Council |
3./5.10.2016 | Workshops "Operationalization and Survey Methods" (Participation, Social Networks and Social Space) with Co-Researchers | Central Franconia District Council |
24.3.2016 | Dissemination Workshop "Accounting for Social Value? Chances and limitations of the Social Return on Investment approach in the field of livelihood promotion" with practice partners | Pwani University (Kenya) |
Adult and continuing education | ||
28.9.2013 10./11.10.2013 & 6./7.2.2015 | Sessions "(nonverbal) communication" and "conflicts in working life" in the context of an additional training in rehabilitation pedagogy | ViA Bochum e.V. |
30./31.12.2012 | Workshop "Diversity Management | Robert Koch Institute Berlin |
Poster
Wechuli, Yvonne (2017). Ambulantization in Middle Franconia. Practice research with providers of disability care. 13th Berlin Method Meeting Qualitative Research, 2017, July 22, Berlin. |
Kuhnke, Yvonne (2016). Neighborhood-based assistance in multigenerational housing: operationalization and analysis using the ICF? The ICF in the context of education and health, 2016, June 9, Zurich, Switzerland. |
Shauri, Halimu, Lusweti, Sellah, Kuhnke, Yvonne & Wacker, Elisabeth (2015). Social Impact Assessment of Livelihood. Developing an Inclusive Impact Assessment Instrument. 5th Community Based Rehabilitation Africa Network (CAN) Conference, 2015, June 1-5, Nairobi, Kenya. |
Kuhnke, Yvonne (2015). People with impairment as "the others". A power critical analysis. 29th Annual Conference of Integration/Inclusion Researchers in German-speaking Countries, 2015, February 19, Halle (Saale). |