Prof. Dr. Sandra Jasper
sandra.jasper@geo.hu-berlin.de
Postal address
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Department of Geography
Geography of Gender in Human-Environment Systems
Unter den Linden 6
10099 Berlin
Office location
Rudower Chaussee 16, Room 4'109
Open office hour
Wednesdays 17:00-18:00 (via Zoom)
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Curriculum Vitae
Qualifications
2015
PhD in Geography, University College London, UK
2008
Magister in Geography and Gender Studies, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Career
From January 2025
Chair in Cultural Geography and Society-Environment Research
Department of Geography, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg.
Since September 2023
Co-Director of the Center for Transdisciplinary Gender Studies
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
Since April 2023
Co-Director of the Integrative Research Institute on Transformations of Human-Environment Systems (IRI THESys)
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
Since 2021
Speaker of the Reseach Consortium
Re-Scaling Global Health. Human Health and Multispecies Cohabitation on an Urban Planet
Grand Challenge Initiative Global Health, Berlin University Alliance.
January 2020 - December 2024
Junior Professor for Geography of Gender in Human-Environment-Systems
Department of Geography, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
2019-2020
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Center for Metropolitan Studies, Technische Universität Berlin.
2015-2019
Postdoctoral Research Associate, European Research Council project Rethinking Urban Nature
Department of Geography, University of Cambridge.
2014-2015
Research Associate, European Research Council project Rethinking Urban Nature
Department of Geography, University College London. -
Fellowships and awards
2020
Maynooth University Social Sciences Institute Visiting Research Fellowship.
2019
European Research Council (ERC) Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship Seal of Excellence for the project: Metropolitan Soundscapes: Acoustic Terrains of Late Modernity
2018
Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts Grant for the monograph
Experimental Fields: A Cultural History of West Berlin.
2016
King’s College Research Associate Fellowship, Cambridge (three years).
2010
University of London Central Research Fund.
2009
University College London Graduate Research Scholarship for Cross-Disciplinary Training at the Bartlett School of Architecture (one year).
2008
University College London Doctoral Scholarship (three years).
2002
DAAD Study Abroad Scholarship, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada (one year). -
Research
Areas of expertise
Cultural Geographies of Nature
Urban Infrastructures and Biodiversity
Socio-Ecological Justice and the Scientific Production of Urban Environmental Knowledge
Urban Political Ecology and Radical Materialist Geographies
Gender and Posthuman Geographies
Acoustic Geographies
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Publications
Books
Jasper, S., Experimental Fields: A Cultural History of West Berlin (New York: Columbia University Press, under contract).
Bauhardt, C. and Jasper, S. (eds.) Gender, Power, Climate Change: Transdisciplinary Perspectives on the Global Environmental Crisis (Routledge, under contract, forthcoming 2024).
Gandy, M. and Jasper, S. (eds.) The Botanical City (Berlin: jovis, 2020).
Jasper, S., Cyborg Imaginations: Nature, Technology and Urban Space in West Berlin(PhD monograph dissertation, University College London Repositorium, 2015).
Journal articles (peer-reviewed)
Jasper, S., Turnbull, J. and Searle, A., 2023 "Negating Nothingness: Abandonment and Ecological Knowledge" Social and Cultural Geography (special issue on Nothing(ness), under review)
van Duppen, J., Aneas, A., Harvey, A., Jasper, S., Kemmer, L. and Andreoli Muniz, C., 2023 "Leaks and Rumblings: An Experimental Confluence of (In)Visible Rivers in São Paulo and London", Mediapolis: A Journal of Cities and Culture 8(4)
Kemmer, L. and Jasper, S., 2023 "Urbanizing Soil: An Exercise in Grounding Planetary Health", Berliner Blätter. Ethnographische und Ethnologische Beiträge
Jasper, S., 2022 "Spekulative Ökologien: Die Finanzialisierung der Stadtnatur", ARCH+ Zeitschrift für Architektur und Urbanismus 247: 108–113
El-Husseiny, M., Simone, A., Guiu Searle, L., Ghertner, A. and Jasper, S., 2021 “Not Just Roads” The AAG Review of Books 9(4): 39-52. doi.org/10.1080/2325548X.2021.1960094
Jasper, S., 2020 “Acoustic Ecologies: Architecture, Nature, and Modernist Experimentation in West Berlin,” Annals of the American Association of Geographers 110(4): 1114–1133. doi.org/10.1080/24694452.2019.1673143
Jasper, S., 2020 “Abandoned Infrastructures and Nonhuman Life,” in Society & Space forum .
Jasper, S., 2019 “Capturing Brachen: A Geographical Journey into Filmmaking,” The AAG Review of Books 7(3):. 215–217. doi.org/10.1080/2325548X.2019.1615328
Jasper, S., 2019 “Patina: A Profane Archaeology: Commentary by Sandra Jasper, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK,” The AAG Review of Books 7(2): 118–120. doi.org/10.1080/2325548X.2019.1579579
Jasper, S., 2018 “Sonic Refugia: Nature, Noise-Abatement, and Landscape Design in West Berlin,” The Journal of Architecture 23 (6): 936–960. doi.org/10.1080/13602365.2018.1505773
Gandy, M. and Jasper, S., 2017 ‘Geography, Materialism, and the Neo-Vitalist Turn,’ Dialogues in Human Geography 7 (2): 140–144. doi.org/10.1177/2043820617717848
Jasper, S. and Merrill, S., 2014 "What is so Berlin? A critical review of current lines and questions of urban research in the German capital", sub/urban Zeitschrift für kritische Stadtforschung 2:2: 5–14. doi.org/10.36900/suburban.v2i2.145
Book chapters
Hunter, H., Jasper, S., and Prior, J., 2024 "Digital Sonic Ecologies: Encountering Nonhumans through Digital Sound Recordings", in Anderson-Elliott, H., Giraud, E., Searle, A. and Turnbull, J. (eds.) Digital Ecologies: Mediating More-than-human Worlds (Manchester University Press).
Jasper, S., 2022 "Botanizing the Red Soil", in Swinnen, P. and Heindrichs, N. (eds.) Red Luxembourg (Walther König: Cologne/New York), pp. 93–107.
Jasper, S., 2022 "Berlin, a Ruderal Urbanism", in Boschiero, P., Folkerts, T. and Latini, L. (eds.) Natur Park Schöneberger Südgelände and Berlin’s Urban Nature (Fondazione Benetton, Studi Ricerche, with Antiga), pp. 153–160.
Jasper, S., 2021 “Traversing Wastelands: Reflections on an Abandoned Railway Yard,” in O'Callaghan, C. and Di Feliciantonio, C. (eds.) The New Urban Ruins: Vacancy, Urban Politics, and International Experiments in the Post-Crisis City (Bristol: Policy Press), pp. 53–72.
Jasper, S., 2020 “Acoustic Botany: Listening to Nature in a former Airfield,” in Gandy, M. and Jasper, S. (eds.) The Botanical City (Berlin: jovis), pp. 221–228.
Gandy, M. and Jasper, S., 2020 “The City as a Botanical Field,” in Gandy, M. and Jasper, S. (eds.) The Botanical City (Berlin: jovis), pp. 6–14.
Jasper, S., 2014 “Acoustic Ecology: Hans Scharoun and Modernist Experimentation in West Berlin,” in Gandy, M. & Nilsen, B.J. (eds.) The Acoustic City (Berlin: jovis), pp. 145–155.
Jasper, S., 2013 “Architecture for Expanded Listening: Hans Scharoun’s Philharmonie in Berlin,” in Cascella D. & Inverni, P. (eds.) What Matters Now? (What Can’t You Hear?), Noch Publishing [ebook].
Jasper, S., 2011 “Phantom Limbs: Encountering the Hidden Spaces of West Berlin,” in Gandy, M. (ed.) Urban Constellations (Berlin: jovis), pp. 153–157.
Reviews
Jasper, S., 2018. “Urban Memory and Visual Culture in Berlin: Framing the Asynchronous City, 1957–2012 by Simon Ward,” German Studies Review 41(1), pp. 205–207. doi.org/10.1353/gsr.2018.0032
Jasper, S., 2017. “Metropolitan Preoccupations: The Spatial Politics of Squatting in Berlin by Alexander Vasudevan,” Cultural Geographies 24, pp. 505–506. doi.org/10.1177/1474474016682346
Jasper, S. and Merrill, S. 2014 “Was ist so Berlin? Eine kritische Rezension aktueller Linien und Fragestellungen der Stadtforschung in der deutschen Hauptstadt,” sub/urban Zeitschrift für kritische Stadtforschung Vol. 2(2), pp. 5–14. doi.org/10.36900/suburban.v2i2.145
Podcasts and other publications
Urban Political Podcast, GSZ, HU Berlin: Film-Making as Urban Research
KOSMOS On Air, HU Berlin: Klimakrise und Geschlechtergerechtigkeit, mit Prof. Dr. Sybille Bauriedl
Jasper, S., 2018 “Ecological Cadences,” in Natura Urbana: The Brachen of Berlin (DVD booklet), pp. 7–10. -
Film
Co-author and executive producer of the documentary film Natura Urbana: The Brachen of Berlin dir. by Matthew Gandy (UK/Germany, 2017, 72 mins).
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Presentations (selection)
2021
“Speculative ecologies: the future of urban wastelands,” LUS Talks, ETH Zürich, 26 Oct 2021.
“The future of environmental pedagogies,” public talk with: Katherine Ball, Ignacio Farías, Sandra Jasper, Sina Ribak, Ela Spalding, at The Sun Machine Is Coming Down, Kunst im ICC, 17 Oct 2021.
“Wastelands as urban archives,” presentation for the Un-/Learning Archives in the Age of The Sixth Extinction workshop, The Whole Life Academy, HKW 8 Oct 2021.
“Natur verhandeln,” public talk for Arch+ Cohabitation Diskurs: Zoopolis Berlin, Spreepark Berlin, 16 Sept 2021.
“Rewilding Berlin: from urban biotopes towards the multispecies city,” Climate Care Conference, Floating University Berlin, 4 September 2021.
Chair of the “Sound and the city” panel, RC21 Conference, Sensing the City, Antwerp, 14-16 July 2021.
“Ecological cadences: the city as a sonic refugium,” invited presentation for the Noise in the Anthropocene Seminar, Texas Texas A & M University), 17-18 May 2021.
“Sensory refugia: infrastructure, ecology, and the multispecies city,” invited keynote lecture, Department of Communication and Arts, Roskilde University, Denmark, 15 April 2021.
“Sonic cultures of the wasteland,” invited presentation, School of Geography and Planning, Cardiff University, UK, 17 March 2021.
2020
“The allure of spontaneity: plant life between biodiversity haven and green gentrification”, online presentation for the session “Plant spaces, vegetal places? Placing vegetal life in urban political ecology”, Biennial Conference of the Political Ecology Network, Brighton, UK, 22-25 Sept. 2020.
“Abandoned infrastructures and nonhuman life”, American Association of Geographers' (AAG) Annual Meeting 6-10 April 2020 (postponed to AAG New York, 7-11 April 2022 due to the COVID-19 pandemic).
Panelist for the session “Space, Place and Music: New Research in the Study of Geography and Music”, American Association of Geographers' (AAG) Annual Meeting, 6-10 April 2020 (postponed to AAG New York, 7-11 April 2022 due to the COVID-19 pandemic).
Panelist for the Natura Urbana: The Brachen of Berlin Virtual Film Screening and Urban Ecology Panel Discussion, UCLA Mildred E. Mathias Botanical Gardens, Los Angeles, USA, 17-19 April 2020.
“Avian landscapes: attuning to birds in disused infrastructural spaces”, presentation for the session “More-than-human geographies of infrastructure” at the Neue Kulturgeographien, Technocultures & Technoscape Conference, Bonn, 30.01.-01.02, 2020.
2019
“’Niemandsland? Zur Geschichte der Berliner Mauerbrachen” public talk at the conference „Bäume Stadt Räume: Erleben, Erzählen, Erinnern in Berlin und Europa” November 2019
“Sounding wastelands,” presentation for the session “Losing or Gaining Hope in the Apocalypse: Pre-/Peri-/Post-Apocalyptic Imaginaries in the Anthropocene” at the Annual International Conference of the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG), London, UK, 28-30 August 2019.
2018
“Experimental fields: Sound, ecology, and urban wastelands,” invited presentation for the Ecologizing Urban Ontologies in the Anthropocene workshop, Rachel Carson Center and Technical University of Munich, Germany, 17-18 November 2018.
“Cinematic soundscapes,” invited presentation for the Film as Method in the Geo-Humanities workshop, University of Cambridge, 9-10 October 2018.
“Lively matter, critical inertia? Reflections on the neovitalist turn in geography,” presentation at the Association of American Geographers (AAG) Annual Meeting in New Orleans, 9-15 April 2018.
Panelist for “Author Meets Critics: Shannon Dawdy's Patina: A Profane Archaeology” at the Association of American Geographers (AAG) Annual Meeting in New Orleans, 9-15 April 2018.
Architecture, Geo-Politics and Scientific Knowledge workshop, co-organized with Maros Krivy, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge, 24 January 2018.
2017
“Vibrating worlds: Sound, nature, and the permeable subject,” presentation at the Imagining infrastructures: Space, subject, and affect workshop, funded by the British Academy, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge, 8 March 2017.
“Sonic refugia: Nature, architecture, and landscape design in West Berlin,” presentation at the Epistemes of Modern Acoustics lecture series, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, Germany, 14 February 2017.
2016
“Biocentric geographies? Feminist theory and the neo-vitalist turn” presentation at the Geography and Neo-vitalism workshop, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge, 23 November 2016.
“Laborinsel: West Berlin as an experimental city,” lecture given at the Critical Urban Ecology Symposium 2016, University of Brighton, UK, 22 February 2016.
2015
“Cultural and scientific experimentation in West Berlin,” presentation at the Nordic Geographers Meeting, Tallinn, Estonia, 15-19 June 2015.
“Acoustic City: Zur Rolle von Klang, Musik, und Lärm in der Erfahrung und Produktion von Städten,” public lecture for the Faculty of Architecture, Civil Engineering and Urban Planning, BTU Cottbus, Germany, 8 June 2015.
Panelist for “The Acoustic City: Exploring Geographies of Sound,” panel session at the Association of American Geographers (AAG) Annual Meeting in Chicago, USA, 21-25 April 2015.
2014
“Akustische Ökologie: Experimentierfeld West Berlin,” presentation at the Wastelands symposium, University of the Arts, Berlin, 13 June 2014.
2013
“Engineering sound: Modernist architecture and acoustic design in postwar Berlin,” presentation at the Annual International Conference of the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG), London, UK, 28-31 August 2013.
“Acoustic ecology: Hans Scharoun and modernist experimentation in West Berlin,” presentation at the Association of American Geographers (AAG) Annual Meeting in Los Angeles, USA, 9-13 April 2013.
2012
“‘The sound of Berlin,” public talk for Touch invites ... an evening of talks & performances, curated by London-based audio-visual organisation Touch at Café Oto, in London, UK, 17 July 2012.
2011
Panelist for “Cultural landscapes of Boom and Bust,” part of the AHRC-funded project Creative City Limits, University College London, UK, 1 June 2011.
“Phantom limbs: Subterranean Berlin,” paper presented at The 9th Annual Conference of the International Association for the History of Transport, Traffic and Mobility’, Berlin, Germany, 6 October 2011 -
Committees
Deputy Director of the Integrative Research Institute on Transformations of Human-Environment Systems (IRI THESys), Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
Member of the Institute Council (Institutsrat), Department of Geography, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
Member of the Committee for Teaching and Learning (Kommission für Studium und Lehre, KSL), Department of Geography, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
Co-Director of the Center for Transdisciplinary Gender Studies (ZtG), Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
Council Member of the Georg-Simmel Center for Metropolitan Studies (GSZ), Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
Associate Member, Center for Metropolitan Studies, Technische Universität Berlin.
Member of the board of trustees of the von Humboldt-Ritter-Penck-Stiftung.