Dr. Conrad Lluis

• since 08/2024: Research Associate (Postdoc) at the Faculty of Macrosociological Analysis of Contemporary Societies, University of Kassel

• 05/2022-08/2024: Research Associate (Postdoc) at the Institute for Work and Qualification (IAQ), University of Duisburg-Essen

• 07/2022: Doctorate at the University of Hamburg ('summa cum laude'), Dissertation Prize of the German Sociological Association 2024, Dissertation Prize of the Sociological Theory Section 2023/2024.

Title: Hegemony and social change. Indignados movement, populism and democratic practice in Spain, 2011-2016.

Link to the book (Open Access)

• 2018-2020: Fellow at the Institute for Social Research (IfS) at Goethe University Frankfurt

• 2016-2022: part-time work as a freelance journalist, in retail and in elderly care

• 2014-2017: Doctoral scholarships from the Hans Böckler Foundation and the DAAD

• 2014-2017: Fellow at the Centre d'Estudis sobre Moviments Socials (CEMS, Social Movements Research Group) at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra Barcelona

• 2011-2014: M.A. degree in Sociology at the University of Hamburg

• 2010-2011: Work in the fields of public health (Fribourg) and urban planning (Basel)

• 2005-2010: B.A. in Sociology and Philosophy at the Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg and the University of Basel

• 2005: German and Spanish Abitur at the German School Barcelona

Memberships

• Sections Sociology of Work and Industry, Sociology of Europe and Sociology of Culture in the DGS

Reviewer activities

• European Journal of Social Theory, Journal for Theoretical Sociology

Jaehrling, Karen / Lluis, Conrad, 2025: Loud and quiet politicization. How novel regulatory projects challenge the neoliberal order of ‘essential work’ in Germany, in: Critical Policy Studies, 1-16 (Open Access). https://doi.org/10.1080/19460171.2025.2561145

Lluis, Conrad, 2025: Break at the edge. Reading note on Norma Tiedemann's "Disobedient Democracy and Contested Patronage Statehood in Southeast Europe," in: theorieblog.de, March 17, 2025.

Lluis, Conrad, 2025: A Different History of Capitalism: Review of “Metabolic Politics: Labor, Nature, and the Future of the Planet” by Simon Schaupp, in: Soziopolis, March 5, 2025.

Lluis, Conrad, 2024 (ed.): Back to hegemony. From Laclau/Mouffe to a sociological theory of hegemony. In: Journal for Theoretical Sociology (2/2024)

Barthel, Georg / Lluis, Conrad 2024: For a good season. Seasonal work in German agriculture between precarization, regulation and politicization. Duisburg: Institute for Work and Qualification. IAQ-Report 2024-09| Info | Read

Lluis, Conrad, 2023: Work and migration. A research overview with a focus on precarization. Duisburg: Institute for Work and Qualification. IAQ Research 2023-02| Info | Read

Jaehrling, Karen / Lluis, Conrad, 2023: The laboratory of a different kind of work. Care and agriculture under pandemic refraction - between neoliberal structuring and experimental regulation . In: Sociological Studies in Labor and Industry 16 (2), pp. 27-42| Info | Read

Jaehrling, Karen / Lluis, Conrad / van Gerven, Minna / Salm, Aino, 2023: DEFEN-CE: Social Dialogue in Defense of Vulnerable Groups in Post-COVID-19 Labour Markets. Report on Germany and the Netherlands. Funded by the Directorate-General for Employment, the European Commission. Duisburg [et al.] | Read

Lluis, Conrad, 2023: Hegemony and social change. Indignados Movement, Populism and Democratic Practice in Spain, 2011-2016. Cf. dissertation, University of Hamburg, 2022. Bielefeld: Transkript Verlag, ISBN: 978-3-8394-6625-4 | Info | Read

Lluis, Conrad, 2022: Outraged Spain. The Indignados and their afterlife. In: Mittelweg 36 (4), pp. 36-53

Lluis, Conrad, 2020: New people, different country. Populism as a practice in Spain. In: Kim Seongcheol and Aristotelis Agridopoulos (eds.): Populism. Discourse - Hegemony - State, pp. 253-275

Lluis, Conrad, 2019: The protests of the Indignados ... and their analysis using an expanded theory of hegemony. In: Judith Vey et al. (eds.): Handbook of poststructuralist perspectives on social movements, pp. 88-107

Lluis, Conrad, 2018: Review of: Right-wing populism and hegemony. The rise of the SVP and the discursive transformation of political Switzerland. In: Swiss Journal of Sociology 44 (1), pp. 189-191

Lluis, Conrad, 2017: The fear remains. Spain's economy grows, society remains poor. In: Matices. Journal on Latin America, Spain and Portugal 93| Info

Lluis, Conrad / Arndt, Sophie, 2016: Spain facing the question of incorporation. In: Forum Law H. 2, p. 56-59

Lluis, Conrad, 2014: The antagonistic bet of social theory. Review of: The impossible object. A post-fundamentalist theory of society by Oliver Marchart, Theorieblog.de, blog for political theory, philosophy and history of ideas, 5.5.2014

Lluis, Conrad, 2014: Review of: The Left Hemisphere. Mapping Critical Theory Today by Razmig Keucheyan. In: Journal for Philosophical Literature 2 (3): 45-55

Lluis, Conrad / Hildebrand, Marius, 2012: The negation of power - from structuration theory to the politics of the Third Way. In: Distinction: Scandinavian Journal of Social Theory 13 (2), pp. 187-207

with Lars Döpking: "From Transition to Transition. Spain after 1975 between role model and crisis laboratory", organization and moderation of an ad hoc group at the DGS Congress at the University of Duisburg-Essen, 09/2025.

"Europe from below. Europasoziologie als Ethnographie", lecture in the section conference on the sociology of Europe at the DGS Congress at the University of Duisburg-Essen, 09/2025.

"The social as political space . Gegen die Ontologisierung des Politischen mit einer anderen Hegemonietheorie", lecture in the section conference of political sociology at the DGS Congress at the University of Duisburg-Essen, 09/2025.

"Foucault at work. Auf dem Weg zu einem poststrukturalistischen Begriff der Arbeitsgesellschaft", lecture at the colloquium of the Institute of Sociology at the University of Göttingen, 06/2025.

"Fragile order. Die Produktion von Vulnerabilität in der stationären Pflege", lecture in the lecture series "Prekarisiertes Leben. Violent Orders and Gender" at the University of Kassel, 05/2025.

"Between recognition and confiscation. Mit Honneth und Foucault zu einer Rehabilitierung von Arbeit und Organisation für die Gesellschaftstheorie", lecture at the conference of the DGS-Sektion soziologische Theorie am Institut für Sozialforschung der Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, 2/2025.

"A vulnerable we. On the constitution of collectivity in the tension between vulnerability and political practice" Organization, moderation and introductory input for the workshop at the SGS Congress 2024 at the University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland (Canton Baselland), 09/2024.

"Relationship in the long run. Praktisch artikuliert rund um notwendige Passagenpunkte - die poststrukturalistische Sozialtheorie vor dem organizational turn", lecture at the conference of the DGS sections Organizational Sociology and Sociological Theory at the University of Duisburg-Essen, 10/2023.

"The others at work. Die abwertende Beschlagnahme migrantischer Arbeit",lecture at the annual conference of the Cultural Sociology Section at the Bauhaus University Weimar, 09/2023.

with Karen Jaehrling: "The laboratory of another labor. Pflege und Landwirtschaft unter der pandemischen Brechung: zwischen neoliberaler Strukturierung und experimenteller Regulierung", lecture at the spring conference of the AIS at the University of Osnabrück, 06/2023.

"Hegemony Theory as Social Theory", lecture at the colloquium of the Chair of General Sociology and Sociological Theory at the Technical University of Darmstadt, 12/2021.

"Angry bodies, indignant practices. An ethnographic study on protest movements in Spain", lecture at the Institute for Social Research at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, 12/2018.

"The order of the political. Bausteine einer materialistischen Diskurstheorie", lecture at the Institute of Sociology, University of Hamburg, 12/2018.

"Populisme i Emancipació" (Populism and Emancipation), round table and workshop at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 05/2017.

"Análisis del discurso. La teoría de Laclau/Mouffe", lecture at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 05/2015.

"Practices of indignation. Die Theorie der Hegemonie auf ethnographischen Pfaden", lecture at the Institute of Sociology, University of Hamburg, 02/2016.

"Die kritische Kraft der politischen Artikulation", lecture in the section Sociological Theory of the German Congress of Sociology (DGS-Kongress), University of Trier, 10/2014.

"Zivilgesellschaft als politische Kultur", lecture at the workshop "Gesellschaftstheorie" of the Institutes of Sociology of Freiburg and Basel, 10/2013.

"Ideological Deadlocks? Contemporary Ideologies and its Inherent Fractures", lecture at the ^11th Conference in Critical Political Theory, University of Essex, 06/2011.

"The Negation of Power - from Structuration Theory to the Politics of the Third Way. A Critique of Anthony Giddens", lecture with Marius Hildebrand at the^10th Conference in Critical Political Theory, University of Essex, 06/2010.

Current (winter semester 25/26)

B.A. Empirical Research Project / Teaching Research Project (Part I): Ethnography and Society. With the extended case method into care

B.A. Seminar: Sociological Theories: Discipline and Body - with Foucault

M.A. Seminar (with Dr. Clelia Caruso): From Transition to Transition. Spain after 1975 between role model and crisis laboratory

Summer semester 25

B.A. Seminar: The Externalization Society. A concept from different perspectives

M.A. Seminar: Back to hegemony. From Laclau/Mouffe to a sociological theory of hegemony

Winter semester 24/25

B.A. Seminar: Unequal Europe. An introduction to the sociology of Europe with a focus on the South and East of the EU

M.A. Seminar: Society with power. An introduction to post-structuralist social analysis

SoSe 24: M.A. Seminar: Theories of Organization (and Organizing) (University of Duisburg-Essen)
WiSe 23/24: B.A. Seminar: Identity-Power-Work. Classical and Current Perspectives.
SoSe 2016: B.A. Seminar: Movement, Protest and Social Change. (Universität Hamburg)
SoSe 2015: B.A. Seminar: Movement, Protest and Social Change. (University of Hamburg)

General

I am happy to supervise B.A. and M.A. theses. Please contact me and describe your project with a short outline (2 to 3 paragraphs, preferably with an initial table of contents). My research interests include:

- Social and societal theory
- political sociology
- post-structuralist approaches (Foucault, Laclau/Mouffe, Butler, Reckwitz etc.)
- praxeological theory
- qualitative social research (ethnography, discourse analysis, interviews)
- sociology of inequality (topics to be discussed)

- Sociology of old age and care research

First state examination "Sociology/Politics" for teacher training students

In 2026, I am examining the following topics: (1) trigger points in society, (2) the construction of gender, (3) disciplining and (4) youth from an ethnological perspective. I still have (a few) exam capacities available for 2026. Please contact me by e-mail and we will arrange a consultation to prepare for the exam.