Dr. Beatrice Odierna

Associate MA / BA Program Coordinator

Institute for Social and Cultural Anthropology, Institute for Intercultural Communication and Institute for Empirical Cultural Studies and European Anthropology

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

Processes of subjectivation and self-formation of young female refugees (Principal Investigator: Prof Dr Martin Sökefeld)

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Oettingenstr. 67

Room C 008 / C U110

80538 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