Beatrice Odierna, M.Sc.

Associate MA / BA Program Coordinator

Institute for Ethnology / Institute for Empirical Cultural Studies and Intercultural Communication

Gender Studies, Anthropology of Migration, Social Work, Participatory Research, Agency/Vulnerability

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Oettingenstr. 67

Room C 008 / C U110

809538 München

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+49 89 2180-9637

Office hours:

(during lecture periods) on Tuesdays, 10-11am

Academic Career

  • Since 11/2024: BA / MA Study Program Coordination for Social and Cultural Anthropology, European Ethnology and Cultural Analysis and Intercultural Communication, LMU Munich
  • 04/2023-10/2024: Researcher, BMBF-Project iSedPall (Prof. Dr. Claudia Bausewein und Prof Dr. Eva Schildmann) at the Clinic for Palliative Medicine, LMU Hospital
  • 01/2020-03/2023: Researcher, DFG-Project "Prozesse der Subjektivierung und Selbst-Bildung von mit Familie geflüchteten Mädchen in Deutschland", Institute of Social Anthropology, LMU Munich
  • 03/2019 - 12/2019: Consultant for Youth Work in Migration Societies, Kreisjugendring München-Stadt
  • 10/2015 - 02/2019: Pedagogical Staff; Projects: "Lok Arrival – Youth Center for Young Refugees" and "Welcome to Munich (WiM)", Kreisjugendring München-Stadt
  • 2014 – 2015: Graduate Assistant, Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, LMU Munich
  • 2012 – 2013: MSc. Middle Eastern Diasporas, Department of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies (IMES), University of Edinburgh
  • 2011 - 2012: Student Assistant, Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, LMU Munich
  • 2009 – 2012: B.A. Social and Cultural Anthropology (Minor Subject: Middle Eastern Studies), Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, LMU Munich

Further Information

Research

Research project: "Processes of subjectivation and self-formation of young women addressed as refugees". The project is funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), Project number: 423764483 (2020-2023)

Project leader: Prof. Dr. Martin Sökefeld

Presentations

  • 11/2025: Global Action Day on Migration at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, LMU Munich: "Social Work as a Boundary Worker in the Context of Migration and Flight" (together with Julia Cholewa)
  • 09/2025: ÖFEB Social Pedagogy Section Conference on "Boundaries and Boundary Removal – Discourses, Practices and Challenges in Social Work", University of Salzburg: "Social Work as an Agent of Doing Difference in Encounters with Young Women who are Addressed as Refugees (Germany)"
  • 05/2025: Advanced seminar at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, LMU Munich: Social Work as a Dialogue Partner for Social Anthropology?
  • 03/2023: Workshop "Questioning the Safe Haven: Interdisciplinary Inquiries into Violence in Refugee Arrival and Settlement", University of Bern, Schweiz: Complicated Violence? Approaching Violence as a Sensitive Concept in Anthropological Research with Young Women* Addressed as Refugees in Germany
  • 10/2021: Oberseminar of the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, LMU Munich: "If We Wear Our Hair Long, They Say That We Are Suppressed Without Knowing It": Controversies Regarding the Agency of Young Women Addressed as Refugees
  • 09/2021: Conference “Vulnerability & Institutions”, University of Innsbruck: Vulnerability as a Motif in the Field of Social Work with Young Women Addressed as Refugees
  • 09/2021: Working Group on Forced Migration and Gender, German Network for Forced Migration Studies: Processes of Subjectivation and Self-Formation of Young Women Addressed as Refugees (Project Presentation)
  • 04/2021: 17th Meeting of the Committee for Women- and Gender-Studies of the German Association for European Ethnology (dgv): Contesting Notions of Agency: Approaching the Figure of the ‘Young Female Refugee‘ in the Micropolitics of Everyday Social Interaction
  • 09/2020: 3rd Conference of the German Network for Forced Migration Studies: Vulnerability as a Motif in Processes of Subjectification of Young Women Addressed as Refugees in Collective Accommodations
  • 09/2019: Conference of the German Society of Social and Cultural Anthropology (DGSKA), City of Constance: Between Silence and Appropriation: Young Refugee Women’s Strategies to Solve Conflicts. Impressions from Fieldwork in Collective Accommodations
  • 05/2019: dgv Student Conference, Vienna: "You need This More Than I Do!?" An Overdue Investigation of Negotiations of ‘Help’ and ‘Neediness’ between Volunteers and Young Women Addressed as Refugees in Germany

Other activities

  • 11/2021 and 05/2022: Co-Organisation of the Seminar "Between Frames, Images, and Stereotypes: Language and Addressing in Social Work‘s Specialized Activities”
  • 07/2021: Co-Moderation of the Panel Discussion "Women & Forced Migration", Bellevue di Monaco & Bayerischer Jugendring
  • 07/2020: Conference „Bring Girls with Migration Experience into Youth Work“ (Bezirksjugendring Unterfranken): Investigating Specialized Activities ‘for Refugee Girls’

Publications