Beatrice Odierna, M.A.

Academic Career

• Since 11/2024: Associate MA / BA Program Coordinator for Anthropology, Empirische Kulturwissenschaft/Europäische Ethnologie und Interkulturelle Kommunikation, 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 Munich
• 01/2020-03/2023: Researcher, DFG-Project "Prozesse der Subjektivierung und Selbst-Bildung von mit Familie geflüchteten Mädchen in Deutschland", Institute for 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

Presentations

• Workshop "Questioning the Safe Haven: Interdisciplinary Inquiries into Violence in Refugee Arrival and Settlement", Universität 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

Publications

• Odierna, Beatrice (2025): »Follow the Agency als Methode: Überlegungen zu einer ethnologischen Auseinandersetzung mit Handlungsmacht als Thema des Feldes«, in: Beatrice Odierna/Martin Sökefeld (Hg.), Agency auf der Spur: Perspektiven aus Ethnologie und Sozialer Arbeit, Bielefeld: transcript.
• Odierna, Beatrice/Sökefeld, Martin (2025): »Einleitung«, in: Beatrice Odierna/Martin Sökefeld (Hg.), Agency auf der Spur: Perspektiven aus Ethnologie und Sozialer Arbeit, Bielefeld: transcript.
• Odierna, Beatrice/Sökefeld, Martin (Hg.) (2025): Agency auf der Spur: Perspektiven aus Ethnologie und Sozialer Arbeit, Bielefeld: transcript, open access: https://www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-7648-8/agency-auf-der-spur/?number=978-3-8394-7648-2&c=313000000
• Odierna, Beatrice (2025): »‘They Only Focus on Violence and Nothing Else’: Questioning the Idea of ‘Refugee Women’s’ General Vulnerability to Violence«, in: Geopolitics (Special Issue Eds.: Dr. Carolin Fischer, Manuel Insberg und Prof. Dr. Sabine Strasser), open access: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14650045.2025.2454913
• Odierna, Beatrice (2024): »Assembling Bits and Pieces: from Patchwork to Ethnography«, in: Tim Burger, Usman Mahar, Pascale Schild und Anna-Maria Walther (Hg.): The Multi-sided Ethnographer: Living the Field Beyond Research, Bielefeld: transcript, S. 73-92.
• Together with Kauzner, Saskia/Schneider, Manuela/Heckel, Maria, et al. (2024): »Development of a Complex Intervention to Support the Use of Sedative Drugs in Specialist Palliative Care (iSedPall)«, in: Palliative Medicine Reports 5(1): 527-536.
• Odierna, Beatrice (2023): »Social Work ›With Refugees‹ as a Site of Gendered Everyday Bordering«, in: Berliner Blätter 88, 43–58.
• Odierna, Beatrice (2022): »Bilder der Handlungsmacht „geflüchteter Frauen*" in Sozialer Arbeit«, in: DDS März 2022, 9-10.
• Odierna, Beatrice (2021): »Die Verwicklung der Ethnologin im Feld. Perspektiven für eine (selbst-)kritische Betrachtung ethnologischen Forschens zu Flucht«, in: Maren Sacherer (Hg.), Überfällig – Überflüssig. Beiträge der Studierendentagung 2019 (= Veröffentlichungen des Instituts für Europäische Ethnologie, Bd. 50), Wien: Univ. Wien, 68-74.

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’