Beatrice Odierna, M.A.

Academic Career

• Since 01/2020: Research Associate; DFG-project "Processes of Subjectivation and Self-Formation of Young Women Addressed as Refugees"
• 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 (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, S. 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’