Ragna Verhoeven

Academic Work Experience:
Since 10/2022 Research Associate at the Bielefeld Graduate School in History and Sociology (BGHS), Faculty of Sociology, Bielefeld University

2021-2022 Research Assistant at the Chair of Political Theory, Institute of Political Science Münster and in the research network "Cultures of Compromise"

07/2021-09/2021 Student Assistant to Thomas Altmeppen, M.A., Chair of Political Theory, Institute for Political Science Münster

10/2020-09/2021 Student Assistant to Prof. Dr. Oliver Hidalgo at the Institute of Political Science, Westfälische-Wilhelms University Münster

05/2020-09/2021 Student Assistant at the Chair for Political Theory to Prof. Dr. Ulrich Willems at the Institute for Political Science, Westfälische-Wilhelms University Münster

04/2020-09/2020 Student Assistant at the Chair of Political Theory to Dr. Manon Westphal at the Institute of Political Science, Westfälische-Wilhelms University Münster

10/2019-03/2020 Tutor for the lecture "Political Theory" (Prof. Dr. Oliver Hidalgo) at the Institute for Political Science, Westfälische-Wilhelms University Münster

10/2018-03/2019 Tutor for the lecture "Political Theory" (Prof. Dr. Ulrich Willems) at the Institute of Political Science, Westfälische-Wilhelms University Münster

Studies:
2018-2021 French-German Master's Programme "International and European Governance" at Westfälische-Wilhelms University Münster and Sciences Po Lille (Thesis: Communitarianism as a Theory of Democracy - A Search for Traces in Alasdair MacIntyre and Charles Taylor -).

2014-2018 French-German Bachelor's Programme "International and European Governance" at Westfälische-Wilhelms University Münster and at Sciences Po Lille (Thesis: John Locke's Two Treatises and Robert Filmer's Patriarcha as the Philosophical Basis of Political Party Formation in England in the Late 17th Century).

University and academic stays abroad:
03/2024-07/2024 Research stay at the "Laboratoire des Théories du Politique" (LabTop), Centre de Recherches Sociologiques et Politiques de Paris, CRESPPA, Centre nationale de la recherche scientifique (CNRS), Paris
09/2017-08/2018 Studies at Sciences Po Lille, German-French branch, Master: "Politique, Philosophie et Économie"
09/2017-08/2015 Studies at Sciences Po Lille, German-French branch

Publications:
07/2023 Article: Rawls und der Kommunitarismus, with Oliver Hidalgo, in: Frühbauer, Johannes/Reder, Michael/Schmidt, Thomas (Hg.): Rawls-Handbuch, Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler Verlag.
03/2023 Review: Calhoun, Craig/Gaonkar, Dilip Parameshwar/Taylor, Charles: Degenerations of Democracy, in: Zeitschrift für Politik.
03/2021 Review: Stellmacher, Martin: Das Prinzip der Republik , in: Zeitschrift für Politik, Jahrgang 68, No. 1, 119-120.
04/2018 Article: L’autoportrait comme motif traditionnel dans l’art, in: Revue de recherche Petites PensÉes, Master Philosophie Politique Économie, Dossier No.2, Sciences Po Lille, 49-52.

Planned and future publications:
07/2024 Round-Table Diskussion: The Right-Wing Populist Complex, Intersectionality and the Question of democracy. A perspective from radical theory of democracy.
2025 Monograph: Zur Aktualität von Gayatri Spivak. Einleitung in ihr Werk, with Oliver Hidalgo, Series: Kultur- und SozialwissenschaftlerInnen der Gegenwart, Wiesbaden: Springer.

Lectures:
09/2024 "Resistance between conflict and relationality. A radical-democratic-critical perspective", Workshop: „Resistant subjectivation“, Bielefeld University.
11/2023 "Democratic community between inclusion and exclusion. A radical democratic-critical perspective", interdisciplinary workshop: "Community - Common Good - Common Sense", Project: Semantisation in Discourses on the Future, University of Bonn.
07/2023 Round-Table discussant, International Workshop: "The Politics of Intersectionality and the Right-Wing Populist complex: Brazilian and German Perspectives, Universität Bielefeld, Center for InterAmerican Studies.
06/2023 "Unifying Subjectification?", Workshop: "Precarious Subjectification", Universität Innsbruck.
03/2023 "Democracy between conflict and unifying elements? The question of binding forces in Radical Democracatic Theory", conference: "Normativity of Radical Democratic Theory", TU Dresden.
05/2022 "Understanding Traditions in their Binding Force and Changeability. A Communitarian View of the Concept of Tradition and the Problem of Changeability for Religious Stakeholders“, Interdisciplinary Young Researchers' Conference of the Cluster of Excellence "Religion and Politics": "Traditions in transition", WWU Münster.

conference organizations:
09-10/02/2024 Organizer of the workshop "resistant subjectivation", Bielefeld University.
27-29/09/2023 Co-organizer of the international conference "Political Theory in Times of (Un)-certainty", University of Bremen.